Orchestral Tools: Metropolis Ark 1

[Lawrence]

If you write some epic music that stinks, you could combine the two...,

[Marius]

Walkthrough video is up!

[FriFlo]

OMFG! I wouldn't even know how to not buy it ... at first, I was pissed of, that they would have another big release before Berlin Brass. But this is simply to good in my ears and I don't even like epic ...

[Lawrence]

"Just when I thought I was out, they PULL me back in..." *

*(Al Pacino as Michael Corleone, Godfather 3)

[Udo]

Happy to admit I got sucked in

[Dave]

Whoa, I shouldn't have watched that. Very impressive.

[mickeyl]

Makes me nod to my impulse buying when I heard 'born to protect' from Benny.

[Lawrence]

I pre-ordered, with some trepidation. I heard some editing in the walk through that sounded a bit suspect, and I'm not sure I understand the legato. The trumpet longs didn't sound great to me though the short trumpets sounded awesome. I hope it's not a huge CPU sucker in general. My need for a contrabassoon ensemble is quite limited.

However, the power and fidelity of the low strings and low brass are unquestionable, and they sucked me right in. The choir sounds quite good. Some of the high string arts sound gorgeous. Overall, I think it will be good value.

[TheUnfinished]

Oddly enough. The more I hear of it, the less I think "that's something I can't already do". Gonna pass... for now.

[marklmusic]

Daniel James is doing a live stream playing around with Metropolis right now if some you are interested:

[Yasin Yavuz]

Pre-ordered. It was hard to resist. Thankfully I didn't buy anything from black friday sales.

[Guy Rowland]

Well it's release day, so here's my take on it, in three different videos.

A 10 minute smash-through, for those who just want a broad feel for the scope of the library / can't be doing with all the long-form jibber jabber:



Then there's two more in depth videos, the first looking at the strings, winds and brass:



...and the second looking at the non-orchestral stuff, plus the percussion

[Lawrence]

Great stuff, Guy! Did you get an early copy for evaluation?

[Guy Rowland]

Great stuff, Guy! Did you get an early copy for evaluation?

Yes, was on the beta team.

[PhJ]

Thanks for the smash-through (haven't listened to the long ones yet, lest I get too tempted ) it sure does sound good !

[Tobias Escher]

Big thanks to Guy for the nice videos!!!

[Vik B]

Those are some very thorough walkthroughs, great job Guy. I was on the fence but I think I have to get it, especially with the pre-order pricing.

[mark]

Good job with those videos, Guy - it really helped me decide that this library had some gems in it that I don't have elsewhere! Thank you.

[Ashermusic]

Very helpful, confirms all my original assumptions.i won't spend the money now because I don't get hired much for bombastic but they day I do I will be on this like white on rice. Sounds just great!

[Piet De Ridder]

My computer is huffing and puffing and panting after a mega-epic 75 gigabytes download ... Anyway, it's all hauled in, and ready to be explored!

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[Lawrence]

I haven't even started attempting it yet, though I may let it fly over the weekend. One disadvantage of a shared studio space like mine is that hogging bandwidth is not really cricket. I assume it's an interruptable dl?

[Guy Rowland]

I haven't even started attempting it yet, though I may let it fly over the weekend. One disadvantage of a shared studio space like mine is that hogging bandwidth is not really cricket. I assume it's an interruptable dl?

Yes, with Continuata you can pause / restart any time.

[Raymond_Kemp]

Why do I fire up EWQLSO all mics blazing and think ' hey! what's wrong with this old library'?
and yes, I also have the choirs.

Sad ol' fart here. I've money to spend but not on this.

[Dave]

@ Ray

EWQLSO sounds great.

I've managed to resist this OT library. I was drawn in mostly by the choir, but I think I'd be better off getting a dedicated choir library as that's something I don't have.

[Lawrence]

Why do I fire up EWQLSO all mics blazing and think ' hey! what's wrong with this old library'?
and yes, I also have the choirs.

Sad ol' fart here. I've money to spend but not on this.

I love EWQLSO to this day and still use parts of it. I miss legato when trying to write evocatively, especially on solo instruments. It can sound robotic on repetitive phrases due to lack of RRs and velocity layering. Still, there are great things in there.