Master The Score: Hybrid Orchestral Composition and Sound (Course Review)
Are you a self-proclaimed course-aholic like me? Join me on my exciting journey as I explore Master The Score’s Hybrid Orchestral Composition and Sound course by renowned composer Randon Purcell.
Fallout Music Group – Trailer Braams II (Review)
Fallout Media Group’s “Trailer Braams II” is the latest addition to their sample library collection, aimed at providing composers and sound designers with high-quality sound effects for use in trailers, films, and other media projects.
EastWest – String Machine (Review)
Today we‘re checking out String Machine by EastWest. String Machine combines the force of a multi-sampled string machine and a full orchestra. These samples come from the Oberheim OBX, the ARP Solina, the Roland RS-505 and Jupiter 6. It also includes samples of modern orchestral strings, brass, woodwinds and choir/vocals.
Spitfire Audio – Albion Colossus (Review)
Spitfire Audio just launched a brand-new addition to their popular Albion product line: Albion Colossus. Designed as the ultimate cinematic scoring toolkit, Colossus seeks to unlock the primal power of blockbuster scoring.
Creating the Intriguing Soundtrack of ‘Deliver Us Mars’ – with Sander Van Zanten
We got together with Sander Van Zanten, lead composer and sound designer for the eagerly awaited video game Deliver Us Mars. Sander was willing to let us take a peek under the hood of creating music and sound for both the game soundtrack and its trailer and was kind enough to share some of his techniques, workflows and secret tools with us.
Spitfire Audio – Abbey Road One: Thematic Horns (Review)
Spitfire Audio has released “Thematic Horns”, the latest addition to their acclaimed Abbey Road One Film Scoring Selections. This user-friendly, great-sounding library features what the company calls “the sound of instant cinema” – an 8-piece horn section recorded by first-call London session players in the world-famous Abbey Road Studio One.
Orchestral Tools – TIME Bundle (Review)
hythm, even slow down and reverse the orchestra as it plays? And what if you could do so in a way that sounds completely organic? That’s what Orchestral Tools set out to do with their innovative TIME macro and TIME micro libraries.
Orchestral Tools – Berlin Series Bundle (Review)
Today we will be checking out the Berlin Series Main Collections bundle. This new SINE release by Orchestral Tools includes the company’s four…
Abbey Road One Templates Updated!
Our popular scoring templates for Spitfire Audio’s Abbey Road One just got bigger and better! To answer our community’s many requests, we added all the new instrument patches of Spitfire Audio’s expansion packs to our templates.
Orchestral Tools – Berlin Orchestra: Created With Berklee (Review)
Orchestral Tools has released a new entry-level orchestral instrument in collaboration with Berklee College of Music. Berlin Orchestra Created with Berklee features the same recorded samples from Orchestral Tools’ acclaimed flagship Berlin Series instruments.