Featured Artists
Russell has written music for America’s Next Top Model, Bar Rescue, Animal Planet Swamp Wars, Project Runway/Accessory and more, and is a recent runner up in the G tech driven creatively competition. He’s 1/3rd of the Bells & Wizards production team, writing for film trailers, game and promo work.
Xiaotian Shi started playing the piano at the age of 5 and soon began composing at 6. He studied at the Royal College of Music, London from 2005. Later in 2008, Xiaotian won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music to study composition with Paul Patterson and piano with Rustem Hayroudinoff.
He has composed for the Royal Ballet School and later the London Contemporary Dance School. Xiaotian won 1st Prize in the 6th Annual International Composition for Orchestra Competition, in LA, California, his orchestral work was premiered by the AASO conducted by David Benoit. He was also a prizewinner of the Sibelius Student Composer of the Year competition, where Steve Reich and Karl Jenkins were among the 7 internationally prominent adjudicators. Other awards he received include the Constance Poupard Memorial Prize at the RCM and both Violet Strutton Prize and Alec Rowley Award at the RAM.
In 2011, he founded the London Academy Premiere Sinfonia, made up of some of the finest musicians in London. The orchestra specialises in performing new orchestral works and film scoring sessions. The 75-piece orchestra made its critically acclaimed Debut Concert in July 2011, where 2 of Xiaotian’s new large-scale orchestral works were premiered. As a composer for Film and Television, Xiaotian’s work can be heard on the Discovery Channel and BBC, where he works as composer, arranger and orchestrator.
I am really glad having joined the beta team of SI, since their products allow me a fluent workflow when workin’ for deadlines. I love the overall sound of their libraries, especially the “unusual” ones as for example “Cathedral of junk” which often adds a nice flavor to my tracks. I’m sure SI has a great future ahead and again, I’m really proud to be part of it. More…
Being a keen advocate of SoundIron, it’s a given that I’ve been using a wide variety of sounds from their libraries on most of my projects. Their deep sampling of unusual instruments & percussion is both innovative & extraordinary. More…
Being a pianist, I was naturally drawn to Soundiron’s Piano collection. Specifically, Emotional Piano and Montclarion Hall piano, which become my go-to libraries for almost all my piano needs, the majority of my compositions beginning with an Emotional Piano patch. When I first downloaded Mars I remember loading the “MM” vowel patch and playing with it for thirty minutes. There is no question that the guys at Soundiron love what they do, you can hear it in the quality of their products and innovative Kontakt programing… More…
A graduate of Fordham University, New York, Eanan received a Record Arts Degree in Music Engineering and Production at Full Sail College, Florida where he won the Lee Deforest Cup, an audio post-production award in 2003. He also has a specialist certificate in Music Theory & Orchestration from the Berklee College of Music in Boston and is a Digiddesign certified audio-post operator for Pro Tools systems. As a violinist, he has performed in major concert venues including Carnegie Hall, Radio City Music Hall, New York, Boston Symphony Hall and the National Concert Hall in Dublin.
Now I am a 32 year old composer working primarily in television with the occasional film, video game, internet, and music production project thrown in for good measure.
I am fascinated by tunings and temperaments but I just love working with sounds in general; it’s like getting to solve a new riddle every day.
What I like most of all about Soundiron products is that each instrument has soul and unique character. Working with these samples always feels like playing a musical instrument, which is very inspiring.
Soundiron instruments are in every template I set up for my musical scores. They add immediate expression and humanity – bringing life to a digital process. I am particularly fond of using the sampled keyboards in unusual or unexpected ways, as well as the wonderfully clever sets of percussive samples they’ve been able to capture from the most unique sources.
I’m a one of the co-founders of FATHOM Studios. As a company we create music and sound design for Feature Films, Television, Games, Commercials and Trailers. In the recent past we’ve had the privilege to work with clients like Warner Brothers, Universal, Bioware, EA and Lucas Arts.
Despite the recent influx of commercial developers, we still find that only a few really get it right. SoundIron is one those few that produces amazingly expressive libraries with a soul and richness that most commercial libraries lack.
He’s been Working his way up as a studio assistant while practicing audioengineering, classical piano, music theory and composition. He’s absolutely in love with the epic realistic feel of Soundirion. Marco’s specialty is bridging classical composition and acoustic instruments with sampling and modern computer technology, combining several genres at a time. Also releasing records under Alias Mr. Chicago. His influences are wide and varied, among them Beethoven, Ennio Morricone and Debussy, Quincy Jones and Giorgio Moroder. Marco is an obsessed espresso drinking and gum chewing composer. He’s scoring his first feature Danish thriller this following year. More…
I love unique sounds that can be used as musical instruments, so for unusual sound sources I go to Soundiron’s libraries, as they are deeply sampled and wonderfully recorded.
I find myself using Soundiron’s instruments in nearly all my soundtrack cues, from the amazing quality and depth of their choir and piano libraries, to the quirkiness, versatility and sheer randomness of a washing machine, incandescent lightbulbs and the miscellaneous sounds of the junk yard.
We started composing music together as a team for films like The Adventures Of Sinbad, Hatim Aur Sultan, Super K, Knuts of Dreamzone, Bal Ganesh 2, Sponge Bob and many more. We have also composed theme music for N The Queue online radio & have scored music for the series the Edge by John Cox & Dawna Lee Heising. It’s our passion to compose music for films, tv shows, ads, video games etc. Our ultimate goal is to compose music for Hollywood films.
