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I have to agree with spellmynamewithabang, the string sounds are pretty awful. I play the violin, I'm ok I guess. idk, maybe there is someone better around here. Definitely would like to see a real quartet.

Garritan kinda sucks. EWQL can be good, not so much if you don't want the wet concert hall sound. Also, iLok, inefficient sample player, possibly shitty customer service. Definitely some serious issues to weigh. The big point in this one's favor is the concert hall ambiance, if that is important to you. Philharmonik is old, but better than Garritan I think. No dongle, and if you wait 6 months tops you're almost guaranteed IK Multimedia will put it on sale. Vienna SE is a dry sound, I definitely like the woodwinds. Brass might be kind of wimpy. You can buy it in pieces tho. E-licenser is slightly less annoying than iLok. Pretty much never on sale, so you can buy it whenever. Kirk Hunter Diamond. Kontakt library, no dongle. Definitely a point in its favor. I'm a big fan of his Concert Brass and Concert Strings. No experience with this one though. May be worth a look? Website is kind of horrendous. Spitfire Albion... no experience with it myself but it's a newer library. Not sure if it has the traditional setup though? ProjectSAM Symphobia... uh, really expensive. Not sure it has a traditional setup, I think it relies more on group patches. Sounds pretty good tho. And then there's Kontakt itself, comes with a moderate palette of orchestral stuff. No section woodwinds, and solo woodwinds lack vibrato. It's all derived from VSL though, so it's pretty decent. Could be an investment rather than your be all and end all orchestral solution. Not aware of any other full orchestral packages in your price range. I'd give the demos of each a listen, weigh the opinions people have given.

Says you. Maybe, just maybe, people discussing the merits of other products will give the OP insight into the weaknesses of Garritan and EWQL that she was not aware of. But no, sorry people, Meteo Xavier commands us to stick exactly to the script. You vill not deviate from ze plan!

I own the Vienne SE woodwinds, and they are much more usable to me than the winds in EWQL which I never liked.

I own all the Eduardo Tarilonte libraries, and they are all excellent.

What is up with the name of this track? Lol Yeah, good track though. Its pretty crazy.

"Square Enix" is now an insult. As in, stop being so Square Enix.

I'm surprised it didn't happen sooner.

I don't think its time of day, rather ear fatigue. If you stay up half the night mixing, your ears will be kind of fucked.

Listen to prog rock. Also, develop an obsessive fear about repetition.

Valhalla reverbs are some of the best, and nice and cheap as well. If you get Room and VintageVerb you're set for reverbs. I'm not really a fan of convolution reverbs.

I actually have one of those Behritones, but I don't use it much. I mostly just flip my main speakers to mono.

I'm going to change my email signature at work to that.

Those evil bastards, taking a yearly series and only releasing it every few years.

Why don't I just send you my bank account and you take what you want? And I don't even make any money off this hobby.

My 64 controller is more than a decade old, the control stick may be a little loose but it still works. granted it was never my favorite controller by a long shot, but the official version is still better than the third party crap.

The last third party controller I bought was for Nintendo 64, it was such an astonishing piece of shit that I learned my lesson, from then on nothing but official controllers for me.

If you need some more drum samples here are some. They're from a very old issue of Computer Music mag, not sure there's any harm in sharing them, and they've served me well over the years.

tumbs up on the news.

One of my favorite DK64 themes. I'm working on a version of it for the DK64 project. Hmm, I dunno... I think you can do a lot more with this theme. I'm sensing a lot of low end energy, and these headphones aren't that great. Synth bass is much too powerful compared to the other elements. Arrangement seems sparse. I think you can build up more energy. Look forward to seeing what you can do with it.

Damn you're old. Careful you don't break a hip.

Yeah, I mean, you just listen and if the drums don't sound right, they aren't right. Admittedly it can be hard to take an objective view if it's your track. Sometimes you need other people to tell you the straight dope. Larry rejected one of my tracks the other day cuz of wimpy drums, which I totally hadn't noticed, but when he pointed it out it became obvious to me.

hahahahaha. Oh for fuck's sake, I just bought Trine 2 the other day at a lesser discount.

I'm new to Steam and was able to get some games I've had my eye on for awhile, the two Arkhams, Trine 2, Rayman Origins.

Hey, Mabe village. I have a Mabe remix in the works. I should finish it. Some thoughts of what stuck out at me. - Drum sounds seem out of place. They're like, dubstep drums, but they sound too heavy for the rest of the instruments. I keep waiting for the wubs. - Sustained bass sounds pretty uninteresting. How bout some more groove? - Speaking of which, song in general feels empty, lacking something. I think it's the lack of a discernible bassline. Feels disconnected. Hope this helps.