michael diemer
Well, I downloaded the DSK and Xpand! stuff. I can't figure out how to install the DSK. Do you just drag it into folders? There is no installer. I succeeded installing the Xpand! plugin, but every instrument has way too much vibrato. sounds like a sine wave.
Anyone able to shed some light on these?
Well only speaking for Xpand!2, it is intended to be a ROMpler rather than a sample library, so what you get is what you get in a 1.5GB file. It covers like 2400 instrument sounds, but you do not get multiple articulations of each one.
So I assume that the samples were recorded with vibrato. Xpand! is perhaps not representing the highest quality sounds possible, but it should be fine for sketching. Maybe you would want to upgrade sounds for a final production. I used to play brass, and I think some vibrato on wind instruments is natural and acceptable when you sustain longer notes.
I even looked into AIR's Structure sampler (which I think shares some sounds with Xpand!, but is a much larger library), and the vibrato seems baked into the basic brass and woodwind samples there as well.
Finally, I looked in my SampleTank 3 library, and the flute is the only instrument that I could find there with a "no vibrato" articulation.
Hope you find what you are looking for!