Product: EdgeSounds Essential Vibraphone (KONTAKT)
Price Paid: USD 99.95
Submitted
10/17/2008
at
02:36pm
by
Victor Perez
Reviewer Background
:
I compose and arrange music since 1987;
Working with all styles: classical, ethnic, world fusion, jazz fusion, pop, rock, dance, film, to name some;
PC, KORG Triton, E-MU e4 Platinum, NI KONTKT, Samplitude;
M-Audio B8; AKG K240 Monitor
Overall Rating
:
10
Have used the library for over a year.
It is a full DVD (4.5 GB) of the best vibraphone samples for my opinion. I love them. They are very professionally recorded and sound better than anything else on the market. The disk contains just a few programs: Stereo and Mono long Vibraphone with and without vibrato, short vibraphone and several up and down glissando variations among them. Programs are huge - 700MB to over a 1 GB, and generally use 5 layers. Overall they sound just amazing: full rich and warm sound with lots of details and rich harmonics. I suspect that if a track is carefully thought to utilize the authentic vibraphone playing technique it would be not possible to tell that it is not a real vibraphone, but MIDI. Tracks recorded with the samples do extremely well in a mix.
Well, of course I would love to have more different kind sticks and more different vibrato speeds in a library. But at the same time I understand that this disk is already full with samples, and it is only "essential". Anyway I have the program without vibrato, so I can generate any speed vibrato with a dsp.
