Lunaris 2 – the Next Chapter of the Lunaris Series For years, Lunaris (1) has been the go-to for synth pads—from analog to digital, string to cinematic, retro 80s-style to ambient, and all in between. It has constantly solidified its status as the industry standard for pads. Now with Version 2, compared to its predecessor, […]
Sample Logic has done it again with their newest pad instrument, GENESIS. This powerful tool makes it easy to create lush pads that sound great and are perfect for any style of music production. With its vast number of sounds and FX chains, you can create unique instruments that come to life with just a […]
The Zero-G ENIGMA is a new musical instrument that helps you create ambient pads, drones, and cinematic textures. Do you want to create unique ambient sounds imaginably? If so, then Zero-G ENIGMA is the perfect instrument for you! This revolutionary new software allows you to create lush pads, drones, and cinematic textures that are unique. […]
ORIGINALS CINEMATIC PADS by Spitfire Audio Spitfire Audio released ORIGINALS CINEMATIC PADS — positioned as the eleventh entry in its ongoing ORIGINALS series of inspiring sample libraries making rare and classic instruments accessible to all, this time offering electronic sounds for the first time as a diverse range of classic, broadcast-ready synth textures made entirely from stunning symphonic orchestral recordings […]
THE ANTIQUARIAN ECHO // Jon Meyer created a spacey, ambient, evolving pad sound using an electric guitar and Roland Chorus Echo. The Antiquarian Echo requires the full version of Kontakt 5. Get the sample pack on this page. Jon Meyer is a musician with a camera. Making sample instruments, writing music for media and dabbling […]
Omnisphere: Creating A String Machine Pad Is Omnisphere any good for creating those vintage string machine-style sounds? In this video, I take apart a modernized string machine-esque pad from my soundbank Dystopia to show you how I created it from scratch. In this video I discuss: Omnisphere’s String Machine sound sources Using the Granular Engine to give vintage sounds […]
RE:COIL an Omnisphere 2.5 Soundset is Released Re:Coil is a cinematic Soundset for Omnisphere 2.5 based on string soundsources from its Core Library. Re:Coil contains patches made from violins, cello, guitar, cuatro and many odd devices which contain strings as the source. The onboard sound sources in Omnisphere are amazing and vast. The limit to only strings (mostly […]
Man Makes Noise Releases Puro – Cinematic Textures and Pads Soundset for Omnisphere 2.6 Man Makes Noise releases Puro for Omnisphere 2.6 today. The name originates from Puro (Finnish); a stream, brook. (Spanish); pure Puro is all about atmosphere. It’s about modern cinematic textures and pads. It’s a search for beauty in ugly places. Built […]
MUZE AQUAMARINE COMPLETE SALE Muze AQUAMARINE COMPLETE is a tremendous inspirational compilation of innovative new sounds and atmospheres, textures, pads & synths for music, sound design and cinematic composition. Developed for use with the full version of Kontakt 5.6 or higher, AQUAMARINE COMPLETE is an all-in-one tool for crafting soundtracks, cinematic music, epic music trailers […]
Hybrid Tools: Phenex Bundle Released by 8Dio 8Dio released Phenex, available as a bundle or as two libraries that are part of the bundle: Hybrid Tools: Phenex Modular Analog Basses, Pads & Strings and Hybrid Tools: Phenex Modular Analog Effects & Tools. The bundle is a collection of professional scoring tools. Phenex was produced by […]
Oddball a Playful Collection Oddball is a playful collection of pads, plucks, subs, stings, drones, & drums sampled from cheap digital keyboards and then manipulated to the intergalactic limit. Each patch was carefully designed to unlock new realms of inspired creativity. From nostalgic ’90s synth emulations and cheesy percussion loops & hits to luscious ambiances & […]
Review of VENTO: Modern Woodwinds Review by Heavyocity Like it’s influencing predecessors NOVO (Strings) and FORZO (brass), VENTO is Heavyocity’s next product in a full orchestra collection that is very different from the classical libraries available today. The extremely successful Novo was extended by Novo Pack 03 Synthetic Strings, NOVO PACK 02 – Rhythmic Textures and […]
Eplex7 DSP Releases Forest Film Pads 1 Instrument Forest Film Pads 1 is a compilation of forest pads, soundscapes, textures and special atmospheric strings for film / cinematic / video game music especially historical, gothic or fantasy films. These instruments can be perfectly used also in any positive music like chillout, ambient, esoteric / relaxation […]
Continuo Guitar Your Cinematic Guitar Orchestra Continuo is a complex-sounding cinematic texture creator library based on electric guitars for producing continuous pads, mysterious soundscapes, unique atmospheres. Continuo Guitar allows you to create experimental sublayers notably for the film, video game, and electronic music. Producer & Songwriter Iamyank Continuo is created in collaboration with the multi-instrumentalist […]
Tomorrowland 2 – 82GB DOWNLOAD SIZE | 10,000+ NEW INSTRUMENTS Play the most powerful and largest collection of EDM instruments ever! Tomorrowland 2 is a huge collection of features electronic music instruments in Kontakt geared toward all genres and contains everything from leads, pads, ambiance, and drums. The Elixir of Stars comes with over 10,000 instruments […]
