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Spitfire Audio addresses cultural shift in orchestral music and film scoring with new decade-dawning ALBION NEO next-chapter   LONDON, UK: Spitfire Audio is proud to announce ALBION NEO — neatly turning the proverbial page to open a new decade- dawning next chapter in its bestselling ALBION... series sample libraries and virtual instruments as a modern cinematic collection centred around a chamber-sized orchestra with a super-intimate string section split by divisi across all articulations to offer anyone access to the incredible definition and expression of classic and progressive techniques creatively captured in the beautiful resonance of the hallowed (Lyndhurst) Hall at London’s legendary AIR Studios, successfully accompanied by an encyclopaedic...

Impact Soundworks showed off a new Kontakt library of an 8 string electric guitar at NAMM 2020, inspired by modern progressive metal bands with technical playing. The library is called Shreddage 3 Hydra. I got a pretty awesome demo of the library, and I was very impressed at how realistic it could sound. The clean chords and leads were perfectly realistic, but the 'chugs' were also very realistic as well. Typically sample libraries of guitar fall apart when it comes to repetitive strokes on the same note, which is very common on guitar (especially in metal and djent where its...

Spitfire Audio has announced the next title in their incredible Albion series of  sample libraries. I'm incredibly excited, and I actually got to play with the library a bit at NAMM 2020. I definitely agree with their description of the library, it feels pretty modern and intimate and reminds me of their LCO library. I'll have more information when I get to spend more time with it, but here's the official release information: LONDON, UK: Spitfire Audio is proud to announce ALBION NEO — neatly turning the proverbial page to open a new decade- dawning next chapter in its bestselling ALBION... series sample libraries and...

Wondering what the best Black Friday music production deals are in 2019? In this post i'll share my favorites that i'm aware of, even ones that haven't been announced yet. Black Friday and Cyber Monday are the best times during the year to upgrade your music studio, for both software and hardware. Almost every company in the world has their best sale of the year, so don't miss out on the great opportunity to stock up! If you prefer video form and want to hear sound demo's for some of these, click here to watch the YouTube video. Arturia V Collection...

Many people have asked me online where to get great free Kontakt instruments. Here at Genera Studios we have a free Juno-106 Kontakt instrument, but if you produce music you probably want to have dozens or hundreds of Kontakt instrument. Recently we came across an excellent website called FLStudioMusic which has links to hundreds of free Kontakt instruments released over the years. They also link to free samples, loops, plugins, presets, MIDI, and more. The internet has more free music content than you could ever hope to use in a lifetime, but the problem is its not always easy to...