Spitfire Audio – Hainbach – Landfill Totems £29

> As you’d expect from Hainbach, this is no ordinary sound library, and neither are the tools which created it. As the name suggests, the startpoint here was a bunch of boxes destined for the scrapheap (originally part of a performance installation). This collection uses a dedicated plugin, and there are 40 presets here, covering tonal, atonal and percussion sounds. However, the boundaries between them, and the uses to which they might be put, are blurred, and all the better for it. Great use is made of the modwheel to morph between textures, and underlying it all is an alluring lo-fi sound that can go from quaint and simple to menacingly complex in an instant. Bruce Aisher

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