Good Natural-Sounding Instrument Plug-Ins

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farwest1
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Good Natural-Sounding Instrument Plug-Ins

Post by farwest1 » Sun Nov 05, 2006 11:37 pm

I'm looking for a good collection of natural-sounding instrument plugins. Nice vibraphone sounds, organs, natural pianos, saxes, horns, etc.

Is there one package that I could buy that would have all of this? I haven't looked into it much.

To be very honest, even though Ableton 6 has some great sounds, I find that the "real" instruments incuded with 6 sound a little digital and synthy. (But maybe that's the point of their stuff....)

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Post by brightonalex » Mon Nov 06, 2006 9:11 am

You could buy the symphonic cube?

Only 9,000 euros and has a good selection of instruments.

http://news.harmony-central.com/Newp/20 ... -Cube.html

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Post by Michael-SW » Mon Nov 06, 2006 10:25 am

The standard samplers for such things is Kontakt from Native Instruments and HALion from Steinberg (the Cubase guys).

Both comes with big libraries and are pretty expensive.

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Post by Pasha » Mon Nov 06, 2006 10:29 am

Try IK Multimedia Sample Tank and/or Miroslav Philarmonic Orchestra. Should do the work, demos available. They have a Workstation Bundle at a very good price. Keep in mind that Mac Universal Binaries are still late, because only Miroslav is available. All will be available in January 2007. For a Win PC all is available today.

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Re: Good Natural-Sounding Instrument Plug-Ins

Post by klangsulfat » Mon Nov 06, 2006 10:31 am

farwest1 wrote:I find that the "real" instruments incuded with 6 sound a little digital and synthy. (But maybe that's the point of their stuff....)
Did you mean the EIC sounds?

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Post by Machinate » Mon Nov 06, 2006 10:43 am

http://www.soundsonline-europe.com/Quan ... W-164.html

Can't say enough good things about Colossus.
You'll need about 32 gigs of disk space for it, though.
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Post by Tarekith » Mon Nov 06, 2006 12:44 pm

NI's Bandstand is a good alternative if you want something cheap.
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Re: Good Natural-Sounding Instrument Plug-Ins

Post by SubFunk » Mon Nov 06, 2006 3:40 pm

farwest1 wrote:I'm looking for a good collection of natural-sounding instrument plugins. Nice vibraphone sounds, organs, natural pianos, saxes, horns, etc.

Is there one package that I could buy that would have all of this? I haven't looked into it much.

To be very honest, even though Ableton 6 has some great sounds, I find that the "real" instruments incuded with 6 sound a little digital and synthy. (But maybe that's the point of their stuff....)
i personally can highly recommend this bundle http://www.applied-acoustics.com
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