songsmithrichard posted on 07-05-2009 7:48 AM
I cannot recommend the Garritan expansion pack instruments
1. Each pack costs $9.99 USD and gives you less than 10 instruments each. Songsmith already has over 70 instruments.
2. The add-on instruments do not provide any useful pop instruments. I would love to see different distortion/overdrive levels of guitars and different EQs and reverbs of acoustic piano. But the expansion pack contains no additional guitar or
piano sounds.
3. The installation is kind of confusing. After you download the files, you have to add the .exe to the filename. And the files are installed to either the "Garritan" or "Plogue" folders of program files instead of the "Songsmith"
folder.
4. None of the new sounds are used as default instruments for the styles, not even the new expansion styles. Unless you manually select a new sound for an instrument, you will never hear the new sounds. And if you change styles, all of the new
sounds will be deselected because all styles will reset to their original instrument sounds.
