Spitfire Audio – London Contemporary Orchestra Textures (Review)
London Contemporary Orchestra Textures is Spitfire Audio’s second collaboration with the internationally acclaimed ensemble. By combining the group’s unique performance style and unusual combinations of instruments, they created a never-before sampled sound palette of constantly evolving organic textures.
East West – The Complete Scoring Package (Deal)
Audio Plugin Deals just launched a brand-new deal! For the very first time, APD teamed up with the orchestral sampling pioneers at East West, offering two of the brand’s most successful products at an incredible 68% discount.
Heavyocity – FORZO (Review)
Heavyocity just released another product in their range of modern orchestral virtual instruments: FORZO Modern Brass. Following the successful concept of their Modern Strings range NOVO, FORZO is in essence three libraries in one: a powerful 26-piece orchestral brass section sampled with over 100 articulations, a hybrid engine that masterfully merges traditional brass and sound design and a loop designer that puts over 400 tempo-synced brass loops at your fingertips.
In this review, we’ll have a look at the library’s features and find out together, if FORZO can hold up to its award-winning sibling NOVO.
Sonokinetic – Largo (Review)
With their most recent sample library Largo, Dutch sample library developer just released a long-awaited addition to their popular line of phrase-based libraries. Largo (meaning “slow” in Latin) delves into the realm of soaring string melodies, lush woodwind chord ensembles and smooth brass lines – sounds reminiscent of classic film scores and historical features.
Symphonic Virtual Orchestration (Review)
Today we’re having a look at Cinematic Composing’s popular online course called Symphonic Virtual Orchestration. Hosted by L.A.-based film music composer and tutor Marc Jovani, the course provides a comprehensive guide to orchestration, recording, mixing and mastering of sample-based orchestral arrangements.
Red Room Audio – Palette Symphonic Sketchpad (Review)
Founded just recently in 2017, Red Room Audio has already released several very interesting virtual instruments, including their most ambitious project up to…
Sonuscore – The Orchestra 1.1 (Review)
Released in mid 2017, Sonuscore now has upgraded their one-stop orchestral sample library ‘The Orchestra’ to version 1.1 and we took the opportunity to have a look at the improvements and additions as well as the library as a whole.
Impact Soundworks – The Orchestral Bundle (Review)
VSTBuzz and Impact Soundworks just released a massive discount on “The Orchestral Bundle”, a comprehensive collection of five deeply sampled orchestral libraries covering a wide range of instruments and vocal styles including: Woodwinds, Brass, Percussion, Strings, Traditional Men’s & Women’s Choirs and a Slavic Women’s Choir.
10 Tips To Boost Your Creative Productivity
New Year, new me! We all have heard it, we all have said it. Now that the new year 2018 is one month old, what have you accomplished already? Are you satisfied with your productivity? Could always be better, right?. But what are the essential factors of being more productive? Are there any techniques you can apply in order to get more things done in a shorter time? Absolutely!
