Darren Durann
Active Member
whole heartily agree with this! very well said!
Especially when it comes to phrase libraries; I learned the hard way: they're good for inspiration, but ultimately it's best to just do your own thing. The pieces I wrote with phrase libraries are all listened to with embarrassment by me today. I keep thinking "why didn't I just take that and do something new with it?".
Another Spitfire free Bird here. Thay sound great but try to use the close mics..eww. I like libraries that can be used in more than one context.
The close mics in Albions I to III are indeed pretty disappointing. I kept trying to default to them for use with other libraries by other manufacturers, but the room was still there, often in an unusable amount.
Fair enough. To use any of the Albions means you're also renting space in a facsimile of AIR Studios, and that's where you are. You can't just decide to record in a drastically different environment as you could with a dry library. Both a strength and a limitation IMHO.
This puts it way better than I did.
From listening to his music and from watching all his videos online, I think JXL has got a huge musical vocabulary and
Really? No offense...I thought Junkie best when he stuck to making patches for synths. I've been pretty mortified at his soundtrack work, it all sounds the same to me. I thought Zimmer teaming up with him for Batman vs Superman was what sunk that score.
I...okay, apologies to any Junkie fans here. I just got so disappointed so many times...I actually bought Mad Max and was astonished at how monotonal the whole thing was. But then, that could have a lot to do with the hyper compressed production.
Again, sorry fans. I just didn't expect people to be big on him. I love Hans Zimmer's music.
All just my know-nothing opinion.