So a friend of mine just donated his old Kontakt library after upgrading to the newest version. That thing is LOADED to the absolute brim with solo much good stuff!!
But it leaves me curious; in general when listening to the radio or TV, commercials especially, or maybe watching movies - how often do you guys recognize samples and libraries that you've heard?
 
I personally haven't heard ENOUGH libraries to really put a finger on which is which just by sound. But I'm sure you guys who have been buying, using, and analysing libraries for years or decades can tell the difference, amiright?

I hear Omnisphere often. It's all over TV shows and of course most-famously, Avatar.
 
Not a sample library, but I also hear Zebra2 in movies, made even more recognizable because you can actually buy the patches created by Hans Zimmer for the Batman movie.

yep, all over tv and movies and ads, but i haven't spotted one in a real song yet

I hear the Damage library and a few other of the Heavyocity libraries being used in TV shows, every now and then.
 
One of the Criminal Mind's spin-off shows used a pretty recognizable Damage rhytmic patch in its underscore quite often...Offhand, I don't recall which spin-off, or which patch, but I remember hearing it and saying "Hey, I could have written this!"

From time to time you hear and recognize libraries. I've found that when this happens you notice that the composer has been rather lazy and not done enough to mask them...
 
The bigger question with this topic is does it really matter... :D
 

I don't think it does matter. The purpose of TV and movie underscores is to set a mood, not to engage the listener. Sometimes, all that takes is a spooky-sounding drone.
 
Still, it's fun to listen for them. Kind of like how sound designers intentionally throw in the Wilhelm Scream as an inside joke for other sound designers.

Kuusniemi
From time to time you hear and recognize libraries. I've found that when this happens you notice that the composer has been rather lazy and not done enough to mask them...
 
The bigger question with this topic is does it really matter... :D
 

 It's kind of a contradiction.  We are not the target audience. 

all the time, the amen break being the obvious one, used in loads of things.
 
my friends put out a sample cd years ago.. and it's used in a uk tv show road wars a lot. it's funny how much it's used. bought the arturia fairlight recently, and loads of the samples have been used in 80's music.
the proteus sound modules I got ages ago, were well used years earlier
 
because the music I'm into , a lot is sampled from elsewhere like films etc. well used to be moreso.. so you watch a film , then it clicks.. "who sampled" will show you a lot of where stuff comes from.
 
tv "library music" is interesting, as sometimes it turns up in different shows.
 
this turned up in 2 tv shows.. one had to change it. "give us a clue" and "grange hill" in the UK being the one most will know.
 

Kuusniemi
The bigger question with this topic is does it really matter... :D

bitflipper
I don't think it does matter. The purpose of TV and movie underscores is to set a mood, not to engage the listener. Sometimes, all that takes is a spooky-sounding drone.

 
Haha it's not so much that or whether it matters.... I just find it interesting!
Definitely helps us with the cheap libraries know how easily we'll be found out 
 
I suppose the real reason for me is that it's fascinating to think that there are guys doing this stuff professionally who are making all the money in film/TV/radio, and yet they're using a lot of the same stuff that's available to us - with most of us being primarily hobbyists.

davdud101
Haha it's not so much that or whether it matters.... I just find it interesting!
Definitely helps us with the cheap libraries know how easily we'll be found out 
 
I suppose the real reason for me is that it's fascinating to think that there are guys doing this stuff professionally who are making all the money in film/TV/radio, and yet they're using a lot of the same stuff that's available to us - with most of us being primarily hobbyists.

That's what I take from it, as well -- it is interesting to hear, and a small reminder that the stuff I have is what the pros also use. I also sort of thought that if I ever had the chance to score a show, I'd make more effort to hide riffs and motifs that might catch the ear of fellow library users.