BIFSC
Berlin International Film Scoring Competition
BIFSC offers emerging Film Composers the platform to showcase their work and compete to receive multiple Awards worth of over 3500 Euros, participate in Film Scoring Workshops and have their music recorded by a live ensemble, be invited in Film Festivals with VIP accreditation.
Full Awards for the 3 Prize Winners and Finalists
First Prize Winner
The First Prize Winner of the Berlin International Film Scoring Competition will receive the following Awards
Cash Prize
500 Euros cash prize
A Full Scholarship for Online Participation at the Fusion Film Scoring Workshops 2025, valued at 990 Euros
The Fusion Film Scoring Workshops are designed for musicians and composers looking to enhance their knowledge and compositional skills in writing for Film and gain experience writing for a live ensemble. The workshops aim to give the composer all the essential tools needed to create an original Film Score with seminars by industry professionals that will cover both the aesthetic and creative aspects of writing for film and technical aspects and score preparation.
Meet the Director, Producer, and Sound Designer, and experience the real-life process of composing the original score for a film.
The faculty will mentor and assist every composer individually in producing an original score for a live Ensemble (with or without Electronics, optional);
Each participant will
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Be mentored by our internationally acclaimed faculty and visiting industry professionals
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Create an original score for a short film of approximately a 5-minute duration.
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Receive copyright permission to use in their portfolio & share the film with their music
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Receive a recording of their composition mixed and mastered, as well as a pro-tools session with all the recorded material to be used creatively in the future.
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All participants will receive accreditation to take part in the Thessaloniki International Film Festival 2026, where they will have the opportunity to meet film industry professionals and promote their work at the market (agora) of the festival.
A bundle of libraries by Cinematic Studio Series including Cinematic Studio Strings, Cinematic Studio Brass, and Cinematic Studio Woodwinds valued at approx. 900 €
Cinematic Studio Series is a brand new collection of professional orchestral sample libraries for Kontakt Player. The series was recorded with incredible care, consistency and attention to detail in a world-class scoring stage. The result is a breathtakingly realistic, expressive and emotive series of instruments that can inspire and amaze. With elegant design and an emphasis on usability, the Cinematic Studio Series brings you that true Hollywood sound at a very affordable price.
Cinematic Studio Strings is a library bursting with character. Featuring Australia’s finest musicians and meticulously recorded in a world-class scoring stage, CSS boasts a gorgeous sound, stunning true-to-life dynamics and a wide variety of articulations. With an intuitive and efficient GUI, CSS was created to meet the demands of working composers in today’s film, TV and video game industries. This outstanding orchestral strings library for Kontakt and Kontakt Player is available now at a very affordable price.
Cinematic Studio Brass is the result of three years of intensive recording, editing and programming. Featuring some of the world’s most talented brass players in Australia’s premiere scoring stage, this incredible collection of orchestral studio brass instruments will bring your music to life with a level of detail, power and realism rarely heard in the sample library world. Carefully crafted for precision and consistency, with the same easy-to-use interface and beautifully rich sound as the rest of the Cinematic Studio Series, the new Cinematic Studio Brass is available now!
Cinematic Studio Woodwinds is a superbly versatile library that will add a new and important dimension to your musical palette. With the gorgeous sound and stunning realism of these instruments you’ll find yourself wanting to feature woodwinds in your musical creations in new and exciting ways. Boasting the same intuitive and efficient GUI as the strings and brass, CSW is designed to perfectly complement the rest of the Cinematic Studio Series. This outstanding orchestral wind instrument library is available now for Kontakt and Kontakt Player.
Lineage Strings by ProjectSam Cinematic Sampling,
Experience a world-class collection of premium string recordings that responds to you – the composer. Create fluid lines and natural orchestrations thanks to intelligent musical features such as Adaptive Phrasing and The Arranger. All of this infused with the unmistakable ProjectSAM sound – warm, human, and distinctly European. Now updated to version 1.1, with improved legato and enhanced articulation detection.
Lineage Percussion by ProjectSam Cinematic Sampling,
Stage
It's alive!
Make the stage your own with the Pro edition of Lineage Percussion. Drag each instrument into its perfect position for your setup – or get straight to composing and leave the engineering to us with our beautiful premixed mic option.
