[ddots-l] Re: Omnisphere sounds
- From: Bryan Smart <bryansmart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 20:04:51 -0400
I think its worth the $250 special price. Not sure what they're selling it for
in the UK.
Volume 1 is a good general purpose set of new samples/sounds that expands the
default library.
Studio Orchestra is very good. It's much better than GPO, or the Virtuoso 2000
set. Lots of stereo programs, programs that use alternate samples when played
legato, etc. Very worth it.
The acoustic kits are good when compared to the Dimension Pro kits, but aren't
what you'd expect from a high end library like Superior Drummer or Adictive
Drums. They are in general MIDI format, though, and that has some practical
uses. They're much better than what is in Session Drummer.
The Guitar and Basses pack is pretty good. The instruments are multi-sampled.
They're certainly a profound improvement on the stock guitars and basses.
The sound effects library is very good. It's like the Hollywood Sounds library
that comes with Sonar, but there are hundreds of programs, all grouped in to
categories like animals, water, tranportation, etc. Its great for dropping in
foley effects on your songs.
The Ensoniq set is good if you want a real retro sound. The E-Mu libraries are
a little old, so that they aren't very ontemporary, but they aren't old enough
to be retro. The Ensoniq stuff is circa 1988 or so. I wouldn't call them
cheesy, though. The libraries for those instruments was considered very good
for the time, and lots of those sounds are in many top-40 and platinum selling
records from the time. I'd even go to some of the percussion and effects sounds
for a track today, even without going for a retro sound. Another good feature
is that all of the drum kits (about 150+ of them) are all laid out in Ensoniq
format.
I didn't think as much of their piano expansion. That is kind of rediculous,
anyway. We have so many libraries with gigs and gigs of samples, and plugs that
model pianos, who needs another 500MB sampled piano? The real use for something
like this isn't to have the ultimate piano, but tl have workstation like
combinations. If you want a piano and strings, or a piano and voice pad, it is
really bad if the piano side of that is the stock Dimension piano. This pack
contains a lot more useful combinations with a much higher quality piano.
All in all, you get something like 5 or 6 thousand presets with the whole pack.
I think that its a good value, especially now with the discount.
Bryan
-----Original Message-----
From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Phil Muir
Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 6:31 AM
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Omnisphere sounds
Hay Bryan. Totally agree with your comments about the programme browser in
Dimension Pro. Dimension is pretty good but as you said, you can't easily
locate what your looking for.
Bryan wrote: I'm thinking about sharing my presets. I think that would be
alright, since you can't use them without purchasing the libraries (and their
samples).
Phil replied; that should be fine as if you don't have the packs in question
then, you wouldn't be able to run them anyway.
Bryan wrote: I really think that Cakewalk should do something like this
themselves,
Phil replied; agreed.
Bryan wrote: though. Dimension Pro has its faults, but with the fragmented
standard library, where you never know exactly what you really have, it makes
Dimension Pro seem much worse than it is.
Phil replied: totally agree. So Bryan, do you think it's worth purchasing the
Digital Sound Factory: Vol 1-10 set that is on offer right now for Sonar
8.5 customers? Am thinking about it. I already have all of the E-MU stuff,
and do on occasion reach for it, when I am looking for a particular brass sound
that I require for a backing track that I am working on.
Regards, Phil Muir
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