[ddots-l] Re: I like it easy
- From: "Gordon Kent" <dbmusic@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 14:33:00 -0500
The Garritan personal orchestra has excellent strings, but I still use my
kurzwiel pc2r a lot. They really did it right with what they had.
Gord
----- Original Message -----
From: Bryan Smart
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 1:47 PM
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: I like it easy
For Brass, try Arturia Brass. The instruments are physically modeled, like
with the Yamaha VL products.
For strings, there are gobs of string products that blow away hardware
synths. Their are massive giga libraries of ensemble and solo strings, sampled
for each note, at multiple velocities, that have extremely long loops. Even
Dimension Pro has pretty long string loops. These go way beyond the 30-40MB of
string samples in even the new hardware synths.
Drums are owned by the computer. There are so many softsynth drum products:
integrated products like Drum Kit From Hell, sample libraries from places like
Yellow Tools with kits that are hundreds of MB of multisamples, and, for
electronic drums, there are so many sampler softsynths and sample libraries
available on the computer that we could talk about them for message after
message.
Of course, getting this stuff to work is a bit more complicated than just
selecting a patch on a hardware synth, so you trade off simplicity for quality.
Bryan
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From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Omar Binno
Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 12:16 PM
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: I like it easy
I'm not sure. To be honest with you, the only soft synth I use is Hypersonic.
I'm way more down with external synths and modules as opposed to the vst's. My
personal take is that you get alot more realistic sounds in external synths,
(especially brasses, strings, and drums.)
Omar Binno
----- Original Message -----
From: Greg Brayton
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 10:35 AM
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: I like it easy
Ok I'm downloading the demo version of the FM8. Do I need to wrap it with
something, like the cakewalk VST wrapper, and can I load presets? That's all I
really want to do is work with the presets that come with the deal.
http://www.gbrayton.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Omar Binno
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 10:05 AM
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: I like it easy
You could try some by Native Instruments. They have demos you can
download and try out on their website.
www.nativinstruments.com
Omar Binno
----- Original Message -----
From: Greg Brayton
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 10:02 AM
Subject: [ddots-l] I like it easy
I can use dimension pro, and I've found some pretty nice sounds in
there, but the hypersonic 2 is really much easier to use, and as Bryan has
said, has lots of very good sounds. I've seen a note on the trilogy sounds like
it's more like the dimension pro, in the way that you have to load it up and
use it. I'm interested in hearing about the synths that are out there that are
as easy to use as the hypersonic, not that I wouldn't use something else, but I
like that ease of use for myself. Are there some others that opperate in the
same way that come to mind?
http://www.gbrayton.com
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