

I know these guys, so I’ll get that out of the way first, but this, their first commercially available sample library is inspired. I own a great many other plugins but if I could only choose 1 eq, 1 compressor and 1 limiter it would be these without a doubt. I run them in low latency mode for writing when I’m jamming ideas in, but then pump them up when I’m in mixdown mode. They sound great and visually it’s so easy to see what’s going on and quickly deal with any mix issues. I wish I’d discovered them before, I’d have saved myself a lot of time and money and gotten better mixes in the process.
ZEBRA 2 STRINGS VST PRO
I’ve only recently started using these plug-ins, I have the Pro-Q 3, Pro - C 2, Pro - L 2, Pro MB and Pro - R. Kontakt is an incredibly powerful creative tool and I’ve barely scratched the surface of what it can do. For instance dropping arpeggiator scripts into a Spitfire String library, detuning, distorting and adding unusual convolution impulses, adding extreme LFO effects to organic sounds… etc etc. I also see how far I can push ‘off the shelf’ libraries. I love jamming with a sound and then sampling or resampling that and seeing how that performance works as an instrument, it feels like playing with other musicians when the sounds themselves are ‘performing’. I do a lot of sampling, In part it’s on of the key ways in which I define myself as a composer / artist / producer. His early venture into the world of film scoring included The Storm That Brought You To Me, from Louis Leterrier’s 2010 fantasy film Clash Of the Titans, and his co-write score for Trouble The Water, a moving study of Hurricane Katrina victims that won the ‘Best Documentary’ gong at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. He has also enjoyed a parallel career composing for Film and Television. Neil DavidgeĪs co-writer and key sonic facilitator on the lauded Massive Attack albums Mezzanine, 100th Window and Heligoland, Bristol, England’s Neil Davidge has been integral in birthing some of the most arresting and innovative sounds of the Nineties and Noughties. What have been the musical highlights of your year?Īnd here's what they said.What have been your go-to plug-ins/sample libraries this year in terms of ones you’ve been using the most and what do you love about them?.We got in touch with some of our artist and composer friends who have kindly shared which audio plug-ins they couldn't have done without this year as well as their own musical highlights and achievements of 2019. You may have seen our roundup of the top-selling plugins of 2019, but we also love hearing what VST plug-ins other people have been using.
