Hey Prasad, We should both be jealous of Korg OASYS owners :). I always wonder what ARR uses in his Studio. I have seen Korg TS, MOTIF ES and even Korg PA in the pictures of his live performances.
I own and use Halion and SwarPlug and Halion strings library. Default HALION comes with about 2 GB of samples. These are "acceptable" samples for most of the requirements. I don't know what set of percussion instruments you are looking for. Basic drum sets (Rock, Hip hop etc) are available in the default collection and are useable. All the samples bundled with Halion 3 are 5.1 ready. Latin and world percussion are avaialble too. The best thing is it can import different formats. For e.g. if you have an AKAI CD, it can be halionized quickly. Piano is definitely not a strong component of Halion libary. "The Grand" and "GigaSampler" are probably better for piano. Guitar samples are OK, but I keep MOTIF ES as the minimum sample standard for guitars now. Cubase is primarily a sequencer and a VST host. It doesn't have any sample libraries. There are very few products which exists both as VST plugins and supports basic sequencing, SwarPlug being one of them. BTW you somewhere in Bay Area? :: Bharathidasan On 5/10/05, Prasad R.L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Bharathidasan, > > Thanks for your reply. > > > On the hardware side, I own Yamaha MOTIF ES 6, and Korg Triton Studio. > > Oh my! This is making me very jealous :) Both are very excellent > synths, I played both in a local guitar center and was blown away by > what they can do! > > > 1) Software Synths or Samplers. Generally my order of preference has > > always been VST, Rewire, DXI and MAS, AU comes last. HALION takes the > > first place. It has excellent sample library. You can buy lot of > > samples from various companies or else you can even make your own. > > Basic setup would cost you 300-400 USD. You can update your sample > > library based on your requirements. But the drawback is that it comes > > only as VST plugin. > > When you say it has excellent sample library, do you mean its included > with halion or we need to purchase them separately. This brings me to > my next question. I prefer to avoid having to buy many samples later > (as much as possible) as each VSTi is going to bring up the cost high > and may get pretty expensive in the end. Mainly I am only looking for > good acoustic instruments with great piano sound and orchestral > instruments as well as few good percussion sets. Of all these > different software synths (< $500) which you've tried, which one has > the best samples collection built into them? > > I think with each new version i think the gap between sequencer s/w > and synth s/w gets narrower, many I believe do work as both VST host > and as sequencer. Btw, does cubase itself come with samples library? > If yes, how are they ? > > > When it comes to Indian music, I haven't seen anything better than > > SwarPlug. It also comes with basic sequencing facilities. > > I have heard of this one before, especially the demo pieces created by > users with this sounds pretty amazing! I will definitely give it a > try. > > > I don't own GigaStudio, but few of my coworkers do. If you have a > > mediocre PC and all you need is nice dance loops and excellent groove, > > GS is for you. Their orchestra samples are also good > > I have read some mixed reviews about GS. Most people seem to like it a > lot and only drawback I come across everywhere is it mostly requires > to be installed on a separate pc (and this could be a serious drawback > for some). It seems to have issues when other mixer/rewire programs > are installed on same machine. I obviously haven't tried it yet > personally. > > > The cheapest beast of all is FruityLoops. But I never had chance to > > try even the demo version. > > May be someone else who may have used FL, could they share their > opinions? I'm downloading the demo version right now. > > > The other determining factor is the platform of your choice and of > > course your plugin format choice. If you choose MAC, you can count the > > options available in one hand. > > Not a Mac user, I am looking only pc based s/w. As for choosing the > sequencer goes i'm still undecided as I don't need anything very > complicated but a simple tool that can get the job done is all I need. > > Thanks for your input, > > -Prasad > > > Explore, Experience, Enjoy A.R.Rahman - The Man, The Music, The Magic. > Only at arrahmanfans - The definitive A.R.Rahman e-community. > > Homepage: http://www.arrahmanfans.com > To Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> In low income neighborhoods, 84% do not own computers. At Network for Good, help bridge the Digital Divide! http://us.click.yahoo.com/c9hWNA/3MnJAA/n1hLAA/iyUplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Explore, Experience, Enjoy A.R.Rahman - The Man, The Music, The Magic. 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