© Hans Josef Winkler 2023
About
1999 composer and pianist Hans Josef Winkler founded with the sound engineer
Georg Stahl "Xsample professional sound libraries".
We discovered that the current film music was based on samples that have not
been recorded chromatically. So we developed a library with chromatically recorded
acoustic instruments.
We had recorded in this time much more material of each instrument, as we have
published. So it was natural to extend the instruments gradually. In addition, we have
also made new recordings of instruments that we wanted to exchange complete in the
old Library.
Unfortunately, this work was delayed by various Xsample internal restructuring.
These restructurings comes mid-2015 to an end. Xsample remains at his previous
experience with the construction of virtual instruments.
Since 2016 Xsample makes new recordings for new instruments and libraries.
Thanks to my son Maximilian Winkler for the photos of the instruments.