LHousehold
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Digital Sound Factory Volume 5 Studio Orchestra vs Garritan Personal Orchestra 4
I've been planning on getting more orchestral instruments for Sonar 8.5, and there are just so many out there. I think maybe I've narrowed it down to DSF vol 5 and GPO 4 but I can't decide. GPO 4 is 69 euros because of a certain monthly deal, and DSF is 120 euros, with no deal, but as it turns out if the whole DSF package is bought, with 9 other packages of other types of instruments, such as pianos and vocal expressions, it will be only 200 euros because of a similar monthly deal. Now I don't want to spend a whole lot of money, so the GPO is looking pretty good right now, and I know that both have quite good quality. I just want to know if one has significantly superior quality over the other. I also know that DSF has over a gig more instruments, but maybe that's why it costs more. You pay for quantity, I suppose. If there's anything hugely different between the two I'd like to know. I have to decide before 18/05/10 because that's when both deals run out.
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Re:Digital Sound Factory Volume 5 Studio Orchestra vs Garritan Personal Orchestra 4
2010/05/12 12:30:44
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Quality is in the ear of the listener!
I (one person's opinion only) find GPO and JABB to be remarkably useful. I think they sound much better than they have any right to at any price point, given the tiny size of the sample pool.
But that is not the only reason I use them...
1) they are very easy to use - the learning curve is short precisely because there are not dozens of articulations to learn and then choose from. All the major food groups are covered, and for a mock up that's all I ask. Heck, for many finished pieces it's all I need!
2) they do not use up a lot of disk space, memory, or cpu cycles... that's never a bad thing.
3) they were designed, from the ground up, to be played, which I think is a big advantage. It is a different way of thinking about things, but I think it leads one to more realistic sounding passages.
4) at the same time they work quite well within Finale - I'd guess that almost half the time I start with notation, so that's a bonus for me.
I do not mean to suggest that they are the only library you'll ever own. I still use my Presonus Orchestral instrument and Garritan Orchestral Strings when I need something that isn't in GPO. I still use the Seyer Acoustic Bass and Scarbee Electric basses, and DFH Superior 2 as alternates to the instruments in JABB. Not always, but often. And, I'm about to invest in one of Kirk Hunter's bigger orchestral libraries for Kontakt. If possible, I also hope to invest in either LASS or HS, but that'll be late summer.
If I had to start all over again I would absolutely start with GPO and JABB.
-- Bill Audio Enterprise KB3KJF
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planetearth
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Re:Digital Sound Factory Volume 5 Studio Orchestra vs Garritan Personal Orchestra 4
2010/05/12 13:02:07
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I don't see DSF Vol. 5 on their Web site. Could you provide a link?
Digital Sound Factory has some good orchestral samples, as does GPO. You'll want figure out how you're going to use them, though.
If you're doing "pop"-type orchestral sounds, where the orchestra/strings/whatever is really just part of the background and is rarely soloed, then GPO and DSF will work fine. GPO has a nice player, and depending upon which set of DSF sounds you use, you'll have different "features" available.
For "real" orchestra sounds, where you're mocking up an entire symphony orchestra via MIDI/SONAR (good luck with that!), you'll want some of the heavy-hitters in this area, like Presonus, EastWest/Quantum Leap and others. Those libraries have the articulations you need for more realistic-sounding parts. GPO and DSF have smaller libraries, but are still great for the money.
If you have Dimension Pro, you already have some of Garritan's stuff, and DimPro also has its own orchestral samples (for some reason).
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Re:Digital Sound Factory Volume 5 Studio Orchestra vs Garritan Personal Orchestra 4
2010/05/12 20:08:12
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planetearth
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Re:Digital Sound Factory Volume 5 Studio Orchestra vs Garritan Personal Orchestra 4
2010/05/12 21:41:39
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Ah, yes. I just got a couple of DSF's sound packs, and they sound great! I'd wanted to grab the Studio Orchestra pack (where the sounds you're considering came from) in its "native" Proteus X/Emulator X format, but I was told by the very helpful developer Tim Swartz that it wouldn't play well on Proteus VX (which doesn't stream from disk). They were fine on DimPro, though. I think you'll be quite happy with them. [Edited to correct Proteus version.]
post edited by planetearth - 2010/05/14 02:57:50
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