Sample Library Review

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Sample Library ReviewGearVienna Symphonic Library Releases BBO Harps Vienna Symphonic Library has added BBO Harps to its Big Bang Orchestra series. The Pack captures an ensemble of three harps playing together, recorded on the large Stage A of Vienna Synchron Stage.

10.20

Sample Library ReviewGearHeavyocity Releases Psychosis, the Horror Scoring Toolkit Heavyocity has released Psychosis, a sound design toolkit for thriller and horror scoring built around jumpscares, stings, unnerving instruments and twisted textures.

10.20

Sample Library ReviewGearZero-G Releases Elements Silentium, the Dark Folk Instrument Zero-G has released Elements Silentium, a dark folk virtual instrument for Kontakt. It turns dark organic textures, evolving strings, ritual voices, folk timbres, percussion and acoustic gestures…

10.19

Sample Library ReviewGearAudioThing Releases Materia, the Additive Re-synthesizer AudioThing has introduced Materia, an additive re-synthesizer that turns any sample into a playable instrument.

10.19

Sample Library ReviewGearRast Sound Releases Splitz, the Split-Based Effects Plugin Rast Sound has released Splitz, an effects plugin that divides any incoming sound into separate parts and lets each part carry its own processing.

10.19

Sample Library ReviewGearUjam Releases Beatmaker and Usynth BOUNCE Ujam has released Beatmaker BOUNCE and Usynth BOUNCE, two plugins that recreate the sound of late-1990s and early-2000s RnB, hip-hop and club production.

10.19

Sample Library ReviewGearSonuscore Releases LUX Orchestral Brass Sonuscore has released LUX Orchestral Brass, a complete symphonic brass section for Kontakt Player and the latest addition to its LUX series.

10.19

Sample Library ReviewGearBest Service Announces Golden October Sale Best Service Offers Up to $100 Off Orders With Its Golden October Promo Codes Golden October is a promotion at Best Service built around two checkout codes.

10.19

Sample Library ReviewGearDeal Compressor for October 16, 2026 – New Releases & Freebies Sonuscore just launched LUX ORCHESTRAL BRASS, the brass companion to LUX ORCHESTRAL STRINGS, taking everything that has made LUX Orchestral Strings…

10.16

Sample Library ReviewGearEastWest Unveils Hollywood Scoring Tools EastWest has announced Hollywood Scoring Tools, an all-in-one scoring instrument aimed at getting composers from a blank session to a finished score more quickly.

10.14

Three pins, and nearly every signal in this business passes through them.

The magazine is named after the cable: the microphone in the booth, the line to the desk, the DMX run that fires the lights. Studio, stage and rig share the same cable. Most magazines pick one of the three. This one covers all of it, because the people we read do too — the engineer mixing a record on Tuesday is on front of house by Saturday.

Around a hundred and sixty sources, in English, Japanese, Spanish, German, French, Chinese and Italian: makers and their release notes, reviewers who put a hand on the thing, studios and touring crews, the producers and collectives surfacing this month and the scenes they came out of. Synths and modular, plugins and DAWs, guitars and drums, microphones, monitors, PA and lighting. What the trade is talking about is counted and plotted. The editor's letter has just started; it will find its rhythm.

For each story: a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link out. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the maker or the photographer. A German review appears in German and a Japanese one in Japanese, as the writer published it; the link goes to the original.

Nothing is sold on this site. When a link leads to a shop, it is the maker's shop, not ours.