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Reason Studios Reason 11 Sale Make music the way you want with Reason 11 (Affiliate Link), now available as rack VST plugin within your DAW! Save up to 30% off (Affiliate Link), including upgrades. Reason Rack Plugin for Pro Tools was recently released. Version to choose from Reason 11 Upgrade from Intro / Ltd / […]
Heavyocity Introduces #StayHome. Homemade Loops to Benefit those Impacted by COVID-19 Heavyocity is headquartered right in New York City, the City is one of the epicenters of the COVID-19 outbreak. Heavyocity and most other NY residents have been working from home for many weeks. At a time like this, they understand the financial uncertainty and […]
The Unfinished Humankind 2020 – BUY SOUNDS | HELP LIVES Humankind is a collection of 12 soundsets. Previously Matt from The Unfinished had released Humankind soundsets for Absynth, Bazille, Diva, Massive, Omnisphere, Trilian, Zebra2, and ZebraHZ. And now he added four brand new ones for RePro-1, RePro-5, The Legend, and Uno LX. Support and Pricing […]
Top 5 Orchestral Libraries by Audio Plugin Deals Audio Plugin Deals (ADP) published their Top 5 Orchestral Libraries’ for a film composer key fundamental instruments and tone needed. Audio Plugin Deals Top 5 Orchestral Libraries No. 1 – Sonuscore Lyrical Violin Phrases (Affiliate Link)Along with its companion libraries “Lyrical Cello Phrases” (Affiliate Link) and “Lyrical […]
95% off “Bedroom Producer Essentials” by New Nation LLC Bedroom Producer Essentials (Affiliate Link) is an enormous 30 Pack Collection of WAV Loops (Affiliate Link), MIDI Sequences, and Construction Kits covering a wide range of modern production styles including Trap, Hip Hop, Pop, RnB, Pop and World Music. Packs included LoopLab Vol. 1 – TheDrumBank LoopLab Vol. 2 – TheDrumBank LoopLab Vol. 3 – […]
Focusing on Guitar Fury by Sample Logic Guitar Fury (Affiliate Link) from Sample Logic includes over 40gb of guitar samples and guitar-inspired presets. The video investigates how you can produce and compose with this library to compose music in different genres. The interface of Guitar Fury (Affiliate Link) is extremely simplistic and smooth compared to the earlier Cinematic Guitars Kontakt Libraries. […]
FluffyAudio Piano Sale to support Lombardy Local Hospitals and Medical Staff As you may know, FluffyAudio is based in Italy and more precisely in Lombardy, the most affected region by COVID-19 (also called Coronavirus). The hospitals are overwhelmed and the casualties very high: this is heart-wrenching. They are on the frontline of this unprecedented event and […]
Cinematic Design Course Available Now This is something Evenant has been working a lot on, compiling what Walid from Evenant know and have learned about art and design, creating a full course program for beginners and intermediates alike. Now you have access to it in the latest Cinematic Design Course (Affiliate Link). In Walid’s unique […]
MYSTERIA a Cinematic Vocal Textures Aleatory Instrument We are reviewing MYSTERIA today, this release is a unique aleatory instrument for media scoring where you need that dark fearful tension. If you are familiar with Thrill, MYSTERIA follows the same concept, this time with voices. Aleatory Techniques The use of random elements in the production process, […]
Cinematic Music: From Idea To Finished Recording by Evenant This is it, the doors for “Cinematic Music: From Idea To Finished Recording” (Affiliate Link) are open! All existing students in the course get this upgrade for free and should see the course in their account in the coming hours. From Idea To Finished Recording (Affiliate […]
Spitfire Audio BBC Symphony Orchestra Review Spitfire Audio is well known as a brand and sample library producer offering instruments and sound libraries for film composers. The company offers a wide spectrum where you can use their synths, keys, guitars, hybrids and continuous envolving orchestral libraries. With the release of BBC Symphony Orchestra, Spitfire Audio did […]
Orchestral Sketching: Accelerate Your Composing Workflow Orchestral Sketching (Affiliate Link) is the art of creating rough mockups of your musical themes with only a handful of tracks. It can help you capture the essence of your theme in as little as a few minutes. But it also forces you to pay attention to the core […]
This is the second article in a series focused on getting started with Eurorack. If you’re new to the series, I recommend checking out the first article in the series, Top 10 Things to Know Before Launching into Eurorack. All drawn images in this article provided by Dylan Packard. You can find more examples of […]
Rainmaker by Intellijel and Cylonix Review Intellijel’s Rainmaker is so much more than a standard a delay module. Cylonix teamed up with Intellijel to designed and produce this module. The unit divides into a delay section and a comb filtering section. Each section with their own separate parameters and CV inputs. The vast functionality of […]
As a bit of a preface, this series will focus on the Eurorack modular format; there are other formats that use patch-points. Eurorack is currently the most popular, by far. I’ll be using “Eurorack” and “modular” somewhat interchangeably, except where I specify that something is exclusively true for the Eurorack format, such as voltage specifications […]
About the Author Jonathan Sharp Jonathan Sharp is a composer, sound designer, maker of noise and founder of Heartwood Soundware. So here’s obligatory about him: As a child, he had a piano and violin lessons, as a teenager he taught himself to play guitar and synthesizers. Around that time, Jonathan started to experiment with the […]
WTF Oscillator by Dove Audio Review Creative oscillators are a trend this year. Not to be outdone, Dove Audio is bringing two wavetable oscillators to the market, through Kickstarter campaigns: the WTF Oscillator and the Waveplane Oscillator. While the latter, a 6-dimensional wavetable oscillator is still in development, the WTF OSCILLATOR became available in early […]
Arturia’s MicroFreak is a complete production synthesizer is a hybrid hardware synth with Mutable Instruments Plaits oscillators, plus an outstanding analog filter, a unique keyboard, and a modulation matrix to create a palette of unique sounds, unusual textures, and evolving sequences.
