The internet is rammed with music gear related content. The entire topic is a black hole which sucks musicians in and wastes hours of their life ...and here’s my first contribution to it!!

It can be difficult to know when and what to upgrade when it comes to creating music. Ads and promo material can make any product look and sound amazing, but we all know the content has been refined by experts. What you really need to know is how much an upgrade will allow YOU to improve YOUR MUSIC!

To help give some insight, I've put together this video which contains the same piece of music recreated with a couple of different orchestral libraries. The first features a blend of stock Logic Pro instruments alongside some legacy Native Instruments VSTs (included in their cheaper bundles). The second features the full Native Instruments Symphony Series libraries.

Considering the prices as well as the methods and level of detail which went into creating these libraries, the expectation would be for the Symphony Series to allow for a more professional-sounding and commercially-acceptable production. But I’m leaving it up to you to listen and decide for yourself whether the outcome is higher-quality, and if so, whether the difference would be worth the investment.

The arrangements are as close as possible (given the instruments and articulations available) and I created both versions around the same time, so even if you are not concerned with the specific products mentioned, this is an honest and potentially eye-opening example of how upgraded software may be able to influence your sound and ability as an independent music creator.

N.B. The only reason there are more channels in version 2 is because I used a template where more articulations had their own track, rather than programming key switches.

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