Lethal’s 1100+ presets are heavily geared toward dance music production (EDM, trance, house and hip-hop, mostly) and largely synth-based, with a smattering of ‘real’ instruments – guitars, brass, flutes, etc – bringing up the rear. Given how dreadful ROMpler emulations of acoustic and electric instruments generally sound, we don’t have any problem with that.
The library is impressively solid and diverse, packed with thoroughly usable basses, leads, pads, strings, keys, vocal noises, FX and much more. Even the drums and percussion (of which there are a whopping 2140) sound fantastic, by and large, although their implementation could be better. They load as ‘sound menus’ rather than drum kits – ie, a series of snares, kicks, hats or whatever, mapped across the keyboard – so you have to build your own…
