Author: Cory Pelizzari
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Sound Examples With EAReverb 2
The first chunk of examples were all using the Natural Studio A preset.
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Plugin Spotlight – EAReverb 2
Whether you’re looking to add new layers of music to your work or create entire pieces from scratch, these powerful tools will give you the power and flexibility you need to get the job done. So why not give them a try today and see what they can do for your music? Start with a…
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Library Spotlight – Symphonic Destruction
Thrilling Traditional Combinations A Sonic Deconstruction Heavyocity Media has announced the release of Heavyocity Symphonic Destruction. Heavyocity’s Symphonic Destruction is Heavyocity’s sonic deconstruction of the…
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The True Strike 2021 2.0 Update
The True Strike Update The True Strike 2.0 Update update contains All-in-one browser Positioning stage Extensive articulation & mapping control Adaptive Sync for rolls NKS
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Library Spotlight – World Percussion Creator
World Percussion Creator World Percussion Creator is a virtual instrument sample library designed to convey natural sound in a new, larger, and more flexible way.
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Library Spotlight – Threnody Strings
Threnody – Avant-Garde Strings by Soniccouture With Threnody Soniccouture released something a little different from the many string libraries already on the market. The focus in Threnody is an avant-garde string articulations, such as those you hear in late 20th century orchestral music or science fiction film soundtracks
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Sound Pack – Cinematic World – Essential Cinematic Sound Effects
Sound Pack – Cinematic World This library is designed with one thought in mind – to provide AAA quality and innovation. Our team consists of several award-winning sound designers, whose credits include titles such as Disney+, Diablo 3, The Outsider, Soul, Starcraft 2, Heroes of the Storm, Hearthstone, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, Mortal Shell, and many…
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Library Spotlight – Midnight Grand & Woodchester Piano
Library Spotlight – Midnight Grand & Woodchester Piano Woodchester Piano is the first in Fracture Sounds new series of collaborations with talented composers and artists, bringing you a range of finely crafted virtual instruments full of personality. This library was produced in close collaboration with film and TV composer James Everingham (Apollo: Missions to the…
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Getting an Intimate Sound With Cinematic Studio Woodwinds
Getting an Intimate Sound With Cinematic Studio Woodwinds Cinematic Studio Woodwinds is the latest addition to the Cinematic Studio Series collection. Cinematic Studio Woodwinds Snapshots here
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Library Spotlight – Damage 2
Library Spotlight – Damage 2 After nearly a decade, the epic sequel to the iconic original has finally arrived. Damage 2 is here too. It’s the epic ensembles recorded at Skywalker Sound. It’s all the things that made the original Damage great, except bigger, and better. Welcome to the next creation of percussion virtual instruments.…
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Library Spotlight – Cinematic Studio Woodwinds (pt.2 – The Details & Criticisms)
Library Spotlight Part 2 – Cinematic Studio Woodwinds Cinematic Studio Series – Cinematic Studio Woodwinds is the latest addition to the Cinematic Studio Series collection. Whether you want to blow the roof off with the bright penetrating sound of the piccolo, express emotion with the beautiful lyrical oboe, or vibrate the floor with the deep and…
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Library Spotlight – Cinematic Studio Woodwinds (pt.1 – The Sound & Value)
Library Spotlight – Cinematic Studio Woodwinds Cinematic Studio Series – Cinematic Studio Woodwinds is the latest addition to the Cinematic Studio Series collection. Whether you want to blow the roof off with the bright penetrating sound of the piccolo, express emotion with the beautiful lyrical oboe, or vibrate the floor with the deep and powerful…
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Library Spotlight – Glacier Keys
Library Spotlight – Glacier Keys continuation of Fracture Sounds sought-after ‘character pianos’ collection. Glistening piano harmonics, performed on a gorgeous Steinway D concert grand. Deep sampled in a concert hall with multiple microphone perspectives. Built for the free Kontakt Player with the modern film and TV composer in mind.
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Library Spotlight – Talos
Library Spotlight – Talos Oh, look. It’s a video that’s not about strings.
