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since I have string studio, I'm leaning towards Journeys and Entangled. As for the question of why Cakewalk has offered freebies from third parties...don't look a gift horse in the mouth. My guess is either these companies are donating these things or offering a ridiculously discounted fee to take advantage of Cakewalk's user base. For those that have these things or have no use for them...*shrug*, but I'm sure many will find good use for them. I'm already pondering the sounds in Journey for an upcoming project.

I am looking at Journeys too. I also like the funk swatches. The player is free and it comes with something like 96 presets. They are a collection of 96 presets of swatches from the various swatches packages available. It will be fun to play with them when I get time.

I'm leaning towards the Cardinals bank myself.

I can see that this offer is good for AAS as I'm already lusting after more of their stuff.

But I still have several thousand sounds to go through that I got with Sonar and off a couple of free websites.

mumpcake


So apparently March/April's  Content Club giveaway is one free sound bank from AAS.  Does anyone have any recommendations on any of them?

 
There are some samples available to listen to on the AAS Website - scroll down to the Sound Bank Series area and click on the link to each individual bank.
 
Some really nice sounding stuff there for sure.
 
There's also a free Swatches bank on there to download - you just have to sign up for their newsletter emails. The (free) AAS Player is included with this bank, so you can have it all installed and ready to play whichever bank you get as part of the Content Club.
 
 

I'm really curious as to why they give away stuff from other companies instead of their own stuff?

Simple: 
1) Because Cakewalk is in business to sell their own stuff. That's how they make money.
2) Because other companies will give Cakewalk free samples to give away so that Sonar users will go buy their stuff.

I never heard of AAS until now so I'm off to go check out their stuff. 

AAS makes Tassman. A version of it came bundled with SONAR XL. That is why I have Tassman 4 today.

"AAS makes Tassman. A version of it came bundled with SONAR XL. That is why I have Tassman 4 today. " yeah i got the tassman as well on sale at cakes shop, made an instrument a while back http://community.applied-.../view_synth.php?id=444

Got the free swatches player. Many very nice sounds. Not quite up there with the Alchemy player but very good and some are quite different from the "Taste of Camel" that I got this week. Can't decide which sound bank to choose either. Cardinal, Journeys, Cinematheque and Entangled Species are the ones I will most likely choose from.

i got the swatches and the player when i saw this was coming up.  frankly i was amazed in a bad way that a company like aas that makes some neat modelers would have such a bare-bones player.  not a single parameter you can adjust besides volume??? really???  when you look at free players like alchemy and the native-instruments line, they provide lots of parameters you can adjust to the soundbanks they provide for free.  i think it's a bit chintzy.  i guess part of the reason i feel like that regarding aas is that they bundled full versions of strum acoustic, lounge lizard and ultra analog (each costing 99 bucks) with my $60 korg nanopad2.  i'm just kinda going hrm?

You are exactly right about player. No effects mix or anything else but volume. There are some pretty nifty sounds here, though not tweakable at all.

Aas also makes lounge lizard which is my go to rhodes and whurley keybord. It also does some very cool other sounds as well and is infinatly tweekable.