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Most Disappointing Library Purchase?

Crazy how many 8Dio complaints there are in this thread. I'd say a lot of their libraries/demos/walkthroughs are smoke and mirrors, but they have hit a few home runs.
 
Mike Fox said:
+1 Love these libraries.
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I was kind of astonished when I saw the negative review there. The Stormdrums are killer toolkits, plenty of inspiration to be had. 3 has some seriously well done world instruments...the scope of the percussion is freaking intense if you ask me. All three are desert island for me, I do like the Ark 1, Evolution stuff too. And Apocalypse Elements can be fun and inspiring as well imo.
 
FWIW, I just want to mention that I have some friends staying over to watch the world cup, all of whom are musicians, and we spent some time jamming in my studio yesterday. Every one of them loved the L&S Grand I mentioned above. When I drew their attention to my problems with it they all thought I was being a bit too anal. The universal agreement was that the core sound was beautiful.
 
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EW Ministry of Rock 2. Do not like the basses and guitars. The drums are ok but some of the samples are hard clipping so the whole thing is unusable.
 
Keepforest Evolution Bundle and Heavyocity Gravity with all packs. For me those are just bunch of effects and loops. There is nothing you can't make with cheaper libraries or synths. Both overpriced and especially Gravity.
 
Alex Niedt said:
My biggest regret right now is 8Dio Liberis, not because it's an inherently bad library, but because after buying Genesis, Liberis will forever collect dust.
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I actually use them side by side, I find Liberis to work really well as "invisible pads" something I can add under for fullness the "mmmmm's" especially. the genisis library's legatos are really good and have taken over that roll for me.
 
I'll jump in and say the L&S Concert Grand as well. Issues mentioned elsewhere are the unevenness from note to note and large jumps in timbre across velocity layers. Very weirdly sampled with 5 layers for some notes and 30+ for others. Also the pedaling is messed up, the interface too big, and a few bad buzzy notes that stand out. Completely unusable in any standard composition. Had to go back to my standbys. Beautiful tone fundamentally, but a piano in worn shape and a poor sampling strategy. A real missed opportunity. The developer gave me the same responses as others have mentioned above. So no hope of any fixes.
 
I'm starting to have a bit of a love-hate relationship with the Bernard Herrmann library. I REALLY love the general vibe of it, but it's tough to 'marry' that vibe with other things at times, and my current projects aren't a good fit so I don't get to use it as much as I'd like. But there are also some really flat notes in there that can throw a wrench into what I'd like to do... ...but the library sounds so awesome too!
 
Vovique said:
Heavyocoty Aeon Rhythmic is the answer, nothing but pulsez - electronic, fat and filthy. It's a few years old library, but the sounds are still cutting edge
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That is what I've been searching for for 3 years have bought 6 library's and they can't compare to Aeon.Thanks.
 
I really had hi hopes on Metropolis Ark 3.. I own Ark 1 and Im really satisfied with that but when I bought Ark 3 after being very impressed of the demos and walkthroughs, I can now say that I really find Ark 3 VERY hard to use. Maybe I have to get into it more but every time I launch it I get disappointed:( At this moment I think it is my most disappointing library purchase. Hopefully I find it useful sometimes in the near future..
Time will tell.
 
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Maxfabian said:
I really had hi hopes on Metropolis Ark 3.. I own Ark 1 and Im really satisfied with that but when I bought Ark 3 after being very impressed of the demos and walkthroughs, I can now say that I really find Ark 3 VERY hard to use. Maybe I have to get into it more but every time I launch it I get disappointed:( At this moment I think it is my most disappointing library purchase. Hopefully I find it useful sometimes in the near future..
Time will tell.
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Wow, REALLY? It's far from perfect. It has some glitches in it. But man I find it inspiring to play every time I open it up.

What are you wanting to do with it? And what are you finding disappointing exactly?
 
For me, I'd have to say my most disappointing purchase is probably 8Dio Studio Piano. I suspect the scripting is to blame. It's very CPU heavy, especially when playing even remotely fast. All in all, I only spent $100 for it on sale. But given that it's difficult to use I hardly ever fire it up.

I don't have a lot of libraries, so I don't have a lot of regrets. I feel like I get close to regret on Ark 2. If they address the borderline noise problems, the mid strings abrupt tail cutoffs, and the glitch where adjusting individual articulation in multi patches drops samples, I'll feel much better about the library.
 
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