[mickomoo]

East West has a 67% off deal on their composer's collection 7-11 of their products. I'm probably not going to buy it yet, but I was wondering to avoid redundancy which packs should I select together. Tentatively I'm thinking:

Symphonic Platinum, Piano Platinum, Symphonic Choirs, Goliath, Ra, Ministry of Rock, Voices of Passion... and possibly gipsy.

Secondly, exactly how do the ilok and license work. I have two computers a part of a studio (my laptop and my desktop) Could I use 1 ilok and 1 license between the two computers or 2 iloks and 1 license?

And finally, what DAW do EWQL Vsts tend to work best with?

[Meteo Xavier]

People typically avoid Voices of Passion for its narrow range of use (though it has a really nice female extended voice pad I really like), but other than that, that's a decent setup.

Protip: You're going to get more use of the Drum kits in Ministry of Rock than the guitars.

[Calum]

woah, going platinum!

Anyway, i'd avoid gypsy - it has some flamenco guitar/accordion/very few latin percussion but none of those are outstanding and guitar was not really needed, for me.

[Moseph]

You only use one iLok. The license resides on the iLok. The software can be installed on any computer but it won't run unless the iLok is in the computer's USB port. So you could install on both your desktop and laptop and move the iLok around as needed. (Obviously this means that you can't run the software simultaneously on both computers.)

[Neblix]

You need to read a bit deeper, dude. Composer's Collection is still regular, full price.

The 67% off you're reading is off each individual item. It's ALWAYS 67% off, that's the point of the bundle.

Don't get Voices of Passion, Goliath, or Ministry of Rock. Voices of Passion is a niche vocal library, Ministry of Rock guitars suck, and Goliath is a smorgasbord (and why get a smorgasbord within a giant smorgasbord bundle? That's redundant.). Goliath has a lot of orchestral, ethnic, and band/synth sounds. You're going to use Symphonic Orchestra for the orchestral and Ra/Other stuff for the ethnic. If you want to avoid redundancy, don't go Goliath.

Here's what I would do for least redundancy and most ground covered, as far as cinematics:

Symphonic Orchestra Gold
Pianos Gold
Symphonic Choirs Bundle
Storm Drum 2 Bundle
Ra
Silk
Gypsy

This doesn't have band instruments, so you could swap out Pianos for Fab Four/Ministry of Rock if you really wanted.


Or you can just blow $1800 and get their whole collection, since they allow you to make it more than 7 instruments now.

[Meteo Xavier]

The drums in Ministry of Rock (and even some of the bass) make the VST worth it though, not the guitars. I negate that criticism and recommend it again. :P

Goliath I haven't tried yet. I used to have Colossus, which was a previous version of it, but I think I only found like 1/3rd or 1/2 of it useful. I kinda wish I had it now, but I don't. Oh well. If you were going to change that out for anything, change it out for Stormdrum 2. That fucker's got incredible drums for acoustic, ethnic, and electronic.

[Neblix]

You can buy Studio Drummer/Steven Slate drums and the Shreddage Collection for ~$200, a far better and more incredibly useful deal than Ministry of Rock. I recommend again not to waste a Composer's Collection slot on it. :P

Besides, Storm Drum 2 has the Black Kit, a great sounding acoustic drum kit.

[Moseph]

Originally Posted by Neblix

Besides, Storm Drum 2 has the Black Kit, a great sounding acoustic drum kit.

And I think Stormdrum 2's Black Kit is taken from Ministry of Rock, so that's another reason not to get Ministry of Rock if you only want the drums and are trying to reduce redundancy. (And yes, it IS definitely a great drumkit.)

[Darangen]

I have Goliath, and it's useful for a few things but it's more like a sample of all of their other libraries. As it was mentioned before, if you're going with a bundle offer it's kinda silly to put a bundle in that bundle.

[Neblix]

Originally Posted by Darangen

it's kinda silly to put a bundle in that bundle.

+1'd liked and all that other shizzle