EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Has anyone out there used the "Sonic Station" sample package by sonic reality?  Or any of their other products?  Or know of a better encyclopaedic collection of real-world instrument sounds?

thanks
jk

--- In exs-users@yahoogroups.com, "jaybirdknows" <jaybirdknows@y...> 
wrote:
> Has anyone out there used the "Sonic Station" sample package by 
sonic reality?  Or any of their other products?  Or know of a better 
encyclopaedic collection of real-world instrument sounds?
> 
> thanks
> jk


 Hi jk

I purchased Sonic Station a while ago, and here´s some thoughts about 
it. I have to say that I haven´t explored it really fully yet, but I 
did spend some time going through the (many) presets.

-The "real" instruments don´t really cut it, some free 
soundfonts/giga stuff sounds way better.
-Some of the drumsets have quite a lot of background noise, I´ve had 
to gate the tails hard off of some sounds to not have the ambience 
noise evident. 
-Some of the synths seem nice. 
-The programming isn´t high quality in all cases, I´ve had to tune 
some instruments´sustain loops so that they would be in tune.

Anyway, I didn´t expect that much for the price, and there´s still a 
lot of good stuff to use. Overall, I´d probably rate it 7/10.

J. Lampela
www.greenlakemusic.com