Albion 3 Iceni Overview by Daniel James
Albion 3: Iceni is an investigation into low end, thundering enormity, horrifying rasp and obliterating distortion.
Free sample library for Kontakt: Abstrakt Volume 1
Way back in August 2005, two sound designers called James Thompson and Dan Powell, freshly adrift from the R&D centre of a well known japanese music company, collaborated with Native Instruments on a library called ‘Kontakt Experience’. From Soniccouture.
Free sample library for Kontakt: Speak & Spell
A much-loved and ubiquitous toy from the 1970s and 80s, Texas Instruments Speak & Spell has found a new lease of life in electronica in the last few years. People discovered that if you tinker with its circuits and voice chips, glitching, looping, and other interesting effects can be achieved. ‘Circuit Bending’, as this is known, is said to have begun in the late 1960s, and its invention is attributed to one Reed Ghazala, after a fortuitous accident with a toy amplifier. From Soniccouture.
Free sample library for Kontakt: Music Boxes
A really nice, surprisingly useful set of of 2 childrens music boxes in the usual sampler formats. use with the Scriptorium 'Tape Wow' KSP script for a woozy, lullaby feel. From Soniccouture.
Albion 2 Loegria Overview by Daniel James
Albion 2: Loegria - Everything you need to write beautiful and esoteric film scores out-of-the-box.
CinePerc Behind the Scenes Featurette
CinePerc is the definitive percussion sample library for composers of film, tv and videogames. The collection contains over 170 instruments and recorded at the world famous MGM scoring stage at Sony Pictures Studios in Hollywood by master engineer Dennis Sands.
Soundiron interview
We want people to dig in and explore our instruments to find new ways of using them and new sonic potential in them that we haven’t yet imagined.
CineWinds Pro Overview by Daniel James
CineWinds PRO is the long-awaited expansion to the next-generation orchestral CineWinds CORE library.
Sample Logic interview
Always approach things with the idea: what can I do, or what can be done, not what can’t. We say, “don’t tell me what it can’t do, tell me what it can!”
Eduardo Tarilonte interview
Be yourself. In a world full of people trying to imitate other’s music or creations, being yourself must be where you have to hold tightly not to get lost.