Hey guys, sorry if this is covered elsewhere, but I couldn't seem to find a direct answer via searching:
Any suggestions for nice sounding, affordable orchestral percussion? I was eyeing the Spitfire Percussion pack, but just under $400 is out of my reach at the moment. If there aren't any >$200 packs that you can recommend, is there one at any price point that you could recommend wholeheartedly for someone to go from 0 to 88mph right away? I would say that the snare drum is the most important for me at the moment, as I use it pretty consistently.
(05-11-2017, 11:19 PM)Lord Thayer Wrote: [ -> ]Hey guys, sorry if this is covered elsewhere, but I couldn't seem to find a direct answer via searching:
Any suggestions for nice sounding, affordable orchestral percussion? I was eyeing the Spitfire Percussion pack, but just under $400 is out of my reach at the moment. If there aren't any >$200 packs that you can recommend, is there one at any price point that you could recommend wholeheartedly for someone to go from 0 to 88mph right away? I would say that the snare drum is the most important for me at the moment, as I use it pretty consistently.
EDIT: After listening to the sounds again, I wouldn't recommend this as an "orchestral percussion library". See my post below.
I bought this some time ago:
https://www.spaectrumarts.com/collection...ssion-hits
It was on sale through VST Buzz, which sends me this kind of deal from time to time. Most are not interesting to me, but this one was. I haven't used it yet, though (I'm not composing a lot these days). But when listening to the sounds after buying them, I liked them. It's not a big library, though.
Also, there are the free, GTown samples, which I think are included in the SSO (someone correct me if I'm wrong).
(05-12-2017, 11:43 AM)PPH Wrote: [ -> ]Also, there are the free, GTown samples, which I think are included in the SSO (someone correct me if I'm wrong).
Actually, they're not. I did consider it but they have a huuuge recorded ambience and did not fit in with the other instruments. They're great samples though and a no brainer really, if you don't mind wet samples.
TBH I've never even considered buying a dedicated orchestral percussion lib, I've gathered so much great free stuff over the years, and along with the percussion that came with various paid libs I'm pretty much set. Well, I could use some higher quality timpani I guess; the old ProjectSAM ones I've been using for ages are somewhat noisy. But general standalone percussion libs... I have no idea, really.
Now I listened to the sounds of the library again. They are very good. However, their use is limited. It has nice sounds for some accents here and there, the kind of thing that are often used in soudntracks of movie trailers (you know, when in a thriller trailer there is a scene cut when "the thing" that puts the protagonist in danger happens).
And I wouldn't call it "orchestral percussion". It contains percussive sounds, but not timpani, snare drums, bass drums, etc.
I bought it because it was cheap at the time. I don't regret buying it, but I wouldn't pay 50 euros for it.
Thanks for the replies, everyone. The Impact Percussion stuff seems pretty good, bigcat! I may check that out soon.
(05-12-2017, 11:43 AM)PPH Wrote: [ -> ] (05-11-2017, 11:19 PM)Lord Thayer Wrote: [ -> ]Hey guys, sorry if this is covered elsewhere, but I couldn't seem to find a direct answer via searching:
Any suggestions for nice sounding, affordable orchestral percussion? I was eyeing the Spitfire Percussion pack, but just under $400 is out of my reach at the moment. If there aren't any >$200 packs that you can recommend, is there one at any price point that you could recommend wholeheartedly for someone to go from 0 to 88mph right away? I would say that the snare drum is the most important for me at the moment, as I use it pretty consistently.
EDIT: After listening to the sounds again, I wouldn't recommend this as an "orchestral percussion library". See my post below.
I bought this some time ago:
https://www.spaectrumarts.com/collection...ssion-hits
It was on sale through VST Buzz, which sends me this kind of deal from time to time. Most are not interesting to me, but this one was. I haven't used it yet, though (I'm not composing a lot these days). But when listening to the sounds after buying them, I liked them. It's not a big library, though.
Also, there are the free, GTown samples, which I think are included in the SSO (someone correct me if I'm wrong).
Forgive my ignorance here, but I'm not sure what GTown or SSO are, and Googling is not helping me out much here.
(05-13-2017, 07:14 PM)Lord Thayer Wrote: [ -> ]Forgive my ignorance here, but I'm not sure what GTown or SSO are, and Googling is not helping me out much here.
I don't know anything about GTown but SSO stands for
Sonatina Symphonic Orchestra.
(05-14-2017, 12:24 AM)Samulis Wrote: [ -> ]Of course I have to do my job and suggest VSCO 2 Pro. 
http://vis.versilstudios.net/vsco-pro.html
Chris Harris (who worked on the Lux Nox percussion library with Chriss Ons) remarked that the percussion subset of it is equal to most high-end percussion libraries out there. For $229, and including tons of other instruments, it's a pretty good deal if I say so myself. ;D
This is a good demo of the extended percussion at work-
https://soundcloud.com/ma-simon/orthopte...-pro-demos
Note that it can go from 100% dry with close mics to as wet as you want it with far mics and reverb, so it's really flexible!
Wet mix w/ reverb: https://soundcloud.com/samulis/percussio...-pro-demos
Dry close mix: https://instaud.io/mMS
Not to mention it has 8 triangles... like, you will never need another triangle library!!
I don't know how you guys sell this for so cheap, but between the demos and the fact that you took the time to help me greatly on my first post here (critiquing my first orchestration), consider me sold. It looks like I'm going fill in a ton of holes in my libraries for less than the price of just the percussion I was eyeing.
Also, as usual, the help I've received on this forum is just awesome. I look forward to being able to give as much as I get here sometime in the future.