I just have one word for Alchemy sounds - PHATT!!!

I've gathered a lot of material for the project with my wife, so until she catches up and learn all those lyrics, I'm working on, uh, my portfolio so to speak, which features a lot of soundtrack sort of music. Alchemy sure seems to complement my sampler nicely.
 
Incidentally, one thing I've noticed browsing those modern libraries is that a lot of what I've heard in Hollywood thrillers and horror movies throughout the last 10 years or so seems to be a matter of layering two or three patches from such libraries.
 
Don't get me wrong I like the results, but I'm used to building things from scratch, not having the whole thing, beat and weird eerie sounds all, already drenched in reverb and sounding like a finished product at the push of a key.

I do find it somewhat disappointing that Cakewalk is an also-ran in the sfz based synth department when they started with the clear advantage of having had Renee in-house.  That said, Dim Pro is still a nice synth and Rapture somewhat underrated (despite being ignored by Cakewalk).

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I do find it somewhat disappointing that Cakewalk is an also-ran in the sfz based synth department when they started with the clear advantage of having had Renee in-house.  That said, Dim Pro is still a nice synth and Rapture somewhat underrated (despite being ignored by Cakewalk).

They're still great indeed, and still perfectly adequate. But they're on their last leg here unless Cakewalk surprises us with an update, which would be a first in 4 years IIRC. The only reason I can still run them is that they were already installed when I updated my OS AND I'm still running Logic 9 in 32 Bit.
 
The minute I upgrade my Mac and/or Logic, they'll be a thing of the past, so I felt like maybe it was time to move on, find alternatives and avoid creating any new project using Dim Pro or Rapture.
 
But the fact that they're still that adequate and usable so long after the last update tells a lot about just how much potential there is (or was) in those synths. A shame that they've abandoned them, really...