Some of Davin’s recent projects:
Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie (Film, Abso Lutely/2929 Productions)
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! (TV, Adult Swim/Cartoon Network)
Check It Out! with Dr. Steve Brule (TV, Adult Swim/Cartoon Network)
I grew up playing percussion, and have always been fascinated by interesting timbres. Long before I even knew about sample libraries, I was already writing for things like “Scrap Metal,” and with great libraries like Soundiron, I’m now able to incorporate these types of sounds into my mock-ups.
Beyond just the unusual instruments though, Soundiron has great traditional samples as well. Montclarion Hall is my go-to piano, and I incorporate it into most of my orchestral mockups.
After researching several companies to find special and unusual sounds, I finally turned to Soundiron, because more of the sounds are unique than those in other sound catalogues. All the others are pretty much the same; hip-hop sounds; electro synths, synthetic moods, etc. Soundiron has different sounds than the others, and this really helps me in my work. I can honestly say that since I have known Soundiron, most of my music productions are made with one or more of their sounds.
It’s the importance of details and emotions which defines a good tune. Because of literally infinite possibilities to create a song you have to make decisions all the time – consciously or unconsciously. I decided to work as a composer because I love the challenge of doing something new every time. Every project is unique and so is our assignment to develop the right soundtrack. That is exactly the approach Soundiron takes and therefore their instruments are so unique and detailed. Some of them, especially the piano series, are part of my go-to-instruments.
They gift us with very personal stuff, very well recorded, and with lots of breathing/life/love inside. Here I want to talk a little about the Emotional Piano. For me it´s a treasure on his own. Well recorded, with a very balanced sound, deep, rich, it makes any musical idea flow easy from mind to time. It´s so easy to simply sit and play music with it, and feel like you are playing a very unique piano. I’m very thankful to Soundiron for crafting this piano library.
As leader of his own groups Mark has performed at jazz festivals in Tampere, Finland, Ljubljana and Maribor, Slovenia, at a number of clubs in Germany, Austria, Canada and New York City, including Birdland, the Zinc Bar and the Knitting Factory, and recorded and released four CDs as a leader or co-leader, QuietLand on Mapleshade Records, Circle Squared on his own taymons music label, At What Age on ARC Records and Live At The Freight on New Artists Records. Mark has composed for theatre and dance, placed a song in the Dollface Productions independent feature film “The Girl “, completed the scores for the sci-fi short, “John Blue 7”, documentaries, “A String of Pearls” and “9/11: Fear In Silence” and created the score and sound design for “Zero Down O.A.C.”, a dark comedy about used car salesmen in rural Alberta. Mark has also completed several transcriptions of music associated with seminal jazz bandleader James Reese Europe’s 369th “Hellfighters” military band for the Brooklyn Repertory Ensemble. Mark enjoys using SoundIron instruments because, as he says, “I’m certainly not going to go out and bang on some garbage dumpsters in a stairwell. You can get arrested doing stuff like that!”
Today, Pasi works as a professional composer and sound designer, providing high quality custom made music and sound effects for films, games and other media. He also works as a beta tester / composer for sample library developers Sonokinetic, Soundiron and Nine Volt Audio. More…
Though that often means more orchestral based music, I prefer to work from an electronica, industrial and/or world foundation and blend traditional instruments in. Soundiron samples are perfect for this, not only are they interesting and unique to start with, but run the sounds through creative FX and there is no horizon for the range of sonic material that can be coaxed out of the libraries. There is one Soundiron instrument I don’t mess around with because it can’t be improved on, and that’s the Emotional Piano. But maybe tomorrow I’ll see how it goes with some tube saturation, a touch of grain delay, some…
I love using Soundiron plug-ins because they sound so great on my pastiche Kenny G projects. But seriously, Mike and the Mechanics at Soundiron have managed to record the samples with such warmth and dynamism, that they give every track of mine a super-charged rhythmic musical steroid infusion. More…
In addition to being a composer and pianist, Brad has developed and refined his unique, classical style of improvisation at the piano since his teenage years. Described as “Classical piano-perfection” by journalist and music writer Thomas L. Raukamp, Brad has been recording his piano improvisations with acoustic piano and Soundiron’s “Emotional Piano” since late 2011.
Hugh Richardson is a bass player, pianist, arranger and composer in London. He’s performed with Marc Russo (Tower of Power, Yellow Jackets), John Cowan (The Doobie Brothers), Lara Johnston, Tolis Zavaliaris (Vanessa Mae), Marin Alsop (Baltimore Symphony Orchestra), Nick Mason (Pink Floyd), Chuck Sabo (Chaka Kahn, Elton John, Natalie Imbruglia), Alon Cohen (Passenger), Kimya, Amy Studt, Leon Mitchener (Rolf Hind, London Improvisers Orchestra), Ana Free, Gianluca Corona (Al Di Meola) and Cheryl Alleyne (Courtney Pine). He’s appeared on records with Laurence Cottle, Neil Angilley,Fergus Gerrand and Pete Lockett, conducted recording sessions featuring Audrey Riley (Muse, Coldplay, Foo Fighters), written for Bass Guitar Magazine, worked with producers such as Jesper Irn (Steps, Lilly Allen, All Saints), assisted on music for BBC One drama series “The Body Farm” and been awarded a scholarship to Berklee College of Music.
