Best General VSTi for about $200?

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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.
 
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.
 
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/a--2676837/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.
 
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?
 
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