Moog Mother-32 a Semi-Modular Analog Synthesizer Review The Moog Mother-32 was developed and created in the classic Moog design with dark wood side panels on the side and legendary buttons. The case has a desktop format with an angled user interface with all its controls, switches, and plug-in options. Following Mother-32 the DFAM was launched. […]
DFAM by Moog Review I assumed I would nevermore purchase a Moog synthesizer, now I have two, some Moogerfooger and more to come. Moog’s DFAM is a Semi-Modular Drum / Percussion analog synthesizer. When it was first available the DFAM has been given to the workshop participants of the Moogfest. Right on top of the […]
MPC Live and MPC X Review MPC Live and MPC X, both by made Akai Pro have been available in the market for some time now. In the past months, we did take a look at both units. Both devices show far the non-computer machines have developed these days. With an MPC Live or X, […]
Balkan Ethnic Orchestra by Strezov Sampling Review The Kontakt-based Balkan Ethnic Orchestra library which is under review today is a huge collection of samples of Eastern European instruments. The Balkan Ethnic Orchestra library from Strezov Sampling is an impressively comprehensive collection of samples of Eastern European instruments. It features a wide range of instruments from […]
KeyLab 49 MKII by Arturia Review With so many MIDI controllers on the market at the moment. Arturia is setting itself apart from the competition with the launch of a new MIDI keyboard. We are taking a look at the KeyLab 49 MKII Keyboard. Arturia did send a review copy with no strings attached. Update: You […]
Pigments by Arturia Review Pigments Synth is the latest software synthesizer from instrument creator Arturia. Combining the best of two worlds, it features hugely influential, cutting-edge wavetable synthesis alongside its award-winning virtual analog technology. Arturia’s software solutions have been emulations of synths and other instruments. The latest release Pigments is different as it is remarkably […]
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Akai Pro Fire Review Akai has created a dedicated controller for FL Studio, with the Akai Professional Fire you have a dedicated controller for the DAW FL Studio. Akai’s Fire has been developed in tight collaboration with Image-Line and Akai built a compelling device that improves the workflow in modern music production for all FL […]
Afflatus Chapter Strings Review The string library market is always a little saturated, but strings are those special things many composers keep on collecting. It’s been a while since any kind of string library broke new ground, but with the arrival of Afflatus Strings by Strezov Sampling, the competition is about to be thoroughly schooled. Strezov […]
FORZO by Heavyocity Review FORZO fits into the cinematic score to picture grand space and is on par with other libraries from leading companies publishing virtual instrument libraries in the cinematic and epic range. For professionals in the film scoring industry cinematic and epic brass has been an origin of force and power in the modern way […]
Walker 1955 Steinway D by Embertone Yet another piano library has landed, and it’s again another Steinway D – possibly the most sampled grand piano of all time alongside the Yamaha C7 – but this time it’s from the folks at Embertone, and it weighs in at a hefty 200G for the full library, so […]
SD032 TANK RESONATOR by HISS and a ROAR Review SD032 TANK RESONATOR is a recorded enormous tank that was beautifully bowed, hit and scraped for sonorous sounds. The best way to guess what will be released next by HISS and a ROAR is to follow this Instagram feed. Installation You receive WAV format files. it is a 8GB download, […]
Sound Particles by Nuno Fonseca Review With the Sound Particles application, you can create soundscapes with a particle system. It is a bit hard to understand what this excellent tool is all about. I will dumb it down in my review to allow most of you to understand what Sound Particles is easily. Skywalker, Warner Bros, […]
Journeys – Omnisphere 2 Soundset by Triple Spiral Audio Review Triple Spiral Audio released a new experimental harmonized soundset for Omnisphere 2. Journeys is the latest collection of sounds from Triple Spiral Audio who has specialized in Omni 2, Falcon, Zebra, Diva, Serum sound presets. Installation You receive a zip file with the .omnisphere that you install within […]
Oceania by Performance Samples Review Every year another sampled choir walks to the stage and shows off its “next-gen” features. But what if the realism and playability of such next-gen offerings could be supplied with old-gen simplicity? We’ll discuss this concept by looking at Oceania – an effectively simple choir library from Performance Samples. For […]
