For years already, it's been the number-one go-to library - especially if you're taking your first steps into music production. Now, Komplete has reached its fifteenth incarnation and comes rammed with the freshest titles.
VIR2 Apollo for Kontakt is an immense library of virtual guitars able to create specific atmospheres, whether Western-style mystique, road-movie nonchalance, dream sequences, or basically the whole Twin Peaks soundtrack.
The Roland Zenology Pro is a super-extensive virtual synthesizer that not only expands your DAW set-up, but gives you the option to upload custom sounds to Roland's ZEN-based synths like the Fantoms.
Wield the force of a full orchestra with nothing but your guitar? Coupled with a Fishman MIDI pickup, the Eastwest MIDI Guitar Series Vol 1 Orchestra gives you the power to do exactly that.
Sugar Bytes Aparillo is a piece of extremely experimental synth-based software for Mac and PC, developed to shape dynamic sound via FM synthesis...kind of. While not exactly your everyday virtual synth, a little practice will quickly help make things perfect.
If you'd prefer that the drums feel a little softer but pack more feel, you need Soniccouture Moonkits: a fully-configurable virtual drum kit you play with brushes. Great quality, and especially great for jazz, hip-hop and big-band beats.
From the first five Origins editions, Best Service offer the Origins Bundle Vol. 1-5. Ten well-known yet less accessible instruments in the real world are provided to create unique atmospherics.
A synth-based household name, Roland have now created digital emulations of many of their best-loved vintage synth-monsters and made them available via the Roland Cloud. Here, you can download your very own legend in the form of the TR-606.
If you want a pro-drummer on demand, the EastWest ProDrummer 1&2 sample library is what you need. Filled with 100 gigabytes worth of high-quality virtual instruments!
Quickly and easily stack loops and build bangers courtesy of the IK Multimedia curated, idea-crammed Trance Collection for SampleTank 3.
The IK Multimedia SampleTron 2 adds a meaty and classic chunk of tape-based Mellotron sound to your DAW. A virtual ode to the sampler that started it all, this package comes with an incredibly complete 8GB library.
In need of some Gregorian mystique? Leave it up to the eight vocalists of the Numen Ensemble to add some magic to your productions. Legato samples, a word builder and vocal soundscapes are all included, as is Kontakt Player.
This copy of Best Service Chris Hein - Horns Pro Complete grants access to an overwhelmingly large library stacked to the rafters with brass. Conjure a big band or funk horn section from nowhere!
With the Sound Explorers Collection Belledonne, Arturia offer up a massive library of all the software they've released to date - all stored on a single SSD. This is basically every composer and songwriter's dream come true.
Compiling a mass of virtual synthesizers, IK Multimedia Syntronik Deluxe covers twenty-two classic bits of kit, each of which comes with a neat and familiar graphic user interface.
As evidenced by our art, films and certainly music as well, us humans have been and will always be fascinated by fantasy. So, if your fascination extends to whispering elves, the Best Service Shevannai: The Voice of Elves plug-in is a dream come true.
The virtual DrumComputer built by Sugar Bytes is more than just any x0x-style model. Per drum, three synthesis modules await your sound-shaping orders and you're also getting a highly versatile step sequencer.
Producers and musicians are always looking for the perfect electric guitar sound in their software. Vir2 delivers with their Electri6ity software, which offers 24,000 natural-sounding samples of each instrument.
With IK Multimedia's Total Studio 3 MAX at your fingertips, entire music productions can be recorded, arranged, mixed, and mastered from beginning to end. This immense package includes all IK Multimedia instruments and effects.
The AAS Multiphonics CV-1 is an extensive virtual modular system that enables you to build a custom synthesizer by combining a wide range of modules. Great for experimentation as well as learning about sound synthesis!
Softube drop a more-than solid serving of virtual studio tools in the form of Volume 5. Pack a sweet collection of virtual effects and instruments in one neat shot.
Softube drops a more-than solid serving of virtual studio tools in the form of Volume 5. Pick up a sweet collection of virtual effects and instruments in one neat shot.
As you can probably tell by its name, the Cherry Audio CA-2600 takes after one of the most famous synthesizers ever. Luckily, it's a lot cheaper and comes in a virtual form that's compatible with both Windows and OSX.
The Cherry Audio Synth Stack is a small virtual mountain of pure sound sculpting and tweaking pleasure. This fat pack includes stunning, ready-made soft-synths, alongside the power to build your own, and virtual renditions of the Juno-60, Moog MG-1 and an ARP 2600!
Developed by AAS, Chromaphone 3 is a unique piece of software that allows users to physically model virtual strings, diaphragms, valves and more to create dynamic samples.
Various high-profile engineers, each boasting a long list of high-profile artists on their CV, all claim that right now, Steven Slate SSD 5 is the best virtual drum kit in existence. Work with an enormous array of different drum samples plucked from the very top shelf.
If you need genuine Beatles sound and you can't a hold of Paul or Ringo, at least you can find what you need in EastWest's Fab Four virtual library filled with special guitars, drums and other instruments from the time when the Fabulous Four pretty much ruled the (music-based) world.
Set yourself up with a massive 40GB collection of virtual instruments with EastWest Goliath! This monstrously large library covers various groups of instruments, forming a solid and potent foundation to build sounds on.
Get access to genuine Gypsy style sounds with the EastWest/Quantum Leap Gypsy library of virtual instruments including an expressive violin played in the characteristic way, various accordions, guitars, a cimbalom and more.
If you aspire to produce stunning orchestral music, EastWest's Hollywood Orchestra + Solo Instruments Gold Edition offers you a flying start and comes including a mass of amazing instruments recorded by none other than Shawn Murphy.
With EastWest's Hollywood Solo Harp Gold Edition, you get a virtual instrument that can help you create fantastic songs and samples. If you're into traditional Celtic music, this solo harp is definitely essential!
While quantity should never be a measure of quality, in the case of Eastwest's Prodrummer 1 - Mark Spike Stent virtual drummer, you're getting a staggering 60 gigabytes of supreme quality.
While quantity should never be a measure of quality, in the case of Eastwest's Prodrummer 2 - Joe Chicarelli virtual drummer, you're getting a staggering 40 gigabytes of supreme quality.
For producing solid, straight-up, ear-bleeding, in-the-box rock, Eastwest present the Ministry of Rock. Browse through stunning guitars, the most complete drum kits, and thick rumbling basses to forge a full custom band.
The second edition of the Eastwest Ministry of Rock packs an even fatter collection of drums, basses, and guitars. Immense quality, and immense quantity!
Eastwest Pianos offer you nothing but literally awesome, full virtual grand pianos. The most beautiful models from Bechstein, Bosendorfer, Steinway and Yamaha, have been sampled in sublime quality.
