a nice free synth with a kazillion great presets i found in the past weeks:
https://youtu.be/smxCfILG3oI
Another instrument i've discovered not too long ago was this horn with nice legato:
http://www.orchestraltools.com/librarie ... c_horn.php
Instrumentz
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- KVRist
- 32 posts since 15 Feb, 2019
I'm showing my age here, but the Arturia collection of virtual synths is fantastic and well worth the (on-sale) price
https://www.arturia.com/products/analog ... verview#en
for me, getting access to a CMI and a Synclavier has been the fulfilment of a long-held dream. In addition you get the DX7, Moogs, a piano, a group of organs, and so on. I'm still learning what's good.
I've also bought into the Kontakt ecosystem, and there is much joy there (and Native Instruments recently sent me a "you can't refuse this deal offer" for Komplete Select so we'll see what that adds). However, if you need a choir (and who doesn't?) you can do worse than Soundiron's Requiem Light it is the most expressive library for the price I know.
https://soundiron.com/products/requiem- ... onic-choir
In terms of symphonic sounds, ASO is good value. Not all the patches are equally good, but the harp, the soprano, and the brass are magic. The full orchestra patch is a joy and I laugh every time I play with it.
https://sonicscores.com/amadeus
Til later
https://www.arturia.com/products/analog ... verview#en
for me, getting access to a CMI and a Synclavier has been the fulfilment of a long-held dream. In addition you get the DX7, Moogs, a piano, a group of organs, and so on. I'm still learning what's good.
I've also bought into the Kontakt ecosystem, and there is much joy there (and Native Instruments recently sent me a "you can't refuse this deal offer" for Komplete Select so we'll see what that adds). However, if you need a choir (and who doesn't?) you can do worse than Soundiron's Requiem Light it is the most expressive library for the price I know.
https://soundiron.com/products/requiem- ... onic-choir
In terms of symphonic sounds, ASO is good value. Not all the patches are equally good, but the harp, the soprano, and the brass are magic. The full orchestra patch is a joy and I laugh every time I play with it.
https://sonicscores.com/amadeus
Til later
-- mark.
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 150 posts since 5 Jan, 2019
Thank you so much for the great recommendations, and also for your thoughts on them! Highly appreciated. I'm relatively a noob when it comes to older instruments like synths, i'm just now learning of the great sounds i only knew from music, learning about the Moog being used in old NiN or Emerson Lake & Palmer or even that a lot of the solos i used to admire at the band Dream Theater were actually played by a keyboard guy with synths i am only now learning of
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_ ... ian++synth
(in many videos there he presents the sounds of all sorts of cool synths, sometimes dedicating multiple videos to one machine)
so only recently have i been able to educate myself a little bith with things like
https://youtu.be/JcbpRMZIQ8g
which watch with great jaw dropped mouth of interest.
I say this all as being very tempted by Arturia, but i tell myself i need to save the money to get more real instruments libraries. The Kontakt ecosystem like you mention totally blew my mind in what it added to my life, so i half hope that between all the great "free" included stuff and given instruments and free vsts i can abstain from buying synths and focus on realistic instruments.
You have totally hit a soft spot with me with Amadeus which is a library which i have dreamed of for so long in the times when even that seemed expensive to me. One day... one day i must have it!
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_ ... ian++synth
(in many videos there he presents the sounds of all sorts of cool synths, sometimes dedicating multiple videos to one machine)
so only recently have i been able to educate myself a little bith with things like
https://youtu.be/JcbpRMZIQ8g
which watch with great jaw dropped mouth of interest.
I say this all as being very tempted by Arturia, but i tell myself i need to save the money to get more real instruments libraries. The Kontakt ecosystem like you mention totally blew my mind in what it added to my life, so i half hope that between all the great "free" included stuff and given instruments and free vsts i can abstain from buying synths and focus on realistic instruments.
You have totally hit a soft spot with me with Amadeus which is a library which i have dreamed of for so long in the times when even that seemed expensive to me. One day... one day i must have it!
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- KVRAF
- 1782 posts since 10 Mar, 2004
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- KVRist
- 32 posts since 15 Feb, 2019
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- KVRAF
- 1856 posts since 15 May, 2017
ProjectSam releases a free VST orchestral library every last Thursday of the month. Check it out at
(requires the full version of Kontact though)
https://projectsam.com/library-category ... orchestra/
(requires the full version of Kontact though)
https://projectsam.com/library-category ... orchestra/
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- KVRAF
- 1782 posts since 10 Mar, 2004
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- KVRist
- 102 posts since 6 May, 2014
Very interesting find, yellukhan! thank you 
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- KVRAF
- 1782 posts since 10 Mar, 2004
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 150 posts since 5 Jan, 2019
thank you Yellukan for the free instruments.
A pretty big library of free instruments that is growing due to user submissions at Spitfire initiative is this one
https://www.pianobook.co.uk/library
I've tried a few, some are not so good but there's also a few gems and I look forward to trying many more.
Also free for Kontakt owners that I tried out recently https://projectsam.com/free-orchestra/
Also from Spitfire I'm constantly amazed at their constant new releases on LABS: https://www.spitfireaudio.com/labs/
with some of them that I actually love and am constantly tempted to use even over commercial libraries that I keep planning to use more.
One of their commercial libraries that I've been enjoying a lot recently is:
https://youtu.be/NeofqKnnPcg
A pretty big library of free instruments that is growing due to user submissions at Spitfire initiative is this one
https://www.pianobook.co.uk/library
I've tried a few, some are not so good but there's also a few gems and I look forward to trying many more.
Also free for Kontakt owners that I tried out recently https://projectsam.com/free-orchestra/
Also from Spitfire I'm constantly amazed at their constant new releases on LABS: https://www.spitfireaudio.com/labs/
with some of them that I actually love and am constantly tempted to use even over commercial libraries that I keep planning to use more.
One of their commercial libraries that I've been enjoying a lot recently is:
https://youtu.be/NeofqKnnPcg
