An Overview of the METROPOLIS ARK Series.
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- Опубліковано 22 гру 2021
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Hey friends! In today's video, we'll explore the Metropolis Ark series by Orchestral Tools, test out some of the patches, and see whether it's a good fit for you or not. Enjoy!
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Hey thank you for this vid! It's perfectly presented and exactly the content I was looking for, with the current bundle sale.
Glad it was helpful!
Your libraries guide is easily the most helpful thing I've seen since I began researching libraries... nothing else I've seen has compared such a large selection of libraries but categorised them in a way that makes it easy to work out what it is I'm looking for and easy to compare similar products based on what criteria those categories need to fill. Thanks a lot it was really useful
So glad it's helped you my friend! I usually update it every so often, so I'll let you know when I do!
Chris, I like that you are so honest to telling us, you prefer the kontakt versions over Sine, although you received some copies from OT. That makes your videos much more valuable, thank you.
My pleasure Marsen!
Great review! And exactly in the format which is most useful. Good talk to demo ratio 🙂
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for the break down!
Any time!
I love the first four Arks, and have used stuff from all of them in various places. (Also have a few other OT libs.) I like what I've heard of 5 as well, so I grabbed the massively discounted full bundle upgrade without much hesitation.
Mixed feelings about SINE, though. Kontakt is certainly starting to feel old, and I've found the "updates" increasingly disappointing, long standing issues and complaints still ignored, so I can't blame developers for moving away from it. However, developing a technically worthy Kontakt replacement is a huge project, and I'm not sure umpteen developers attempting to do that in their own respective ways is in our best interest as users.
(Personally, as an old FOSS advocate, I'd of course have preferred it if a few major library developers instead created a Free/Open Source sampler, or contributed to one of the existing ones, to create a proper Kontakt alternative for everyone - but having been involved in a similar project for plugin APIs in the past, I don't have high hopes of that ever happening.)
Thanks for sharing David!
Thanks for the upload Chris! This is something I’ve wanted for a long time, just a general overview of the series. Can I ask, if you buy one of the Arks for Kontakt, do you also get it for Sine?
Good question! I'd double check with OT on this one, as I've seen several policies haha.
@@ChristopherSiu fair enough! Will definitely look into it
I wish it had solo instruments.
I mean, you can just learn the instrument if you want a solo instrument to sound good
Just got my hands on 1. 🙏🏾
If you buy the bundle, can you only use it on sine player?
I plan on getting Ark 5 since 250 Euros is nearly a steal for these, and I see a lot of stuff I can use there (shepard tones! choir pads! playable runs!), and I think it will nicely compliment my Inspire bundle and Ore.
I just wonder though if it's worth investing fully into Ark 1 & 2, or if I should just buy the instruments I want individually (since Sine allows you to do that, thankfully). The music I'm creating seems to veer into the hybrid orchestral-ambient as opposed to more of the bombatistic trailer sound. Especially since I'm planning to get two more of the creative soundpacks and picking some stuff out of the Phoenix Orchestra and Andea libraries.
I'd say only purchase the instruments you need!
I disagree that ark 2 is quiet, it’s stil epic sounding just sounds less like dark souls boss music. And more like Batman Arkham series.
Hi Christopher! I must ask, would you recommend the series to someone who has the complete Berlin Series (including all of the string expansions)? Thank you for your videos!
This series is great for more epic styles of music, big and bombastic! Berlin works well for more of the classical style, so it really is up to what you need.
Metropolis ark 3 Which Kontakt library for Mac OS it is running. I have contact 6.0.3 but it doesn't work here. can you help please
As owner of berlin main series do you recommend any alternative to this collection? Instead of ark metropolis?
thank you for the video walkthrough.. one little thingy: it might be that the sine version differ a bit from the kontakt versions (like there are with the berlin mains). Do you happen to have the sine versions for the 1-4 arks too?
I don't! Just the Kontakt ones.
Thanks for the library review. You mentioned you prefer Kontakt. The Kontakt interface is not re-sizeable and is microscopic on 4k monitors. Have you found a solution to this?
Honestly it's not a big deal for me!
It's NOT microscopic. You have a hack or a really crappy computer.
The SINE versions will eventually be updated, and get a better legato than the Kontakt version. I'm all for SINE now, bye bye Kontakt
Thanks for the helpful video.
My pleasure!
I own MA 1-2 should i buy the bundle i have a student discount so my cost would be 500 euros or should i get eastwest orchestra for the opus player?
For 500 euros ARK 3, 4 and 5 is an unbeatable deal.
The EW Hollywood Orchestra is a different beast altogether though. The ARKs are more for cinematic/trailer/modern scoring rather than traditional orchestral composing. So the answer mainly depends on what music you are making.
Arks are awesome.
Trying to choose between the SINE ARK Bundle for for $1K or the Kontakt Glory Days library $675. Any thoughts?
I think for general purpose, the Ark series is way more practical for many uses.
Metropolis Ark 5 should go on Sine and the Kontact because Sine is a terribly unstable engine and they force us to use it if you like have MA5
Unfortunate but true!
hello ! ....... there is a lot of difference in quality ..or articulation ..with the old metropolis ark ..from kontakt ... to the current ones made for Orchestral Tools ?? .... is the change necessary ?? ...Thank you !!
I enjoy the Kontakt versions myself!
@@ChristopherSiu TANKYOU ..MASTER !!!
No difference in articulations! SINE might be a little bit more buggy at the moment for the arks 3 and 4 since they were just ported. 1 and 2 should be a lot more stable.
SINE overall does lack a few features that capsule had though.
Any future bug fixes will only come for the SINE versions though! Keep that in mind.
@@-Meric- THANK YOU, TEACHER !!
I would get all 5 if they didn’t force you to use SYNE for the bundle price :(
i torn with two option, between jaeger and metropolis ark im looking for loud sounding and trailer scene libraries, what recommedation one should to buy? thank you chris, ur videos was so inspiring
Metropolis is much much more comprehensive but also much more expensive if you get the full series. If you mean Ark 1 vs Jaeger, Ark 1 has less common setups and is much louder and Jaeger has a more traditional setup (Proper string divisions with Violin, Viola, Cello and Bass compared to Ark 1 which is just 'High' and 'Low' Strings), however Nucleus is another option if you want Woodwinds and it's cheaper than Jaeger, although it doesn't have a lot of the stuff Jaeger has
Jaeger is more flexible, but Ark (individualy) is more straight forward to what you mentioned, especially ARK 1, 3, 4. are extra loud, i havent check Ark 5
Lets not forget that Sine player does unlock its full potential,Not kontakt player!!!
Thanks for the video but - please - add timestamps.
Will do soon!
I have to say, I hate SINE. And they refuse to not hide the scroll bar, which is absurd.
Totally fair!