Riot Audio has released BOWED GUITAR CLOUDS | Cinematic Morphing Pads. The Kontakt library is a set of cinematic morphing pads ready for your next composition. BOWED GUITAR CLOUDS converge on recordings of bowed guitars, it is the follow-up to the successful Bowed Glass Clouds. Built on Riot Audio proprietary CLOUDS engine within Kontakt, BOWED GUITAR […]
Nordic an Omnisphere soundset is now available Nordic is a new soundset for Omnisphere 2 with an ambient character, perfect for use in underscoring and use in film, game, and library music productions and contains 128 presets and 25 multis. The soundset has found its inspiration in the beautiful nature and landscapes from Scandinavia. Originally […]
Spitfire Audio launched Orbis an eDNA synthesizer based on the recordings by sonic explorer David Fanshawe. Professionally recorded on David’s Nagra, Uher, and Stellavox tape machines. Fanshawe’s pioneering vision guided him to the several isolated corners of the earth. He captured the legends and character of isolated communities. Capturing instruments, voices, music, and languages. Orbis […]
WORMHOLE – High-end Sweetening and Mangling Zynaptiq just released version 1.1.0 of their high-end otherworldly multi-FX mangler WORMHOLE, featuring GUI zoom and new artist presets by award-winning sound designer and supervising sound editor Brett Hinton, well known for his work on Sci-Fi series such as Altered Carbon and Westworld. WORMHOLE is a plugin designed for […]
Spitfire Audio works with world-renowned composer and Composer and Sound Designer, on namesake HAUSCHKA COMPOSER TOOLKIT. Spitfire and the world-renowned German composer Hauschka (Volker Bertelmann) produced this new library in collaboration. Hauschka is best known for film scores such as the Oscar-nominated Lion (2016) and Adrift (2018). As a multifaceted musical toolkit to add dazzling […]
PAD MOTION 2.0 a FREE Update to its Sample and Granular Based Software instrument available immediately. If you want to learn more about PAD Motion, We did review PAD MOTION – Cinematic Pads with Movement by SAMPLE FUEL Review in 2018. This is a completely FREE update that includes a New Large redesigned GUI, New User Envelope “LFO” […]
Modules and Modular Boxes for Omnisphere 2 and 3 for Zebra 2 Modules are elements from existing soundsets and each Module has a fixed price of €8.99 and contains between 30 and 65 presets. If you are for example only looking for pads, soundscapes or ARP’s then the Modules are a perfect place to start. […]
Riot Audio has released Bowed Glass Clouds, a simple but powerful Kontakt virtual instrument for cinematic morphing pad sounds. Bowed Glass Clouds, based on recordings of bowed glass bowls and jars, will be available for free for a limited period. Bowed Glass Clouds Multi-layer morphing pad instrument running in Kontakt 5.8 and above Source sounds include: […]
Lunaris is the leading pad machine with excellent material and presets to allow you quickly to shape pads you need for your scoring. It sounds beautiful and combines analog, ambient, thick, lush, and cinematic pads into pure sound ecstasy. I can listen and work with many different libraries, and Lunaris is standing out as a precious library that you […]
Moondust a Collection for Serum Released by Triple Spiral Audio Moondust is a collection of 64 beautiful pads, atmospheres, and soundscapes suited for use in game, film, trailer, and library music productions or any ambient/downtempo production. The presets are created from 43 custom wavetables and with the use of 92 custom noises. Both the wavetables and […]
CYCLE-CRE8 by Sample Fuel Review Cycle-CRE8 by Sample Fuel is under review today. It is a virtual library that comes with unheard sounds, movement, and energetic soundscapes, keys and pads that move or cycle. If you are new to Sample Fuel libraries, get yourself hooked with their free products here. There is also a Cycle-Lite […]
Pulsar a Falcon Expansion by UVI Review Pulsar is an expansion of sounds for the UVI Falcon with futuristic basses, leads, atmospheres, pads, fx and more. The Pulsar expansion for Falcon uses the excellent synthesis abilities of Falcon. (Keep in mind that a Falcon license required. Pulsar is not compatible with UVI Workstation.) Pulsar was […]
Omnisphere Bundle by MIDIssonance The Omnisphere Bundle comprising of five single Omnisphere sound sets all developed and produced by MIDIssonance. It is a collection of top quality sounds produced for Omnisphere 2.6 and includes all of MIDIssonance sound sets for Omnisphere 2. MIDIssonance is all about high-quality sound design for all things cinematic. MIDIssonance did […]
Ambient Guitars by Spitfire Audio Review We are reviewing Spitfire Audio Ambient Guitars. The library is a relaunch based on Enigma 1 & 2 to which Spitfire Audio added new content (600 sounds, including over 10GB of brand original recordings and additional curated preset.) Owners of Enigma 1 & 2 got the Ambient Guitars free […]
The instruments in Gh’nuhan take you on an ethnic and tribal journey through a collection of “imaginary” instruments, pad and textures.