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Library Spotlight – Alternative Solo Strings
Alternative Solo Strings Alternative Solo Strings is a relaunch of Spitfire Audio’s Artisan Cello and Artisan Violin plus additional instruments. Spitfire did take the existing Cello and Violin and added Double Bass and Viola and wrapped everything up in a new interface.
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Library Spotlight – Djembes X3M
Library Spotlight – Djembes X3M Strezov Sampling’s DJEMBE X3M a collection of Djembes recorded in various sections and ensembles, suitable for all kinds of dynamic music and especially film/videogames.
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Library Spotlight – LONDON CONTEMPORARY ORCHESTRA Strings
Library Spotlight – LCO Strings London Contemporary Orchestra Strings gives you everything you need to make cutting-edge chamber strings music. Unique among our String libraries, it offers you tools that capture the unconventional techniques and stunning performances of an extremely exciting group of musicians. With over 100 never-before-sampled, dynamically controllable articulations, this library provides a…
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Library Spotlight – Vista Strings by Performance Samples
Performance Samples’ Vista Strings Vista is a legato strings library featuring a larger-than-life, romantic chamber sound, four dynamics (from a true PP all the way up to an intense FFF), slurred legato, same-note bow-change repetition samples, multiple attack types, and more. Just like Con Moto, the sustains, legato, and other assets were recorded “in motion.” The…
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Library Spotlight – The Orchestra Complete 2
Sonuscore’s The Orchestra Complete 2 THE ORCHESTRA COMPLETE 2 is the flagship of Sonuscore’s “The Orchestra” (see our The Orchestra by Best Service / Sonuscore Review) product family combining the force of the original 80-piece orchestra with new articulations and powerful new features. It includes Sonuscore new instrument HORNS OF HELL as well as STRINGS OF…
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Library Spotlight – Alive Underground Drums
Alive Underground Drums Alive Underground Drums is a huge collection of high-end drum kits recorded in a large underground carpark for epic drums. This is a massive instrument and a true labor of love (almost a year of Nicolas Signat’s work).
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Library Spotlight – Nashville Scoring Strings
Nashville Scoring Strings Nashville Scoring Strings by Audio Ollie recorded at Ocean Way Studios Nashville Scoring Strings, featuring Nashville’s most exquisite string players at Ocean Way Studios.
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Afflatus Strings 1.3 Update
Afflatus Strings 1.3 Update Strings v1.3 Update All existing users can download Afflatus Chapter 1 Strings Version 1.3 for free now by logging into their Strezov Sampling account. The new content is an addition to the old one, you don’t have to re-download everything.
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Library Spotlight – Ashen Scoring Cello
Library Spotlight – Ashen Scoring Cello Ashen Scoring Cello is a solo cello library with an intimate tone, born out of insomnia and the idea of minimal post-classical compositions, trailer music, and post-horror soundtracks with its woebegone atmosphere. It concentrates on a highly expressive and emotive playing style.
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Library Spotlight – Perfperc II & III
Perfperc II & III Let’s take a look at Perfperc – Volume II & Perfperc – Volume III
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Infinite Woodwinds 2 0 Update
Infinite Woodwinds 2 0 Update Infinite Woodwinds is the second release in my line of next-gen virtual orchestral instruments. As with Infinite Brass, the goal was to create a collection of expressive virtual instruments that are easy to use and fun to play, allowing for quick results and realistic performances while sounding great out-of-the-box.