Adaptive Sync
Roll credits
Don't waste time lining up your crescendos between instruments. With Adaptive Sync, rolls match with your project even through multiple tempo changes. It's all made possible because Lineage Percussion is powered by our most extensive set of recordings yet.
Customize
To your liking
It's easy to load, tweak and customise the mapping of every individual sound using the intuitive interface. In the Pro edition, create your own kits using the two builder instruments.
A Nucleus by Audio Imperia valued at approx. 499 €
Audio Imperia is a boutique sample library developer, crafting instruments designed to instantly inspire. Continuously renewing its creativity and inventiveness, Audio Imperia is supported by a team of producers that have years of experience in the world of cinematic music and who understand how to breathe life into the heart of a sample.
Our instruments provide composers and producers with unique and niche sounds that you can't find anywhere else. Take a look at our Best Sellers and hear for yourself!
Chorus is an incredible cinematic choir made for Kontakt Player, that can deliver the full spectrum of emotions and depth that choir vocals are capable of. Whisper quiet and soft, but also mighty, epic, and thundering. This unique property makes Chorus an invaluable tool for any composer looking to add what naturally resonates with all of us: the human voice.
Nucleus is an orchestral software instrument made for Kontakt Player, that covers the full orchestral range of instruments with strings, brass, woodwinds, percussion, and choirs under one roof. It is an uncompromising symphonic essentials library designed to bring cinematic sound quality and an easy-to-use, complete creative toolset, within anybody’s reach.
A magnificent set of players, an incredibly balanced room, state of the art equipment, and an exceptional team of sound engineers. Mix all of that together and you get the authentic sound of Hollywood. Right at your fingertips.
Working on the go? Nucleus preserves system resources while packing a mighty punch, with all the essentials of modern cinematic composition and an intuitive interface. Clean, compact, and easy-to-use, Nucleus is an all-in-one package that’s hard to beat.
Our mission is to build professional virtual instruments that can inspire you to create, with uncompromising quality and deep flexibility. Our libraries are built with over 20 years of award-winning engineering experience and come packed with intuitive features and unique content that you won't find elsewhere. We're a small team of sound designers, programmers and instrument builders. Soundiron is who we are and this is what we do.
Soundiron is proud to present the absolute pinnacle of professional choir sampling: The Olympus Symphonic Choir collection. This is a combination of our massive Mars Men's and Venus Women's Choirs, bundled together as a complete set. Olympus Collection represents the most complete and detailed choir sample library available anywhere, with sonic power and playability that cannot be matched. Olympus offers a superior range of detailed articulations, robust sonic presence and natural true legato, all at an incredible price.
Working with Maestro Robert Geary, we recorded over 20 days at Montclair Presbyterian, high in the forested hills overlooking the San Francisco Bay, with a 63-voice hand-picked group of SF Symphony Chorus, SF Opera, SF Choral Society and Volti singers. Both Mars and Venus include a pair of wide stereo mic positions (stage/close and hall/far). These two master positions were carefully balanced and mixed using an array of 12 large diaphragm microphones set throughout the hall. This simplified routing is designed to give you the flexibility to incorporate the full-bodied sound easily and efficiently into your stereo or surround mix.
We make tools for people who make music.
EVA Instruments is a small independent team building virtual instruments and audio effects for musicians, producers, composers and sound designers.
Inspiring sounds. Professional effects.
Built for producers,
by producers.
FX Plug-ins
Focused mixing plug-ins for controlling depth, closeness, and perceived size. Place sounds, bring them forward, or make them feel bigger in seconds.
Guitars
Real recorded guitar performances for fast, convincing parts. From acoustic strumming and ukulele to power chords and electric harmonics.
Keys & Synths
Vintage-inspired keys and synths built for instant inspiration. Explore 80s hardware colors, electric keys, organs, and expressive pianos.
Drums & Percussion
Powerful drums and percussion for expressive rhythm sections. From natural acoustic hits to cinematic and hybrid energy for modern production.
One year Pro Subscription at ReelCrafter, valued at 250 $
Created by a professional composer, ReelCrafter lets you showcase your audio and video work with professional, trackable demo reels. No followers, comments, or artist discovery searches to clutter up your presentation. And forget about all those clunky file-sharing links.
