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Price €349 + VAT Contact Orchestral Tools Regular users of orchestral libraries will often be confronted by conundrums. On the one hand, we might be trying to mix and match content to maintain an acoustic thread, but on the other, we also strive to find those libraries that might go outside of the normal multi-sample […]
Price £899 (Educational discount available) Contact Spitfire Audio Deep sampling of orchestral instruments has now become the norm, with some worthy products already adorning company catalogues, including Spitfire Audio’s very own celebrated line-up. But where this new package goes even further is with the sample capture of a world-renowned orchestra, reputed to be one of […]
Price £349 Contact Spitfire Audio Since the release of the famed Symphonic Series from Spitfire Audio, many users have requested something very similar, but in a drier acoustic. The creatives at Spitfire have responded by producing the Studio Series, recorded in the acoustic of AIR Studio One, while still offering the excitement […]
Price £249 Contact Spitfire Audio If there’s one area of sampling where Spitfire has become the champion, it’s with collections of stunning samples, formed from acoustic instrumentation, which lend themselves to media work and beyond. The company’s numerous collaborations with the likes of Samuel Sim and Ólafur Arnalds have provided absolute gold […]
Price £249 Contact Spitfire Audio If there’s one area of sampling where Spitfire has become the champion, it’s with collections of stunning samples, formed from acoustic instrumentation, which lend themselves to media work and beyond. The company’s numerous collaborations with the likes of Samuel Sim and Ólafur Arnalds have provided absolute gold […]
Price £229 Contact Best Service Over the last decade, Eduardo Tarilonte has pretty much defined a completely new category in music technology: that of the historical or fantastical sound library. Whereas the likes of Spitfire Audio, Orchestral Tools and Sonokinetic successfully focus on all things classical, here is a sound designer who […]
Price £349 Contact Spitfire Audio The brass section is often cited as one of the trickier orchestral elements to capture and reproduce, but thanks to huge advances in technology over the last 10 years or so, things have become a great deal more convincing. We’ve previously seen this from Spitfire’s own Symphonic Brass package; outstanding […]
The two areas of the orchestra that arguably provide the greatest degree of timbral colour are the woodwind and brass sections. The former offers four very distinct instruments, which can sound very different, and one of them isn’t even made of wood. The brass section, however, offers a roughly similar tonal colour, with degrees of […]
Price $399 Contact CSS Cinematic Studio Brass key features: $399 (educational discount available) Comprehensive acoustic brass library Recorded at Australia’s premier scoring stage Solo and ensemble instrumentation Intuitive and easy-to-use GUI NI Kontakt Library compliant Three microphone placements, with independent control 36.47GB of disk space required Speaking as a trombone player, I’ve […]
Price €399 Contact Orchestral Tools Metropolis Ark 4 key features: Focused section sizes 10 unique woodwind and brass blends Male and female chorus Includes extreme dynamics, articulation and power legato Requires Kontakt (5.8.1 or later) or Kontakt player 98GB of samples 24-bit/48KHz sample quality The Metropolis Ark series from Orchestral Tools has […]