I was recently asked if I could review all of the libraries from Performance Samples before they end their huge "Pre-Black Friday Mega Sale" on November 10th. It was a difficult task but I spent the whole week with these libraries and made a video reviewing all of them. For those that are curious to know more about these libraries, I would definitely check out my video. I hope you find it useful.
Posted by: The Darris - 11-01-2019, 04:29 PM - Forum: Off-topic
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Hey everyone. I just put out my first "vlog" of some sort. I'm testing the waters with this type of content on my channel. I've been a part of a professional composer's writing team for a few years now and it's taught me a lot about the industry from the perspective of someone trying to "break" into this career field. So, I thought I would try and share my journey from here on out and just maybe, others would find it useful. I appreciate the support and wish you all the best!
Hey everyone! Earlier today, I published my review for Audio Ollie's LA Modern Percussion. The short of it is that I really enjoyed working with this library and it has found a nice home in my current template. If you have been interested in this library but still haven't decided on it, I hope this review can help you out a bit. Enjoy!
I own them all, and while the sound is very rich - absolutely usable, even in professional productions, with smart programming and a spot of layering - the front-end is, as has previously been noted, unusually awful. (Unremarked upon in the original thread: sometimes the staccatos do not play at all at certain dynamics, and there are occasional problems with release samples being louder then the notes themselves in lower dynamics.)
The Orchestral Companion is a rebranded and repackaged version of the old Sonic Implants Complete Symphonic Collection. I've heard nothing but good things about the latter.
Is there any way to acquire it? (Preferably in its Kontakt 2 or 3 versions?) I love the rich, lush sound of the samples, but the front-ends' issues make it nearly unusable.
I've had a year of freshman theory and am writing / producing again while out of work. I'm using Reaper and Musescore mostly. For sounds I have Pianoteq and recently picked up the Sonivox Orchestral Companions for $4 each. I've also downloaded some free drums (SSD5, VSCO2 CE) as well as GrandOrgue. I'm eyeing VSCO2 Pro when I can spend the cash. I've also begun reading Samuel Adler's "The Study of Orchestration" (2nd ed.).
I'm interested in too many things musically but mostly classical and electronica. I aspire for the virtual orchestra to be my final render, not just a mock up. I'm not a performer but recently bought a Samson Graphite 49 controller. I haven't tried it yet and am a bit nervous moving away from the mouse as a midi entry tool.
My immediate plans are to keep reading and writing while working on as many Metapop competitions as I can. This will keep me producine and maybe I'll get good enough to win Komplete.
Here is a piece I recently realized with the Sonivox brass and SSD5:https://clyp.it/i11azole
I'm hoping to receive suggestions on other things I can do to learn as I travel this new road of music composition / production. I'm also jappy to get feedback on my work and advice on how to go shopping when I'm able to.
I've been having fun writing prose versions of my fave old time radio show, Fibber Mcgee and Molly. Note these stories, of a sort, were based on the very earliest boradcasts I could find from 1935. They got better!
At least big-budget takes on the genre. We went to see It Chapter Two last week, and... *sigh* it was OK, I guess. I liked Chapter One better, mainly because the characters were more likeable as kids. But when those kids grow up and turn into Bill Hader and James Ransone, they're just annoying. Sure, Jessica Chastain and James McAvoy are good in basically everything I've seen them in, but their performances won't save a flawed movie. Or a flawed genre.
Why is it that horror has become synonymous with jump scares? MONSTER™ jumps on the screen accompanied by LOUD OBNOXIOUS SOUND EFFECT™. That's not what the genre is about... is it? Being scared/creeped out and being startled are two very different things, and the latter is so cheap and done to death that I can't take anything that claims to be a "horror movie" seriously anymore. It's all the samey boring tripe.
A real horror movie, if you ask me, is a movie that will make you uncomfortable. Something that will worm its clammy fingers into your brain and disturb you on some level. Not make you go OOOH and AAAH like riding a roller coaster.
I've had some health problems and I've been staying in a guest apartment provided by the church I work for but no internet access which is actually surprisingly relaxing. I live 60 feet in the air up many steps! They discovered that I have a brain lesion but they think it will be a relatively east surgery sending in a robot. The recovery might be a rough week or two so I'm going to put a mattress in from the of the TV and watch the old Andy Griffith as I recover. I read to watch something fun and simple and old Andy qualifies.
