ORCHESTRAL TOOLS Creative Soundpacks FROM £40
The scope and sophistication of high-quality sample libraries that offer entire symphony orchestras, chamber sections, solo players and specialist instrumental performances continue to develop. Multiple leading product designers now provide such a comprehensive range of resources that, with the core orchestral bases covered, they’ve begun branching out into more unusual instrumental colours. Whether these come from more esoteric instruments or less familiar performance techniques, this is an inspiring time to be working with instrumental and orchestral samples – if you can afford to get in on the action, that is.
One downsides to the many fascinating and colourful libraries available these days is that they are power hungry, and eat through gigabytes of hard drive space. Then there’s their cost. While it’s not unreasonable for sample developers to ensure their high recording costs are reflected in their library’s price, the price of admission
