Poetic Guitars Review
Guitar ROMpler plug-ins are quite popular these days, and new entrant Poetic Guitars offers a choice of three high-quality acoustics. The press blurb on the website describes it to be ‘easy and convenient to More...
Jazz & Big Band
Have you ever heard a 17-piece big band in full swing? If you have, you’ll appreciate just how powerful that experience can be. Even during quiet passages, a truly great jazz orchestra conveys the sense of a caged More...
Vocal Forge
In contemporary pop music, the vocal part is easily one of the most important factors in determining the popularity of a song. While many singer-songwriters would have you believe that it is the words themselves More...
Nostalgia
The advance of digital audio has brought many new technologies to the modern project studio, including a world of new synthesis techniques such as granular synthesis and physical modelling. However, each new evolution More...
Symphonic Choirs
With all the effort and expense lavished on recent orchestral sample libraries, it’s surprising to realise how little development has taken place in respect of sampled symphonic choirs. Indeed, while orchestral More...
Sounds Of Polynesia
It’s fair to say that news of this sample library’s arrival provokedsome excitement – after all, it’s not every day that someone putstogether a collection of instruments and grooves from Polynesia andstuffs More...
Altered States
The ever-growing line-up of ROMplers using Native Instruments’ Kompaktor Intakt software as a front end for a sample collection has led to aninteresting debate over whether a ROMpler is anything more than ahyped-up More...
Vapor, AfroLatin Slam
For many, a particular style is all they need to embellish a song orsoundtrack and fulfilling this requirement is the increasingly popular‘ROM-Pler’. As its name suggests, this is a combination of DVD/CD-ROMand More...
Hardcore Bass, Stormdrum & Bösendorfer 290
It can’t be easy thinking up new instruments capable of making an impact on today’s over-saturated synth and sampler sound software market: how many significantly different ways can you combine analogue synth More...
Morphology
Morphology is one of a new type of virtual instrument (or VSM – VirtualSound Module – as Zero-G calls them). A VSM is a hybrid instrumentcombining a sample collection and a sample player. More...
