[Herogashix]

Stock plugins for instruments in several DAWs don't sound as good as the real thing, so we're always looking for sample banks to cover that without having to throw a billion effects on.

There are a lot of free ones out there you can grab and they'll do the trick in a pinch, but if you want the genuine good stuff then you might have to pay for those sample banks.

I would assume Garage Band uses live samples for their instruments so that might be why they seem better.