Sonatina Symphonic Orchestra (Sound Module)

Sonatina Symphonic Orchestra is a free orchestral sample library. While not as advanced or ambitious in scope as commercial offerings, SSO contains all the basic building blocks for creating real virtual orchestrations. It’s primarily aimed at beginners, but also more experienced composers looking for something lightweight and/or portable might find it useful.

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Strings, brass, woodwinds, keys, choir & percussion!

Free Full Orchestral Sample Library

The Sonatina Symphonic Orchestra Module contains the full SSO by Mattias Westlund, nicely wrapped up into one simple VST plugin (32 & 64bit).

The SSO samples are stereo, 16 bit, 44kHz. Melodic instruments and chromatic percussion are sampled in minor 3rds. Staccato/pizzicato patches have 2x round-robin. All samples have varying amounts of stage ambience, depending on their front-to-back placement, but in addition to that a good hall reverb is a must.

SSO is a free library released under the Creative Commons Sampling Plus 1.0 license.

For more information, please see the SSO page and SSO sound module page.

Note: This library comes with it’s own sample player, no other software is required.
Important: This library is provided as a VST only plugin. There is no support for AU/AAX plugins

Full Instrument List

Strings

16 violins (1st) sustain, staccato, pizzicato
12 violins (2nd) sustain, staccato, pizzicato
11 violas sustain*, pizzicato
10 celli sustain, staccato, pizzicato
8 basses sustain, staccato, pizzicato
1 concert harp pluck
1 solo violin & solo cello sustain

Brass

3 trumpets sustain, staccato
4 horns sustain, staccato
3 trombones sustain, staccato
1 tuba sustain, staccato
1 solo trumpet, solo horn, solo tenor trombone, solo bass trombone sustain

Woodwinds

3 flutes sustain, staccato
3 clarinets sustain
3 oboes sustain
3 bassoons sustain
1 piccolo flute sustain*
1 solo flute, 1 solo alto flute, 1 solo clarinet, 1 solo bass clarinet, 1 solo oboe, 1 solo cor anglais, 1 solo bassoon, 1 solo contrabassoon sustain

Keys & Choir