In my mind the great benefit of participating in an educational environment is the people that you will meet and the door of ideas that can open by the shear pointed reason of the gathered, namely to soundboard ideas and build upon the bits of life experience garnered. On the other hand there's Franz Kafka, "You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet". But then again, "It is often safer to be in chains than to be free".

Best wishes on whatever road you roll!

 

My way of seeing an alternative to Spitfire (and such) very expansive libs :

-use BIG full sections sound beds first. Nothing will replace this point.
Sonokinetic "Orchestral Performance Series" (Vivace and more). Around 200 bucks.
OR
Garritan Instant Orchestra is a good choice for big sound, too. Just add a sound enhancer in the mix (BBE or similar free plugins), to get that "Hollywood" bright top and tight bass. $179.95

-add individual instruments over the beds : EWQLSO is a classic. Gold version is 265 bucks now. And big enough.

For under 400 bucks new, you can get a killer sound AND flexibility with separate beds AND sections/soli.
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Depending on your orchestral level, you can get Symphobia for around 500 bucks.
And trust me, it is more flexible than most ppl think, even if less than EWQLSO ;)

You can try them all cr4ck3d, and buy what combination you like.
Frankly, Spitfire and similar are overkill for most ppl

And remember something most ppl forget : you need A KILLER computer to handle killer sound banks like Spitfire (RAM, SSD drive and big CPU).
Whereas soundbanks i have told you will run on a decent laptop

 

Using cracked plugins and libraries or not, it is very true and important what some people said about making music - working and first of all knowing people. Nepotism is running very high in this society [sadly] as it is and if you're not a likeable person, or well connected [best to be both], then good luck. Lack of character and connections will make it 100x harder to make it. There are loads of people from wealthy families in this business who made it mostly just because they had connections, people's support and resources to do it. Sad but true. In some cases it is not that they lacked talent, but the other things are more important. That's how we humans function, our society...

However, it is good to be aware of all that, but never give up! The more things you try and give up, the more time you will lose on learning new stuff and your knowledge becomes diluted. You have to focus and be persistent. Cheers!

 

ABRSM and several institutions in the UK offer music degrees in composition, musicology, instrumentist, etc... by just doing a written exam in most parts of the world, that's what I did. and those degrees are quite respected in the field, at least they're better than any degree offered in my country, lol

It´s a good alternative way to still getting a music composition degree. Be aware that those exams are extremely difficult, and require a myriad of preparation and work, at least 4-5 years equivalent study of classical composition conservatory training, and you have to sit for 8 hours straight to do it the same day under supervision. But the skills learned to do those exams are totally worth it!

 

Morally I say why care when 80 percent IF NOT HIGHER of major DJ's and Producers use them even after achieving success. FACT

 

Well, who can argue with your scientific and thorough analysis.....

Once anyone becomes "major" developers are basically throwing their products and prototypes at you, hoping they will mention it in interviews and on social media.

"Morally" is an interesting word. The reason you should buy stuff is not because you should "do unto others as you would have them do unto you" but because companies make stuff only to make money, if there is no money then no new stuff.

They aren't musicians or artist that do it because they have a burning desire to make art. They are trying to use their skills and resources to make money and make cooler stuff than anyone else. That brainpower and skill is going to go into another area if there is no reward for their effort.

Kind of what happened to the music business.


Also - Apple just announced that iTunes store will stop selling music downloads in 2019!

https://www.baeblemusic.com/musicbl...-down-and-its-not-a-black-mirror-episode.html

 

It's lovely how answers are sometimes retarded... I mean :
- I have no money I'm unable to afford every expensive plugins, and I can get fired for using cracked ones.
- Easy, use cracked ones and buy 2 laptops.

I mean... it doesn't make any kind of sense ! For the price of a laptop you can get a DAW, an extensive orchestra bank and several awesome plugins...

The school is basically worried about several things :
- you, bringing some malware on the school network (it might not be the only vector, but it's one)
- some complaints from anyone getting caught, establishing a link to the school

But :
- The sound banks and plugins devs do make big EDU pricing.
- Your labs probably have computers loaded with legit plugins and banks

Finally
- And 80% of DJ use mostly cracked software ? actually... many musicians use few or no cracked plugins, if you guess your numbers from warez forums.. it biases things
- There's less composer than presidents ? oh yeah the blockbusters have big names... but there's way more cinematique made, than just blockbusters...

Point being :
- college might be cool (i don't know). it'll teach you stuff, it's far from complete, and will be partly outdated as soon as you leave it, and you need to work a lot.
- a sound bank isn't that expensive and you don't need the gold thing whatever-K$ to start working.
- don't believe forums
- work.
- work.

 

Remember that there's a LOT of software that allows you to do 30 days TRIAL.
After that, just unsinstall with Revo, and reinstall

 

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