Originally Posted By: Alcarms
Thanks Jim,

My goal is to augment my hard synthesizers (Roland Sc88 & JV2080) with top quality soft syns. Most interested in tenor sax, trumpets, keyboards, & electric guitars. Am willing to pay for quality as I am musician & audiophile.


OK here is my two cents worth of suggestions:

1-for the best sounding sax and trumpets AudioModeling are the best:

https://audiomodeling.com/swam-saxophones/

https://audiomodeling.com/solo-brass/trumpets/

Another good sounding sax and trumpet are https://vgtrumpet.com/
but these need the full version of Kontakt while Audiomodeling does not.
But if you really want to get serious you should consider the full versions of either Kontakt or Sampltank:

https://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/samplers/kontakt-7/

https://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/st4/

But wait for a sale, I know that Kontakt does have half off sales from time to time. I don't have Sampletank so other will have to advise you on that.

Keyboards are wide open arena. What type of keyboard sounds are you looking for, pianos, synths, FM, etc?

The above is from my experience. Others may or may not agree.


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