I have heard of those companies, but I have not bought anything. I usually buy specific need stuff, like if I need a clap, congas, I will buy dedicated. I don’t use looping or construction material at all. I could be wrong, but I think those companies specialize on construction packs, which are music building blocks imo.
Yes, they do make a lot of CONSTRUCTION KIT LOOPS. I bought a handful of the Steinberg ones a couple of years ago as a means to creating some backing-tracks for myself and also as a tool for learning my way around Cubase. I thought they were excellent and got some good results.
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H5 has ‘programs’ that you load, they are containers for different type of zones, synth or sample zones. So yes there are presets that already have samples incorporated in the patch. The patch might have a combination of samples and synths. You can always extract the sample from the patch, if you want to focus on the sample.
I see. So you can use the Presets in their ‘default’ form, of you can extract the samples to use them in isolation (or to re-combine with something else).
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But yeah, it’s not like a sample library or anything. The incorporated sample in H5 are probably catered towards layering textures.
So the Presets you get with H5 are NOT duplicates of the other HALion libraries ??
Building a library will depend on what kind of tunes you create! I love live music, and try to incorporate those elements in my music, so I go for multisampled snares, tambourine, claps, sometimes Jupiter 8V stabs LOL, I am still looking for a good conga library. I do not go for samples that are someone else making synth sounds, but I have plenty of that stuff from freebie CD. Keep in mind that the free magazine CD stuff was once part of a purchasable collection, free samples do not mean cheap quality!
I have always played LIVE in bands (unless I am backing a show in which playing along to a ‘click track accomp.’) most of my life though recently I ran a Duo in which we used MP3 backing tracks (and I muted the main keyboard parts which I played myself on my Nord and Roland JV1080). What I would really like is to learn about how to understand and create ‘Electronic’ music (like DANCE etc). Lots of people (I read in forums) seem to use ABLETON rather than Cubase, or sometimes in conjunction with via REWIRE. There is a college in my nearest city (Liverpool) called SAE and it runs a 6 x month course dedication to the letter mentioned. It is 2 x evenings per week (3 x hours each) costing around £2,000.
I’ll give you this though, buying those libraries mean that the samples are properly tagged and foldered. This saves you so much headache when you want to import an entire key/velo range into H5. It reads the tags and places everything where it should go. My piecemeal samples mean that I will need a few days to get it working.
That’s great to know thanks. Simple, quick and easy is a method I will be preferring at my elementary stage.