Having bought a number of Toontracks products over this Christmas period I can now say the midi packs for piano and drums are pathetic. Don’t get me wrong, I think Toontracks have a good product the problem is, they are very limited. When I bought Country Piano midi pack for example I was expecting a vast array of piano styles within the country genre – not so. Looks like they’ve recorded 1x song per category and chopped it up to create the variations. So taking Country as an example. they could have recorded one song, chopped it up for the “Straight 2/4” categories and variations. Another song or perhaps the same song played with a swing for the “Swing 3/4” and so on. The playing styles are not that interesting. There are a couple nice piano styles that are nice but you have to hunt for them all through your midi packs to put an interesting piano piece together if you don’t want it to sound like midi is being played. So nice product just very dishonest advertising imo because they make it sound like you will have plenty to play with and you don’t really and you have to keep shelling out for more midi packs so you can create interesting varied pianos or drums. The fact that there are no drum outros or endings is beyond belief! My advise is buy with caution and buy it cheaper on ebay – some do email transfers of a licence which you then register with Toontracks and download from their website. Buying full price from Toontracks would make their products a rip off I think.

Country

Gospel

Pop/Rock

Ballads