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Orchestral libraries in unmatched creativity.

ProjectSAM creates award-winning cinematic sample libraries which are used in numerous film-, game- and series-scores all over the world.

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Founded in 2001.

Composers Maarten Spruijt, Vincent Beijer and Marco Deegenaars teamed up to found ProjectSAM. Not fully satisfied with the orchestral samples available at the time, they set out to record their own, focusing on three main things:

  1. an ambient, multi-mic setup in a concert hall environment,
  2. the right set of articulations, emphasizing on note lengths in-between a sustain and a staccato, to be able to build thematic lines,
  3. instrumental effects that cannot simply be recreated using individual samples.
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Free trumpets

Following the above concept, ProjectSAM aimed for a more epic, cinematic sounding recording. In 2001, ProjectSAM’s first test recordings resulted in the Free Trumpets, a Gigastudio instrument of a 3-player trumpet section performing multiple articulations in unison. ProjectSAM posted this instrument online as a free download for the composer community. The Free Trumpets served as the proof of concept for ProjectSAM’s first commercial release in 2002: SAM Horns.

Many releases have followed since, further defining ProjectSAM’s cinematic recording concept, first completing the family of orchestral brass, then moving on to orchestral percussion.

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Symphobia

Apart from a carefully selected set of articulations, ProjectSAM has always been keen to record an inspiring set of orchestral effects alongside, ranging from French horn rip clusters to bowed cymbals. After completing percussion with True Strike, ideas grew for a new library that focused more intensively on orchestral effects, as well as playable, pre-arranged orchestral ensembles. Teased under the working name SAM Movie Box, 2008 saw the release of what would become the game changer library for ProjectSAM as well as, arguably, the orchestral sampling industry: Symphobia.

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Symphobia is ProjectSAM’s most successful release yet and quickly became an indispensable tool of inspiration for many film, tv and game composers. ProjectSAM developed and released three follow-ups, expanding the palette of the original release with the darker sounding Symphobia 2 in 2010, the lighter, fantasy-themed Symphobia 3: Lumina in 2013 and in 2019 introducing ‘adaptive sync’ with the orchestral effects focussed Symphobia 4: Pandora.

ProjectSAM has also successfully explored the jazzier, non-orchestral side of film scoring with Swing! and the acclaimed sequel Swing More!.

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Based in Utrecht.

ProjectSAM’s office holds a small team and is based in the beautiful old city centre of Utrecht in The Netherlands.

Over the years, ProjectSAM has become one of the most respected orchestral sample development companies. ProjectSAM’s sounds are being used worldwide by the industry’s leading composers and can be heard in many blockbuster films, television series and video games.

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Company info

ProjectSAM
Oudegracht 376
3511 PR Utrecht
The Netherlands
www.projectsam.com
info@projectsam.com
Chamber of Commerce
KvK 55510744
VAT number
NL851744886B01
Bank IBAN
NL40 INGB 0009392877
Bank BIC
INGBNL2A

Our distributors

Apart from our own online store, our products are also carried by the following distributors:

Europe

Best Service

USA

PluginFox
Audiodeluxe
JRRshop

Japan

Crypton Future Media

China

Feilayin Computer Music Technology

South Korea

Music Metro

Taiwan

DIMI CO

India

Sudeep Audio