There's just too much good stuff out there!  

Yes but we're trying to focus on your conveyed needs... money being one of them.  There is a LOT more...
 
I urge you to take your time... I've acquired several things i don't use and regret it... listen to all the demos, vids, and walkthrus... and reflect...

Vastman
Yes but we're trying to focus on your conveyed needs... money being one of them.  There is a LOT more...
 
I urge you to take your time... I've acquired several things i don't use and regret it... listen to all the demos, vids, and walkthrus... and reflect...

Vastman
Yes but we're trying to focus on your conveyed needs... money being one of them.  There is a LOT more...
 
I urge you to take your time... I've acquired several things i don't use and regret it... listen to all the demos, vids, and walkthrus... and reflect...

Absolutely!  Part of why I hate that 'sales' model...  These are all great suggestions.  I think Kuusniemi made a great point about figuring out what I really needed before anything else...  

Many  companies... Orchestral Tools and Spitfire in particular... do the deep discounts in pre-release as a reward to loyal users who are more prone to acting on faith that they'll be happy with the new product and suffer thru/help identify any glitches that need correcting.  I've often missed these in the past and paid lots more in the long run...
 
Fortunately I now have a much better grasp of what I love and tend to use... thus, when OT's ARK 1 came out and everyone at VI Control was coming unglued...and I realized this was from the "Berlin Strings" company (expensive and considered the cream of the crop), I spent the time to look at everything... particularly loved the A.I. intellegence resulting in an extremely playable library... without the tedium of sorting keyswitches... they are so brilliant so I found the money... as I love dramatic impactive music, it fits with my creative tendencies, and CAPSULE is just "playable"...
 
Can't begin to count the hours spent on trying to sort things out over the years... I do think Cinesymphony lite is a great start and you should watch the DJ vid.  (Note: I don't have this but, if I were just starting out... it would be up there especially for the money.  

I got the Vienna chamber strings(se) and I'm loving them. I hate dongles, but this might be worth it. I'm planning on picking up the woodwinds and other string too as well as VI pro. The flexibility is awesome and they sound great. They do take a bit of work when it comes to reverb and eq, but IMO it's worth it.

Impact sounds works just came out with a new library called orchestral colors that might interest you. It has brass, strings, woodwinds and a choir. It takes the ensemble approach, but I believe you can split in into separate instruments too. It's not too expensive either(comparatively).

If you've looking for good deals, I'd check out wivi band and wavesfactory too. Their black toms and suspended cymbal libraries are awesome and only cost about $20. Wiviband is amazingly playable and has woodwinds and brass.

I got the Vienna chamber strings(se) and I'm loving them. I hate dongles, but this might be worth it. I'm planning on picking up the woodwinds and other string too as well as VI pro. The flexibility is awesome and they sound great. They do take a bit of work when it comes to reverb and eq, but IMO it's worth it.

Impact sounds works just came out with a new library called orchestral colors that might interest you. It has brass, strings, woodwinds and a choir. It takes the ensemble approach, but I believe you can split in into separate instruments too. It's not too expensive either(comparatively).

If you've looking for good deals, I'd check out wivi band and wavesfactory too. Their black toms and suspended cymbal libraries are awesome and only cost about $20. Wiviband is amazingly playable and has woodwinds and brass.

Chandler
I got the Vienna chamber strings(se) and I'm loving them. I hate dongles, but this might be worth it. I'm planning on picking up the woodwinds and other string too as well as VI pro. The flexibility is awesome and they sound great. They do take a bit of work when it comes to reverb and eq, but IMO it's worth it.

Impact sounds works just came out with a new library called orchestral colors that might interest you. It has brass, strings, woodwinds and a choir. It takes the ensemble approach, but I believe you can split in into separate instruments too. It's not too expensive either(comparatively).

If you've looking for good deals, I'd check out wivi band and wavesfactory too. Their black toms and suspended cymbal libraries are awesome and only cost about $20. Wiviband is amazingly playable and has woodwinds and brass.

Do get VI Pro. It makes the world of difference with Vienna libraries. You're going to love the humanize part of VI Pro... :)