

Some virtual instruments are game-changers because they are ecosystems, like Omnisphere, Kontakt, and UVI Workstation/Falcon. ACID and Ableton were truly new ways to think about creating music, beyond the traditional DAW approach. Logic was a game-changer because it had everything I needed in one place. I put it in a flight case and wrote music in hotel rooms around the world. Its only to give performers a rough impression. No need to mockup a concert music with sample libraries anymore as it does the job fine.

It's nice to see its legacy lives on in Noteperformer, which is the other big jump for me. I use it for inspiration while composing rather than in the end product. It was just nice to be able to play a library and not think about keyswitches or articulations. Personally, the Wivi library was a bit of a game changer for me as I could finally use my breath controller properly. But there isn't much you can do now that you couldn't do a decade ago with libraries like the Hollywood Orchestra or LASS. Things have got more sophisticated thanks to Kontakt and clever developers with keen ears like the Orchestral Tools team. I remember both developers petitive.Įverything since then has built on their foundations. Then EWQLSO with the mic choices and baked-in hall sound around the same time was very exciting. I don't think any developer has topped VSL's announcement of legato in their libraries.
