Are any of the commercial designers considering a best of library for loading in to expanded XFs? Something larger than the Experience of Flash? I know that we can buy several libraries and build our own, but having a general purpose 2GB expansion might make a nice product. When I write with the Motif, I don’t necessarily need lots of synths, lots of orchestral voices, or any excessive amount of one voice category. I mainly want lots of variety, as that helps with inspiration. Having a nicely programmed general expansion to load when writing would be of benefit to me. Expanding the presets up to the max of 1664 would certainly provide a lot of variety.

For someone like Dave that has many libraries covering many styles, if you were requested to select another 384 preses in order to round out the factory presets of the XF, what voices, from your collections, would you choose? What, from what you have, would make up best from where the XF’s factory presets are lacking? Those are the ones that should be in this new library.

Again, I’m not talking about a freebie demo, but a commercial product. It should be stocked with some of the premium voices from your other libraries, not teasers just to buy the other libraries. Of course, if someone wants additional synths, orchestral voices, and so on, then they’d need to buy the full library that applies. It doesn’t matter to me if there would be a slight premium charged for this library.

If you decide to make a library like this, please don’t forget drum kits. *smile*

Oh, and I know that some people will say that it is possible to buy several libraries and roll your own, or that we can make our own presets. Sure. Even if you can, though, there is still value in something like this.

* If someone can’t decide right away what library they want, a general purpose library is a good place to start.

* When you’re generally writing, and not working on a specific styled project, I think that lots of different voices are more valuable than lots of a specific type.

* For someone that doesn’t want to mess with modifying the flash RAM very often, a large general expansion is something that can be loaded in once and left in memory.

* A large general purpose library is a good justification for purchasing the flash RAM expansions.

Thanks for your suggestions.

I believe that EasySounds’ “Stage and Studio” covers this request for
a wide range of a variety of sounds already:

http://shop.motifator.com/index.php/voice-libraries/motif-xs-voice-libraries/classics/stage-and-studio-xs.html

As does this library, “XS Performer” by Digital Sound Factory:
http://shop.motifator.com/index.php/voice-libraries/motif-xs-voice-libraries/classics/digital-sound-factory-motif-xs-performer.html

And finally, the factory voice set really is designed to cover “all” the
bases anyway.

DCP’s philosophy has always been to provide specialized libraries that
either feature “more of” a certain genre of sounds, or to fill a gap
that the factory soundset does not fill. For example, the factory voice
set doesn’t include a great deal of foley and film/tv sound effects, which
was why the first DCP library was a sound effects library.

Although there has been quite a delay in new products from DCP, that time
is coming to an end and a number of new releases are coming soon. First
will be version 2 of MoSkool 2, which has been reworked again from
the ground up. New demos for MS2 have been recorded and will be posted
in the shop. Mo Skool 2 really is a better product than the current demos
show. We want to complete the XF version for MS2 along with the new XS
version, so that is where things are at right now.