AndyP
still@work
I find that difficult. Even though I have the money to buy every library I want, it's not necessarily that every new library gives me more inspiration, or makes my music better.There are reasons to spend. And if you are like me and have the money, it is great to be able to support the companies that make my hobby fun and keep them in business to make more great products. If you don't have the money, none of this is really worth going into debt for. Especially if you have other just as good libraries to play with.
I ask myself similar questions to kgdrum, and I've never fought with myself as long as I have with the BBCSO. It is not the value of money it costs.
One day I think I need it, the next day I think I don't really need it.
I now have enough libraries to do everything I want to do. I think anyway.
BBSCO could make things easier, but as soon as I add more elements I'm faced with the same challenge as now, how do I bring that together in the mix?
So far I preferred rather dry librarys, with the Arks I got a new room element which causes headaches every now and then. So I have to improve my mixing skills.
When it comes to pure instrumentation, BBCSO doesn't offer me anything I don't already have. The possibilities to adjust it spatially are the new element for me. The Arks have something special that I can't easily do with a standard orchestra library. Not everything, but a few very special articulations are already included.
And I keep thinking I should spend a lot more time on what I already have, because I've only scratched the existing potential.
And then again they are these GAS thoughts ...