Audio Brewers – The Upright (Review)
A good piano library is a must-have for any composer. Today we’ll take a look at The Upright by Audio Brewers. The Upright is a beautiful-sounding 1989 upright piano fully recorded, mixed, and delivered in both Ambisonics and stereo.
Keepforest – Ferrum (Review)
Keepforest is back with a new, hard-hitting sample library: Ferrum – Modern Trailer Percussion. As the caption suggests, Ferrum is a massive percussion instrument geared towards trailer music and cinematic music production. It offers a large collection of highly processed cinematic percussion that ranges from epic trailer hits and ensemble drums to various metals, cymbals, foley percussion, and more.
Orchestral Tools – Inspire Bundle for SINE (Review)
The Inspire SINE Bundle combines the two symphonic orchestral libraries Berlin Orchestra Inspire 1 and Berlin Orchestra Inspire 2, which are designed as a comprehensive sketching tool for modern-day film composers. The samples are taken from Orchestral Tools’ flagship Berlin series and were streamlined for composers with smaller setups or mobile working environments.
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 – Hybrid Tools Phenex Bundle (Review)
Phenex is the latest addition to 8Dio’s massively popular Hybrid Tools series of cinematic sound design products. In contrast to its predecessors though, this new sample library isn’t so much about spectacular sound effects like impacts, risers, drones, and the like, but focuses more on the musical, evocative side of production.
Orchestral Tools – Junkie XL Brass (Review)
In this review, we’re having a look at Orchestral Tools’ most ambitious project to date: Junkie XL Brass. Featuring a top-class collaboration and a huge 37-piece orchestral brass section recorded in one of Europe’s finest scoring stages, Junkie XL Brass seeks to set a new standard in orchestral sampling.
Trailer Music Mastery (Course Review)
Today we’re taking a look at an online course called Trailer Music Mastery, a program geared towards composers and music producers who want to learn creating massive sounding trailer music for movies, videogames, and TV shows.
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.
Evenant releases Orchestral Sketching Course
Online learning platform Evenant just released a new mini-course called Orchestral Sketching. Orchestral Sketching – Accelerate Your Composing Speed is a 5-hour long…
Keepforest – Risenge (Review)
The sound effects specialists at Keepforest are back with a brand-new series of cinematic sample libraries called Risenge. The Risenge line is designed to be your new one-stop-shop for dramatic wide-screen risers, hits, face-melting build-ups as well as cinematic suckbacks and reverses.