imago meri piano (with velt) WAV-FANTASTiC

This morning Fantastic posted Imago Meri Relics, a small pack of 30 random wavs from Imago Meri's cutting room floor. I had a little time this morning so I chose to bite on the 'teaser' to see if I'd want to hunt down the other Imago Meri packs.

I first downloaded the Relics teaser to see if any of the 30 sounds would be usable. There was nothing really inspiring in the pack, I'll prolly toss it into my miscellaneous FX folder and never refer back to it.

But I didn't wanna judge Imago Meri based on a 'relics' pack made up of loops from the cutting room floor. After looking up the Imago Meri packs on AudioZ I chose to look further into this pack, Imago Meri Piano (with Velt)[/url]. It's 313 MB (460 MB when extracted) that ends up being 139 wav files in 8 folders: drums, foley, kalimba+, melodyLoops, oneShots, pads, phrases, velt.

Digging through the loops, especially the piano loops, there's decent sounds that could make their ways into tracks. The folder of 24 kalimba+ sounds is nice. I don't particularly care for the file naming system, with all files ending in "@imagomeri - piano (with velt).wav." With the exception of the piano loops, all wav file names are the name of the instrument plus a number. The piano loops are named only by their BPM, and none of the other loops have BPM. None of them cite the Key.

While the Imago Meri Piano (with Velt) pack is a decent enough piano pack to add to an archive it wasn't enough to inspire me to download any of the other 17 total packs on AudioZ. Many of those packs are well under 100 MB, perhaps if they were combined into a single pack it would be worth the single download. But archiving 17 packs to get a handful of sounds spread across more than a dozen pack folders doesn't make it worth the effort when there are many other series to discover, explore, download, and USE in tracks.

A final minor critique is that the minimalist cover art might have been a good idea to explore for a series of 2-6 packs, but when I search for "Imago Meri" on AudioZ and scroll through the results it's quite uninspiring. I don't GAF about cover art if the pack is chock full of sounds I wanna use. But if you're trying to lay out the honey for the flies, the minimalism by Imago isn't doing it for this overaged maggot.

Archive curation is a process of hit and miss and archives have plenty of meh fillers amongst the collections of gems and golden nuggets. Imago Meri Piano (with Velt) is worth adding to the archive, but I won't be looking to archive the whole series and I'll prolly only check out their bigger packs as they are released and let the little ones flow under the bridge. I do appreciate the producer's effort, even on (most) shitty packs. I definitely thank Fantastic and the AudioZ team for making them available for our consideration (for free).