![]() ![]() List of composers, message psycosulu to add your favorite composer.List of remixers, message psycosulu to add your favorite remixer.Contains VGM sites, events, news and subreddit related stuff.I have no marriage to any sample libraries because I have nothing to gain by being loyal to them. I'm just a kid messing around in his dorm. I'm used to it and have learned not to let it bother me. People disregard my opinions on this stuff all the time simply because they're more experienced. If you're more accomplished and capable of demonstrating more skill than me, you shouldn't care what I think, and certainly shouldn't take it personally. ![]() You like those woodwinds and have pleased clients with them, I find them limiting and restrictive to the things I want to write as a hobbyist. People far more accomplished and skilled than me (not that that matters at all by the way, you don't have to be Gordon Ramsey to know if you like the taste of a meal or not) share the same opinion, but I must reiterate: There's no reason you should care. I'm not alone in my opinions about Hollywood Woodwinds, either. There are many things I like about EWHO, even with its flaws. As stated, a lot of the bad things people have said to me about EWHO applies to BBC as well to the point where at best it's a sidegrade compared to a nearly(?) decade-old library, hence why this thread can exist in the first place. I for one think that there are definitely genuine criticisms you can give their libraries, but that the hate against them has snowballed to the point where it is disproportionate to the actual problems with their libraries. My opinion on EastWest is unpopular as well. Teasing aside, I respect the fact that you know your opinion on that matter is unpopular. Even if you have to do it slower over time like I am, you may feel a lot better in the end when you don't have to write with unusable EWHO woodwinds or surf for good patches among hundreds of dated/mediocre ones, or use BBC brass that has very little dynamic range and sounds like a buzzy toy.īut how will I ever be able to judge a restaurant's food given my lack of culinary skill? Oh well, guess I can't have strong feelings about a good or a bad meal ever again. I think it's just better to buy your orchestra by section and know that everything you're getting is gonna be high quality. Both are resource hogs that have the potential to sound great, but EWHO is too slow and difficult to work with, and BBC is just way too inconsistent and limited in dynamic range, even if its tone is stellar in some places. Personally, I wouldn't go for either of these orchestras. ![]() BBC is way, way easier to use, but the overall package is sloppy and falls short in numerous areas.ĮWHO seems to need a lot more mixing to "excite" the samples, whereas the stuff that actually sounds good in BBC sounds great out of the box and doesn't need to be touched very much. Where EWHO is overloaded with patches that you'll probably never use and shows its age in a few places, its consistency across sections, patches, and instruments (aside from the terrible, terrible woodwinds) seems to be far higher than BBC's. The problem? The insane inconsistency and all of the corners Spitfire seems to have cut. From what I've heard so far, the woodwinds have a good tone. The strings (aside from the sloppy shorts) sound superb in my opinion, definitely noticeably better than Hollywood Strings. Oh, and it's a resource hog.Īs for BBC, I was actually surprised at how little of an upgrade it is over EWHO. There's some inconsistency here and there and plenty of disappointments. The percussion has a nice tone and sense of depth. The woodwinds are awful, and borderline unusable in many ways. The brass is still pretty solid by today's standards (definitely better than some of what I've heard from BBC). The strings range from "good enough" to great, but only if you know which of the gazillion patches to use and how to use them. It's a heavy library that has been somewhat of a pain to work with, but the sound can be great if you know what you're doing. I love Hollywood Strings, but the shorts give me a clicking sound that I can't seem to figure out how to get rid of. I lease EWHO with Composer Cloud, and don't own BBC, but have watched a significant portion of Daniel James' video review for it. ![]()
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