Just spent an enjoyable hour adding images to 5 third-party Kontakt 7 instrument folders, thank you. FYI, the only 'failure' I had was with The Wildmother's Dulcimer. This is the exact name as shown in Kontakt when clicking on the folder, as you advised. It's also exactly how I put it on the NI images folder. Nada. I've tried it without the apostrophe, in both places, but still no luck. If you have any thoughts on why this is so, I'd be grateful for them.
What's really important is there: THE SOUND. How does it sound? Completely badass, that's how! It has a deceptively simple layout, but the signal can be radically modulated, even within the oscillator section. The filters are very powerful and sound as juicy and rubbery as you like, or as clinical and precise as you need them to. There are many different types, and all I've tried so far leave nothing to be desired. The new Moog filter is outstanding, and the fractal filters, though pretty bizarre, can allow for some really original, noisy, nasty sounds. Dubstep kids will have a blast with these! The oscillator section is simply superb. There's a lot here, and I won't go into all the details, but I've not yet found an easier to use Wavetable implementation in a very long time. I'm very, very happy to have a synth with powerful wavetable capabilities that doesn't live in hardware. It's about time! I can't wait to hear the wavetables that get added in future updates. The stock ones are already incredibly useful, but I'd like to hear lots of morphing, twisting, stretching ones. The more the merrier! All the other oscillator types, including sample players, are pretty wicked. I'm really excited to see where all this goes in the future. The purity and power of these sources is astonishing... no aliasing or digital fluffiness anywhere to be found! This synth is a dream to program once you understand the basics. You can whip out fantastic-sounding patches one after the other once you know your way around. Saving is not a hassle and is very straightforward. Creating a new patch is made easy with several useful templates on hand. The effects, though often not complicated, generally sound superb. The reverbs seem especially tuned to synth sounds right out of the box so you don't have to go tweaking. The modulation effects sound very rich and sweet. The delays are quite flexible, and everything else generally does its job with aplomb. No complaints! All around, this is a fantastic-sounding synthesizer, and the various Output modes, such as Psychoacoustic, are really the icing on the cake. There are very few, if any, soft synths currently available that are capable of sounding this rich and powerful with so little tweaking. I have many, and I love a lot of them, but this just makes everything so simple... everything's laid out sensibly, and I can go about as fast as I can think. Brilliant!
Very nice review!. Not only that, but also to see how you use the library in your score and the thoughts behind it. I just bought it a week ago, and try to use every single free moment to play and discover all the features.
It's sad that new symphobias both 2 and lumina use different approach for the samples and some instruments sound different than they did before (symphobia 2 v1.1.3 and lumina v1.6 sound was way more powerful at their tuttis)
i love this library so much, you have some cool videos. I am using this for a video game very soon. For like this part where you enter a jungle scene then into a volcano which is also an ancient temple. it's pixel art 2d game. I think this library will do the job and then some.
i love this library, used it on a house track recently, but it doesn't have the growl.. so they just released that new Growl Sax and holy moly that thing sounds awesome. getting it any day now
So they do offer me different things. The Score (for me and on my opinion) is a fantastic ideas maker. It's one of those libraries that you can pull up if you need to get some creative juices flowing. I wouldn't actually use it to write. The danger is that there is a load of music out there simply sounding like the score!! We must keep our individual voice! But as ai said it's such a good cure for writers block, orchestration ideas or simply to get a project moving.... somewhwre!
I just saw this and don’t know if you will answer me, but there are so many purists libraries out there and I listened to Cory Pellizzari on version 2. Do you think this would be a great star for someone like me learning orchestration? I know it has solo instruments also. What about support? Note lots of $$$$$. Thank you for your time.
Hey! Just seen your other message as well. I absolutely love The Orchestra Complete and would use it for composing. For me it does offer some helpful orchestration which can lead me down a certain path ... i would then need to tweak!
Thanks for making this video. Your videos always provide me with a different perspective on kontakt libraries. And I agree, Poject Sam libraries are great and very intuitive. Have a Blessed day!
@ 10:50 I was thinking the same thing - as far as changing the individual sounds and being able to assugn custom midi to each one of those sequencers… would really take the rompler where it needs to go.
@ 4:30ish Well I’ll be! Your video and demonstration of this rompler pack made me realize that I don’t have a single mouth harp anywhere on my build. $260 for this library is steep - I wonder if Big Fish Audio ever does sales. All their libraries seem so overpriced, high quality, overpriced…
Glad your back! Look forward to more reviews and demos! UltraSphere sounds great, and personally I approve of instrument makers moving away from Kontakt when they can.
Excellent! James keep your eyes open this week. Stefano Maccarelli's new Elements library Kepler releases this Friday from Zero-G (of course). This will blow your mind!
Nice concept. I like were you were going with the piece. It was a little busy but trying to show everything in Fantasy with the synths is hard. Thanks you for the video, it was very informative.
Dark era is amazing, but I'm curious, do you know how to record the sounds with the green piano keys/mods into a daw? Right now it only records the basic key sounds even when i play with the green keys to give it that mod sound
Hi. So if you just play the green notes (phrases etc) that is all that will record into daw? Correct? I will look into this as other keys are playing when pressing green! There are midi files which you can import where Dark Era is installed. I often import these and get the instruments to play.... you just have to work out which is which.... Will look into the other solution.
