What sample libaries do you own?

[StrangeCat]

I dont even feel like writing that much then you realize just how many sample libs you have bought over the years and yea....some sort of sickness or something with buying samples LOL!!!

[diverdee]

I don't, but for the price I am interested in ethnoworld 3 complete (although a bit unsure) & Peter Siedlaczek's Complete Classical Collection.
Used the classical collection at a mates & was very impressed with it for the price - it seems to pack alot in there & would totally cover me personally for strings, brass, pianos & more.
Anyone actually using this?

[kovacs]

Absynth 3 is a sample library? Huh...and here I was thinking it was a synth with samples...

[The Chase]

At one point I had 30+ GB of samples and I've never bought or owned any sample packs. Just collected them off of the net and from crate digging over time. However over the past year Ive drastically cut back on my samples and only have roughly 13GB and a large portion (prolly like a 3rd) of it is resampled pads/bass/loops/Fx of my own. Getting samples can be addicting (like porn) but having an overwhelming amount is counter productive.

Unless you do a lot of orchestral work or work with a lot of real world samples you shouldnt need that many samples.

[Seus Hawkins]

what's the point?

regards

[MaestroX]

I don't, but for the price I am interested in ethnoworld 3 complete (although a bit unsure) & Peter Siedlaczek's Complete Classical Collection.
Used the classical collection at a mates & was very impressed with it for the price - it seems to pack alot in there & would totally cover me personally for strings, brass, pianos & more.
Anyone actually using this?

I have it but don't use it myself as the samples are quite out dated now. Eeast West Symphonic Orchestra is the way to go

[diverdee]

Really?
I wonder if it depends on what you are actually trying to achieve with the sample library in question.
For instance I wouldn't be scoring orchestral pieces - it'd purely be strings & horns etc. over dance music - which the Siedlaczek collection seems more than adequate for.
The smart violins portion of it - my mate used that over some garage bootlegs he was doing - quick & easy to fit in.
regarding the whole huge multi gigabyte libraries - this same mate was mastering some tunes for another friend, kinda funky old school soul & rnb (bit of a gospel feel, rare groove - guys a jazz guitarist, phenomenal player).
Anyways there were some amazing horn sections on it, really catchy, fit in the mix beautifully - sparse, perfect.
They were all done on his old-ish akai sampler & were the result of him chopping up & editing his old memphis horns (An Akai format collection of samples).
Sounded totally live to me.
He'd got to 'know' that collection over time & could work wonders with it - food for thought.

[dougsyo]

- Sampletank 2XL, Sonic Synth 1, and several ST2-format sets from ESoundz
- Miroslav
- GPO
- Kontakt2
- Wusik V3 + VOXD + TSW + etc
- Dimension Pro (and Rapture)
- Rhino2 and all of Dan Maurer's sound sets
- SFZ+ (and VSampler) for soundfonts
- Eve 2 and several add-on soundsets (FS1R, Mellotron)
- Numerous commercial soundfonts (EMU Module Mania, Utopia SD, Sonic Implants Retro GM, Papelmedia GM, and others).
- Third-party soundsets from PMI, Sampletekk, NSL, Precisionsound, and others for the above.

Right now, only the plugins themselves, plus the soundfonts, a few Kontakt soundsets, and content for Rhino, DimPro and Eve live on my laptop's internal hard drive. All the others are on an external (faster) USB drive.

Doug

[Failed Muso]

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More pointless KvR willy waving

[torhan]

I just need one:

Babya's Absolute Sample Library

Apparently, Babya has purchased ALL sample libraries in the universe.

[loopwiz]

Atmosphere,Stylus RMX with uppacks,Trilogy
Colossus,Storm Drum,Percussive Adventures 2,Wired
Sample Tank 2.1XL,Sonik Synth2,Miroslav Philharmonic
Dimension Pro,Rapture
Albino 2&3,Blue
Absynth,FM7,BPM-120
About 40 Gigs of commercial loop and REX file libraries

[Failed Muso]

I just need one:

Babya's Absolute Sample Library

Apparently, Babya has purchased ALL sample libraries in the universe.

[tee boy]

To many!

The ones I use often are:

- EWQLSO Gold
- NI Synthetic Drums 1 & 2
- Distorted Reality 1 & 2
- BT's signature series CD's
- DFH
- Planet of the breaks

I recently got hold of Black and White grand pianos, which Im looking forward to trying out soon.

Other CD's include various FX and loop releases. I have some SFX sound design CD's which are cool. I tend to use these to develop sound design ideas - then if what to actually make some samples I go out and record what I need.

TB

[Bonteburg]

took a while for the serious replies to trickle down eh!

There's as much unbearable in-crowdism at KvR as there is willy-wagging (nice one lovesign btw, put a smile on my face )

Anyway all dsample libs I have are the ones that came with ESXP24, RMIV and Symptohm, other than that it's all internet flotsam

Marco


edit: waving not wagging, sorry!

[loachm]

...big willie style...

Kontakt
Kontakt 2
Battery 2
Intakt
Kompakt
Scarbee RSP
Scarbee JS&F
Prominy LPC
Prominy PCP-80
Soniccouture Abstrakt Vol. 1
Kontakt Experience
Masterbits Mello Trax
IK ST2
SR Sonic Synth
SR Omni Synth
Spectrasonics Trilogy

AMG 160dB
AMG Terminalhead - Underfire
Big Fish Audio Freaky Jazzy Funky
Big Fish Audio Sould City
Big Fish Audio Nu Jazz City
Ultimate Soundbank Jazzistic
E-Lab Abstract Hiphop
E-Lab Nu Groove RnB
E-Lab Nu Directions
E-Lab Smokers Delight
Equipped Music Nu Jazz Funk
Zero-G Dance Pack
Zero-G EZ-Rollers Producer Pack
Zero-G Firestorm

...over thousand drumloops I sampled myself and a lot of instruments I sampled with the help of EXSC 3 recently...

... but it's far too much stuff! I wouldn't do this penis enlargement again - at some day you'll wonder what to do with such a big noodle...