Send stunning demo reels everytime with ReelCrafter.
Know when they listen (or when they don’t) with instant email notifications
See exactly when reels are viewed (or ignored)—real-time listening and video play events appear right in your account dashboard.
Get email notifications for reel opens and watch how listeners interact with your reel, including time positions for skipped tracks and download confirmations.
Keep your entire library accessible with unlimited track uploads
Upload your entire music library once and organize everything with folders and tags. A bird’s eye view of your entire library lets you quickly build the perfect presentation.
Create snippets in the cloud, from anywhere
Create reels using full tracks or non-destructively create snippets right in your web browser. Then keep track of every pitch you send with customized, shareable links.
Simple, clean players for your website
Embed ReelCrafter reels into your WordPress, Squarespace, or custom website. Sleek design and custom player colors will keep all the focus on your work.
Plus, save time with instant reel updates—no need to mess around with code each time you make a change to tracks or names.
A one year ComposerCloud+ Subscription by EASTWEST valued at 192 Euros
EASTWEST (soundsonline.com) is the #1 producer of virtual (software) instruments in the world. With clientele that spans the music, film, television, games, multimedia and performing arts, EASTWEST has led the industry for 30+ years and provides professionals with the very best music creation tools available.
THE #1 VIRTUAL INSTRUMENT SUBSCRIPTION FOR COMPOSERS, PRODUCERS, AND MUSICIANS
Total Creative Freedom:
With ComposerCloud+, you get access to all EastWest instruments and every new addition for a single monthly fee, including strings, brass, woodwinds, percussion, world instruments, guitars, drums, pianos, synths, and much more — all downloadable with a single click.
Instant Access
Audition and download any instrument from ComposerCloud+ in seconds. Activate your licenses on your computer directly or with an iLok key and start using instruments in your DAW immediately.
Royalty-Free:
All EastWest instruments are 100% royalty free for commercial use, including millions of samples, phrases, loops, and presets — you keep the rights to everything you create, forever.
Full Orchestra:
Instant access to the entire Hollywood Orchestra collection and its brand new expansions with hundreds of articulations. The best-selling and most awarded virtual orchestra ever released. Double winner of the 2022 TEC Award for Best Musical Instrument Software and the Sound on Sound Award for Best Software Instrument – the first time in history one product has won both!
Synth & FX
Comprehensive synth suites, hybrid collections, and scoring tools perfect for cinematic film and game soundtracks, EDM, pop, hip hop, and more. And now includes Forbidden Planet, a brand new hybrid synth plugin featuring over 600 expertly crafted morphing synths.
Vocals:
Solo and choral performances in nearly every style, including classical, opera, soul, and traditional performances from around the world. For Hollywood Choirs, Symphonic Choirs, and Hollywood Backup Singers, type in words and listen as the WordBuilder engine reproduces them flawlessly.
Rock & Pop
Create realistic hit records with crunchy guitars, punchy basses, and powerful drum kits on demand, perfect for classic rock and metal alike. Or grab blazing pop brass sections and funky loops and beats.
Pianos
The most responsive collection of concert grands and pianos to date, featuring up to 18 velocity layers, up to 3 mic positions, and 8 separate articulations. Includes Bechstein D-280, Steinway D, Bösendorfer 290, and Yamaha C7
Opus Engine
Hyper-fast loading, pulling only the samples you need, at the moment you need them. Advanced routing and mic positions, extensive processing capabilities, custom macros & controller mappings, on-demand instrument loading, and more.
Shreddage Guitar Library of Choice by Impact Sound Works valued at approx. 150 €
Impact Soundworks creates audio software designed with composers in mind: sample libraries, virtual instruments, and plugins. We’re as passionate about creating music tools as you are about making music!
The next generation of virtual guitar instruments for KONTAKT PLAYER is here! More realistic and versatile than ever before, featuring an American classic sound, three pickups, tons of articulations and the new CONSOLE mixer and modular FX rack!
Shreddage 3 Stratus is a next-generation virtual guitar instrument great for rock, metal, funk, blues, pop and much more!
Elements Silentium is not a typical sample library, nor a conventional collection of instruments. It is a deeply programmable cinematic virtual instrument, powered by a modern, powerful and flexible engine that opens the door to limitless creativity.