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Synth Sample Gems – Hideaway Studio
Synth Sample Gems – Hideaway Studio Dani Wilson is Hideaway Studio – Sound Designer, Vintage Synth Specialist & Electronic Engineer specializing in tube hybrid studio gear designs and vintage synth restoration with a particular interest in combining vintage tube, classic analog and modern digital technologies. Dani is a synth engineer for Will Gregory (Goldfrapp) and has…
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Rating My Own Albums
Rating My Own Albums You can find them here, but they still don’t sound any better: https://corypelizzari.bandcamp.com/
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Cory’s Library Spotlight – Quartarone Guitar Reveries
QUARTARONE GUITAR REVERIES – CINEMATIC ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRIC GUITAR A new cinematic electric guitar instrument that will expand your imagination. Capturing the avant garde sound of one of Europe’s greatest guitarists and composers, Claudio Quartarone, we have recreated his signature musical palette inside this Kontakt instrument. For media composers, producers and musicians, this immediately inspiring instrument is intuitive…
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The Soundtracks That Have Inspired Me
The Soundtracks That Have Inspired Me Before anyone asks – no, I can’t read sheet music and yes, I had to recreate the tracks you hear by ear. This video got multiple copyright claims so I guess I did a good job of it. Buy one of my albums here https://corypelizzari.bandcamp.com/
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Free Piano Libraries (Pianobook) for Kontakt Full
Free Piano Libraries (Pianobook) for Kontakt Full Pianobook is a collective sample project inspiring musicians to embrace the magic of sampling and share their creations with the community. Currently 339 free instruments …and counting! This ever-growing library of free piano instruments for the Kontakt sampler contains some incredible modern and traditional pianos. Curated by one…
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Cory’s Library Spotlight – Sospiro Strings & String Flow
Cory’s Library Spotlight – Perfperc Volume 1 by Performance Samples Sospiro Strings is a Kontakt library for creating slow, emotive strings. It features 4 different length swells and 3 sustained articulations, recorded on bass, cello, viola, and violin.
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Cory’s Library Spotlight – Perfperc Volume 1 by Performance Samples
Cory’s Library Spotlight – Perfperc Volume 1 by Performance Samples Performance Samples’ Perfperc – Volume I marks the beginning of an exploration of percussion libraries built using multi-samples captured from repeated performance phrases. This library was produced with a heavy focus on start-time consistency and timbral cohesion between RRs, wrapped up in a performance-sourced repetition approach, which in…
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Cory’s Library Spotlight – PREPARATO | PIANO
Cory’s Library Spotlight – PREPARATO | PIANO After 2 years of work, Flavio Cangialosi of XPERIMENTA is really excited to announce PREPARATO Piano, the first library of the Preparato Series recorded in a beautiful church in the center of Rome.
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Cory’s Library Spotlight – All Saints Choir by Soniccouture
Cory’s Library Spotlight – All Saints Choir by Soniccouture Let’s take a look at All Saints Choir by Soniccouture. All Saints Church, Tooting – a rich, clear acoustic that has graced recordings by Decca, Sony, and Deutsche Grammophon. In collaboration with The New London Chamber Choir, Soniccouture presents their most ambitious sampling project yet. Featuring…
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Cory’s Library Spotlight – L&S Chamber Strings
Cory’s Library Spotlight – L&S Chamber Strings Light and Sound Chamber Strings is an extremely detailed and flexible chamber string library recorded by expert recording engineer, Debbie Smith, at Windmill Lane, Dublin. A range of exciting and revolutionary techniques for recording longs, as well as freshly conceived scripting concepts, allowed the natural dynamic movements of…
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Cory’s Library Spotlight – Renegade by Musical Sampling
Cory’s Library Spotlight – Renegade by Musical Sampling Renegade is a drum and sound design library designed for producers of nu-metal, EDM, rock, pop, and underscore. We also aimed to make this a serious asset for modern underscoring with atmospheric percussion/synth pulses, brooding basses, and experimental acoustic content.
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Cory’s Library Spotlight – Venice Modern Strings
Cory’s Library Spotlight – Venice Modern Strings Venice Modern Strings is a sampled string orchestra for Kontakt 5 which features 8 first violins, 6 second violins, 5 violas, 5 cellos and 3 doublebasses. The library features three kinds of legato: portamento, fingered legato and bow change legato. These can be triggered either by velocity, by MIDI CC or by Pitchwheel. Moreover there’s a control for the…
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Cory’s Library Spotlight – Symphony Series Strings
Cory’s Library Spotlight – Symphony Series Strings Symphony Series Strings is a 60-piece string section captured at Studio 22, Budapest. Watch Cory’s reaction to this library.
