Synth Atmospheres -Tracks 1-3, 5-7, 10, 13-15, 37, 39, 42, 51, 55, 64-65, 82, 84, 92-94, 98-99. - 138 samples - In terms of time the biggest proportion of this CD consists of a whole range of pads, shimmers, loops, arpeggios, drones, rumbles, winds, echoes, bells and space effects

Track 1 kicks off with 5 "mystery" stereo pads, dark and evolving, ideal for something a little sinister sounding. Track 2 has some nice synth loops. Track 7 has some deep drone sounds, you can almost picture the huge spacecraft drifting by. Track 14 has some rich evolving pads, very good. Tracks 37 & 39 have some gentle background sort of pads, some reminders of the sorts of background music you might have heard on Dr Who.

Tracks 55 & 84 consists of echoes, either analogue blips or bells heavily processed, tracks 64-65 contain samples of chimes, gongs and shimmering pads, mostly quite light sounding so may fit in a mix better than some of the other more powerful sounds found in this category. Track 82 is straight from a sci-fi soundtrack of weird sounding pads. Tracks 92-94 are more space type pads and drones, Evolve stands out, very usable. Finally we are given a number of little sequences and arpeggios

Synth Bell - Tracks 50 & 58 - 25 samples - a whole range of synthesiser bell sounds from tiny water bells to gongs.

Synth FX - Tracks 4, 8, 11-13, 15, 40, 42, 43, 45, 54, 56, 59, 62, 74-78, 80, 81, 83, 86-88, 96 & 97 - 151 samples - You get here a whole range of weird and wonderful sounds, synthesised voices, alarms, noise, explosions, hits, bubbles, winds, sweeps, burps, drips, bells, pulses and so forth.

Track 4 gives some excellent "voice" samples, could fit in to a Kraftwerk type tracks 8 & 77 has every processed alarm sound you could ever want I'm sure. Tracks 11-13 have some noise, jet and pulse samples. I liked Jet Flange 1 - this could be made into a searing lead line. Track 45 has some early video game type effects, whilst tracks 74-81 run the whole range of weird sounds that can cultivated from from an analogue synth, the use in context of some of these is doubtful in mainstream music, but for sound effects or soundtracks then that is another story.

Synth Percussion - Tracks 15,44,63 - 30 samples - Some nice examples here of synthesised percussion, especially the "metal" ones on track 63, could provide some variety to a routine rhythm track

Synth Rhythm - Track 20 - 12 samples - possibly the only duff track on the CD, a series of rhythmic frequencies, that aren't very pleasant on the ear, not sure of a use for these ones.

Thumb Piano - Track 26 - 9 samples - 9 different notes from the same setting, enough said.

Waveforms - Tracks 3, 9, 16-19, 41, 46, 60, 97, 99. - 58 samples - these are raw waveforms, unprocessed in any way for you to load up into your sampler and manipulate using whatever on board filters and effects you have at your disposal, there is a wide range, inharmonic loops, triangle, pulse, sawtooth, PWM & resonance. I would have preferred these to have been grouped all at the end, some are very harsh sounding and sound rather out of place sandwiched in-between other "sweeter" sounding tracks.

Whistles - Track 25 - 6 samples - bit of an odd one mixed in here, duck or crow whistle anyone ?