Spitfire Audio – Abbey Road Orchestra: Cellos Professional (Review)
Only two months after releasing Abbey Road Orchestra: 1st Violins, Spitfire Audio is back with another exciting addition to their new flagship orchestral range: Abbey Road Orchestra Cellos. It aims to give composers full control over a particular instrument section and access to the sound of Abbey Road’s famed Studio One scoring stage.
Heavyocity – Gravity 2 (Review)
Heavyocity just released Gravity 2, a follow-up to one of the company’s most successful products ever. Gravity 2 aims to reproduce this success with a fresh set of expertly crafted sound sources a brand-new audio engine and the trademark Heavyocity sound processing.
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.
Mastering Low-End Impact in Trailer Music
When it comes to trailer music, a symphony of elements competes for dominance in the low-frequency range. The colossal drums, thunderous impacts, and rumbling basslines all vie for their place in the mix. Let’s dive into some key strategies and practical techniques to achieve a powerful low-end while maintaining clarity and impact
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.
Spitfire Audio – Abbey Road Orchestra: Low Percussion (Review)
Today we will be checking out Spitfire Audio’s first chapter in their new Abbey Road Orchestra line: Low Percussion. The Low Percussion extension features the expressive sound of 20 different drums from across the orchestral and world music range. All instruments were performed by master percussionist Joby Burgess (Black Panther, Mission: Impossible) in the famous Abbey Road Studio One.
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 – Andea (Review)
Today we will be checking out an exciting new release by Orchestral Tools: Andea. Made in collaboration with multi-instrumentalist Richard Harvey, who contributed to The Lion King, Interstellar, and Mulan among many others, this library offers dozens of interesting instruments from Central and South America that have been featured in countless movies in recent years.
Spitfire Audio – Aperture: The Stack (Review)
Define hyperbolism: a giant (and world record-breaking!), four-level rack of 56 guitar amps, 4 subwoofers, and a priceless collection of analog synthesizers, all recorded in one of the world’s most sought-after recording spaces in the world. Today we’ll be checking out what is quite possibly one of the most insane creations of Spitfire Audio to date: The Stack.