Gothic Instruments DRONAR Orchestral Woodwinds £60

Gothic’s DRONAR platform hasn’t felt innovative for a while, but with its deep four/eight-layer architecture, inspiring automatic chord generation and nifty Rhythm Editor, it’s still one of the most capable Kontakt-powered sample playback engines around. The latest puts 8.7GB of pro-performed piccolo, flute, clarinet, oboe and bassoon recordings to fantastic use as the heavily manipulated source material for over 200 highly expressive ambiences, drones, pulses, rhythm beds, basses and more. One of the best DRONARs yet; soundtrack composers, in particular, need to check it out.