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Building a sound library

Would you think the following vst's would be all that is needed for just about any type of music creation (excluding synths and effects)
Garritan World Instruments
Garritan Personal Orchestra 4
EastWest Ministry of Rock 2
EastWest Fab Four Virtual Instruments Collection
List any that you think I should check out
ALSO,
any really good free vst synths (vintage to present types of real synths hardware)
List any that you think I should check out

http://www.native-instrum...ucer/reaktor-5-player/

theres a synth in this, carbon 2, it's free and it sounds good, made an initial pre set and i'm having good fun programing it

Komplete 7 is really a great place to start.  

Other stuff I have/like
EWQL Orchestra plat
Z3ta
Rapture
Alchemy
EZ/Superior Drummer

If you don't want to spend $500 for the whole Komplete package, you can test out all the synths for Komplete 7 (Elements) on sale HERE for $49 (Pre-Order....shipping in 2-3 weeks). 
I just bought this today

Mathew thanks for the insight into Komplete 7 and the stuff you like and or have :)

Loptec thanks for the links :)

Mesh thanks for the heads up on the sale :)

Chregg thanks for carbon info :)

I am also looking for country sounds like wash board, hand saw, mouth harp, squese box, harmonica etc

I have an Kawai SX-240 (only 1200 made) and would like to get this synth as a vst and Kawai K-1 as a vst

I'm pretty sure there's very good samples of those "country sounds" made for Kontakt (part of Komplete 7)......and Kontakt is one of the best instruments with all kinds of 3rd party developers making good quality sounds.

sgotr


Building a sound library

Would you think the following vst's would be all that is needed for just about any type of music creation (excluding synths and effects)
Garritan World Instruments
Garritan Personal Orchestra 4
EastWest Ministry of Rock 2
EastWest Fab Four Virtual Instruments Collection
List any that you think I should check out
ALSO,
any really good free vst synths (vintage to present types of real synths hardware)
List any that you think I should check out

Komplete 7 with Kore 2 is awesome!

Hi sgotr:

If you have SONAR 8 or a more recent version of SONAR, and if you're not a Bass player or Guitar player, I would add 3 things to the list you posted in the 1st post.

1) Native Instrumets' Komplete 5, 6, or 7 (There's so much that comes with this!)

2) Musiclab RealStrat and/or RealGuitar

3) Spectrasonics Trillian (greatest Bass sound collection in a softsynth in my opinion and reasonably priced!)

Another Komplete recommendation here.  Plus Kontakt is very powerful and there are tons of great sound libraries out there. I recommend sonicouture and hollow sound for some of the more esoteric stuff.  But there are tons of great sample libraries.  But the tweakability of Kontakt is amazing.  Cant speak for some of the other sample play back stuff.  I also own the Sample Tank stuff from IK and while it is good, it is not Kontakt.  The Miroslav Orchestra is nice though.  And while Dim Pro gives you flexibility, it is not Kontakt (though I dont think that was the target market).  

I have Fab Four and I am not happy with it.  Ditto with some of my other EW stuff.  They do a very good job with their samples but you are stuck with their player and usually the libraries are small relative to their costs.  

Tonehammer looks cool.  I am going to end up losing a bunch more money now


As for recreations of vintage stuff, I love the GMedia stuff.  Great Mellotron.  Great Oscar.  Great Minimoog.  Great String Machine. 

Sometimes AAS runs specials. They have a great electric piano (lounge lizard) that is very tweakable.  They also have a massive modular environment that sounds awesome, though it does take a bunch of CPU HP to use a lot of.  

Arturia does a good job on recreating classic synths such as JP8, Moog Modular, ARP 2600, Prophet 5/V...  Not free by any sense.  But nice.  

$ for $ though, I think my favorite is Camel Audio's Alchemy.  It is perhaps the most well thought out modern synth on the market.  It does pretty close to everything.  And it is rock solid stable.  

Hi sgotr
 
What I have found most useful.
 
From East West, their Symphonic Orchestra, Silk, RA, and Goliath.
 
From Native Instruments, Guitar Rig 4 and Battery. Kontakt is useful for third party libraries. I don’t find the Kontakt samples as useful as those from East West.
 
EZ Drummer or Superior Drummer is also quite useful.
 
Your best bet is the East West composers collection as someone already suggested. Choose 7 and away you go. You won’t regret it.
 
It is also worthwhile to buy Komplete as buying components separately is not really cost efficient.
 
In addition to Battery, EZ drummer or Superior drummer will also be an asset.
 
With the above there will be quite a lot to call upon as you work through your music projects.
 
Remember a lot depends upon which instruments you play and what your budget is.
 
I have found good free vst’s at this site http://www.vst4free.com/
 
Regards John

Thanks guys for your help:)

I was wondering if anyone knows of a vst for getting the voices like in these Enya (well any of her's where she uses them
Pax Deorum  http://www.youtube.com/wa...xM&feature=related
Fairytale about 1 min into the song
http://www.youtube.com/wa...7g&feature=related

adiemus http://www.youtube.com/wa...4s&feature=related

Would suggest Kore 2 first, then Komplete 7 at a later time.

Both are excellent, but I find myself going to Kore 2 first every time for sound design.

Just a word caution, if you're using Win7 x64 with SONAR X1, save your work frequently, and be prepared for untimly crashes. That said, they're still worth it.

Eyes

sgotr


Thanks guys for your help:)

I was wondering if anyone knows of a vst for getting the voices like in these Enya (well any of her's where she uses them
Pax Deorum  http://www.youtube.com/wa...xM&feature=related
Fairytale about 1 min into the song
http://www.youtube.com/wa...7g&feature=related

adiemus http://www.youtube.com/wa...4s&feature=related

Getting a vocal library  can be hard depending on what you want. Check this out though: http://www.soundsonline.com/Voices-Of-Passion

If you have seen the movie Gladiator (composed by Hans Zimmer and Lisa Gerrard), the soundtrack to that is commonly referened as similar to the library.

Thanks Eyes. I found a sample at tere site that sounds close to what I'm looking for it's Catching The Sky. Also, had a look at Symphonic Choirs - couldn't find any samples but checked out one of their tutorial videos