Silentium is a creative portal that transforms dark organic textures, evolving strings, ritual voices, folk timbres, percussion, acoustic gestures and hybrid motion into complete sonic and musical worlds. From ancestral landscapes and forbidden rituals to the monumental fantasy of House of the Dragon and the mythic scale of The Odyssey, Silentium is designed for composers who need atmosphere, narrative and movement, not simply isolated sounds.
Every one of Silentium's 600 presets is a fully realised starting point ready for you to get carried away with. Behind them sits 24GB of material recorded with genuine grit, breath and humanity: intimate strings that sigh and swell, breathy woodwinds, ancient and forgotten instruments, ritual voices, characterful pianos, earthy percussion, and organic textures captured from the raw materials of the world itself.
Silentium offers a complete emotional range of possibilities; whilst dark folk lives in the shadows, great scores live in contrast. Silentium's pianos and strings have a fragile, tender beauty that lifts intimate scenes, love themes and quiet moments, while the same library can summon storm and ritual and dread when the story turns. From a whispered solo piano to a full ritualistic churn of voices and drums, follow your narrative wherever it leads with Silentium.
First Runner-up
The First Runner-up of the Berlin International Film Scoring Competition will receive the following Awards
Cinematic Studio Strings, and Cinematic Studio Piano by Cinematic Studio Series valued at approx. 470 €
Cinematic Studio Series is a brand new collection of professional orchestral sample libraries for Kontakt Player. The series was recorded with incredible care, consistency and attention to detail in a world-class scoring stage. The result is a breathtakingly realistic, expressive and emotive series of instruments that can inspire and amaze. With elegant design and an emphasis on usability, the Cinematic Studio Series brings you that true Hollywood sound at a very affordable price.
Cinematic Studio Strings is a library bursting with character. Featuring Australia’s finest musicians and meticulously recorded in a world-class scoring stage, CSS boasts a gorgeous sound, stunning true-to-life dynamics and a wide variety of articulations. With an intuitive and efficient GUI, CSS was created to meet the demands of working composers in today’s film, TV and video game industries. This outstanding orchestral strings library for Kontakt and Kontakt Player is available now at a very affordable price.
With Cinematic Studio Piano, we invite you to take a seat at a Yamaha C7 Grand in a world-class scoring stage. You’ll be inspired by the warm, realistic sound of the instrument, captured by an array of beautiful ribbon and condenser microphones and recorded using the same techniques as the rest of the Cinematic Studio Series. CSP’s intelligent scripting ensures maximum realism and versatility. CSP uses the same straightforward GUI as the rest of the series and is available now for Kontakt and Kontakt player.
Lineage Percussion by ProjectSam Cinematic Sampling, valued at at approximatelly 400 €
Stage
It's alive!
Make the stage your own with the Pro edition of Lineage Percussion. Drag each instrument into its perfect position for your setup – or get straight to composing and leave the engineering to us with our beautiful premixed mic option.
Adaptive Sync
Roll credits
Don't waste time lining up your crescendos between instruments. With Adaptive Sync, rolls match with your project even through multiple tempo changes. It's all made possible because Lineage Percussion is powered by our most extensive set of recordings yet.
Customize
To your liking
It's easy to load, tweak and customise the mapping of every individual sound using the intuitive interface. In the Pro edition, create your own kits using the two builder instruments.
A Poseidon by Audio Imperia valued at approx. 350 $
A Brass Library Unlike Any Other – Poseidon redefines orchestral brass with a motion-driven, wave-inspired approach, built for momentum, power, and rich orchestral depth.
Unlike traditional brass libraries, Poseidon breathes, evolves, and moves, making it a game-changer for media composers and sound designers alike. Built from meticulously recorded ensembles, this library delivers deep, nuanced articulations and innovative sound design capabilities.
Brass That Moves With Your Music – Poseidon contains both individual instruments and ensemble patches so you can explore a full range of voicings and craft the most demanding arrangements – each with their own respective Wave Motions and Core Articulations. All instruments were carefully recorded at the same natural gain levels, with musicians located in traditional orchestra seating positions. Everything blends naturally, in perfect balance.
