06-21-2016, 12:24 AM
(06-20-2016, 11:53 PM)bigcat1969 Wrote: Good input, thanks. To my ear just messing around the orchestra stuff just doesn't sound 'real', but it comes with a string section set that I think sounds better.
And yeah you are definitely right, you need more than just a GM midi file to plug stuff into to sound like a great orchestra. If you ever get bored, I'd love to hear what you can get out of it since you are known for your abilities along those lines. Hum maybe I should click on that soundcloud link at the bottom of your post...
Well to be clear, I don't have the Complete Orchestral Collection from Best Service, I have the old Advanced Orchestra sample CD's from waaay back. And not even all of them, just the strings, winds and brass. I guess that's the Incomplete Orchestral Collection?
Looking at the Best Service page now it says 26 GB and that's kind of mind-boggling... the Advanced Orchestra folder here weighs in on around 3GB, and that's all 44kHz/16 bit stereo samples with at least half a dozen or more of articulations for basically ALL orchestral instruments, solo and ensemble. Sustain samples have two velocity layers, staccato ones have 2x RR, which must have been seriously cutting edge in 1997. Point is, I don't really understand what else is in the COC package that inflates it to 26 gigs? Percussion, yes, but that doesen't account for an additional 23GB. Must be a ton of other Siedlaczec stuff in there that postdates Advanced Orchestra.
Anyway, $100 for all that is a steal IMO, if that's what you paid. If it's any comfort I paid 1500 SEK for three of the CD's a decade ago which amounts to I don't know what in today's exchange rate... maybe $300? And that was a steal back then.