Emax

> 3- Northstar CD for Emax2
> Which of the 3 CD's is very interesting ?
> In fact, i'm search acoustic instruments which use lot of memory.

I have the first two Northstar CDs, the pop one and the orchestral 
one. I have found them to be amongst the best of the CDs available 
and a worthwhile compliment to the E-mu factory set. The only reason 
I didn't go for the third one, the Synth collection, was because I 
have plenty of other synth sources already. I've also has access to 
most of the other libraries e.g. Greytsounds in the past so my 
thought are also based on comparison with these as well.

I'm not sure what you mean by interesting but if it helps, the sounds 
are generally excellent quality and usable. I guess there's a limit 
to how 'interesting' acoustic instruments can be but there are 
certainly some 'unusual' ethnic type instruments as well as your 
everyday strings and brass. The other thing that marks the Northstar 
library apart is the fact they try to include different playing 
styles in banks which are separate samples and not just the same 
preset on a different filter setting. Oh and the 4MB banks tend to be 
44.1 KHz, as opposed to the normal max sample rate of 39KHz and I 
believe the Emax can play them back at this rate, even if it cannot 
record. Cymbals etc certainly sound crisp.
 
On the downside, you'll find some duplication between the 1MG banks 
and the 4MB banks (i.e. same sounds but recorded at lower sampling 
rate) so the number of banks you get on a CD doesn't quite add up to 
the total number of unique sound sets if you see what I mean.

Overall though, I have no regrets about my purchase, especially at 
the current discounted price.

Hope this helps!

Steve

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