EastWest Quantum Leap Ministry of Rock 2 Virtual Instrument

The Ministry of rock is a great sounding program, with a vast array of ways you can tweak the sounds to fit your need. With enough effort, you can create pretty realistic guitar sounds.There are two main problems that I have with this program. The first is that it is a little less straight forward than I would like. I really don't want to spend that much time perfecting the "sound", I would rather be spending it writing. They could have had a pop-up balloon over the keys, so you could see if that key is a "hammer on" or a "slide" or whatever, or even a built in description page, so I don't have to keep referring to the manual.The second problem is far worse than the first. This thing is a complete memory hog, and takes quite a while to load up. One would think that 16 Gigs of RAM would be enough, but no, it doesn't seem to matter at all.I still use MOR, but I prefer the simplicity (and the memory requirements) of RealLPC to this.MacPro, Mac OS X 10.6.8Dual-Core Intel Xeon 2.66 GHzMemory: 16 GB

Horrible product impossible to install. Ominisphere is a better product. I have finally got the installation going after hours of reconfiguring my laptop. I will say once I got pass this point it's been smooth, they should include a step by step for instruction video on their site. I'll let you know more later about the performance and creative

Great Program

Mixed feelings! As of now a little more frustrated and disappointed! This library could be awesome, but it needs some major upgrading with some of their samples. Why? Every time I find a guitar sound I like (such as Gibson or Schecter) their respective ranges are very limited in how many 'power chord' notes and samples are available. And Power Chords are the main reason I use guitar libraries. For instance, F# is the highest that Schecter goes. All my other libraries that are not MoR 2 hit G4 and then some. And often I need these. In fact I've yet to have song I didn't have to make special considerations for when it comes to the MoR 2 libraries! All other libraries move up and down within the spectrum I need the power chords to trigger on. But these MoR 2 Libraries are very limited, and it's exceptionally annoying to deal with every time I'm writing a song! I love the sounds these libraries emulate. And these two guitars (Gibson and Schecter) were a key find and even 'critical' in my choice of 'layering' with other libraries to create a very wide and realistic rock sound. But I always have to find a different path of notes for the powerchords these two guitars take simply because their range is so limited. And so for example, if all my other libraries are taking a path of notes where they go high (like G4 or above) the MoR 2 libraries have to be taken down an octave. Likewise if all others go low, they have to be raised an octave, to which either option sounds odd and noticeable in the mix. Of course it's better than the even more apparent odd sound of guitars within the overall mix suddenly going silent and 'dropping out' when they can't hit what the other libraries around them are hitting. I can't tell you how frustrating this is to deal with! I understand these aren't all '7 Strings'. But something should be figured out to get lower samples available, or they just won't keep up. Likewise there's no excuse for power chords not going high either. Tempted to find a new libraries to work with, but once I do I probably won't come back to this product as I don't like having to reshape sounds once I have gone through the trouble of finding something that makes me happy. This instrument and it's libraries could be amazing. But it needs some definite work here guys! Expand the ranges of notes in either direction (up or down accordingly) so that power chords can hit so they can keep up with libraries like Shreddage, Dracus, Pettinhouse, KMG 7 etc, or you're going to lose business. I'm discouraged that for the time I have to find something else after all the trouble I've gone through to make these guitars sit well in some of my other mixes.