Orchestral Plugins that every music producer needs.
- Jeff Nang
- Apr 10
- 2 min read
Updated: Apr 14
A list solid orchestral plugins for music producers and composers working in film, games, movie trailers even edgy pop music. These Orchestral instruments can be used in any genre.
Jacob Collier Audience Choir - Native Instruments
A unique and inspiring choir instrument created from Jacob Collier’s live audience. Great for adding human warmth and realism. I love how you can glide through the different vowels making this pllugin come to life even more. It also comes with a bunch of audience claps, stomps and shouts which are fun play with.
The Free Orchestra 1&2
A great starting point for cinematic scoring, includes epic strings, powerful brass, percussion and effects from ProjectSAM's professional libraries. My favourite brass is "Pandoras burst" found in The free orchestra 1, It sounds like that epic BRAAAM sound you hear in Hans zimmer music.
Controlla Voice - Music Style Sampler
(Lyrics to Choir)
This is what i use when i want a full epic choir to sing out my lyrics. All you have to do is pick a choir preset or upload a choir style of your choice, type in your lyrics and click "Sample Music". It quick creates a Choral melody singing your words. I use this in every song.
EPIC PERCUSSION 3 - SPLASH SOUND
An insane free drum l;ibrary for cinematic hard hitting drums. You have Tom Kits, Full epic kits and Taiko kits. Drums are what will make heads turn and this drum VST is a great startting point for Epic drums. It has an Epic slider which does exactly that, adds epicness to your drums.
Short Strings - Fractured Sounds
Punchy powerful short strings. This is perfect for adding rhythmic string melodies that has drive and bite while cutting through the mix of your music. The "Mic Mix" allows you to have the strings nearer or further, The "Colour" knob is a small but noticable detail that brightens or dapens your strings. Go check out all of fracture sounds tools, there epic.
Controlla Voice - Voice Swap (ULTIMATE CHOIR)
If you want to make your own epic choir, this is the closest you will get to a choir singing your own lyrics in your own melodies. A choir is made up of several different voices with different textures. So i like to use controlla voice to swap my vocal stacks in to different voices to get that "Choir Effect". Watch this video full a full breakdown.
Vaults instruments - Crow Hill
Another great library of instruments - from pianos to strings - all completely free. The "Attic Piano" might sound like a simple lo-fi felt piano at first, but once you adjust the "reverse" knob, it transforms into an ethereal, ambient texture that's perfect for cinematic layering.
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