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Most Disappointing Library Purchase?

I find that most sampled pianos work reasonably well in an ensemble setting. It's when the size is reduced to jazz trio or smaller that the flaws are more exposed—especially when it comes to damper pedal.

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Is there a new version of Guitar Rig that I missed, that has guitar samples? I thought it was just amp sims and effects. And while Shreddage II does have some ampsim and fx kind of stuff, I always thought I'm supposed to use this in combination with a proper amp sim like Guitar Rig, so I don't quite understand your comparison between the two.
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You're right, I think Parsifal666 must have got his lines crossed somewhere, I know I'm guilty of doing that a time or two. Shreddage is a guitar library whereas Guitar Rig is Amp Sims and effects. Not even a comparison. Shreddage is designed to be used with Amp sims like Guitar Rig. I think those that have a hard time with Shreddage compared to MOR may be due to this fact that it is designed to be used with Amp Sims and then tweaked with Velocity and/or key switches the same as any other Guitar VST in this class. My guess is those who favor MOR over Shreddage may also have a hard time with Orange Tree Samples guitars and AmpleSound.
 
Believe me, if Ark 1 had been my first ensemble library I would have wrote even more overblown junk than I do now!!!

I get super epic with the libraries I mentioned...in some ways better than Ark. But that's just me, as I said Met Ark 1 is still a pretty darn badass library imo.

I started out with rock and heavy metal music as a kid (mostly the latter), so Wagner (and Met Ark 1 for that matter) were pretty obviously going to be in my future lol! I just get sounds that make me happier with Iceni, Hollywood, etc. Keep in mind, I must always tag at the end "engineering ability", without that MA1 would have been a constant staple for my epics.

I just saw this. I literally have bought Met Ark 1 as my first library and I'm often a soft composer (I have my reasons though). I feel ready to sit in my office chair of epicness and.... do something extreme... or something....
 
To me, it's essentially a limited and forgettable textural pad library with no mod wheel control (not sure how it's a "toolkit" like the other Spitfire Toolkits). The Texture and Soft layers are nice while holding sustained notes, but I find the Loud layers pretty useless, as they would be better suited to legato programming. This is the only Spitfire library I've bought and immediately drowned out with other Spitfire libraries as soon as I started playing with it. If you rarely change notes and don't already own a bunch of Evo-type libraries, you may love this, but I still regret paying $150, even though I was happy to pay over twice as much for Solo Strings.
 
Dominus Choir for me. It's like the one purchase that everyone here did by clicking the "Buy" button a little bit to fast. Sorry to hear so many disappointments about BDT. I'm now careful about buying a blind bargain these days, especially when it takes a company just a few months in preparing. Look how long it still takes to release the spitfire choir library.
 
To me, it's essentially a limited and forgettable textural pad library with no mod wheel control (not sure how it's a "toolkit" like the other Spitfire Toolkits). The Texture and Soft layers are nice while holding sustained notes, but I find the Loud layers pretty useless, as they would be better suited to legato programming. This is the only Spitfire library I've bought and immediately drowned out with other Spitfire libraries as soon as I started playing with it. If you rarely change notes and don't already own a bunch of Evo-type libraries, you may love this, but I still regret paying $150, even though I was happy to pay over twice as much for Solo Strings.
Thank you, and I just read your other post in the BDT response thread.
 
Dominus Choir for me. It's like the one purchase that everyone here did by clicking the "Buy" button a little bit to fast. Sorry to hear so many disappointments about BDT. I'm now careful about buying a blind bargain these days, especially when it takes a company just a few months in preparing. Look how long it still takes to release the spitfire choir library.

I saw some really good reviews about Dominus so ended up buying it during the current sale but haven´t had time yet to have a good look at it.
Why don´t you like it?
 
You are 100% correct and i agree! But i can't think of any other option to spur some of these companies to offer some way of actually trying the products for free to see if you actually need them or not since they won't even allow resell. But i totally agree!
Oh I totally understand! The point is is that there has to be some kind of solution that the inability to demo products isn't acceptable. This archaic model of walkthrough videos somehow being a considered a replacement for an actual product demo is out of touch with the sheer amount of sample developers competing.

And absolutely, the inability to sell libraries is even more archaic. Of all developers that should, in theory, allow this its East West as iLok license can be sold and transfered, and are all the time... The matter of East West actually doing it? That's another issue altogether... They're not necessarily the most courteous of companies... (At least in my experience.)
 
For me, definitely Spitfire Albion (legacy). I bought it based on reputation. It was between that and Project Sam orchestra essentials or whatever it's called. Definitely should have gone with Project Sam.
Not crazy about Spitfire Bernard Hermann either. I knew what I was getting into, but I just find a lot of the patches are completely useless. I recognize that it's a musical thing more than a quality issue in this case.
Also, bought Cinematic Studio Strings and sort of regret it. It's just not the be all end all that everyone made it out to be. It's a little washed out sounding for my taste. Also, I prefer dryer samples.
 
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