EastWest Hollywood Orchestra Opus Edition (Review)
Today we’re having a look at the new Hollywood Orchestra Opus Edition by EastWest. Over ten years after the release of the original Hollywood Orchestra – EastWest’s best-selling sample library ever – the new Opus Edition is a large-scale update with many technical improvements, a bunch of fresh sounds, and a brand-new sample engine.
Spitfire Audio – Albion Solstice (Review)
Today we will be reviewing Albion Solstice, the latest addition to the famous series of Spitfire Audio’s cinematic scoring tools. Released just a few weeks ago, Albion Solstice is marketed as an exploration of “the visionary artistry from modern, folk, and heritage instruments”.
ujam – Finisher Bundle (Review)
UJAM’s Finisher series is a line of unique FX plugins which combine a multitude of different effects chains and processors under the hood of a simple and straightforward user interface. Designed to make plain instrument and vocal tracks pop out without the need of adjusting complicated plugin chains, the Finisher plugins provide you with an inspiring toolbox of sound design options, ranging from cool and subtle to crazy and furious.
Keepforest – Evolution: Devastator Warzone (Review)
The sound design team at Keepforest is back with a new sample library: Evolution: Devastator Warzone. The Devastator product series is aimed at providing composers and editors with an entire line-up of impressive modern cinematic sound effects and custom trailer samples.
Thinkspace Education – Learn Sound Design (Course Review)
Today we will be checking out Thinkspace’s Sound Design short courses. These courses were created to introduce musicians to various music production techniques and improve their sound manipulation skills.
Studio Time Season 4 with Film Composer Junkie XL
In his highly popular Youtube video series Studio Time With Junkie XL, the Grammy-nominated film composer – also known as Tom Holkenborg – takes you behind the scenes of his work for some of Hollywood’s most popular movies in recent times.
Cinematic Music Creation (Course Review)
Today we are having a look at a new composition course called Cinematic Music Creation. Hosted by Christopher Siu, this comprehensive course promises to cover multiple topics, step by step, from music theory, composition techniques, and orchestration, all the way up to mixing and mastering.
Orchestral Tools launches Free SINEfactory
Orchestral Tools just launched a brand-new, free instrument subscription service called SINEfactory. The goal behind SINEfactory is to provide users with free, unique & custom-built instruments for Orchestral Tools’ own sampler engine SINE.
Spitfire Audio – Abbey Road One (Review)
Abbey Road One: Orchestral Foundations is Spitfire Audio’s very first collaboration with the iconic British Abbey Road Studios. It seeks to capture the highly-praised sound that Studio One has infused countless orchestral film soundtracks with. This includes featuring the same players, instruments, microphones, and gear that was used on scores by film composer greats like John Williams, Howard Shore, or Alan Silvestri.
Heavyocity – MOSAIC TAPE (Review)
MOSAIC TAPE is Heavyocity’s latest addition to their popular series of creative cinematic composing toolkits – the MOSAIC series. For the fourth installment in their MOSAIC series, Heavyocity decided to delve into the world of analog tape by processing their sound sources with all kinds of tape-related goodness.