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Cory’s Library Spotlight – Westgate Woodwinds
Cory’s Library Spotlight – Westgate Woodwinds WESTGATE STUDIOS is a provider of high-end sample libraries for Kontaktby Native Instruments.
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Cory’s Library Spotlight – LA Modern Percussion by Audio Ollie
Cory’s Library Spotlight – LA Modern Percussion by Audio Ollie LA Modern Percussion – Audio Ollie teamed up with Performance Samples and the legendary scoring mixer Alan Meyerson to bring you his iconic, distinctive percussion sound, heretofore unreplicable with the existing tools and libraries.
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Cory’s Library Spotlight – Lightning X3M by STREZOV MUSIC
Cory’s Library Spotlight -Lightning X3M by STREZOV MUSIC LIGHTNING X3M is a vast collection of organic and electronic high-frequency percussion designed for adding tension and speed to your music.
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Library Spotlight – LA Drama Drums (LADD)
Library Spotlight – LA Drama Drums (LADD) At the most basic level, LADD is both multi-sample strikes and audio loops library. Additionally, the LADD engine allows you to instantly recall your saved presets that include Filters, Tuning, Drive, LoFi, Hi-Cut, Low Cut, Transient Masters, EQ, Delays, Reverbs, MorphMaster FX and more. Cory’s Custom Patches LA…
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Cory’s Library Spotlight -Symphobia 4: Pandora by ProjectSAM
Cory’s Library Spotlight -Symphobia 4: Pandora by ProjectSAM Symphobia 4: Pandora lets you summon rousing cinematic risers, foreboding falls, and earth-shattering crescendos with unmatched ease and flexibility.
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Cory’s Library Spotlight – Dominus Choir Pro by FluffyAudio
Cory’s Library Spotlight – Dominus Choir Pro by FluffyAudio Dominus Choir Pro by FluffyAudio is the follow-up of FluffyAudio’s flagship Dominus choir library (See also our Dominus by FluffyAudio Review). “Dominus” in Latin means “Lord” or “Master”. This word can be heard in many examples of sacred Christian music. Despite its noble origins, the choice of the name “Dominus” was actually…
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Cory’s Library Spotlight – Retrowave by SPLASH SOUND
Cory’s Library Spotlight – Retrowave by SPLASH SOUND Retrowave is possibly the most comprehensive Synthwave sample library for KONTAKT.
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Cory’s Library Spotlight – Moonkits by Soniccouture
Cory’s Library Spotlight – Moonkits by Soniccouture I was expecting a lot less from MOONKITS. Boy was I wrong:
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Placing Instruments in a Space
Placing Instruments in a Space In this video, I’ll be showing you how prior to getting the seventh heaven reverb I would use reverb to place drier instruments in space. I thought I’d focus on showing you how to place instruments in a space with an option that a lot of composers already use.
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Cory’s Library Spotlight – Medusa by Musical Sampling
Cory’s Library Spotlight – Medusa by Musical Sampling Medusa is a modern ensemble drum library created for trailer producers as well as film, game and television composers.
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Cory’s Library Spotlight – Albion Neo by Spitfire Audio
Cory’s Library Spotlight – Albion Neo by Spitfire Audio Albion Neo by Spitfire Audio is covered in the Library Spotlight.
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Cory’s Library Spotlight – Stormchoir Ultimate by Strezov Sampling
Cory’s Library Spotlight – Stormchoir Ultimate by Strezov Sampling Storm Choir Ultimate a 20-piece chamber choir recorded with three microphone positions in Sofia Session Studio (the same hall where we recorded our Afflatus and Next Gen choir series).
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Cory’s Library Spotlight – Session Strings Pro 2 by e-instruments
Cory’s Library Spotlight – Session Strings Pro 2 by e-instruments SESSION STRINGS PRO 2 includes 26 articulations, including legato, portamento, and glissando as well as multiple crescendi, trills, scoops, falls, and glissandi. Add realistic, nuanced expression to your string arrangement by drawing from a vast array of playing articulations. Session Strings Pro 2 Features Mid-sized…
