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Berlin Free Orchestra- Orchestral Tools
Well this is an exciting time to be a composer, especially if you are on a budget. There are free orchestras available already, and you can do some wonderful things with them. Orchestral Tools recently decided it was time to get some of their Berlin Orchestra into the hands of everyone, at no cost. They…
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What is sympathetic resonance (and does your library have it)?
Instrument emulation drives a major part of the sampling and plugin world. We want to have “in-the-box” what we used to only have outside the box. Part of what makes a product sound “real” is fully understanding how the original instrument or device works. On the piano, there are dozens of factors to take into…
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Abbey Road Orchestra: Flutes Released
It’s been a little while since Spitfire released the remainder of the Abbey Road Orchestra Symphonic Strings library, and many have been waiting to see how the rest of the orchestra would pan out. Today, Spitfire has released the next instrument group. This time, it’s the Flutes. Below is the full release. Needless to say,…
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Freebie Focus- Fracture Sounds Blueprint: String Trio
This week, we want to focus on a brand new freebie from the folks at Fracture Sounds. It’s a solo string trio called “Blueprint: String Trio”, and is meant as a teaser for an upcoming library (likely available within days of this posting). It is part of their ongoing free Blueprint series, which you can…
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Spitfire Abbey Road Orchestra Percussion Review- Low, High, and Metal
The Abbey Road Orchestra High, Low, and Metal Percussion modules are the first releases in Spitfire’s new flagship library recorded at Abbey Road Studio One. Is it a great start, or does it land with a thud? We’ll talk about it in great detail.
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Presonus ioStation 24c- Review
I’m a sucker for extra control. If you could see my desk, you’d see no shortage of extra macro keys, Stream Decks, palm keyboards, and more. It is for this reason that I’ve been considering adding a control surface for my DAW. Considering that I use Studio One Professional quite heavily, the Faderport (which has…
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Freebie Focus- Bell and Bone Trumpet and Trombone
This week’s freebie is an amazing virtual sampled trumpet and trombone instrument; Bell and Bone by Librewave. Bell and Bone comes as a library that loads into the Rhapsody Player, so be sure to download that first (you can get it from the Librewave website). But once you get it loaded, you get a nearly…
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Audiobro Genesis Children’s Choir Review
I was careful this Black Friday. I only bought one new sample library. While this alone is probably one of my greatest feats, this isn’t about me. This is about the library that grabbed that one spot, and that is the Audiobro Genesis Children’s Choir. There are many great choir libraries out there, and more…
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Freebie Focus- Solaris Reverb by Adam Szabo
This week’s freebie is an amazing and fun to use reverb plugin from Adam Szabo; Solaris. This plugin was actually the winner of the 2023 KVR Developer’s Challenge. Solaris can function as a typical reverb unit, but it is much more than that. Solaris is more of an ambient modulated shimmer machine…..if that makes any…
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Introduction To Spitfire Abbey Road Orchestra
EDITOR’S NOTE: We are in the process of updating this article to reflect the additional strings and the newly released Abbey Road Orchestra: Flutes library. This article will also serve as navigation to any of our existing coverage. Another day, another orchestral library release. At this point, we’ve seen it all, heard it all. Right?…
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Freebie Frenzy- Sonuscore Epic Dhol Ensemble
This is a cool new freebie from veteran sample developers, Sonuscore. I’m always a fan of interesting percussion, so this freebie is a welcome announcement. With 5 velocity layers and 8 round robins on offer, along with built-in effects, I’d say not too bad for free. Below is the info from the Sonuscore website: Pound…
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Announcing Spitfire ABBEY ROAD ORCHESTRA: 1ST VIOLINS
A New Era in String Sample Library Technology Pre-Order: September 21st, 2023, 5pm BST Release: September 28th, 2023, 5pm BST SUMMARY A new era in string sample library technology – introducing Abbey Road Orchestra: 1st Violins from Spitfire Audio. As requested by the composer community, this will be the first section in the Abbey Road…
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FREE Pipe Organ From Samplephonics
If you’re looking for a great pipe organ sample library, this should be on your list of things to download. And it just happens to be FREE from Samplephonics.
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Evenant The Aspiring Trailer Music Composer Course Review
I’m a huge fan of online learning. I can tell you first hand that it is possible to learn everything you need online to be successful. But that requires that you find the right teacher. So I thought it would be good to start doing coverage of some online music and composition training resources so…
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8Dio Project Free You Review
Originality is an important aspect of sampling. So I always love to see what new ideas sample developers can come up with. 8Dio has released what I would consider to be an original library with a unique concept, the Free You Project. Essentially, 8Dio had their users send in a few of the sounds from their…
