The Academic Grand is a 1963 Steinway D concert grand which has seen countless recitals and concerts over the years where it served as the University of Arkansas’ primary concert instrument. The piano has been an inspiration to hundreds of students and visitors, and with being well-maintained and cared for, it’s a wonderful instrument with a unique history… Read More »
ND Congas is a single-strike conga sample library with highly extensive velocity layering and articulation options, allowing for the ultimate in realism and performance. The source instruments: requinto – LP ‘Galaxy’ Giovanni Series (9 3/4″ requinto conga) quinto – LP ‘Galaxy’ Giovanni Series (11″ quinto conga) tumba – LP ‘Galaxy’ Giovanni Series (11 3/4″ tumba conga) tumbadora – LP… Read More »
Pre-dating polyphonic synths by some years, string synthesisers used electronic organ ‘divide-down’ technology to provide a totally polyphonic sawtooth waveform. This was then typically fed through a simple, two stage envelope shaper offering just attack and release and then onto an analogue ‘bucket brigade’ chorus unit to produce the ‘ensemble’ effect. They effectively replaced the noble Mellotron as… Read More »
Ambience Impacts Rhythms (A.I.R) is a collection of elements that has taken over two years of collecting and crafting “only the finest sounds for cutting edge compositions”; it’s focused on blending three essential building blocks into one library – Ambience, Impacts, and Rhythms. Powered by Native Instruments Kontakt Player it is available for Mac OS X and Windows… Read More »
Soniccouture has announced the release of Bowed Piano – a unique new sampled instrument for EXS24 and Kontakt. First suggested by the composer Curtis Curtis-Smith in 1972, the Bowed Piano technique uses flexible bows made from monofilament nylon fishing-line which are then coated in rosin. The nylon is threaded under the strings, and the performer can coax a… Read More »
This massive percussion effects library is built around classic bowed cymbals. We captured 20 unique cymbals, in all shapes, sizes, alloys and varieties, from crashes and splashes to gongs, bells, trashes and even a stack of spent WWII Howitzer artillery shells. We explore the classic bowed cymbal effect in exquisite detail, with dozens of variations for each cymbal,… Read More »
BOWED GRAND PIANO Welcome to Bowed Grand Piano – a library decided to deep sampling of bowed and FX based grand piano strings. Bowed Grand Piano marks the third chapter in our piano series, which also contains our hyper expressive: “Emotional Piano” and more experimental: “Plucked Grand Piano” The bowing of a piano is a delicate effort, since… Read More »
The Elements EXP is a Kontakt Player-based sample library that provides the “6 Elements of music”: Ambience (456 patches) Bass (122 patches) Harmony (138 patches) Impacts (391 patches) Melody (354 patches) Rhythm (227 patches) The Elements EXP is a collection that aims to transform your work, pushing the envelope beyond today’s standard of music and sound design. Since… Read More »
A collection of high-energy, cinematic drum and rhythm beds expertly played by top-notch percussionists and organized into 40 construction kits (more than two and a half gigabytes of WAV files). Each kit features multiple loops and extended performances, employing an array of percussive instruments from Japanese taikos to ethnic drums, orchestral percussion, massive toms, field snares, metals, effect… Read More »
Inspired by the sublime sonic works of Minilogue, Slam, Damian Lazarus, Marco Dassi, Radio Slave and Layo & Bushwacka amongst others, 5PIN MEDIA proudly presents MINIMAL TECH VOL1. Minimal Tech is here to stay and has evolved into one the biggest most successful genres incorporating influences from Techno, Tech House, Tribal House, Deep House and has seen the… Read More »
‘Bunker 8 once again returns to the underground clubs, parties and venues, diggin’ deep to undercover ‘Sub Elec Tranz 2’. Covering the best in electro, sub bass beats, and hardcore trance, this collection arrives with the latest vibes to make your creativity soar and your dance vibes echo through the ages. Bunker 8 once again returns to the… Read More »
Analogue audiophile Goldbaby makes his return on S2S with a mouth-watering selection of 160 sampler patches created from samples produced using his extensive collection of classic synths. Spanning all electronic genres, from hip hop to chillout, dubstep to D&B and even house to techno, Synth Purveyor Vol 1 is an essential tool for any producer seeking bona fide… Read More »
1.75GB of eerie sound beds, dark atmospheres, dissonant drones and epic booms and metallic clangs for use in professional film, TV and video game sound design projects. Inspired seminal scary movies of the modern Hollywood era, Eerie Cinema has been painstakingly constructed to offer composers and music producers the most haunted, ominous and scary royalty-free sounds ever. From… Read More »
The Guzheng is a traditional Chinese instrument dating from the Qin dynasty (c. 200 BC to the rest of us). It is the ancestor of the Japanese Koto as well as several other zither-like instruments found across east Asia.The SC Guzheng has been extensively recorded in 24 bit 44.1khz stereo. Three articulations were sampled: right hand (finger picks),… Read More »
Hollywood Loops present the second instalment of their Cinematic Industrial Rock series, stacked with high-intensity elements for cinematic, video game and soundtrack producers. Whether it’s film, TV, trailers or soundscapes, Octane delivers a rich assortment of musical inspiration totalling just under 5GB of content: rock-inspired guitars, techno-derived synths and arpeggios, booming basslines, powerful drum loops, cinematic textures, detailed… Read More »
VI.ONE is a Kontakt Player based, four-disc (DVD), 21 GB, sample library encompassing over two thousand instruments, kits, and other sound effects, designed to be of maximum usability to musicians across a wide span of genres. The library is packed with drums (including hundreds of different kits), drum loops, basses (including acoustic, upright, electric, and synth), world and… Read More »
Elite Orchestral Percussion is a 19 GB Kontakt Player 2-based sample library filled with a variety of both traditional and unusual orchestral percussion. The collection features over 250 distinct orchestral percussion instruments across the full span of categories: bass drums, snare drums, cymbals of every type, chimes, gongs, handbells, mallets, tambourines, timpani, triangles, wind chimes, wood blocks, accessories,… Read More »
Featuring a massive collection of varied percussion samples, World Impact: Global Percussion spans the globe featuring percussion instruments from large to small, west to east, north to south, and traditional to rare. Sampled in meticulous detail and programmed for maximum and instant musical usability, the collection includes hundreds of varied percussion instruments from Africa, the Middle East, Asia,… Read More »
BASiS features a comprehensively sampled collection of acoustic, upright, electric, and synth basses, BASiS offers incredible attention to detail in the depth and breadth of the basses: 24-bit sampling, DI and amp blending control, multiple velocity layers, seamless humanizing, custom legato and vibrato tools, release layers, harmonics, hammer-ons, pulloffs, slides, slaps, rakes, falls, and more. BASiS includes more… Read More »
Heavyocity’s first release, EVOLVE, supercharges creativity while streamlining productivity for modern composers and sound designers. With an emphasis on the dramatic, EVOLVE doesn’t contain the typical instruments and sounds that form the foundation of most composers setups. Instead, it accentuates them with a powerful combination of diverse rhythmic percussion and evocative tonalities in ways that have never been… Read More »
