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Epic. She also gets my vote to be the fulltime game analyst for the Leafs on Sportsnet.

I hadn't been by their site in quite a while, but today I was checking out their Halfling library and noticed most of their stuff is currently discounted: https://www.productionvoices.com

I use Vegas Pro Suite 22, which just released in the fall, and it's a nice upgrade on their previous versions -- a lot more stable than previous versions of Vegas (at least, on my machine, anyway), and I've always found the Vegas interface to be really intuitive. I'm hoping this signals that they're making a go of it after their restructuring. I think it's a good product, and you don't have to subscribe to their Vegas 365 service. You can just buy it outright, which I much prefer.

The same person who thought up OneKnob Pumper, I suspect.

Wait, what?...

Scott Haplin was the impromptu drummer. Passed away in 2008: https://www.loudersound.com/features/the-who-keith-moon-scott-halpin Pete Townsend had some nice things to say about him in this article...

I tend to mix it up a lot, but as a general overview I use a combination of: CinePerc from Cinesamples NI Symphony Series Percussion (the only Symphony Series library that delivers the goods, in my view) Spitfire BBCSO Vienna Synchron-ized Special Editions Spitfire AlbionONE (the Easter Island hits, in particular) Orchestral Tools Ark 1 FWIW, if I had to choose just one of the above, I'd actually choose the NI Symphony Series Perc lib. It's a lot better than it's Symphony Series siblings, to my ears, and has fairly comprehensive set of instruments, plus a consistent control mapping across the various patches and articulations that works well for me. And I find it fairly easy to blend with other libraries. The other Symphony Series libraries do not thrill me at all, and I barely use them, but the Perc one gets called up a lot. Hope this info helps.

I have both of those percussion libraries. They are ok. The timp patches sound good, but are pretty basic in terms of articulations. There are single hit patches using soft, medium and hard mallets, plus crescendos and rolls in a variety of dynamics. I find the velocity layers change a bit abruptly, especially for the soft mallets patches. So in my view: very basic stuff, but decent enough to use for simple projects. Personally, I don't use these timp patches in my projects at all, since I have much more complete timp libraries available. The loops and percussion combo patches in these libaries are much more useful to me, and I do fire them up occaision. The various metal and drum patches are decent. Overall, I think $19 is a fair price. Frankly, I wouldn't pay more. That's just my experience, as someone who does full orchestral mock-ups. YMMV. Rob

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I have Adventure Strings, Soaring Strings and Adventure Brass. They are quite good for the stuff I do.

Mine is 45% also...

Lumina is pretty nice and I use it a fair amount, but it strikes me as a library that folks will either use a lot or not at all, depending on what they spend most of their time doing. I use it mainly for the solo legato instruments, which are lovely and also heavy on cinematic schmaltz, much like the rest of the library. If that's not your thing, it's a pricey pick-up even on sale. I'm glad I have it, but it was a luxury purchase rather than an essential addition to my template -- I have lots of other libraries that could cover the same ground if needed.

It's a good deal. These string libs sound very nice and have lots of useful articulations and configurable elements. That said, I am not keen on the GUI, and I see them as a library that needs tweaking and careful keyswitching and the like -- these aren't the kind of patches you load up and start jamming with. They're the kind of patches you load up when you've finished your sketch and have the arrangement nailed down and can spend a lot of time tweaking in the piano roll. That's how I use them, anyway. As always, YMMV