Our mission is to build professional virtual instruments that can inspire you to create, with uncompromising quality and deep flexibility. Our libraries are built with over 20 years of award-winning engineering experience and come packed with intuitive features and unique content that you won't find elsewhere. We're a small team of sound designers, programmers and instrument builders. Soundiron is who we are and this is what we do.
Hyperion Strings Ensemble is an orchestral string scoring library with brilliant sound, expressive control, and adaptive performance features. It’s loaded with a massive array of dynamic long and short articulations, fingered true legato and portamento, emotive dynamic expressions, tremolo, runs, trills, flautando, ponticello, harmonics, chromatic and aleatoric effects, and creative sound-design elements. It's a complete string scoring solution right at your fingertips, with everything you'll need to shape your own sound, from the intimate to the astral.
Whether you want human realism and detail or vast ambient textures, Hyperion Strings Ensemble offers total flexibility to fit any style and arrangement, wrapped in a wide, intuitive interface that lets you dive right in. This 30-piece string ensemble has compact sections with 8 1st Violins, 7 2nd Violins, 6 Violas, 5 Cellos and 4 Double Basses to produce natural divisi arrangements, with a 12-layer slot system that lets you quickly build huge symphonic groupings. Create your own mix with 4 distinctive microphone distances. The ultra-close Stage mix has intense character and clarity. The newly remastered Close position delivers modern tone with relaxed processing. The wide Mid Hall blend offers velvety warmth with a rounded top end. The lush Far Hall has a classic atmospheric sound.
A one year ComposerCloud+ Subscription by EASTWEST valued at 192 Euros
EASTWEST (soundsonline.com) is the #1 producer of virtual (software) instruments in the world. With clientele that spans the music, film, television, games, multimedia and performing arts, EASTWEST has led the industry for 30+ years and provides professionals with the very best music creation tools available.
THE #1 VIRTUAL INSTRUMENT SUBSCRIPTION FOR COMPOSERS, PRODUCERS, AND MUSICIANS
Total Creative Freedom:
With ComposerCloud+, you get access to all EastWest instruments and every new addition for a single monthly fee, including strings, brass, woodwinds, percussion, world instruments, guitars, drums, pianos, synths, and much more — all downloadable with a single click.
Instant Access
Audition and download any instrument from ComposerCloud+ in seconds. Activate your licenses on your computer directly or with an iLok key and start using instruments in your DAW immediately.
Royalty-Free:
All EastWest instruments are 100% royalty free for commercial use, including millions of samples, phrases, loops, and presets — you keep the rights to everything you create, forever.
Full Orchestra:
Instant access to the entire Hollywood Orchestra collection and its brand new expansions with hundreds of articulations. The best-selling and most awarded virtual orchestra ever released. Double winner of the 2022 TEC Award for Best Musical Instrument Software and the Sound on Sound Award for Best Software Instrument – the first time in history one product has won both!
Synth & FX
Comprehensive synth suites, hybrid collections, and scoring tools perfect for cinematic film and game soundtracks, EDM, pop, hip hop, and more. And now includes Forbidden Planet, a brand new hybrid synth plugin featuring over 600 expertly crafted morphing synths.
Vocals:
Solo and choral performances in nearly every style, including classical, opera, soul, and traditional performances from around the world. For Hollywood Choirs, Symphonic Choirs, and Hollywood Backup Singers, type in words and listen as the WordBuilder engine reproduces them flawlessly.
Rock & Pop
Create realistic hit records with crunchy guitars, punchy basses, and powerful drum kits on demand, perfect for classic rock and metal alike. Or grab blazing pop brass sections and funky loops and beats.
Pianos
The most responsive collection of concert grands and pianos to date, featuring up to 18 velocity layers, up to 3 mic positions, and 8 separate articulations. Includes Bechstein D-280, Steinway D, Bösendorfer 290, and Yamaha C7
Opus Engine
Hyper-fast loading, pulling only the samples you need, at the moment you need them. Advanced routing and mic positions, extensive processing capabilities, custom macros & controller mappings, on-demand instrument loading, and more.
One knob from raw orchestral hits to modern hybrid trailer sound
Place every drum on the stage in seconds and get an instant cinematic mix
Stay in the flow. Instant cinematic drum grooves.
Get mix-ready cinematic drums
and start building powerful percussion tracks today.