Luftrum 20 for Hive Review In our review today we are looking at Luftrum 20 for Hive. “Luftrum 20 takes Hive out of its natural EDM comfort zone and launches it on a diametric journey of ambient pads, ethereal bright arpeggios, soaring leads.” This is how Luftrum positions this new sound set collection for u-he […]
In the search for a new home, mankind travels to a distant exoplanet of enigmatic lifeforms. The expedition returns with a single clue to this strangely evolved ecosystem: a mystic, ultrasonic artifact, engraved with the word EXPANSE. Decode the relic and unlock its gateway to higher consciousness… Expanse is a boundless ocean of cutting-edge electronic […]
Mimi Page Light & Shadow by Soundiron Review Mimi Page Light & Shadow is a celestial and beautifully flexible female solo vocal and atmospheric sound-design library. It’s Made For Kontakt Player and compatible with Komplete Kontrol and S-Series hardware. About Mimi Page Mimi Page is a singer, songwriter, and composer born and raised in Los Angeles, […]
Orchestral Dust is a beast to create unique evolving lively sounds for your orchestral underscore. Some sounds did remind me of certain blockbuster which only speaks to the quality of results this library can produce.
Arturia has announced the shipment of the latest edition of V Collection: their flagship anthology of reimagined historic synths and keyboards. Containing 24 premier software instruments and thousands of preset sounds, V Collection 7 is the must-have reference for the composer, musicians, producers, sound designers, and keyboard fans. NEW INSTRUMENTS in Arturia V Collection 7 […]
RePro-1 Firebird by The Unfinished Review The Unfinished is releasing this Friday a new and stunning RePro-1 soundset. We received an early review copy of RePro-1 Firebird with no strings attached and could take a look at RePro-1 Firebird before its launch date April, 26th 2019. RePro-1 Firebird soundset centers on analog and cinematic sounds. […]
ATOM 2.0 by Audiomodern Review Today we are reviewing a relaunched Library. Atom 2.0 was recently re-released in 2019 as an updated version of ATOM originally released two years ago. I use ATOM since 2017 and I am impressed by the high-quality content and its usefulness in many applications, genres, and sound design. The market […]
Atom 2.0 here (Affiliate Link) is released and it is a free update for existing customers who obtained the previous Atom library earlier. The Atom V 2.0 Update is introducing NKS Compatibility, a brand-new Preset Browser, and Scale-Selector / Randomizer for each of the Arpeggiators. The machine is built around a beautifully diverse collection of […]
Retro City is another excellent Luftrum release. Retro City adds superb sounding Synthwave, Dreamwave, Darksynth or Synthpop presets to u-he’s Diva. A perfect choice for anyone who is composing for the ’80s and needs a sound set matching the dominant sound and vibe.
STRING AUDIO has updated their best-seller library MONOLITH to v1.1 Several improvements and bugs fixes: New Solo/Mute engine. Now you can solo multiple layers at the same time. Fixed a bug related to the 5th convolution reverb send. Fixed the code of various knobs that were causing Kontakt to show the warning message “clipping at […]
Flow is a new library for Kontakt with a focus on ambient sound and motion. It is available till 16 April at the introduction price of €35,- and the full retail price will be €55,- (prices are with VAT included) The library contains 192 sound sources in the following categories: Pads, Textures, Soundscapes, and Ambiences. […]
Sonikscape by SampleTraxx Review Sonikscape is a collaboration between SampleTraxx and German sound designer Sebastian Emling. This team also produced Cinematic Zither and Old Broken Piano. SampleTraxx did send a review copy with no strings attached. Installation You do download after purchase the library and unpack it to the final location on your hard disk. […]
The Lobby Piano a sound set for Omnisphere 2.5 Review The Lobby Piano is an examination of what a piano can be varying from innovative playing techniques to effectively reshaped tone examinations. It is not a piano anymore you receive a collection of beneficial Omnisphere 2.5 patches with exceptional good sounding Atmos, Texture, Arp, Pads, […]
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 […]
The Planet Deep Scan by Atom Hub Review The Planet Deep Scan by Atom Hub is after the previous released THE PLANET a much darker and more focused on the background library. Atom Hub did send a review copy with no strings attached. Installation You download the library after purchase, unpack it and use it in Kontakt […]
eXplorer4 bundle by Rob Papen Review Rob Papen synth and tools bundle eXplorer4 includes an extensive collection of synthesizer, EQ, and effect plugins. To cut it short several of the synth you need to open then and could use them asap for your next project. The vast variety of included patches are excellent. Rob Papen did […]
