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I would say, if you don’t need or want Hollywood Strings, then those two packages, along with Goliath, Ra, and Gypsy would give you a really nice workstation of sounds. Add on a good synth, and you’re set. Maybe a good set of Acoustic drums, an amp sim, and some decent pianos (where I thin the gold package lacks). Put those together with NI Komplete ( you would probably do fine with their synths, but maybe not the drums or pianos) and you’d be set for a long long time.
It’s nice to be living in a day and age where for less then probably $5000 you’d gave access to same world class sounds as some of the biggest composers int eh industry.
That said, Mr. Kubed is getting placed like crazy with a fairly minimal amount (although great quality) of synths and VSTS. It’s all in your skills and how you use it.
Thanks, Chuck! You’ve just saved me a bundle by helping me to realize that I already have everything that I’ll need for some time 😀
Your welcome. Glad I could help :).
Are any of you guys familiar with Composer Cloud?
You can download unlimited EW VST’s for 30 bucks a month. They don’t list every single library they ever made but have enough stuff on there for any composer of any genre to use for years.
If you stop the subscription, you can’t use the EW stuff anymore. That’s only down side but thousands of dollars worth of samples for 30 bucks a month is awesome IMO.
BTW, Kubed, IMO although expensive, Project Sam stuff is the most awesome string stuff I have personally heard and used.
Kubed,,
I doubt it. I’m thinking you have to be on line to at least download samples and verify license.
Perhaps you can disconnect after.
Is my thought also. I would buy a hard drive to store the samples on anyway ( I have mine on a Western Digital SSD ) and the licenses are stored on there as well. Then it’s a matter of finding a computer to download it or just enable that one temporarily. I am personally not crazy about the pianos on Goliath. Silk sounds beautiful but RA may be a better all arounder , depends what you want. I kind of look at the EW as a more upscale NI Complete kind of package, but there are areas where NI Komplete excels (in my opinion, in the electric pianos, Battery, the synths,and I use guitar rig frequently). I like the sound of addictive keys better then the pianos on either of those. And the AD Drums is, well, one of the best I think. Sorry not to get off on a tangent, but I honestly couldn’t choose EW over NI or vice versa because one covers bases the other does not. I bet if you spoke to EW they would find a workaround the license thing for you.
Chuck,
I agree. I was never a huge fan of ALL the EW stuff. There are some mediocre sounds and some stellar sounds. Depends on which library. I think of it as a useful utility. If I need a Pan flute in a hurry, I can find it on Composer Cloud.
IMO, higher end VST’s outperform EW all of the time, especially on strings, ensembles,etc.
Now back to reality. I can not afford a $600.00 library for every single type of instrument. If I use EW samples and use the right type a reverb, compression, etc,, I can get some convincing sounds.
For the record, as I thought, once your license is activated, yo don’t need to be connected to use EW . I’m thinking you likely will need to connect to them once a month to reactivate or update it , unless you pay for a year subscription. But I took a road trip this past week where internet isn’t available and it worked fine.
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