Title: A no brainer IMHO Post by: MarioD on August 23, 2014, 01:19:59 PM Dimension Pro is on sale at Cakewalk for $14.99 USD. It originally sold for $250 USD. Although not as good as the more expensive products like Kontakt it does have some very usable sounds. I use it on occasion.
http://www.store.cakewalk.com/b2cus/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=10-CWDM1.50-30E Title: Re: A no brainer IMHO Post by: Oren on August 23, 2014, 05:40:20 PM :; He scores! :-
Title: Re: A no brainer IMHO Post by: elwoodblues91 on August 23, 2014, 07:52:52 PM Dimension Pro is on sale at Cakewalk for $14.99 USD. It originally sold for $250 USD. Although not as good as the more expensive products like Kontakt it does have some very usable sounds. I use it on occasion. http://www.store.cakewalk.com/b2cus/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=10-CWDM1.50-30E Personally...I think spending $1200 on a Roland FA-06,would be the better buy....great sounds and zero headaches(if I could afford to spend that much,I would not hesitate). Title: Re: A no brainer IMHO Post by: MarioD on August 24, 2014, 01:35:57 PM Dimension Pro is on sale at Cakewalk for $14.99 USD. It originally sold for $250 USD. Although not as good as the more expensive products like Kontakt it does have some very usable sounds. I use it on occasion. http://www.store.cakewalk.com/b2cus/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=10-CWDM1.50-30E Personally...I think spending $1200 on a Roland FA-06,would be the better buy....great sounds and zero headaches(if I could afford to spend that much,I would not hesitate). Thom there is no way in hell that you can compare a $15 sound source to a $1200 sound source! Personally I would take Kontakt over a Roland FA-06. It is much easier to increase the number of sounds in Kontakt than in the Roland plus there are no headaches in a well maintained system. Both sound good but YMMV. Title: Re: A no brainer IMHO Post by: elwoodblues91 on August 24, 2014, 03:41:47 PM Thom there is no way in hell that you can compare a $15 sound source to a $1200 sound source! Personally I would take Kontakt over a Roland FA-06. It is much easier to increase the number of sounds in Kontakt than in the Roland plus there are no headaches in a well maintained system. Both sound good but YMMV. Mario, The point I was trying to make,is that I'd rather make a substantial investment in something far more useful that I will use regularly for years to come,rather than buying a long string of "bargain basement" items that I will fidget with a few times & then forget about. In my opinion,most of what Roland puts out,is way overpriced and that the FA-series,was the first reasonably priced product of significant quality. Furthermore,I did not mean to compare a Roland product to every other software product out there...but to say that in terms of Roland products,the FA was the real bargain. Yes...$1200 is still a lot of coin no matter how you slice it,but the FA-series offers so much for that price tag...like having the ability to instantly create music with virtually no boot-up time,utilizing several track and effect resources without any lag or glitches...as well as having some of Roland's best sounds and being able to export it all in either stems or a stereo track into a DAW(without dealing with any messy PC/hardware integration). Bargain hunting for clearance prices is always fun,but one can easily clutter one's computer with a hoard of obsolete items and I want to steer clear of falling into that habit...but...to each his own. Title: Re: A no brainer IMHO Post by: MarioD on August 24, 2014, 05:55:50 PM Thom there is no way in hell that you can compare a $15 sound source to a $1200 sound source! Personally I would take Kontakt over a Roland FA-06. It is much easier to increase the number of sounds in Kontakt than in the Roland plus there are no headaches in a well maintained system. Both sound good but YMMV. Mario, The point I was trying to make,is that I'd rather make a substantial investment in something far more useful that I will use regularly for years to come,rather than buying a long string of "bargain basement" items that I will fidget with a few times & then forget about. In my opinion,most of what Roland puts out,is way overpriced and that the FA-series,was the first reasonably priced product of significant quality. Furthermore,I did not mean to compare a Roland product to every other software product out there...but to say that in terms of Roland products,the FA was the real bargain. Yes...$1200 is still a lot of coin no matter how you slice it,but the FA-series offers so much for that price tag...like having the ability to instantly create music with virtually no boot-up time,utilizing several track and effect resources without any lag or glitches...as well as having some of Roland's best sounds and being able to export it all in either stems or a stereo track into a DAW(without dealing with any messy PC/hardware integration). Bargain hunting for clearance prices is always fun,but one can easily clutter one's computer with a hoard of obsolete items and I want to steer clear of falling into that habit...but...to each his own. OK Thom now I understand what you were trying to say and I agree with you. That is why I have a lot of money tied up in Kontakt and third party Kontakt sounds! But for those who can't afford that kind of money then this is a great deal. Plus it does come with some really good sounds. Ps - I would not buy Dimension Pro for the same reason you mentioned but mine came with Sonar so I tried it. I also will not buy SampleTank 3 for the same reason. That is I already have better sound sources. However a person with a lot of MIDI expertise can get a lot of mileage out of any sound source if that sound source has good MIDI protocols built in. |