Percussion - I have HZ percussion 01, True Strike 1 (yes, old school!) and Frame Drums/Dhol/Epic Toms from 8 Dio and damage. Its good to have dry-ish stage libraries for film scoring (actually extremely important)) but for trailers, I would rather have out of the box edgy stuff with mic positions ready to go.Ģ. Plus, the main thing is that I don't actually get a unique sound doing all this extra work. I have done it enough times but I get tired dealing with all that and it just slows me down. Prime against these problems is EW Hollywood Brass which takes a while to get right with edgy stuff, adding reverb, taking out the bulge and making them sit. Orchestral libraries - I have some great ones that do just fine for film scores but they inherently lack the bite needed for trailers and so I end up spending a lot of time sculpting the sound. Here are some of the problems I have currently:ġ. I have been doing trailer music on and off but as part of my new plan to get more into production music and trailer stuff, I want to gear up a little bit. Well, it was a very enjoyable video so thanks for doing it! Yes, a blast from the past I am sure! I did not even realise its been that long since Ark 1 came out. But having all that stuff in one place, to the level that OT have got it to, is undeniably a fine thing. For example, while the horns greatly exceed SO's, those CineBrass 12 horns still kick mighty ass. I've been slightly surprised at the apparently voracious appetite for it - it's far from the only good FFF options I own, for example, and I don't even have Iceni. And yes, legato is a very big deal and the Ark does it extremely well. I also prefer the tone of the strings in the Ark, there was always a hardness to SO.
Since (for some reason) we're discussing EWQL SO, the horns are far better in Ark (the FF layer in SO always sound horrible to me even under John Graham's fingers). One could argue therefore that everything released subsequently is superfluous - if skilled people could make good sounding stuff then, what's the point of anything else? But what on Earth would we talk about and do all day? :-) As Larry says, there were incredible demos written for a wide range of products over a decade ago, Ray.