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Dorian Gray · Post by **Dorian Gray** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 10:39 pm

big chunk of a harddrive ? Get with the 21st century, libraries are shipping with 50 gigs and disk drives are 400+ gig these days.

This is for a specific type of music. I suppose if you go out and guy an orchestral library you make soundtrack or classical.

DG.

sgx · Post by **sgx** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 11:46 pm

Cyprus wrote:I think offering it in different chunks would have almost no appeal for anybody. In a set like this people want variety, and if seventy dollars is too expensive for something that you would love than you're in the wrong business. I can appreciate the struggles of being broke as well as anybody, but in this industry you won't find much under a hundred bucks.

Ok maybe I didn't give the marketing idea I proposed a full thinking through

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However as for variety, that's what I feel this lacking, since most of what I've heard so far has been ambient pads/soundscapes. There's some very nice guitar stuff, but this library has a very narrow focus. Not that that is bad (its great), but its just not personally what I am in the market for. I can make similar (probably not as good) stuff myself and that is totally free with the tools I have already. I think if I do buy a sound library, it will be in the form of the $99 upgrade to Dimension Pro. Its got some sounds like this and a whole variety of other sounds including Garritan "pocket" orchestra which I could also use.

Also, I'm not pro, nor am I trying to be so I'm not really "in the business" and therefor not in the wrong business. This is a hobby and I like to create as much as possible of it from scratch. I try to stay away from premade loops, presets, and synthy sound libraries somewhat.

big chunk of a harddrive ? Get with the 21st century, libraries are shipping with 50 gigs and disk drives are 400+ gig these days.

I'm on a laptop with an 80gb hard drive. I have two instances of xp installed: one for everyday use and Flash, graphics, web design that I do, and the other is for audio. I use this computer for a lot of stuff and consequently the hard drive is pretty full. The size isn't really an issue; if I really wanted the library, I'd make it work, but for something that I'd just be using once in a while, it would somewhat be dead weight on my HD.

I probably just shouldn't have mentioned that I don't think I'm going to purchase spacehawk. I kinda felt that I should explain to sonicfire why since I had appeared quite interested in buying from my earlier posts. I guess I was also just reasoning my decision out loud

. I'm not trying to dissuade people from getting it. Spacehawk looks like it will be awesome, especially for the price. Just not for me.

Dorian Gray · Post by **Dorian Gray** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 12:31 am

Spacehawk sounds great to me to use in Dimension, i'll bookmark it for buying after the new year.

DG.

sonicfire · Post by **sonicfire** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 2:04 am

@sgx: no problem, i fully understand that spacehawk is just not for everyone!

it´s a specific thing and covers only ambiental sounds. i just dont have the equipment to make a full-blown library with drums, more guitars, orchester instruments and choirs and stuff. (i wish i could!

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so, no problem! thanks for clearing it up!

@dorian gray: thanks in advance!

Sascha Franck · Post by **Sascha Franck** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 2:14 am

Even if you don't have stuff to do a complete library, a bit of variation would certainly do good. Get some basses and comping sounds coming along with it. Your sound sources should be capable of that.

sonicfire · Post by **sonicfire** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 3:10 am

Sascha Franck wrote:Even if you don't have stuff to do a complete library, a bit of variation would certainly do good. Get some basses and comping sounds coming along with it. Your sound sources should be capable of that.

There´re some bass sounds in it!

What do you mean with comping sounds?

sonicfire · Post by **sonicfire** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 5:50 am

what does he mean with comping sounds?

by the way: conversion are running - new formats will hopefully be ready even BEFORE the release date!

so watch this place!

thanks!

sonicfire · Post by **sonicfire** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 8:31 am

and i still dont know what comping sounds are

Sascha Franck · Post by **Sascha Franck** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 9:24 am

Comping sounds: sounds with a "piano-ish" amp EG, so you can use them for quicker stuff as well.

Edit: Btw, one of the reasons why I'm often only using the looped portion of a sample: I can use them for all sorts of things. I'll simply build the amp EG myself in the sampler.

sonicfire · Post by **sonicfire** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 9:44 am

Sascha Franck wrote:Comping sounds: sounds with a "piano-ish" amp EG, so you can use them for quicker stuff as well.

Edit: Btw, one of the reasons why I'm often only using the looped portion of a sample: I can use them for all sorts of things. I'll simply build the amp EG myself in the sampler.

ah, ok

well, there are 44 one-shot instruments in spacehawk and you can easily use any sound as a kind of lead by simply setting attack to zero or somewhat to 1-5 ms

mckenic · Post by **mckenic** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 2:31 pm

No offense meant to anyone guys, but I have loads of Bass synths / Piano ish sounds... I think I'll use spacehawk for drones...

... saying that, a Pyrodon take on the standard sounds would be interesting too...

Dave

odo · Post by **odo** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 2:41 pm

Hi SonicFire
nice demo sf2s
Odo

sonicfire · Post by **sonicfire** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 3:46 pm

mckenic wrote:No offense meant to anyone guys, but I have loads of Bass synths / Piano ish sounds... I think I'll use spacehawk for drones...

... saying that, a Pyrodon take on the standard sounds would be interesting too...

Dave

I have plans on "standard" sounds, yes - but thats still far from becoming real

@odo: thanks!!

sonicfire · Post by **sonicfire** » Sat Nov 26, 2005 6:42 am

*BUMP* ...couldn´t resist

sonicfire · Post by **sonicfire** » Sat Nov 26, 2005 9:04 am

update: kontakt, sampletank, WUSIKstation(V2) and SF2 formats done!!

More formats will follow before Dec. the 1st.
So place your order with your desired format now!

KVR Audio

Spacehawk price reduced! now $49.95

what should such a thing cost?