If you’re looking for professional sound design resources that will blow your mind, you need to check out Super Loud Action Metals! This collection of field recordings made in a HUGE scrapyard is packed full of jaw-dropping audio effects and sound design ideas that will help you achieve the sounds you’ve always wanted. Not only…
Looking for high-quality analog drum samples? Look no further than Complete Drums 2 by Wave Alchemy. This pack gives you access to characterful, beautifully curated analog samples from almost every iconic and inspiring drum machine in existence. Looking for a complete drum sample solution? Look no further than Wave Alchemy’s Complete Drums 2! This huge…
Are you looking to add some spice and exotic flair to your music? Then you need Zero-G’s newest instrument library, Sahara Beats. This unique Kontakt instrument contains over 2000 samples of percussive beats and grooves from the Middle East and North Africa. From traditional middle eastern percussion styles to modern beats and rhythms, this library…
As a composer, one of the most exciting things you can do is score for TV or film. It’s a unique challenge to create music that not only sets the tone and atmosphere for the scene but also works with sound effects and dialogue. In many ways, it’s similar to writing a song, but with…
So, in short, Kitchenology is a great tool for creating unique sounds using unusual sources, MIDI grooves, and IR samples. It’s perfect for sound design and composition, and its convolution reverbs will give your audio that extra bit of depth.
Epic Latin Music with Axé The music of Axé is a fusion of many different Latin American styles but also has an amazing sound. It’s the first time that these styles have been mixed together in this way before, and it will bring composers new ideas for what Epic Soundtracks could be. Epic songs are…
Review of Tom Holkenborg’s Percussion by Orchestral Tools In this article, we will be reviewing Tom Holkenborg’s Orchestral Percussion. Tom Holkenborg is a Dutch composer and producer who has worked on various notable projects such as the soundtrack of Deadpool 2. He also produced music for video games including Arkham Knight and Quantum Break. His…
Tangent Drum by Audio Brewers The boutique sample company Audio Brewers released Tangent Drum. Tangent Drum features a Steel Tongue Drum sampled in so numerous innovative ways and techniques, Audio Brewers went overboard to offer you infinite ways of playing and experimenting. Articulations From typical finger tipping and mallets, all the way to play it…
Tom Holkenborg Percussion In this live stream, we are going to explore the Tom Holkenborg Percussion sample library that recently has been released by Orchestral Tools. Tom Holkenborg’s Percussion gives you the triple-A composer’s very own drum collection—the exact same drums you heard in Mad Max: Fury Road, Zack Snyder’s Justice League, and Godzilla vs. Kong. And the…
New HISSandaROAR Ambience Library A month back Tim Prebble (HISSandaROAR) woke up on a Monday morning with plans to head out recording FOLIAGE stalled by pouring rain! Rain that the weather forecast forgot to mention… But rather than be frustrated Tim decided to experiment with unusual methods for recording rain, starting with the configuration above: capturing four discrete channels of granular metal…
Java Mallets – Unique Mallets With Indonesian Flavor Java Mallets is an inspirational instrument that offers a selection of unique mallet sounds combined with a mythical Indonesian flavor. Because of its particular character, it suits a lot of many styles of music. Cinematique Instruments obtained the traditional sound aesthetic of a Javanese gamelan orchestra in…
DRUM FURY 2 – Mold & Sculpt Percussion Like Never Before Sample Logic continues to make a blast and released their latest DRUM FURY 2 Kontakt Library. This new library is an expanded collection of over 50 deeply-sampled world drums and found sound percussive instruments. After the phenomenal response to Sample Logic’s original Drum Fury…
SoundIron’s Mini Saron Mini Saron is a deeply multi-sampled tuned percussion library that captures the heart and soul of a tiny toy saron. The saron is a musical instrument of Indonesia, which is used in the gamelan. We played 8 of its metal bars with mallets and hammers to explore every nuance of its sound. This…
Musical Sound design-y Worlds Marcio Doctor shows you interesting ways of using LOOP POOL PERCUSSION as a sound design tool. LOOP POOL PERCUSSION is the next step in the LOOP POOL journey. 3 different Kontakt instruments (with 60 variations) packed with over 1000 eccentric percussion grooves played by Marcio on a massive range of his ‘instruments’.…
CIMBALOM – shimmering, spine-tingling tuned percussion plug-in Spitfire Audio released CIMBALOM — an appropriately-named extension to its continuous ORIGINALS series of immediate writing tools with the same exceptional recording character as the ‘full-blown’ flagship libraries with which it has built its reputation. Perfectly capturing its 19th century-originating sparkling, spine-tingling tuned percussion instrument namesake (nowadays familiar from being brought into play…
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.…
David Oliver’s Shake | Behind The Scenes (BTS) In this video, David Oliver takes you behind the scenes and gives you insight into the instruments and process of how he worked on the new David Oliver’s Shake library. Soundiron’s The New Shake 2.0 David Oliver’s Shake is a comprehensive collection of 95 shakers, tambourines, rattles, and bells…
BBC Symphony Orchestra Professional 1.2.0 In the latest update to the BBC Symphony Orchestra Professional library (See StrongMocha’s Review of Spitfire Audio BBC Symphony Orchestra), Spitfire Audio added an extra set of stunning performances from the brilliant brass section, as well as updating a selection of legatos with abilities including fast runs and shorts. Spitfire…
Composing With Shake 2.0 In this video Nathan Boler (Soundiron) deconstructs his track “Forest Flight” using our newest upgrade for Shake. David Oliver’s Shake is a comprehensive collection of 95 shakers, tambourines, rattles, and bells from all over the world. This deep and stylistically expansive sample library focuses on live performed grooves, fills, flourishes, rolls, and individually…
Soundiron’s The New Shake 2.0 David Oliver’s Shake is a comprehensive collection of 95 shakers, tambourines, rattles, and bells from all over the world. This deep and stylistically expansive sample library focuses on live performed grooves, fills, flourishes, rolls, and individually sampled hits by British instrumentalist and media composer David Oliver. 10 Multi-sample NKI instrument banks…
Composing With Hapi Drums In this video, Nathan Boler deconstructs his track “Lucid Lagoon” using Soundiron’s newest library, Hapi Drums. Hapi Drums is an inspiring collection of four steel tongue drums crafted by legendary instrument makers Grahm Doe & Tricia Kelly.