Scoring Synths by Audio Ollie Review Audio Ollie’s Scoring Synths is unique. Ollie’s synthesized sounds are distinctive and stand out from the crowd. The place to construct a hardware synth and the recording setup are among the most important elements of this composition. When recording, it started by defining a microphone and multiple different microphone positions […]
Saga – Acoustic Trailer Percussion by Red Room Audio Review We all love a good cinematic percussion library, as long as it delivers the sounds, ease of use and is fun to play. Yet another one of these libraries has hit the shelves of late, and we’ll be taking a look at that today – […]
Grind by Audio Damage Review Grind is part of a group of excellent tools from Audio Damage to ruin in a smart and mellow way your audio tracks with some algorithmic distortion and effective filter. Now you may think why should I destroy smartly my audio, well give it a try it will sound great. Audio Damage plugins are […]
Strikeforce Cinematic Percussion by LABORATORY Review Today we’ll be looking at a ground-breaking cinematic percussion library from Laboratory Audio – Strikeforce. There are many cinematic percussion libraries on the market, and each one adds its charm to the what’s already available, but very few – if any – offer a change in approach from the […]
Century Brass Bundle by 8Dio Review 8Dio offers multiple excellent and inspiring libraries. In our review of the Century Brass Bundle, we are looking at the brass section of a film or classical orchestra. In the recent years, we have been become the custom to big sounding, dramatic, in your face superhuman brass. Tension from massively […]
Symphobia 2 by ProjectSAM Review Today we’ll be looking back at a stellar library released nearly a decade ago – Symphobia 2 by Project SAM, a cinematic orchestral library designed for fast and inspired composing for trailers, games and other media. With all the hype surrounding the rush of similar cinematic orchestral libraries of late, […]
Transportation by BOOM Library Review In our review, we are taking a look at Transportation by BOOM Library. Transportation is a public and ambient city library released in early 2018. When you do sound editing and design for an advertisement, short, trailer or feature you are typical in need for sounds that sit in the background to […]
Ebony by Acustica Audio Review In our review of Eboby developed by Acustica Audio, we are looking at a reverb plugin plus extras. Ebody is modeled after the EMT 140. Elektro-Mess-Technik (EMT) is a manufacturer of professional audio equipment; they developed the EMT 140 plate reverb which was one of their best-selling of EMT products. If […]
Century Strings Bundle by 8Dio Review When it comes to composing with string libraries, it is all about emotions. Strings are very well placed to express happiness, sadness, fear, hate, desire, lust, love, etc. When you compose to picture you want to suggest or enforce the story that the director had in mind and Strings are […]
66 Basses (Legion Series) by 8Dio Review Sample library developer 8Dio, known for creating important and wide-ranging sounding libraries recently released a new Bass library – a virtual instrument produced with classic, cinematic and trailer sound in mind. As the name of the library gives away, 66 bass players performed joint articulations plus rare phrases […]
METROPOLIS ARK 3 Review – The Beating Orchestra by Orchestral Tools When Orchestra Tools started the product Metropolis Ark line with Ark 1 (great full sound), followed by Ark 2 (dark, sonorous sounding low magnetic epicness) it was a big blow to the composer community, and I assume started on of a most successful product line […]
KORG Gadget for Mac Review KORG Gadget for Mac is a collection of more than 30 gadgets available on your primary DAW as plugins or within a simplistic DAW which Korg calls Korg Gadget. The mobile version Korg Gadget for iOS is one of the most successful music apps on the iOS platform. Korg Gadget […]
Haunted Spaces by Soniccouture Review Haunted Spaces by Soniccouture is after the earlier release of Geosonics the second release from Soniccouture working with field recordist Chris Watson. Haunted Spaces is based on new recordings and is not reusing to Geosonics sounds. Installation After an acquisition, you have many several options to download the library. The best I […]
FabFilter Pro-L 2 – Limiter Plug-In Review FabFilter released in early December 2017 a new version of their already famous and widely used professional Limiter Plug-in. FabFilter Pro-L 2 is an endorsed true peak limiter. The previous version has been commonly used in the professional space. FabFilter Pro-L2 supports true peak level meters and extensive loudness […]
EXPEDITIONS by Sample Logic is their newest loop based library release using the same 4-core loop engine that has been used in previous released Electro City and Rhythmology. EXPEDITIONS includes rhythmic loops inspired by Africa, Asia, Europe, America, and Latin America grooves. With the library, you get over 800 presets and 965 loops which allow for a remarkably […]
