Reply To: New SoundPaint V 4.0 FREE – More Than a Dozen Free Deep Sampled Instruments

[Peter DeLegge]

On RSMcGuitar said

Already downloaded! I haven’t gotten to deep into it yet, but I really like what they are doing.

For the freebies, if you’re doing rock, jazz, R&B, or pop, I’d strongly recommend the free piano, the plucked piano (it sells for around $100 US via 8Dio), the various guitar libraries, polyphon (a big music box), Smiley Drum, and Copperphone.

8Dio’s forte has long been cinematic / orchestral libraries — it’s a very established brand with pro cinematic composers for a long time. If you look around this forum, you’ll see that I’ve recommended a bunch of their competitors. For example, for Black Friday I picked up Musio and I absolutely love the sample libraries, at $149 US or $199, I consider it the most amazing sample library deal there is from a cost / sample quality ratio persective.  But the Musio player is barebones and nowhere close to the same league as SoundPaint. It lacks effects and presets, which is disappointing. It’s ideal to create presets in a player and save them to use or to use as a starting point in other projects. It’s a lot more work to have to use external effects and have to write down everything if you want to recreate that — or put it in a template. However, the quality and value of those Cinesamples samples in the Musio collection is incredible, I’d say, unequaled value for the price per library. I bought the Abbey Road Iconic Strings 2 library which I absolutely love. In fact, last year, I posted on Cakewalk Forum that my dream library would be called George Martin strings — basically for the string sounds and arrangements he did with The Beatles. Someone, I think it might have been @TheSteven — or maybe it was you — who told me that the library exists, Abbey Road Iconic Strings 2. And it sounds fantastic. I would recommend it. But I find the Spitfire player disappointing, which seems to be the consensus. So, I think Troels (the co-founder of 8Dio), is doing fantastic work with SoundPaint. But Kontakt remains a critical part of my toolkit. But for the sample developers who have created their own plugins, I think 8Dio leads the way with SoundPaint, and with the pace that Troels is focused on it — and i don’t know how many people know this, but while the man is a super talented composer (I love his work), he has a PhD in AI, so he’s very involved and incredibly passionate about SoundPaint. I don’t think any sample developer has a sample player moving at anywhere near the same pace.

Eventually, I think I may do a podcast, or at least interviews with developers and musicians, and Troels is a fascinating individual, extremely creative, and extremely talented, I would love to interview and publish. I really love his work as a composer. He’s done a lot of popular video games and movie trailer music. But these days, his heart and passion is very focused on SoundPaint. Besides his work as a composer, Troels has won two TEC awards. One of them was for the Prophet X is an analog hybrid sample synth that he worked on with the legendary Dave Smith (founder of the original Sequential Circuits). So, he has a very impressive track record in this space co-founding Tonehammer and 8Dio.

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