Silentium by Zero-G: The Dark Folk Library I Couldn’t Stop Playing, Then Cried Over
Zero-G’s Elements Silentium is less a sample library than a dark folk world: raw strings, hefty drums, ritual and ethereal voices and Stefano Maccar…
Author: Markus Junnikkala
Soundtrack Composer, Host of the 'Be a Better Artist' Podcast, Lifter of Things.
Wavelet Audio Runa Elder Scoring Strings & Runa 2 Review: One Instrument, Two Questions
Wavelet Audio's Runa and Runa 2 are both built on the kobyz, a two-stringed Kazakh bowed instrument, but they ask very different things of it. Runa co…
Seth Tsui on Leaving Riot Games, Owning Your Sounds, and Why the Ladder Always Points Away From the Work
"That was not one that I wanted to look back on and say, where did the last 10 years go?" Composer Seth Tsui on turning down the orchestra, the Zimmer…
Sound Magic Neo Piano Chapters: F308 — Nuance Over Spectacle
Sound Magic's Neo Piano Chapters: F308 fits a full concert grand into 550 megabytes and surrounds it with a deep set of shaping controls — including…
How Do You Make a Keyboard Believe It’s a Guitar? — Greg Schlaepfer, Orange Tree Samples
Greg Schlaepfer of Orange Tree Samples has spent seventeen years making keyboards sound like guitars. A conversation about hidden mechanisms, the ethi…
Everything Must Change: Emergence Audio’s Envoy and the Analog Percussion That Refuses to Repeat Itself
Percussion is the one corner of music where asking for variation isn't exactly the first thing we think of — and Envoy, the first instrument built o…
Dead Right: How Circles Turned Cult Sample Libraries Into One Instrument — Circles Audio Plugin Review
The Circles drum samples have long been a quiet favourite secret weapon among producers, used across countless big tracks. Now Circles Audio has gathe…
Orange Tree Samples Latitude: The “Latin Rock” Percussion Library That Doesn’t Stop There – Review
Orange Tree Samples' Latitude arrives subtitled Latin Rock Percussion, but what's inside reaches far beyond that — 376 deeply sampled instruments, m…
Heavyocity Oblivion Drums — Aggression That Doesn’t Exhaust You – Review
Heavyocity's Oblivion Drums delivers aggressive, industrial-grade percussion that stays musical and mixable. It hits hard without becoming fatiguing o…
Believe the HYPE — Teletone Audio, Darren King, and Drums That Make You Want to Write – Review
Built in collaboration with drummer Darren King, Teletone Audio's HYPE is refined texture, rare drums, and unending groove — the kind of instrument …
