Goldie Zwecker
Active Member
I recently got more into composing with orchestral stuff. Not as a profession but more because i love it, love playing with those sounds and textures and fascinated and having fun learning how to "mock up" orchestral stuff. I usually make music with my analog synths, but working with samples is also great. Besides orchestral they are also great addition for indie and pop music.
Anyway, i recently got the new Spitfire Symphonic Orchestra which includes the symphonic strings, symphonic brass, symphonic woodwinds and Masse - and i also got the spitfire chamber strings library which sounds just awesome!
They are excellent libraries that give me individual sections and solo instruments (apart from the string libraries, that is), and masse gives a touch of some orchestral combinations.
But, as detailed as these libraries are it seems they are less for "sparking" ideas and giving you cues to start with - and more for serious and meticulous orchestral work.
Before i bought this bundle i listened A LOT to all the demos of the 5 Albion volumes and each sounds great!! It seems these two bundles will work great together because they were recorded in the same place, have similar GUI etc. And no, i can't point on a specific Albion library that i think is better than the others. Tundra is as special as Albion one -Albion iceni is also special etc. It makes sense as a bundle.
What they can give me in addition to the BML orchestral stuff is percussion, loops, textures, cues, and in the orchestral department - some unique articulations and techniques the BML doesn't have, as well as unisons and octaves. Seems to work the other way around as well. You can't do everything just with the Albions.
So why i hesitate? Because i also own:
1. Omnisphere 2
2. Komplete Ultimate 11
Omnisphere also goes for an approach of mangling samples in a synth engine, taking it thru filters, fx, granular etc etc. It also has lots of loops and arppegiated stuff.
I don't know if this makes the brunnel loops and eDNA redundant.
As for Komplete Ultimate 11 - it has lots of cinematic stuff. For example Action strikes with all its orchestral percussion loops, HIT & RISE with its swells and hits, Damage - which also gives cinematic rhythmic loops, Evolution, Evolution mutations, Evolution mutations 2, Action strings, Emotive strings, Kinetic metal etc etc.
And on the other hand - each time i listen to the Albion walkthru's - i'm impressed.
So my questions is do you find it excessive and overkill to have the BML range, and Komplete Ultimate 11, and Omnisphere 2 and add the Albions?
Anyway, i recently got the new Spitfire Symphonic Orchestra which includes the symphonic strings, symphonic brass, symphonic woodwinds and Masse - and i also got the spitfire chamber strings library which sounds just awesome!
They are excellent libraries that give me individual sections and solo instruments (apart from the string libraries, that is), and masse gives a touch of some orchestral combinations.
But, as detailed as these libraries are it seems they are less for "sparking" ideas and giving you cues to start with - and more for serious and meticulous orchestral work.
Before i bought this bundle i listened A LOT to all the demos of the 5 Albion volumes and each sounds great!! It seems these two bundles will work great together because they were recorded in the same place, have similar GUI etc. And no, i can't point on a specific Albion library that i think is better than the others. Tundra is as special as Albion one -Albion iceni is also special etc. It makes sense as a bundle.
What they can give me in addition to the BML orchestral stuff is percussion, loops, textures, cues, and in the orchestral department - some unique articulations and techniques the BML doesn't have, as well as unisons and octaves. Seems to work the other way around as well. You can't do everything just with the Albions.
So why i hesitate? Because i also own:
1. Omnisphere 2
2. Komplete Ultimate 11
Omnisphere also goes for an approach of mangling samples in a synth engine, taking it thru filters, fx, granular etc etc. It also has lots of loops and arppegiated stuff.
I don't know if this makes the brunnel loops and eDNA redundant.
As for Komplete Ultimate 11 - it has lots of cinematic stuff. For example Action strikes with all its orchestral percussion loops, HIT & RISE with its swells and hits, Damage - which also gives cinematic rhythmic loops, Evolution, Evolution mutations, Evolution mutations 2, Action strings, Emotive strings, Kinetic metal etc etc.
And on the other hand - each time i listen to the Albion walkthru's - i'm impressed.
So my questions is do you find it excessive and overkill to have the BML range, and Komplete Ultimate 11, and Omnisphere 2 and add the Albions?