How often do you hear libraries that you recognize?

So a friend of mine just donated his old Kontakt library after upgrading to the newest version. That thing is LOADED to the absolute brim with solo much good stuff!!
But it leaves me curious; in general when listening to the radio or TV, commercials especially, or maybe watching movies - how often do you guys recognize samples and libraries that you've heard?
 
I personally haven't heard ENOUGH libraries to really put a finger on which is which just by sound. But I'm sure you guys who have been buying, using, and analysing libraries for years or decades can tell the difference, amiright?

yep, all over tv and movies and ads, but i haven't spotted one in a real song yet

From time to time you hear and recognize libraries. I've found that when this happens you notice that the composer has been rather lazy and not done enough to mask them...
 
The bigger question with this topic is does it really matter... :D
 

Kuusniemi
From time to time you hear and recognize libraries. I've found that when this happens you notice that the composer has been rather lazy and not done enough to mask them...
 
The bigger question with this topic is does it really matter... :D
 

 It's kind of a contradiction.  We are not the target audience. 

Kuusniemi
The bigger question with this topic is does it really matter... :D

bitflipper
I don't think it does matter. The purpose of TV and movie underscores is to set a mood, not to engage the listener. Sometimes, all that takes is a spooky-sounding drone.

 
Haha it's not so much that or whether it matters.... I just find it interesting!
Definitely helps us with the cheap libraries know how easily we'll be found out 
 
I suppose the real reason for me is that it's fascinating to think that there are guys doing this stuff professionally who are making all the money in film/TV/radio, and yet they're using a lot of the same stuff that's available to us - with most of us being primarily hobbyists.

An interesting side note: I use Garritan Personal Orchestra some, so I'm very familiar with the sounds. And I discovered that in Dimension Pro, the "In The Venue"  flute, oboe, clarinet and bassoon are taken from the Garritan Pocket Orchestra, one of DP's sound sets. But they sound much better. In fact, all the sounds in the pocket orchestra sound better than than they do in GPO itself, even though they're much older. Obviously they have been fixed up by the sound engineers who made DP. For example, in GPO, changing velocity has little effect on the notes, but in Pocket it does. I tend to use original GPO though, because it has a depth setting which does make a difference. But I do use the pocket orch. harp, because it stands out much better in the mix, and harps tend to get lost easily. Also, I use the pocket orch clarinet because it just sounds better.

michael diemer
An interesting side note: I use Garritan Personal Orchestra some, so I'm very familiar with the sounds. And I discovered that in Dimension Pro, the "In The Venue"  flute, oboe, clarinet and bassoon are taken from the Garritan Pocket Orchestra, one of DP's sound sets. But they sound much better. In fact, all the sounds in the pocket orchestra sound better than than they do in GPO itself, even though they're much older. Obviously they have been fixed up by the sound engineers who made DP. For example, in GPO, changing velocity has little effect on the notes, but in Pocket it does. I tend to use original GPO though, because it has a depth setting which does make a difference. But I do use the pocket orch. harp, because it stands out much better in the mix, and harps tend to get lost easily. Also, I use the pocket orch clarinet because it just sounds better.

I do not have GPO, but that is an interesting observation.  Garritan is designed to be a sample playback library, using the Aria player engine. 
 
When Cake started out to design Dimension, they were trying to create a synthesizer that played samples, with a bit more emphasis on the "synthesizer" part.  That resulted in the creation of Cakewalk's Expression Engine that Rapture and other Cake instruments also were later based around.