Review of Trilian
by SoundCravers Lab
Trilian just arrived at the lab and I am putting it through its paces. What can I tell you now? It surpasses Trilogy by a huge margin, yet retains everything I loved about it, including the great basses in there. Ah Trilogy, how I have missed thee! If you had a trilogy license and are on an Intel Mac you know that things were not working for a while. Check the Spectrasonics site for upgrade deals. I got the upgrade free. Now that is what I call taking care of customers.
Trilian takes bass sampling to a whole different level. You have a 16 channel mixer in Trilian that can be devoted to a single bass multi, with different articulations.
There is a new acoustic bass, a Chapman stick, and the synth basses are utterly phenomenal. I programmed 3 synth basses in a matter of about 25 minutes.
Here's some pics of Trilian in action (click to enlarge)
Trilian's Main screen
Trilian's Patch editor
Quite similar to Omnisphere. Speaking of Omnisphere, if you apply the updates as of Nov 2009 you will find that Trilian sounds now show up in Omnisphere. Very nice. And before you ask, yes, you can combine the Trilian/trilogy bass samples with the Omnisphere and atmosphere samples inside Omnisphere. Omnisphere is rapidly becoming the greatest soft synth on the planet. If they add more instruments, it might soon be the most encyclopedic as well. I a way that no surprise because Eric Persing is, after all, one of the masterminds if not "the" mastermind behind the Roland JV/XV/Fantom enterprises. With Omnisphere the only constraints are CPU/Memory. Imagine in 5 years...
Update: Dec 07 2009
Just updated Trilian beyond its initial release. I have to say many of the presets are so memory intensive they are putting logic over its internal limit. Now I am getting a little worried about running the HUGE acoustic basses with all the articulations. This is a Logic problem, not a Trilian problem. Trilian is just one of the first soft samplers to run headlong into Logic's limitation.
Positively, Trilian's presets can now be accessed from Omnisphere so there can be one uniform GUI for your composition. You can run 16 instruments in Omnisphere and as many of those channels can now be Trilia. (plural of Trilian?, lol). I probably won't use that so much as logic really does not deal with multi-instruments as efficiently as does Cubase. I'll just create a new instance for every Trilian/Omnisphere/RMX sound.
Trilian is well worth the cash for those going beyond the basic in their sound arsenal. Get in Now!
Links:
Check out Trilian at http://www.spectrasonics.net
Threads:
http://studio-central.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=129&t=73097
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