zircon Posted March 13, 2008 Share Posted March 13, 2008 I've got some kit lying around I'm not using, so it's time to offer it to the good peoples of OCR. * SONY Acid Pro 6 - $160 (normally $375) This is sequencing/recording software for Windows. This is great for anyone doing MIDI stuff, and it has some of the best loop capabilities of anything (tempo-syncing, in particular). There is a huge library of ACID loops out there if you want to expand your sounds, and at acidplanet.com there are great remix contests you can enter.. recently Nine Inch Nails was one of them! ACID can also do multitrack recording and video editing/scoring.. I used it for this recently, myself. Comes with over 2GB of built in sounds, too (Kompakt) http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/products/acidfamily.asp * Garritan Orchestral Strings - $150 A GIGA-format string library, one of the original gigasamples - it sounds amazing even today, having been used in countless commercial productions. Jeremy Soule uses it, too! It's not in production anymore unfortunately so this is the only way you'll be able to get it. It CAN be converted to Kontakt. * 6 Sonic Reality sample CDs with Sampletank 2 LE - $90 for everything (not selling individually) These are six individual sample CDs which can be installed in any of these formats: SampleTank, Kontakt, EXS-24 (Logic), Reason (NNXT), HALion, Battery, and others. The sounds are great, and each CD has a theme; 1. Acoustic Guitars (six string, 12 string, steel, nylon guitars with multiple velocity layers, fret noise, slides, mutes...) 2. Electric Guitars (also thorough sampled with lots of guitars and articulations included) 3. Bass Guitars (pretty self-explanatory! includes acoustic upright and electric bass, thumps, slaps, pulls, etc) 4. Grooves (lots of drumloops in different stylistic categories, good for getting ideas, and excellent for quick production music foundations) 5. Eclectic Drums (weird and processed drum sounds - drum machines, electronic stuff, lots of effects) 6. Studio Drums (detailed acoustic kits for realistic drum sequences and mockups - not loops) You also get Sampletank, which is a multi-platform sampler plugin (VST, AU, RTAS, DXI) that cn load any Sonic Reality sounds. * Quantum Leap Rare Instruments - $40 http://emusician.com/libraries/emusic_eastwest_quantum_leap/ http://www.eastwestsamples.com/details.php?cd_index=698 This is a GIGASTUDIO format library, about 3 CDs, of rare and ethnic instruments. Includes very detailed samples of the Erhu, Taikos, Dung-chen, Tablas, Sarangi, Middle eastern fiddle, Gongs, Low-whistle, and more. In order to use this library, you need a utility that can convert from the Gigastudio format. The free demo of "CDXtract" will do this. Also, many modern samplers will simply load Giga files directly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SenPi Posted March 13, 2008 Share Posted March 13, 2008 what is this GIGA format business? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zircon Posted March 13, 2008 Author Share Posted March 13, 2008 It's a sampler format native to the "Gigastudio" software. In other words, it was designed with that software in mind. However, there are tools which convert giga to other formats, like kontakt or even soundfont. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starla Posted March 13, 2008 Share Posted March 13, 2008 I know Suzu was looking for sarangi samples a couple days ago, I will inform him of this thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1makes2 Posted March 15, 2008 Share Posted March 15, 2008 im interested in the quantum leap..... you still got that lying around??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannthr Posted March 17, 2008 Share Posted March 17, 2008 Just wanted to mention that Garritan Orchestral Strings has been an amazing stand-by for a lot of professionals and that it's been used in a ton of productions that I'm sure a lot of you are familiar with, from TV series' like Monk to Warcraft II's OST. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zircon Posted March 17, 2008 Author Share Posted March 17, 2008 im interested in the quantum leap.....you still got that lying around??? Quantum Leap what? Stormdrum or Rare Instruments? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1makes2 Posted March 17, 2008 Share Posted March 17, 2008 Quantum Leap what? Stormdrum or Rare Instruments? both!!!! you still hav it?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zircon Posted March 17, 2008 Author Share Posted March 17, 2008 Yep, still have both. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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