And obviously it’s very beneficial to hear the instruments not in context on this case but more on its own to understand how the sound and room work.įor example: Albion is great for room and ostinato stuff, and have a very lush sounding room verb. I think that Albion One and Jaeger would compliment each other better, however, it depends on what you want and need. Jaeger should not be the first choice, as it’s just designed for one task: Power. So you’ll better have it before you go with them.įrom my experience…it should be very easy if you look for one major library to start with…it’s either Albion One or Ark 1. One important fact is, that they do use a lot of RAM and hard disk space. For whatever reason, I never had them on the list…but they 100% deserve to be in it… The next time I will invest in an orchestral library, this will be OT for sure. A bonus is that they are all recorded in the Berlin Teldex Studios which has an amazing sound. I think what I loved the most is that the libraries are extremely dynamic and very musical. I think that you can’t do anything wrong when you have Orchestral Tools in your palette. It doesn’t seem very “natural” if we compare the sound to even Albion One for example.
It’s perfect for giving an amazing drive and power. Hi think Jaeger is a completely different sound compared to what I heard before…the library is extremely tight, hard and in your face. The focus is on articulations and playing styles, rather than recording and sound engineering.
I’d say the Metropolis Ark libraries feel more like traditional orchestral libraries in terms of sound and workflow, with more traditional mixes (lots of microphones!), and no integrated “sound design” facilities or similar. It can reach into more traditional orchestral, but its main strength is in that precise, in-your-face sound which blends well with synths, guitar, sound etc, and there are also nice sound design patches that are easy to tweak right in the UI.
I do own Jaeger as of quite recently, and I really rather like it, but my impression is that Jaeger (and it’s “companion” libs) are more geared towards trailer and hybrid scoring. :-/Īnyway, a few random ones that use a fair bit of Metropolis Ark patches: I also used them a lot on Mission: Baphomet (“hybrid orchestral metal” album-in-a-month lots of choirs, epic brass and the like in there, and most of that is Ark), but unfortunately, those tracks don’t even have descriptions. Here’s a random one where I tried out three patches from Ark 3 + some ISW Rhapsody percussion: I’ve used them in a bunch of tracks, and I usually list everything used on SoundCloud - but there appears to be no straightforward way of searching in the descriptions, so I’m not sure how to find them myself, even!
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