Winding down my spending to draw Black Friday to a close. Just bought chrysalis with the $10 gift card so it was only $19. After watching the walkthrough it seemed like it had a lot of nice sound design patches to go with the harp samples.
Now debating on:
embertone walker lite for $10
cube mini for $10
cinematic rooms standard - I've spent too much now to spring for the pro version but standard might be a good way to get my foot in the door on this reverb.
Convinced myself to not buy:
Cinebrass pro - I already have trailer brass and MA1 for big horns and big low brass. The rest of the solo stuff is covered by century brass which has very good solo brass. At this point, I would only be buying it for the LA scoring stage sound. Also - infinite brass is about to become over 90% of my composition workhorse
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Dan Keen's Soft String Textures - Looked myself in the mirror and asked if I truly had leveraged my other underscore evo-like texture libraries yet (looking at you OACE). The answer is no so until I do that, I won't be springing for another one of these libraries
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Cinematic Studio Woodwinds - Not yet. I have nucleus woodwinds and intimate studio woodwinds so I can cover basic ensemble and legato for fully sample only performances that are good. Also just like infinite brass, infinite woodwinds is going to be my main workhorse for woodwinds.
Final thought after playing around with my new infinite brass/woodwinds purchase:
For those of you struggling with setting up infinite brass/woodwinds for ensemble performance, divisimate is a HUGE help. It has a fill voice option such that a section can be mapped as an ensemble with each player split to up to N voices for N players. If you play 1 note, it will have every player in the mapped ensemble play that note. If you play 2 notes, it will split the players and have half play the lower note and half play the upper. this splitting keeps happening in a semi-intelligent way as you add stacked notes until you're playing N notes at which point, every player in your ensemble has their own note to play. This solves the worry of note stacking ending up in multiple layerings of a brass section in conventional sample libraries. For example, a 4 horns patch ending up sounding like 12 horns when you play a 3 note sustain.
TLDR: Divisimate and infinite series were made for each other.