We have been developing and publishing high-quality sample libraries since 1990. High professional standards and consistent artistic integrity make Zero-G a superb choice when seeking sonic inspiration for your own audio or visual productions, or added value content for your products.
Within Kepler 2, you’ll find more than 1,300 ready-to-play presets spanning dramatic synths, evolving string textures with ‘Bow In Motion’ legato technology, thunderous hybrid percussion, organic sequences, celestial choirs, melodic voices, throat singing and cinematic hits, booms, rises, and whooshes.
Kepler 2 offers three advanced design engines — Core Designer, Texture Designer, and Synth Designer, each of which fill a specific area of hybrid scoring — giving you limitless ways to shape sequences, textures, and signature tones. On top of the designer instruments, there are also With expressive features like Polyphonic Aftertouch, ROLI/MPE support, deep modulation, slicing, arpeggiation, and spatial effects, every sound comes alive under your fingertips.
The engine in Kepler 2 has been completely re-imagined, offering deeper control over expression and new tools designed to respond instantly to your creativity. The sleek new animated GUI presents stunning visuals to accompany your sonic journey through Kepler.
From whispering voices and throat singing to colossal hybrid impacts and evolving strings, Kepler 2 is a monumental sonic universe — a true pinnacle of hybrid scoring that will ignite boundless inspiration in your compositions.
The Elements series also features Elements Modern Scoring Synth & Elements Cinematic Rhythms
Six Month Pro Subscription at ReelCrafter, valued at 125 $
Created by a professional composer, ReelCrafter lets you showcase your audio and video work with professional, trackable demo reels. No followers, comments, or artist discovery searches to clutter up your presentation. And forget about all those clunky file-sharing links.
Send stunning demo reels everytime with ReelCrafter.
Know when they listen (or when they don’t) with instant email notifications
See exactly when reels are viewed (or ignored)—real-time listening and video play events appear right in your account dashboard.
Get email notifications for reel opens and watch how listeners interact with your reel, including time positions for skipped tracks and download confirmations.
Keep your entire library accessible with unlimited track uploads
Upload your entire music library once and organize everything with folders and tags. A bird’s eye view of your entire library lets you quickly build the perfect presentation.
Create snippets in the cloud, from anywhere
Create reels using full tracks or non-destructively create snippets right in your web browser. Then keep track of every pitch you send with customized, shareable links.
Simple, clean players for your website
Embed ReelCrafter reels into your WordPress, Squarespace, or custom website. Sleek design and custom player colors will keep all the focus on your work.
Plus, save time with instant reel updates—no need to mess around with code each time you make a change to tracks or names.
Second Runner-up
The Second Runner-up of the Berlin International Film Scoring Competition will receive the following Awards
Cinematic Studio Solo Strings by Cinematic Studio Series valued at approx. 280 €
Cinematic Studio Series is a brand new collection of professional orchestral sample libraries for Kontakt Player. The series was recorded with incredible care, consistency and attention to detail in a world-class scoring stage. The result is a breathtakingly realistic, expressive and emotive series of instruments that can inspire and amaze. With elegant design and an emphasis on usability, the Cinematic Studio Series brings you that true Hollywood sound at a very affordable price.
With Cinematic Studio Solo Strings, we’ve taken the simplicity, workflow and authentic sound of the Studio Series and applied it to solo violins, viola and cello to create an incredibly realistic solo strings sample library, for Kontakt and Kontakt Player. The whispering harmonics and tremolos, emotional legatos and portamentos, and biting staccatos and staccatissimos of Cinematic Studio Solo Strings will give you the tools you need to truly bring your music to life. CSSS is both a perfect “first chair” complement to blend with our hallmark Cinematic Studio Strings library, and an extensive standalone library that brings a classy, vibrant and elegant string quartet section to your productions.
Our mission is to build professional virtual instruments that can inspire you to create, with uncompromising quality and deep flexibility. Our libraries are built with over 20 years of award-winning engineering experience and come packed with intuitive features and unique content that you won't find elsewhere. We're a small team of sound designers, programmers and instrument builders. Soundiron is who we are and this is what we do.
