QuiteAlright
Gastronomer
Hello all! Whenever somebody asks me for DAW recommendations, part of my advice is to use the free trials, and see which they like best personally. I've always thought that it's a shame people can't do that with sample libraries, and while the threads on the forum provide great advice to buyers, I wonder if we need a better way to compare sample libraries head-to-head.
I'm thinking of making a website where you can hear the same composition rendered across different libraries. Or to phrase it differently, you would hear the same "demo" but played with different products. My concept is that you would pick an instrument, and select which libraries you want to compare. Then it would present a demo for each articulation which would be the same across libraries. For complete orchestras, or libraries with a lot of complementary instruments, it could also have complete pieces written for various instruments.
Would this be helpful? I think it would make it easier to shop for libraries. But it would be a lot of work volume matching, changing velocity+mod curves to match different dynamics, and composing pieces that would highlight each articulation properly. I'd love to hear other people's thought about this!
I'm thinking of making a website where you can hear the same composition rendered across different libraries. Or to phrase it differently, you would hear the same "demo" but played with different products. My concept is that you would pick an instrument, and select which libraries you want to compare. Then it would present a demo for each articulation which would be the same across libraries. For complete orchestras, or libraries with a lot of complementary instruments, it could also have complete pieces written for various instruments.
Would this be helpful? I think it would make it easier to shop for libraries. But it would be a lot of work volume matching, changing velocity+mod curves to match different dynamics, and composing pieces that would highlight each articulation properly. I'd love to hear other people's thought about this!