Ok so I'm new to this.
I'm 30 years old, done a lot of amateur- semipro live gigs and am now looking into composing. just for fun and for myself in the style of Harry Gregson-Williams (if I ever can ofcourse ) and a bit more fantasy & gaming influences (+choirs!!!). the money I will earn with doing gigs etc. (100-200 Euro a month on avarage) will go into this.
Aside from that I want to use vsts for live playing as well as making backing tracks for the live gigs (gospel /countryrock)
The thing is: I have spent quite some time the last months gathering info on what to look for, what to buy etc.
currently I have cubase LE, omnisphere 2 and komplete ultimate 11, will buy Keyscape soon.
but now I have a big decision to make; where do I want to go with orchestral libraries.
It appears to me that there is 2 'routes' that I can take:
A. Cinematic Studio Strings, CineBrass, HollyWoodwinds, Genesis, Dominus + some Embertone solo instruments and Tina Guo cello
maybe lateron add LASS3 / Cinematic Studio Brass / who knows what will come out
or B: Spitfire Audio... (maybe + Genesis for now, but who knows when they will....)
(or C: Orchestral Tools... but to start building a library they are to expensive for me..)
with reading stuff here and listening to guys like DJ, Blakus, Guy Mickelmore, Ashton Gleckman I get the idea that the SA stuff and the 'others' dont blend so easily. That you either go all in on SA or cherry pick the 'best-of's from other companies
I like the sound of all libraries listen under A, but I also like the sound of SA...
so:
1. Am I weird to think that there is some truth in 'go Spitfire all the way or not at all'?
2. Do you think that (given that I won't have to go FFFF in my libraries) I COULD do either option and be fine, or would you advise A/B/C?
(3. Is there a thread I couldn't find that already perfectly discusses this?)
cheers,
I'm 30 years old, done a lot of amateur- semipro live gigs and am now looking into composing. just for fun and for myself in the style of Harry Gregson-Williams (if I ever can ofcourse ) and a bit more fantasy & gaming influences (+choirs!!!). the money I will earn with doing gigs etc. (100-200 Euro a month on avarage) will go into this.
Aside from that I want to use vsts for live playing as well as making backing tracks for the live gigs (gospel /countryrock)
The thing is: I have spent quite some time the last months gathering info on what to look for, what to buy etc.
currently I have cubase LE, omnisphere 2 and komplete ultimate 11, will buy Keyscape soon.
but now I have a big decision to make; where do I want to go with orchestral libraries.
It appears to me that there is 2 'routes' that I can take:
A. Cinematic Studio Strings, CineBrass, HollyWoodwinds, Genesis, Dominus + some Embertone solo instruments and Tina Guo cello
maybe lateron add LASS3 / Cinematic Studio Brass / who knows what will come out
or B: Spitfire Audio... (maybe + Genesis for now, but who knows when they will....)
(or C: Orchestral Tools... but to start building a library they are to expensive for me..)
with reading stuff here and listening to guys like DJ, Blakus, Guy Mickelmore, Ashton Gleckman I get the idea that the SA stuff and the 'others' dont blend so easily. That you either go all in on SA or cherry pick the 'best-of's from other companies
I like the sound of all libraries listen under A, but I also like the sound of SA...
so:
1. Am I weird to think that there is some truth in 'go Spitfire all the way or not at all'?
2. Do you think that (given that I won't have to go FFFF in my libraries) I COULD do either option and be fine, or would you advise A/B/C?
(3. Is there a thread I couldn't find that already perfectly discusses this?)
cheers,