SPITFIRE AUDIO Hauschka Composer Toolkit £249

If there’s one thing you can say about Spitfire Audio, it’s that they are incredibly proactive at instilling a sense of community among composers and producers, with a view to the sharing of knowledge. This also extends to their Labs series, which brings a number of excellent and highly inspiring samples to the masses, due to their freebie status. But this collaborative approach also extends to the professional end of the scale, with previous sonic toolkits from composers Samuel Sims and Ólafur Arnalds, and now we have another distinguished palette from Oscar nominated composer Volker Bertelmann, aka Hauschka.

PREPARED FOR THE BIG SCREEN

The centre of this library is the piano, but you’ll need to expel any expectations of this being the more usual beautiful grand in an illustrious studio. Sample capture was undertaken at Berlin’s legendary Voxton Studios,