Checking Out: Narcotic by Lunatic Audio
Following on from the highly innovative, and tongue-in-cheek Retro Pong, Lunatic Audio have released their first major plugin, Narcotic. Narcotic is a great way to add motion, pulse, and life into any piece of audio. While this is the selling point, it really is a huge and devastatingly pretty sound design plugin. While the presentation […]
Best FREE VSTs Instruments, Plugins & Samples for September 2021 – The Download Show
thumbs up This episode of The Download Show is sponsored by our friends at Soundiron. Hyperion Brass Elements is a universal chamber brass ensemble built for the free Kontakt Player and NKS hardware. It’s currently on sale for $79 (Reg. $99) until 9/28 Visit Soundiron for all the details of Hyperion Brass Elements The […]
Quick Look: Quake by Fallout Music Group
Few sound design tropes call for attention like Downers and Drops in modern score and trailer tracks. Fallout Music Group continues their artists series with a creative instrument for cinematic score and trailer work allowing users to customize and create unique downers and drops thanks to a 3 layer engine. In this quick look, we […]
First Look: Evolution Devastator Warzone by Keepforest
The latest release from Keepforest equips you with enough firepower to keep up with even the most powerful superheroes. Evolution: Devastator Warzone is really on-trend, featuring an expansive collection of super processed hits, drums, basses, guns, pulses, synths, signatures sounds, 808s and a whole lot more besides. It is all wrapped up in a quality […]
Review: Maleventum 2 + Mystery Box 1 + 2 by Silence and Other Sounds
Maleventum 2 will be a fantastic addition to any horror or tension composers arsenal, with its focus on pre-Columbian ethnic flutes playable instruments with ornamentation and SFX. The 2 Mystery Box libraries are simply brilliant with big, bold and brash sound design. Jump to the Videos of Maleventum 2 Mystery Box 1 + 2 by […]
Review: Eminence by Ava Music Group
After the well-deserved success of the premium trailer toolkit Instinct, the Ava Music Group have followed up with Eminence. With two years in the making, Eminence promises quality over quantity with stellar design, signature sounds and onboard production-ready processing. Weighing in at a comparatively small 515 MB, proving that size doesn’t matter, Eminence packs an […]
Composer Tools: History, Concepts and Speed Writing a Horror/Suspense Theme
This Composer Tools is sponsored by our friends at Soniccouture Soniccouture has released Threnody, a massive string library delivering a textural playground of col legno clattering, clusters, ‘clouds’ of activity, and arcs of glissandi. With 26 articulations, this Kontakt Player instrument contains avant-garde & extended playing techniques long heard in scores for sci-fi and horror […]
Review: Threnody Avant-Garde Strings by Soniccouture
top pickThrenody is going to be top of your wish list if darker sounding strings with incredible FX and unconventional techniques is your thing. Soniccouture’s 60 piece string ensemble instrument focuses on the path less traveled, is perfect for tension, horror underscore, and earth-shaking orchestral effects. Jump to the Videos of Threnody Strings by Soniccouture Jump […]
Best FREE VSTs Instruments, Plugins & Samples for March 2021 – The Download Show
top pick This episode of The Download Show is sponsored by our friends at Cinesamples. Cinesamples has just released Continuum Guitars for the FREE Kontakt Player. Continuum Guitars bring a fresh and simple approach to writing guitar performances. Created with the composer in mind, this library is like having the flexibility and expertise of a real […]
Review: Density by Mammoth Audio
The world of cinematic sound design libraries is a huge landscape of products promising to be the most current sounding, innovative and essentially the best. Mammoth Audio are the new developers on the block and present us with Density, a library that, as they say is “built for by composers, for composers”. Density is an […]