A galaxy of pianos: from classical to experimental
Omnium Piano Collection includes hundreds of sound-designed pianos, atmospheric synths, and creative FX presets. Its sleek UX provides total adaptive control, allowing you to blend layers, arpeggiate, filter, and create custom LFO and DSP chains. Play pristine concert grands, uprights, electro-acoustic and suitcase e-pianos, harpsichords, spinets, and clavinets, alongside extensive prepared piano articulations and percussive effects.
A Photosynthesis by Audio Imperia valued at approx. 200 €
Audio Imperia is a boutique sample library developer, crafting instruments designed to instantly inspire. Continuously renewing its creativity and inventiveness, Audio Imperia is supported by a team of producers that have years of experience in the world of cinematic music and who understand how to breathe life into the heart of a sample.
Our instruments provide composers and producers with unique and niche sounds that you can't find anywhere else. Take a look at our Best Sellers and hear for yourself!
Over 600 unique sounds from film & game composer Joanna Pena, brought together in a single KONTAKT instrument. Deepen your compositions with evolving pads, ambient cello, heavy basses and bowed metals.
Photosynthesis offers a massive amount of otherworldly and ambient soundscapes, wavering pads and rhythmic synths, as well as creative instrument effects. All of them are spread across 9 catagories, including: Evolving Pads, Mystic Ambient Cello, Heavy Growling Basses, and Bowed Metals. Each of these offers a unique sound and makes the library perfect for cinematic film scoring.
Orchestral Essentials Library of your choice by ProjectSam Cinematic Sampling, valued at at approximatelly 150 €
Orchestral Essentials
Orchestral Essentials contains every orchestral element you’ll need to take your score to the next level, and the playability to bring the ideas in your head into reality.
Orchestral Essentials II
Power up your virtual orchestra with edgier and more creative instruments and articulations. Add new colours to your soundstage with new additions from the wider ProjectSAM catalogue.
A one year ComposerCloud+ Subscription by EASTWEST valued at 192 Euros
EASTWEST (soundsonline.com) is the #1 producer of virtual (software) instruments in the world. With clientele that spans the music, film, television, games, multimedia and performing arts, EASTWEST has led the industry for 30+ years and provides professionals with the very best music creation tools available.
THE #1 VIRTUAL INSTRUMENT SUBSCRIPTION FOR COMPOSERS, PRODUCERS, AND MUSICIANS
Total Creative Freedom:
With ComposerCloud+, you get access to all EastWest instruments and every new addition for a single monthly fee, including strings, brass, woodwinds, percussion, world instruments, guitars, drums, pianos, synths, and much more — all downloadable with a single click.
Instant Access
Audition and download any instrument from ComposerCloud+ in seconds. Activate your licenses on your computer directly or with an iLok key and start using instruments in your DAW immediately.
Royalty-Free:
All EastWest instruments are 100% royalty free for commercial use, including millions of samples, phrases, loops, and presets — you keep the rights to everything you create, forever.
Full Orchestra:
Instant access to the entire Hollywood Orchestra collection and its brand new expansions with hundreds of articulations. The best-selling and most awarded virtual orchestra ever released. Double winner of the 2022 TEC Award for Best Musical Instrument Software and the Sound on Sound Award for Best Software Instrument – the first time in history one product has won both!
Synth & FX
Comprehensive synth suites, hybrid collections, and scoring tools perfect for cinematic film and game soundtracks, EDM, pop, hip hop, and more. And now includes Forbidden Planet, a brand new hybrid synth plugin featuring over 600 expertly crafted morphing synths.
Vocals:
Solo and choral performances in nearly every style, including classical, opera, soul, and traditional performances from around the world. For Hollywood Choirs, Symphonic Choirs, and Hollywood Backup Singers, type in words and listen as the WordBuilder engine reproduces them flawlessly.
Rock & Pop
Create realistic hit records with crunchy guitars, punchy basses, and powerful drum kits on demand, perfect for classic rock and metal alike. Or grab blazing pop brass sections and funky loops and beats.
Pianos
The most responsive collection of concert grands and pianos to date, featuring up to 18 velocity layers, up to 3 mic positions, and 8 separate articulations. Includes Bechstein D-280, Steinway D, Bösendorfer 290, and Yamaha C7
Opus Engine
Hyper-fast loading, pulling only the samples you need, at the moment you need them. Advanced routing and mic positions, extensive processing capabilities, custom macros & controller mappings, on-demand instrument loading, and more.
