I guess a lot of us need a little more information now. Because shelling out 400-500 for a specialized library from a western perspective is a lot to ask. I mean, we are all interested in such a great library, but does it justify the investment, if you are not a professional media composer or have a chinese wife? If I integrate one or two chinese character instruments from time to time into my compositions, am I not better off in spending a fraction of the costs into EW Silk on sale now and wait for a sale on this one that may happen in a few years?
After three walkthrough videos by Strezov about bonus content, when will we see something about the stars of the library? Are they four times as playable, usable and good sounding as the instruments in EW Silk? Will we inevitably most likely double dip, if we go with EW Silk now and upgrade to JEO later on anyways? Does investing in JEO make Silk completely redundant? Or will there still be a place for the Silk instruments alongside the instruments of JEO?
And most importantly for somebody who hasn't used any of the Play libraries yet, may EW Silk be a PITA to get into, and JEO would save me a lot of trouble and get creative and productive right out of the box?
To make some interesting comparisons: Silk + CSW or Silk + Omnisphere or JEO. Which combination would you choose? Is JEO really that much more useful? Or is it just newer and more varied as Silk? Is JEO more easily to blend into a typical orchestral or trailer composition and thus gets used more often in the end? The Silk examples on youtube sound pretty stereotypical. I see a place for both situations. Can we play JEO in a pretty stereotypical way also?
I hope I am not the only one who still has a lot of questions to be answered before placing a preorder, which isn't a smart way to do a lot of the times. Why doesn't Strezov extend the introductory price into the first week of its release? We shouldn't support such sales tactics anyways.