i'm with obi, i like synths as opposed to a lot of sample based stuff, my friend let me try out his miroslov library, (or something huge like that) i could not see myself having a plugin that took up a 3rd of my external drive and was not that much better then the sampled instrument patches in my refil library. now, i have less then 10 gigs of sounds and it's is more then enough. i got a lot of free refills off the net, most of which are synth patches so they are small on file size, but big on actuall patches. i also have a few free synths from kvr that provide a lot of sounds and tweakability so i can create my own sounds from that. i have more sounds than i know what to do with. the size of the sounds (file size on disk) does not equate to quality sounds or even quantity for that matter. that 15 gigs of strings and sht, didn't have a lot of diff patches, they were just needlessly 'hypersampled' so the wave files referanced for the patches were huge. i try to keep it light cause i do a lot of layering and sound design as i go, so i need my system resources free so i don't have a problem creating, no use in sucking up all your resources with a huge string patch when you only using 3 notes. oh well, i'm trying to keep my library under 10 gigs. not to mention the couple gigs of my own sounds and samples that i recorded and tweaked. if hadn't built up the majority of my sound library in Reason over the years, i'd be using solely Live for everything. i really only break out Reason when i need an acoustic instument patch or something. the majorty of the tasks get handled in Live, my weapon of choice.
LevLove