Well actually I think I have an answer after a night of scouring the web for demos: most of the demos i found are either not very helpful for the type of music I want to write with them right now (more traditional orchestral stuff) or they are simply horrible demos. Aside from a few short and not at all transparent demos on the "samplecontrol" channel on youtube and a couple of mp3s and youtube links on the sample modeling website, it seems almost everyone except the devs, and people hired by the devs to make demos, has trouble mixing the library in with an orchestra or even getting the tone of the instruments to sound right. The lack of transparency from the "samplecontrol" channel makes those demos come off as somewhat fishy to me as well.
The instruments are on sale right now and the flexibility of them in performance makes them seem "too good to be true", so why exactly is it so hard to mix them in? I watched various tutorials and it seems the issue of "early reflections" has actually been added into the most recent version right out of the box anyways. While watching some of the demos I don't like, I find myself thinking "if I could just change a couple of parameters on their instance of the instrument this would sound so good" but I shot myself in the foot buying an expensive library that had me saying the same things until I actually got my hands on it and I don't want to get burned that way again. Maybe it's simply impossible
I have looked on this site and although there are many threads on the topic dating back several years, most of the demos posted here are dead links. So does anyone who uses the library today want to post a couple demos as well as their thoughts here?
The instruments are on sale right now and the flexibility of them in performance makes them seem "too good to be true", so why exactly is it so hard to mix them in? I watched various tutorials and it seems the issue of "early reflections" has actually been added into the most recent version right out of the box anyways. While watching some of the demos I don't like, I find myself thinking "if I could just change a couple of parameters on their instance of the instrument this would sound so good" but I shot myself in the foot buying an expensive library that had me saying the same things until I actually got my hands on it and I don't want to get burned that way again. Maybe it's simply impossible
I have looked on this site and although there are many threads on the topic dating back several years, most of the demos posted here are dead links. So does anyone who uses the library today want to post a couple demos as well as their thoughts here?