Soniccouture Celeste Soniccouture’s Celeste 30% Off Ends Tomorrow. Produced in conjunction with Schiedmayer, we present Celeste. Featuring 32 velocity layers & dual mic channels. 5.5 Octave Schiedmayer Studio Model 32 Velocity Layers 2 Mic Channels Weaver Module Kontakt Player 6 + NKS Compatible Named after the heavens themselves, the Celeste has always been the most ethereal…
An Inspiring Ensemble From Indonesia Become immersed in the ancient sound of the Javanese gamelan, now available as a virtual instrument from Impact Soundworks. This 1,500+-year-old musical ensemble and art form is centered around tuned, metallic percussion that, in unison, produces an evocative, meditative tone. Whether you’re creating atmospheric music, film scores, epic hybrid tracks,…
Damage 2 Tutorial Video After nearly a decade, the epic sequel to the iconic original has finally arrived. Damage 2 is here too, once again, melt your face off. It’s the epic ensembles recorded at Skywalker Sound. It’s the aggressively Damaged hybrid elements. It’s the 860+ gut-punching loops. It’s the truly-realistic crescendos, swells, and flourishes…
Welcome to the Club In this video I’ll explore modular techno with some help from the new Queen of Pentacles by Endorphin. In case you’ve missed it, it’s a 909 inspired drum module with a serious twist on the kick, snare and clap – and eight banks of user defined samples (4 per bank) to…
Perfperc – Volume II by Performance Samples’ is now available Perfperc – Volume II continues the exploration of percussion libraries built using multi-samples captured from repeated performance phrases. The library features more than 15 instruments (many of which with a world percussion leaning) including a djembe, frame drum, conga set, cajon, udu, a large selection…
Damage 2 time After nearly a decade, the epic sequel to the iconic original has finally arrived. Damage 2 is here too, once again, melt your face off. It’s the epic ensembles recorded at Skywalker Sound. It’s the aggressively Damaged hybrid elements. It’s the 860+ gut-punching loops. It’s the truly-realistic crescendos, swells, and flourishes of…
China Percussion, Chinese Percussion Collection by Sound Magic Sound Magic introduces China Percussion featuring China Percussion instruments, a complete collection on most Chinese percussion instruments powered by the latest Neo Orchestra Hybrid Modelling Engine. Sound Magic is proud to announce the availability of China Percussion — its latest hybrid modeling virtual instrument for Mac (AU…
Damage 2 by Heavyocity After nearly a decade, the epic sequel to the iconic original has finally arrived. Damage 2 is here too, once again, melt your face off. It’s the epic ensembles recorded at Skywalker Sound. It’s the aggressively Damaged hybrid elements. It’s the 860+ gut-punching loops. It’s the truly-realistic crescendos, swells, and flourishes…
Boyss-Sound-e-Scapes 5th Anniversary Boyss-Sound-e-Scapes released the 5th Year Free Pack. It is sample pack Ice Percussion which consists of Kontakt/sfz instruments, loops, and samples. About Boyss-Sound-e-Scapes Boyss-Sound-e-Scapes is an audio software company concentrated on producing sample libraries and soundsets The genius behind Boyss-Sound-e-Scapes is music producer, artist, and sound designer Bojan Boyss. They perform experiments…
Hand Clapper Update v1.5 by AudioThing Hand Clapper is a drum synthesizer plugin dedicated to claps sounds. The design is inspired by a famous Japanese percussion synthesizer from the ’80. There are three internal noise sources that are used to recreate the classic sound of vintage analog drum machines (such as 808, 909, HC2, and more).…
Percussion Swarm – be ready for something new Percussion Swarm wants you to discover a radical range of otherworldly pads, evolving swells, and atonal rhythmic textures. Spitfire Audio’s PERCUSSION SWARM — a one-of-a-kind, encyclopaedic collection of beautiful cloud-like evolutions, pointillistic textures and single hits created from rare and extensive tuned and untuned instruments, representing the…
Toy Piano Released Fracture Sounds The sound of the Toy Piano is produced by hammers striking metal rods (tines), resulting in a unique bell-like tone. The instrument was close mic’d in stereo, in a dry studio, giving you the flexibility to add as much or little reverb as you like. The original instrument has some…
