Xperimenta Sounds recently released an amazing new free library, MINIMA, a collection of sampled sounds with ambient and curious textures. It was the culmination of an April fool’s joke that saw the company release a free “MinimaL” library with no sampled content, which some unlucky people who didn’t cotton on to the “minimal” hint fell for, downloading and installing the empty library. The very next day though saw the company release this incredibly diverse collection of warped and effected textures free for anyone to use, with Native Instruments Kontakt sampler.

When first breaking into the game, or when you start to branch out and contemplate that next purchase, it is a daunting task that awaits you, sifting through hours of YouTube videos of instrument walkthroughs and demos. It is easier nowadays to become paralysed when deciding on a sample library than by learning the DAW that controls them. So, how do you choose one library?