djwayne
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I just bought Goliath to celebrate new year's....
I just bought East West's Goliath sound sample program. 40 gigs of 180 great sounding instruments. It took 12.5 hours to download, but I got it first try.
Now that I've settled on Studio One to be my main DAW, I can concentrate on music, and I felt a need for more sound sample to work with, and East West has some great sounding samples in the Goliath program. Adding this to my Symphonic Orchestra samples and IvoryII piano samples makes sense to me. This will give me a great sound palette to work with.
Like many other programs recently, I caught it on sale for 50% off of the reg $399 price, I got it for $199. I believe the sale price ends tonight, but I'm not sure.
Happy New year's !!
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Re: I just bought Goliath to celebrate new year's....
2018/01/01 03:28:55
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Well I've had a chance to demo some of the sounds in Goliath and I'm happy to report they sound great. VERY realistic as they are actually sampled from actual instruments. Not fake, sound something like ______ . These are the real deal. When they say B3, they mean it. When they say Bagpipes, it's actually bagpipes.....Lots and lots and lots of great sounding instruments that cover the whole spectrum of sounds.....Kudos to East West, they did a great job on this incredible library of sounds.
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Re: I just bought Goliath to celebrate new year's....
2018/01/03 07:31:46
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Goliath was the first decent sample library I bought. It’s been around a while but has stood the test of time.
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Re: I just bought Goliath to celebrate new year's....
2018/01/03 08:22:28
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Yes I know it's an older program, but it's loaded with great sounds and that's what I wanted. I'm trying to upgrade my available sound samples, and this is a major addition for me. I already have Symphonic Orchestra Silver and Gold, so Goliath really expands my collection nicely.
I also bought the new Play 6 browser and I love it....it has a search engine built into the browser that'll call up many sounds by just a word. It'll search all your installed libraries or all of the East West collection........and it's all instantaneous....it's a fantastic improvement over anything else that's available. Yes East West has really come a long way, their products are great !!!!
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Re: I just bought Goliath to celebrate new year's....
2018/01/03 09:38:13
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I think its better than both the Kontakt factory library and Sampletank 3 which are the obvious competition.
I have it as part of composer cloud and will usually go to some of the other more detailed instruments but Goliath provides some very nice, low resource options.
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Re: I just bought Goliath to celebrate new year's....
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Re: I just bought Goliath to celebrate new year's....
2018/01/03 11:53:17
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djwayne
I just bought "Gypsy".
The Violin in Gypsy is one of the best...
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Re: I just bought Goliath to celebrate new year's....
2018/01/03 12:02:24
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Yep, and so is the Flamenco Guitar.
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Re: I just bought Goliath to celebrate new year's....
2018/01/03 13:02:21
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Over the years I have accumulated a number of East West Libraries. I also have SampleTank, Kontakt, and Miroslav Orchestra. I rarely use them. The East West libraries are my main resource and I have been very happy with them.
Mind you, sample libraries are what I enjoy. I do not use Synths very much at all. Goliath was my first EW library and I still use it fairly often. In some instances I have preferred a Goliath sample to one from the more specialized Libraries.
The East West libraries I find least useful are Fab Four ( really only for Beatles Fans ), Voices of Passion ( there are better vocal libraries out there ), and Gypsy. When Gypsy came out it had the best solo violin and many bought it for that. Now there are better solo violins at a better price point. Of course if you like Gypsy instruments it is a great library.
It is all a matter of personal taste.
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Re: I just bought Goliath to celebrate new year's....
2018/01/03 13:09:02
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☄ Helpfulby cclarry 2018/01/03 16:47:32
I bought Gypsy mainly for the Flamenco guitar...I have a couple songs that it will sound great on. The viloin is very sweet but sad sounding.
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Re: I just bought Goliath to celebrate new year's....
2018/01/03 16:48:03
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djwayne
The viloin is very sweet but sad sounding.
As a Gypsy violin should! 
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Re: I just bought Goliath to celebrate new year's....
2018/01/03 20:42:34
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The EastWest guitar midi packs are also a good EastWest sampler much like Goliath. I know they are soup hosed to be for guitar midi but still haven't found what there is to make them more for guitar midi than keyboard midi. They were down to $83. at everyplugin over the holidays. There are a good amount of Ghost Writer, Darkside and ethnic packs in them. Lots of Fab Four and Goliath too.
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Re: I just bought Goliath to celebrate new year's....
2018/01/04 01:29:45
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I think I'm gonna get the Fab Four program, because it has a lot of great sounding basic instruments in it, that could be used in new songs. I checked out RA and Silk but didn't hear anything that would get radio air time. So I guess I'm looking for more Top Forty type sounds.......
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djwayne
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Re: I just bought Goliath to celebrate new year's....
2018/01/04 02:14:15
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I bought Fab Four tonight to take advantage of the sale price which ends tonight. It's downloading now......
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djwayne
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Re: I just bought Goliath to celebrate new year's....
2018/01/04 19:55:54
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I did good...I bought Goliath, Gypsy, and Fab Four for $199 each on the holiday sale. Today the prices went up to $299 each...so I saved about $300 by buying on the sale.
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Re: I just bought Goliath to celebrate new year's....
2018/01/07 03:08:15
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You're gonna love them. I got Gypsy, Fab Four, Voices of Passion, Ghostwriter, Spaces, Symphonic Choirs Platinum and VOTA, Symphonic Orchestra and Hollywood Orchestra Diamond.
Do I need anything else? No ma'am. Do I still lust after all things musical. Yes siree.
"We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl" (Wish You Were Here)
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djwayne
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Re: I just bought Goliath to celebrate new year's....
2018/01/07 03:29:47
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I've got Symphonic Orchestra Gold, and Silver, Goliath, Gypsy, Fab Four, and Gold Pianos, That's plenty for me. That gives me a huge selection of sounds to work with.
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Re: I just bought Goliath to celebrate new year's....
2018/01/07 09:20:51
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Looking at the individual pricing I am still pretty happy on Composer Cloud having access to it all as long as I keep paying. Getting things like the Hollywood Choirs added as they are released.
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djwayne
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Re: I just bought Goliath to celebrate new year's....
2018/01/07 10:57:23
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Well I'm planning on using the programs for the next ten years. To use the cloud for ten years would cost $30x12 = $360 for one year, $3,600 for ten, so buying the programs you really want is cheaper in the long run. My cost will be under $1,000 and I'll have the programs I want. I've already had the orchestra gold and silver for about 10-12 years...time goes by fast.
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