Black Friday & Holiday List 2023
Black Friday is around the corner and a lot of music production companies and sample library developers have started offering amazing discounts on their products. As a source of easy reference during this year’s Black Friday and holiday season, we decided to collect all the deals that might be interesting for media composers into one list.
Vir2 – Phoenix: Rise, Hit & Whoosh Builder (Review)
Today we’ll be checking out a new sample library by Vir2 called Phoenix: Rise, Hit & Whoosh Builder. As the name suggests, Phoenix is a tool designed to create cinematic build-ups, transitions, and dramatic moments. Apart from intelligent scripting that makes the library’s sounds adapt to your host tempo, Phoenix offers several other innovative features like multi-layer sample control and – very excited about this – custom audio file import.
Wavelet Audio – Trailer Box (Review)
Cinematic sample library developer Wavelet Audio just released a new product called Trailer Box: a trailer sound design toolkit designed for modern cinematic audio and video projects. The sounds presented in this toolkit are based around twisted organic sounds and noises as well as powerful guitar and bass recordings.
Heavyocity – Damage 2 (Review)
New York-based sample library developer Heavyocity just released Damage 2, the successor to probably one of the best-selling and most widely used cinematic percussion libraries on the market. Damage 2 comes with a huge collection of freshly recorded and processed percussion goodness and seeks to up the ante with massively brutal drum sound design.
8Dio – Eternal Darkness (Review)
With Eternal Darkness, the cinematic sampling experts at 8Dio recently released a new virtual instrument and addition to their Hybrid Tools line of products. Eternal Darkness is all about gritty horror sound design and dark, creepy textures. We had the chance to check out Eternal Darkness for you and found out what the sample library can help you with scoring your next horror or thriller blockbuster.
UVI – Meteor (Review)
Meteor by French audio software developer UVI is a virtual instrument designed to create dramatic risers, immersive cinematic transitions and thundering impact sound effects for film, games and music productions.
Trailer Music Mixing Course (Review)
Today we’re having a look at Joël Dollié’s Trailer Music Mixing online course. In his new online course, Joël takes you through everything you need to know to start mixing and mastering epic orchestral trailer music yourself.
Epic Sound Effects – QUANTUM
Sample library developer Epic Sound Effects just recently came out with their new Trailer SFX library QUANTUM. For their first release, ESE teamed up with two renowned trailer sound designers Karél Psota & Joshua Crispin aka Generdyn.
Riot Audio releases FREE Bowed Glass Clouds
Sample library developing newcomer Riot Audio just released their new, free sample library BOWED GLASS CLOUDS. Bowed Glass Clouds is a virtual instrument…
Sample Logic – Drum Fury (Review)
Sample Logic just released DRUM FURY, a cinematic drum and percussion library that focuses on epic and – in the company’s own words – apocalyptic drum sounds.