Shreddage Guitar Library of Choice by Impact Sound Works valued at approx. 150 €
Impact Soundworks creates audio software designed with composers in mind: sample libraries, virtual instruments, and plugins. We’re as passionate about creating music tools as you are about making music!
The next generation of virtual guitar instruments for KONTAKT PLAYER is here! More realistic and versatile than ever before, featuring an American classic sound, three pickups, tons of articulations and the new CONSOLE mixer and modular FX rack!
Shreddage 3 Stratus is a next-generation virtual guitar instrument great for rock, metal, funk, blues, pop and much more!
Epic Percussion 3 by Eva Instruments. valued at approx. 150€
EPIC PERCUSSION 3
Cinematic percussion library for fast trailer, film, and game scoring
One knob from raw orchestral hits to modern hybrid trailer sound
Place every drum on the stage in seconds and get an instant cinematic mix
Stay in the flow. Instant cinematic drum grooves.
Get mix-ready cinematic drums
and start building powerful percussion tracks today.
Ethera Gold Atlantis 3.5 by Zero-G valued at approx. 99 €
We have been developing and publishing high-quality sample libraries since 1990. High professional standards and consistent artistic integrity make Zero-G a superb choice when seeking sonic inspiration for your own audio or visual productions, or added value content for your products.
Ethera Gold Atlantis 3.5 is the most recent update to one of the most powerful and loved vocal instruments in the composer, producer and musician world. Zero-G/Xfonic and Stefano Maccarelli return with an exciting update that redefines the creative possibilities of this instrument. Featuring a reimagined, inspiring user interface, the 3.5 update introduces our Adaptive True Legato technology, which will intelligently respond to your playing speed to deliver unparalleled vocal realism. A new Hybrid Vocals Engine, and an expanded set of Hybrid Vocal presets bring new life to one of the most popular instruments of Atlantis, while a redesigned Polyphonic Chants engine brings new opportunities for choral writing. With an array of new articulations and syllables added to the 11 True Legato instruments and a streamlined library structure for effortless navigation, this update ensures that Atlantis remains the gold standard in vocal scoring.
Atlantis 3.5 is packed with content and features. There are 6 Professional Cinematic Singers, 11 Different Types of True Legato Instruments including Romantic True Legato, Atlantis True Legato, Elven True Legato, Valhalla True Legato, Heroic True Legato, Fantasy True Legato, Firenze True Legato, Venezia True Legato, Syllables True Legato, Roma True Legato and Dark Siren True Legato. All of these instruments feature their own set of custom articulations.
Atlantis 3.5 contains a staggering 34GB of 24bit, 48Khz samples unique to this instrument. This achievement is a testament to the extensive dedication and research invested in crafting the definitive vocal library. Drawing inspiration from the ethereal charm of Celtic tunes, grandiose fantasy compositions, and medieval melodies, we confidently assert that this is the finest, most invigorating, and vibrant vocal library ever tailored for these music genres. With Atlantis 3.5, you'll have the means to compose with unparalleled inspiration and truly extraordinary vocal quality!
Additionally, there are 9 Vocal Phrases instruments containing thousands of inspiring vocal phrases, 3 Sustain instruments, a Hybrid Vocal Engine, an Ethereal Vocal Pad Instrument, a Whisper Instrument and a full rack of FX (with a custom Convolution Reverb).
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Cinematic Studio Solo Strings by Cinematic Studio Series valued at approx. 280 €
Cinematic Studio Series is a brand new collection of professional orchestral sample libraries for Kontakt Player. The series was recorded with incredible care, consistency and attention to detail in a world-class scoring stage. The result is a breathtakingly realistic, expressive and emotive series of instruments that can inspire and amaze. With elegant design and an emphasis on usability, the Cinematic Studio Series brings you that true Hollywood sound at a very affordable price.
Cinematic Studio Piano is recorded in the same world-class scoring stage as Cinematic Studio Strings, and is the perfect piano accompaniment to the rest of the series. With an integrated high quality reverb, multiple microphone positions and carefully recorded key and pedal noises, CSP’s intuitive GUI and real-life sound make it an invaluable addition to your orchestral template