Best General VSTi for about $200?

[LeoT]

What's the best general purpose VSTi for about $200?

I'm trying record everything in my PC rather than using external modules.

I've already got a soft sampler that I use mainly form drums and a few other VST freeware instruments (Piano, Electric piano, synth & pad sounds, etc...)

Now I need somthing cheep to replace my Korg x5DR. needs to be able to do strings, brass, bass and other general sounds.

[Halion]

Edirol has some decent all-round libraries like Superquartet (bass, drums, guitar and piano) and Orchestral (take a wild guess), but I don't know how much they cost (shouldn't be much, they are fairly old) and they sound decent at best.

You are asking for a lot from one VSTi. Most VSTi plugins are geared towards doing 1 or 2 things well. For instance, you can get killer brass from one, but I doubt the same plugin will have a decent electrical bass sound.

[darrvid]

I've been looking around at some packages, Halion is right. Basically, each need you listed (bass, brass, general, etc) would each be a seperate package. I'd suggest deciding which one you need the most, and get that package. $200 would be pretty easy to spend on just one of those instruments.

I did find this, but couldn't comment on its quality: http://www.zzounds.com/item--IKMETOMNI
Its a GM package, sounds like it has strings, brass etc (your general midi sounds) Its way under your budget, so maybe you could get a nice sounding bass package (or brass or whatever) for around 200 and add this on to cover your other needs for the moment.

[noisewreck]

You might also want to take a look at Steinberg Hypersonic

[staring]

Yeah I agree with NoiseWreck, check Steinberg Hypersonic. Check this link

[LeoT]

Thanks for the info

Someone has told me about somthing called the "Proteus-X", it sounds kind of like what I need, does anyone use this? is it any good?