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Performance Samples - Pacific - Symphonic Strings

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doctoremmet said:
Due to a particularly inspiration-less week, I was actually checking out BT Phobos - imagine that.
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The doc needs a medic!
Don't do it girl, it's not worth it.

To clarify before people take it personal again: the second sentence is a reference to a TikTok meme. I'm not trying to bash any competitor's libraries here although if i did, that would resemble my personal opinion.
 
On a more serious note: I wasn't all too interested in Pacific at first and truth be told a lot of PS products always feel a bit "proof of concept-y" to me. Even now...knowing that AI has been working on another string section collaboration with Jasper (although chamber sized iirc) it feels like if i wanted to get a 'proper' product, I should rather wait for that to come out instead of splurging for Pacific - if i want to buy anything at all.

BUT: when I do look back and analyze which of my former purchases I actually do use most often, PS is one of two developers that come to my mind.
And the more demos I hear, the more I enjoy what it seemingly brings to the table.
Jasper is a weirdo. The way he communicates his business is definitely...unconventional. But man for some lone warrior this guy knows what he's doing and what he puts out puts products to shame that have big teams behind them. Or at least it makes it feel like we should be able to expect a lot more from companies where X amount of people are working on a product.
And for all his seeming harshness, I can actually respect the guy. No nonsense marketing blabla, no trying to sell you something that his products are not. Early demos (yeah they're alpha but you'll find enough demos once stuff gets released by other users before intro runs out or just check the freebies), oh yeah: freebies.

I don't know. Of course I could be wrong but he strikes me as a guy who is just interested and good at what he's doing and tries to make some money on the side with stuff that he does for himself anyway but that can get manageably easy monetized. Good for him.
I bet if someone reasonably reached out to him and he can find the time, he wouldn't tell them to fuck off but also listen to their bugs/ideas/whatevers (even if it's just to keep useful bits in mind for future releases), and he's just trying to communicate that it can't be expected of him.

I could be wrong with all of this and he could be the biggest asshole alive. Doesn't change the fact that Pacific sounds unreasonably good with regards to how many people worked on it when you compare it to something else from the usual suspects.
Or maybe this is all just a big David vs. Goliath Marketing scheme and Performance Samples is actually 30 people. Who knows.
 
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Denkii said:
Or maybe this is all just a big David vs. Goliath Marketing scheme and Performance Samples is actually 30 people. Who knows.
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Jasper may be the sole proprietor of PS but I'm sure he has contract help on the libraries from a number of people. Certainly not 30 but he's definitely not doing this alone.
 
Denkii said:
On a more serious note: I wasn't all too interested in Pacific at first and truth be told a lot of PS products always feel a bit "proof of concept-y" to me. Even now...knowing that AI has been working on another string section collaboration with Jasper (although chamber sized iirc) it feels like if i wanted to get a 'proper' product, I should rather wait for that to come out instead of splurging for Pacific - if i want to buy anything at all.
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For what it's worth, I think Jasper has said Pacific is aimed to be more of a "vanilla" library that focuses on doing core articulations very well. It's much less "proof of concept-y" than his other libraries; more of taking the accumulative knowledge and making a solid workhorse with it. Voyage, on the other hand... :grin:
 
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