KVR Audio

griels · Post by **griels** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 3:13 pm

gmstudio wrote:Ok. Good. So I'm not the only one that finds the samples on these things relatively lacking and dry.

I seriously thought it was just me.

No, mostly rubbish. Most of the best freeware sounds seem to be on the net as opposed to on these discs. Usually the same old hackneyed house loops played on a Casio drum machine, or multisamples with one velocity layer. One of the Computer Music brass sample collections was great (the other was awful), and TEG's Ethnic collection was also excellent. Music Tech also featured some excellent Celtic instruments early on. There was also a very good Computer Music solo strings set. Otherwise, not a lot to shout about.

donkey tugger · Post by **donkey tugger** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 3:16 pm

I thought you bought them to make jaaaaaath stylee big shiny medallions out of them griels?

CypherOne · Post by **CypherOne** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 3:16 pm

make a giant sequin jacket and start performing cabaret?

Stick two on a pair of glasses and look like a sci-fi owl.

griels · Post by **griels** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 3:17 pm

donkey tugger wrote:I thought you bought them to make jaaaaaath stylee big shiny medallions out of them griels?

I TOLD YOU NOT TO TELL ANYONE ABOUT THAT!

YOU FUNK BARSTEWARD!

Kriminal · Post by **Kriminal** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 4:08 pm

The upright bass was good, one of the few i kept.

Still looking for a really good soundfont tho

Sascha Franck · Post by **Sascha Franck** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 4:23 pm

I used to keep em f**kers but I got beyond it, now I just look at them and then throw them away after sorting out the useful content.
Regarding the content, on the german "Keyboards" CD there's allways some highly useful sampler patches by synth expert Björn Bojahr. It's only 5-6 per issue, but they are excellent. Then there's some "Love The Machines" series since ages, covering all sorts of weird drum machines, again mapped nicely for Battery and the likes. Not that I use a lot of them, but they may come in handy one day.

atomic_(no)afro · Post by **atomic_(no)afro** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 4:43 pm

Lately I've only been buying CM or MusicTech when they have a cover CD that is really worth getting, like when CM had the Ohmygod! filter (which I still use) and that kick-ass brass collection, or when MusicTech had that Tassman Free software (turned out to be utter crap in FLStudio, but it might come in handy one day...).

So actually, I do buy the mags for the CDs, just not very often

ATA

magazine cd's..what to do with them?