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Post by ChaseUTB on Oct 16, 2017 14:52:43 GMT -6
Komplete which includes Kontakt is around the same price if not cheaper. So you saying add on $399 to each of the kontakt libraries is not the actual cost or situation..
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Post by popmann on Oct 16, 2017 19:49:00 GMT -6
I'm trying to clarify for someone looking at a $700 "Kontakt Player" string library that they will HAVE to buy the full version of Kontakt, even when the dev advertises that it will work with the "free player". If I'd known that, I'd not have bought the ones I did back in the day. I logged tickets because I thought "certainly this is malfunctioning that it keeps timing out".....nope. By design.
It adds to the cost. At the time of purchase AND ongoing. The amount depends a LOT on when you buy....when you are required to upgrade for OS or instrument compatibility....was the only point I was bringing up. It absolutely IS the situation....and NI's intention.
Now, back to strings....LASS2....talk about someone who needs to code their own instrument. they have made a UI for a script that applies changes and transforms input to the racks of instrument banks "below it" in Kontakt. Upside--it really sounds pretty wonderful. Holy crap, though....I think I burned serious calories just trying to understand their ARC tutorials I was watching. Ha.
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Post by NoFilterChuck on Oct 16, 2017 20:43:18 GMT -6
Honestly, I stopped using their ARC and just leave everything set to "dry" in the color profiles.
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Post by M57 on Nov 24, 2017 8:43:50 GMT -6
EastWest Black Friday sale: Actually through Nov. 30. ~25-30% off
Hollywood Orchestra - Diamond Edition $499
680GB of content (drive incl)
Quantum Leap Symphonic Orchestra - Platinum Complete Plus Edition $449
194GB of content - Platinum needs iLoc. (drive incl)
Hollywood Orchestra - Gold Edition
100GB (16 bit only) $329 (download)
I'm thinking about taking advantage of one of these. Thoughts?
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Post by Vincent R. on Nov 24, 2017 18:45:31 GMT -6
I enjoy my Hollywood Orchestra. Had Gold for a while. I have Diamond now. Diamond is worth the extra money. Wish I had purchased it years ago.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2017 20:05:15 GMT -6
Miroslav 2 has been ticking my boxes for writing. Cheap, the sounds somewhat resemble the instruments they're supposed to sound like, the interface is easy, and it has a perpetual license that allows for multiple installs. Hoping to get more into scoring at some point and then I'll invest in a "real" library, but if you just want an orchestral sketchpad, could do worse.
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Post by M57 on Dec 2, 2017 7:54:03 GMT -6
Pulled the trigger and went for the Hollywood Orchestra Diamond with the $200 discount the day before the end of the sale. Of course it's back-ordered but the Sweetwater site says it will be in stock in a week. NP, I won't be able to play with it for a couple weeks anyway. (Note to self: better make a phone call anyway). Going over the manual, the depth of features is intimidating at first pass, but the manual looks to be concise and reasonably well-written, and the interface, at least on paper, looks like it may be intuitive enough. We'll see how much trouble I'm getting myself into.
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Post by M57 on Dec 18, 2017 18:05:35 GMT -6
We'll see how much trouble I'm getting myself into. Not too bad.. I just spent the day with it. I took a song I recently recorded in Logic ( here) and duplicated most of the orchestral MIDI tracks - then replaced them with Hollywood instruments. (just strings, French horn and flute). There are still a couple things that I'm not happy with, but it's at a point where it's much better than the original. The performances needed a bit of tweaking here and there, and I ended up making the volume automation much less dynamic because the EW instruments sound much better if you use a lot of automation in the expression and modulation lanes, which is pretty much necessary to make them come to life. In some cases, I left some of the LPX instruments low in the mix for added thickening, but for the most part the EW instruments are a major improvement, especially where depth of tone is concerned. I think one challenge is going to be knowing which samples/articulations/scripts to use. There are definitely more features than I could ever hope to become comfortable with, but I feel like I should be able to get some good mileage out of it. |
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