Love this one

This is the best sounding sampled brass to my ears : http://cinesamples.com/products/cinebrass/

ORCHESTRAL ESSENTIALS
http://www.projectsam.com/Products/Feature-Products/1403

FYI: a little birdie told me to wait till NAMM 2012 next month before investing in any new sound collections today, and check out new sample/synth collections in SURROUND...

Good article about sample libraries - http://www.filmmusicmag.com/?p=6254

Nice topic Vitaliy - I am a singer first actually and the video thing comes second. Got a quote for a video once and nearly fell over and decided to do this myself.

You know the Roland superquartet VST was a great piece of kit for small four piece arrangements. Tons of keys and kits. Had this annoying copy protection of having to run the CD every once in a while. Dunno if you can even find them anymore.

We are soooooooooo spoilt for choice now. NI complete should keep most people happy. Here is some other stuff......Lots of Christmas sales going on as well

Best bits I have in my arsenal - VSL - Appassionata - THE FILM string library IMHO. http://www.vsl.co.at/en/211/442/344/1816/1513.htm

LASS as well. No brainer. Mix many different libraries to get the vibrancy is what I have been told.
http://audiobro.com/ . Andrew is a nice guy to deal with as well.

Drums - Mixosaurus. Incredible!!! http://www.mixosaurus.com/

Guitars - Get the Pettinhouse stuff - best in the biz. 24 bit 96 khz sampled stuff. VERY authentic with good programming scripts in Kontakt. http://www.pettinhouse.com/

For Nylon Guitar - get Orange tree samples - http://www.orangetreesamples.com/


and also try out Ilya acoustic. Very nice...... http://www.ilyaefimov.com/products/acoustic-guitar.html

For organic film sounds - all the Soniccoutoure stuff. http://www.soniccouture.com/en/

Pianos - Imperfect samples. Stellar!!!!!! http://www.imperfectsamples.com/

Scour ebay for gigasampler/ gigastudio libraries. Going cheap since it was discontinued. Some very nice legacy sounds....The 500mb Tascam has surprisingly good sounds.

+1 for Wallander stuff. The wivi band is great value - http://www.wallanderinstruments.com/

I have much more but that's a good list right there. Apart from that let's make films and make music!!!!!

@Vitaliy_Kiselev Done

@NicKBen

Want to ask to make separate topic about samplers.

@Vitaliy_Kiselev

Synful Orchestra - 32Mb!
http://www.synful.com/SynfulOrchestra.htm
Pianissimo - 250Mb!
http://www.acoustica.com/pianissimo/

What I like about both is that they don't have a huge footprint on the harddrive like other sample libriaries (look at the sizes above) and that they use physical modelling in a great way to improve the samples. Especially Synful has put this to great use with their expression mode. Randomness, legato transitions are added in a very natural way. Listen to the simple cello tune and see how it changes during the track.
Pianissimo has in my ears, the most natural sound for solo piano sounds like the one of Olafur Arnalds.

I used both in this clip. Good for subtle stuff.
Composed and mixed in Ableton Live

@NickBen That's just good advice in general this time of year - unless you want to take advantage of holiday deals.

If anybody else is planning to be at NAMM in Anaheim, let me know and I'd be happy to chat. This will be my 4th or 5th year there and it's a nice crowd.

@johnnym
You're welcome! Yeah, Synful is a hidden gem.

@soundgh2

Btw, Akai makes quite cheap USB controlles for all brass stuff.
It cames with some instruments for free.

Garritan Personal Orchestra and Garritan Instant Orchestra
Jazz & Big Band 3, or Concert & Marching Band 2

http://www.garritan.com/

They have sale until December 28.
Price is $99 for each