orchestra keyboards modules

[walters]

orchestra keyboards modules

who makes rack mount modules that have orchestra only or mostly?

brass,woodwinds,belltrees,orchestra percussion,panpipes,harps?

[deRaNged 4 Phuk'dup]

Roland makes one, can't remember the name, it's black with a woodgrain faceplate, but the sounds in it barely compare to a triton's orchestra section at best. In 2007 i'd say for realistic orchestra, you should just pick up the latest Workstation keyboard(Motif, Fantom, Triton)or take the much cheaper more sufficient software route. There are numerous orchestra vstis that surpass hardware by a longshot, Gigastudio, Reason and Kontakt have well dedicated and realistic orchestra sections. You also have Vienna Symphonic Library, and East west Symphonic Orchestra.

[walters]

Gigastudio, Reason and Kontakt have well dedicated and realistic orchestra sections.

They have alot of orchestra sounds??

You also have Vienna Symphonic Library, and East west Symphonic Orchestra.

Yes but how much RAM do i need on my computer to use this stuff and HD space too without any keyboard latency issues or resouce problem?


Workstation keyboard(Motif, Fantom, Triton

My friend has these keyboard i wasn't really impressed with the brass,strings,orchestra sounds at all actually i think the softwares are better

[deRaNged 4 Phuk'dup]

The software is kind of Ram hungry, you'll want somewhere around a 2ghz processor and 1gb ram. You can check out the specs for them and some audio demos by googling the product you're interested in.

Reason - www.Propellerheads.de
EastWest Symphonic Orch - www.SoundsOnline.com
Kontakt - www.Native-Instruments.com

Not sure of vienna and gigastudio's homepages off top of my head.

If you weren't impressed by Triton/Motif/Fantom, you won't be impressed by any orchestra racks I know of.

[walters]

2ghz processor and 1gb ram

Alot of them say they use 2.5G of ram now and what about the Harddrive how fast? and what kind?

What kind of processor to?

Does the soundcard need alot of RAM also?

[theproducers1]

deRaNged is right. U would want to stay with a least 2ghz processor or more and at least 1gb of ram or more if u can budget it. Edirol Orchaestral is very good vst for quality orchaestral patches and sounds as we run it here in our lab so look into that as well. They usually don't take alot of HD space because we have like over 100 vsti on a 40gb HD. Most of the best ones are just processor heavy just check which ones u need/don't need to get around that issue. They also didn't really pose any latency probs. we just use a regular audio interface nothing fancy and latency has never been a problem. Just make sure if you do exp. these problems simply go to audio options inside the app. u are using and just adjust audio buffer until u get your desired results.

[walters]

The audio buffer and MIDI buffer also right?

Because i have a M-audio keyboard controller and u have to set up the midi buffer and audio buffer for BFD drums or there is trigger problems alot of times

But im just using my PC board soundcard nothing special

What kind of RAM also? single or double?

[mdcc]

Check out the Emu Virtuoso 2000(can be expensive). It has all those sounds u looking for fam. Check out the Emu Proteus 2 also.

[TWJMusic]

I have a Trtiton Studio with the Orchestral Cards and I always turn to it. I also think the stock orchestral and string instruments were fairly decent. Maybe I'm hearing something in this 'played out' Triton. ;-)