If I have a good set of powerful rock\hard rock drum kit, various ethnic percussions, orchestral percussions, and a good software synth capable of synth drums, what those cinematic percussion libraries bring to the table that I don't already have?
Are those libraries include some additional instruments to those I mentioned above?
If not, the only thing I can think of is that maybe those libraries include the same instruments, but with special sound engineering and articulations, designed specifically to the context those libraries were produced for.
If so, the question is whether the "ordinary" percussions libraries capable to reach those sounds with a bit of tweaking.
But then again, I may be missing something, and don't understand the purpose of the libraries, and what makes them different than other percussions libraries.
So what distinguishes cinematic percussion libraries like Stormdrum and heavyocity
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- KVRAF
- 26033 posts since 20 Oct, 2007 from gonesville
Stormdrum and Heavyocity aren't exactly the same type.
Heavyocity Damage has some fairly elaborate design by comparison. Reshaping (cutting) the loops in an elaborate stereo field matrix UI for instance.
One major factor in these is the elaborate recordings where you're buying the space they used, that's the bigness of the sound, that and their manipulation, their boards, their compression/EQ etc. Then they include a page of FX in the Kontakt type. Vs., you buy VSL Percussion and you're responsible for that big sound by your own devices, they use a very dry soundstage.
Oddly, the Hans Zimmer productions by Spitfire do not wow out of the box, to me, because they didn't normalize the samples. Sounds quite good, but I didn't much like cranking it by 6dB on every channel.
Heavyocity Damage has some fairly elaborate design by comparison. Reshaping (cutting) the loops in an elaborate stereo field matrix UI for instance.
One major factor in these is the elaborate recordings where you're buying the space they used, that's the bigness of the sound, that and their manipulation, their boards, their compression/EQ etc. Then they include a page of FX in the Kontakt type. Vs., you buy VSL Percussion and you're responsible for that big sound by your own devices, they use a very dry soundstage.
Oddly, the Hans Zimmer productions by Spitfire do not wow out of the box, to me, because they didn't normalize the samples. Sounds quite good, but I didn't much like cranking it by 6dB on every channel.
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- KVRian
- 716 posts since 20 Apr, 2017
You're paying for sound design with heaviocity. It's nothing to take lightly, that shit can take hours to get right and they do it all for you right out of the box. I'm a fan.
Huge percussion ensembles from like 8dio and all them, you're paying for better sounding and more playable recordings. If you're happy with what you've got, you've got nothing to gain... but are you sure you're happy with what you've got?
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Huge percussion ensembles from like 8dio and all them, you're paying for better sounding and more playable recordings. If you're happy with what you've got, you've got nothing to gain... but are you sure you're happy with what you've got?
muahahahahaaaa gas comes for us all