Orchestral Tools SINE Player

Orchestral Tools SINE Player is the pick here if your main goal is orchestral and cinematic scoring. SINE Player is Orchestral Tools’ free sample player, and it runs the company’s own libraries instead of Kontakt instruments. The free side of the ecosystem is more than a small teaser library. SINEfactory gives you 15 free instruments, including a grand piano, strings, big band horns, electric basses, electric piano, drums, acoustic guitars, flute, ukulele, church organ, tonewheel organ, studio voices, and percussion.

You also get Layers, a free orchestral instrument that can generate full chords from single MIDI notes, and Berlin Free Orchestra, a free orchestral collection taken from the Berlin Series recordings. Berlin Free Orchestra includes 34 instruments, 67 articulations, soloists, ensembles, and percussion in a compact installed size. I would install SINE Player before building any free orchestral template without Kontakt.

It is not as broad as Decent Sampler or sforzando, but the free orchestral content is good enough to use in real projects.