According to OT website about 130Gb (75GB + 54GB).How much HD space will ARks 1 & 2 take up?
Let me know what your consensus is...I'm leaning towards Ark bundle, but we'll see. I like some of the softer demos of both Arks and Inspire. hmm...seems to good a deal to pass up on :3Now back to the decision-making. I only own BWW that I got on BF and Time Macro - why didn't they do a $1,000 takes it all deal?
I don't need Sphere or the pianos. I probably don't need string runs - I have SonoKinetic's ostinado strings. I'm sure I have runs somewhere. I do have 8Dio's Caged that covers some of the Ark 3 stuff. And I recently picked up VS's Smart Orchestra for pretty cheap as I bought the SE 1 bundle in a prior sale. So I may not need Inspire. Well, I don't NEED any of it. But I see why people like the Arks.
Okay, more videos....
I'm moving towards all 3 Arks. Inspire sounds great, but I have enough to cover this between HWO, VS Smart Orchestra, and Albion 1 & 5. I also have the Project Sams. I have way too much stuff.Let me know what your consensus is...I'm leaning towards Ark bundle, but we'll see. I like some of the softer demos of both Arks and Inspire. hmm...seems to good a deal to pass up on :3
Thanks :3I'm moving towards all 3 Arks. Inspire sounds great, but I have enough to cover this between HWO, VS Smart Orchestra, and Albion 1 & 5. I also have the Project Sams. I have way too much stuff.
He doesn't want the weight of the Ark to fall on you.Watching the Ark patch walkthroughs, it's killing me whenever the new OT voice-over guy says "timber."
If it's any consolation I still accidentally spell it tambre :/Watching the Ark patch walkthroughs, it's killing me whenever the new OT voice-over guy says "timber" and "Wagner".
EDIT: Looked into it a little and perhaps I am wrong about "timbre", and it can be pronounced either way.
Seriously and without a hint of melodrama, this is a portent of the VI-apocalypse. Many people predicted it, well, now it's shifting gradually from prediction to reality. All of those "we don't like sales, our high prices assure high quality & exclusivity" promises just can't hold up anymore against all the competition that entered the market in the last 3 years. Just like EastWest a sampling generation ago, being forced into cutthroat sales for the Hollywood lineup by competition from Spitfire and OT.
And what about the new developers? I don't know how many more orchestral libraries can actually get off the ground. People won't invest in full orchestras - especially the winds and percussion - unless they already like and own the strings and brass... it's dumb but it's the reality... and the competition to sell strings and brass right now is vicious as hell. I'm worried for SoundIron's new orchestra (Hyperion) and Performance Samples (Con Moto). I think Wallbank's orchestra (Cinematic Studio) will still sell because it's designed and priced with a sort of built-in assumption of the apocalypse that's unfolding, and he hooked a lot of customers with the strings.
The message is loud and clear though. The days of selling a single orchestral department (especially strings or brass) for $500+, or single instruments for the equivalent add-it-up price, are over forever. Kind of amazing considering Hollywood Brass debuted not 8 years ago at $800.
If EastWest is a harbinger, down the line we'd eventually be looking at Orchestral Tools Cloud and Spitfire Creative Cloud. Which would put these prices in perspective.Just like EastWest a sampling generation ago, being forced into cutthroat sales for the Hollywood lineup by competition from Spitfire and OT.
You know I hadn't thought about that, but it makes a lot of sense considering Time Macro is a smaller, more focused library. I couldn't even begin to speculate what's next in the 'Time' series, but there's a 95% chance I'll be getting it if the price is in line with the first one!Here's something else that crossed my mind: Time Macro premiered with an intro price tag that seemed notably cheaper than OTs preceding libraries, to me at least. I wonder if it was a trial balloon of sorts, or if maybe the sales went up in a way that encouraged them to change their pricing strategy.
The lack of mic flexibility is the biggest downside in the Inspires. But it's a plus if you're like me and you just don't want to think about that sometimes.The hall sound is really over the top. I imagine different mics in Ark would alleviate that, but still retaining quite a bit of it in the close mics, a la Spitfire?
Legatos from which instrument in which Ark?Don't love the legatos. Maybe that has to do with the lack of definition from the mics. I think someone posted some legato samples from Ark the other day which didn't really blow me away either.
Don't love the legatos. Maybe that has to do with the lack of definition from the mics. I think someone posted some legato samples from Ark the other day which didn't really blow me away either.