Audio Imperia and Orchestral Tool started their Black Friday sale! Native Instruments as well (but only upgrade bundles for now). Anyone buying anything?

Hey community hope everyone is doing good, I’m trying to go all in I just bought the trailblazer 1 & 2 from the master @Alex Pfeffer but my pockets are not that deep 🤣🤣 , I’m locking for a really good and affordable choir library that I can use to practice and maybe use on my first jobs, between $100 and $150. I was locking into eastwest Hollywood choir. Let me know and thanks 🙏🏻

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about style. Most days, I live in the world of cinematic and orchestral scores. But it’s not just my hard drive that’s mixed: my released songs and the artists I’ve worked with are all over the map too. I’ve done pop songs, synth-driven tracks, trap or gospel vibes, and I still do them alongside my orchestral work. As a composer or producer, I often feel like genres are "fake" borders. At the end of the day, it’s just music. But the industry doesn’t always see it that way. So I wanted to open this up as a discussion here: Is it better to focus on one main style your whole career, or is it okay to split yourself across many? There are solid reasons people say “pick a lane”: - Clarity for clients & listeners: If you’re “the orchestral guy” or “the dark synth person,” people know when to think of you. It’s easier to market, easier to pitch, easier to brand. - Deeper mastery: Sticking to one style lets you go really deep. You learn every nuance of that sound world: voicings, tempo ranges, sound design tricks, what works emotionally, what doesn’t. - Stronger signature: When you live in one style long enough, your fingerprints start to show in a recognizable way. That “oh, this sounds like X” effect is powerful. I totally get this. When I do cinematic scores, I feel like I’m coming my home. That language is natural to me now. But here’s the other side: I don’t only want one home. When I’m writing pop, or sculpting a synth track, or building a trap-gospel groove, I’m using different parts of the same musical brain. And those experiences bleed into each other in useful ways: - Cross-pollination of ideas: A synth arpeggio might become a strings ostinato. A gospel chord move might sneak into a moody game score. A pop topline might teach you how to write stronger main themes. - More emotional colors: Different genres are like different emotional toolkits. If you write for games, movies, or stories, being able to move between “epic,” “intimate,” “modern,” “retro,” “spiritual,” etc. is a huge advantage. - Creative sanity: Staying in one style 100% of the time can become a cage. Jumping into another genre for a while can reset your ears and keep you excited about music in general.

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Hey guys I'm thinking of expanding my plugin collection. Thought about the East west choir wuth the angel and devil cover. Also the Virharmonic violin. The budget would be around those two vsts, they're in sale now for 89€ and 150€ Unless... Someone knows a much better Plugin to get? What choir and violin plugins do you use? Right now I only have Kontakt choir but it sounds very unrealistic and the session strings are difficult to deal with when I wanna make more realistic stuff. So what's your thought?