That’s probably harsh, but there was no way to take off one half a star!įor the money I can not imagine a much better way to learn to use these libraries. There is no solution, they can’t very well include setting for every known reverb plugin, but it was a bit of an obstacle, so I took off one star. It is a lovely reverb, but I do not own it, so I had to substitute, which took some time. One caveat – the projects use EW Spaces for reverb. I prefer one track per instrument and using CCs to switch articulations, and one exercise will be to see if I can translate one to the other. I’m even beginning to understand why one would make that choice. Side note – the projects are arranged with a single articulation per track, which is one way to do things. You know you are starting on the right foot.Īt the moment I am still figuring out how he is using different articulations and controllers – which is key I think. So product specifics – the first thing that strikes you is that when you load the project it sounds a lot like the demo, and at least some of the differences are due to the difference between compressed and non-compressed audio. In fact I am not only picking up ideas for production (which is the goal) but I am also getting a few pointers about harmony and composition. Almost like sitting over the composer’s shoulder.

I am not there yet, but I find the two Ark projects to be remarkably revealing. I have no idea what made me think I could learn, but I am – learning. It is a more comfortable setting for me.Īnd yet I absolutely love the sound of Orchestral Tools and Project Sam libraries – so I bought a few, and struggled, and eventually moved them to an off-line drive to make space for other stuff.

I just do not think that way, I grew up working with real instruments, and later multi-sampled (for lack of a better term) libraries where I had control over each section (or even each player). I have posted elsewhere that I never really got along with ensemble style libraries.

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