JoeGBradford

That's almost as bad as Full Kontakt only 😉

18 minutes ago, TracingArcs said:

Ok. You need to check out the Pianobook community. Though a number are Kontakt full. A high number are in Decent Sampler format (free), such as https://www.pianobook.co.uk/packs/winter-voices/   From there, start diving in.

Thanks - I've already discovered Pianobook - and have downloaded a few of the Decent Sampler offerings 🙂

1 hour ago, cclarry said:

Check into this article...for 3 options

https://professionalcomposers.com/free-choir-vst-libraries/

I have the first two of the three on that page - LABS & Project Sam Luminous Choir - both are excellent. The third is Full Kontakt so not for me (yet?) but sounds good in the demo

I didn't mention Start as I thought everyone would know about it but you're right there's some great stuff in there. I also have quite a few good Kontakt Player libraries that Native have given away over the years

I meant to mention the Amplesound free guitar & bass!

16 minutes ago, Starship Krupa said:

 

Since this thread leans toward the orchestral, my favorite free orchestral instruments are the Orchestools ROMplers, which they also offer in SampleTank 4 format.

I have been wondering whether to try those. Assumed that they may not offer much different / better than what I have with Miroslav & Garritan PO. Like BBCSO Discover though they would seem to be a no brainer for anyone without a paid for library.

15 minutes ago, JoeGBradford said:

Some of these have been mentioned but here goes!

Spitfire LABS series
Project Sam Free Orchestra - awesome when layered up
Sampletank 4 CS - once you get past the installation & authorisation!
Syntronik 2 CS - ditto!
Orchestral Tools Sine Free Instruments - ever expanding. Quirky front end but very nice sounds
Soundpaint Angels - just got this one - some interesting sounds - not sure how useable yet!
Evolution Series Clara Duduk  - a cross between a clarinet and my favourite instrument the duduk (Kontakt Player)
Keepforest Ferrum Trailer Percussion Free Edition (Kontakt Player)
Evolution Devastator Warzone (Kontakt Player)

 

Fixed! 😉

Just now, abacab said:

Spitfire LABS should be near the top of the freebie libraries list, IMO!

Oh definitely! Just slipped my mind whilst I was trying to remember the others 🙂

Some of these have been mentioned but here goes!

Spitfire LABS series
Project Sam Free Orchestra - awesome when layered up
Sampletank 4 CS - once you get past the installation & authorisation!
Syntronik 2 CS - ditto!
Orchestral Tools Sine Free Instruments - ever expanding. Quirky front end but very nice sounds
Soundpaint Angels - just got this one - some interesting sounds - not sure how useable yet!
Evolution Series Clara Duduk  - a cross between a clarinet and my favourite instrument the duduk (Kontakt Player)
Keepforest Ferrum Trailer Percussion Free Edition (Kontakt Player)
Evolution Devastator Warzone (Kontakt Player)

 

Full Kontakt only

6 minutes ago, abacab said:

Beware of the free Spitfire BBCSO Discovery library! That pulled me into the Core upgrade! 😂

If I didn't already have Garritan & Miroslav (the latter via TS Max 2)  I may have been pulled too!

19 minutes ago, PavlovsCat said:

 There's a reason I love this forum and spend the majority of my time on forums here, the people. This has always been the friendliest, most helpful DAW/music making forum I know of.

Spot on - I have had so much help over the years and there are many great people here. I tend to be at the free budget end of the market but mainly because I can only devote a small amount of time to music making so significant investment would be out of scale with my efforts. There is just so much great free / low cost stuff around that combined with my major purchases of ST TS Max 2, Garritan Personal Orchestra and Reason 10 I have far more than I need (though I still have free GAS!) 

Great idea - I'll try to remember to post my recommendations tomorrow!

Full Kontakt required

Nowt - as we say in Yorkshire 🙂 Though I did get Syntronik CS at a good Yorkshire price!

Yeah I just assumed that it would pick it up under the ST3 folder - IK works in mysterious ways 😉 Hard to complain though as Syntronik CS is an excellent freebie!

It appears that if you copy Syntronik 2 files to a subfolder of your ST3 folder as I did you have to specifically identify that sub folder in your sounds path - neither Syntronik 2 nor ST4 picked it up when I just rescanned the ST3 folder. I've rescanned Syntronik 2 and now that works ok - just waiting for ST4 to complete the rescan......

35 minutes ago, abacab said:

Well I took a deep breath and installed Syntronik 2 CS today.

Good news, it found all of my Syntronik 1 presets, and everything was authorized! 👍

Bad news, is that it installed the new 3GB sound library on my boot drive in a folder in "C:\Users\Public\Documents\IK Multimedia\Syntronik 2". Had to move it manually to my content drive, and set the new path in Syntronik 2 options. Simple fix.

Good news! The presets and samples load very quickly now, compared to Syntronik 1. Even the Syntronik 1 instruments. Whooo-Hooo! 👍

Bad news, I had to adjust the new Syntronik 2 content path in SampleTank 4, and remove the reference to "C:\Users\Public\Documents\IK Multimedia\Syntronik 2". Simple fix.

Good news, all is working very well now, and with no issues!

Ah good point about removing ST4 reference to the C drive folder if moving samples - I'd just moved the Syntronik 2 sounds over to my data drive and rescanned Syntronik 2 but forgot to do it on ST4 - thanks!

Thanks for the quick response Pete - I'd scrolled back to your earlier reply on this and was in the process of doing the restore my purchases operation when you replied. Once I'd navigated to the newest version of Custom Shop this seemed to work 🙂 Seems a very strange glitch though! 

Having installed Syntronik 2 it seems to have wiped out my authorisations for all my ST3 and 4 instruments - did anyone find the best way to solve this? It seems unbelievable that installing a totally separate programme / VST would do this - a serious problem at IK's end! @Peter - IK Multimedia do you have latest advice on this please?

Site is working again 🙂

5 minutes ago, Zo said:

yep dieffernt plugins .... 

Thanks - assumed so but thought I'd better check! 🙂

That's even worse than full Kontakt 😉 

Can I download Syntronik 2 CS and its sounds and run alongside the original Syntronik without any VST or sound file overwrites?- don't want to mess anything up!

Bear in mind that unless you are on a subscription do not update to latest version of Loopcloud as it does not scan your personal sample folders (unless things have changed recently?). Fortunately I found this out before updating!