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So if I’m allowed to attach a few small audio files, I did a quick mix in Logic of three things as examples.

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Of all the film and TV scores I have, the ones that stand out to me as having the best sound quality, just cristal clear that sounds like you’re there, are all the Bear McCreary’s “Battlestar Galactica” seasons 2 to 4, and Michael Giacchino’s “Jupiter Ascending”, “Let Me In”, and “Thor: Love and Thunder” scores. So, this is all words, but if you’re still reading this, congratulations, you have the patience of a Tibetan monk, but all of this means nothing unless I can show you what I’m talking about. I mean, many of them have a vibrato knob or slider, but even at the max, I kind of hear it but it’s like a very small wave) But in all the ensemble strings libraries I have, I can’t find a single vibrato that sounds like when I listen to a film score and there’s a really nice vibrato that is from a violin ensemble.

More pronounced vibratos: Again, this is something at which the Cremona Quartet solos excel, having the ability to adjust not just the intensity of the vibrato, but the speed.

The Cremona quartet is a nice exception but most of them are not that great. To me most of them sound like what I’m doing, playing notes on a keyboard, not moving the bow up and down on a violin. I’m tired of libraries that promise realistic legatos and it’s at best hit and miss. As real as possible, which I know it’s not going to be exactly the same as a real orchestra, but the goal is to get the library that is the most realistic, even if you know of one that is not in my list of five.

Like I mentioned, realistic sounding string ensembles.

The things I’m looking for the most are these:

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VSL Synchron Strings Bundle Full Library (€ 1,250).VSL Synchron Strings Bundle Standard Library (€ 720).Orchestral Tools Berlin Symphonic Strings (549 € +VAT).Orchestral Tools Berlin Strings (840 € +VAT).I have been watching lots of videos on YouTube with people showcasing strings libraries, and the ones I’m kind of inclined to get, but by this I mean, choose one of these because I’m not rich and I already spent way too much on this, are: But it has so much awesome stuff and the sound is so good that it’s one of my favorites nevertheless) Symphobia 1 and 2 (this one is old but surprisingly good, problem is, it’s a bit constrained in articulations and stuff.

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Symphony Series String Ensemble (more meh).

Native Instruments Factory Library 2 strings (surprisingly much better than the version 1 I had in Komplete 9).

Cremona Quartet (outstanding solo strings).

Spitfire’s Hans Zimmer Strings (these sound ok, but I have a lot of Zimmer scores, and I have done tests with a Zimmer song on one track and HZS in another track, and they don’t sound very similar.

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But it crashes Logic Pro X a lot, and their customer support is terrible, so I mostly stopped using them)

Eastwest Hollywood Orchestra Opus Edition (this one has some great samples, although some are not that good.

Strings library kontakt free#

So just for the purpose of this search, these are libraries I already own, at least the ones that are rather complete, not the ones that are rather strip down versions like Spitfire’s free BBC SO (nothing wrong with it, and it’s very generous of them to offer that for free): My guess is that not so good, because it would be like adding up a lot of the same, even if I mix it up.

However, these are solo strings, and I guess I could try creating an ensemble, actually I plan on doing it, but I don’t know how well that will work, or how realistic it’s going to sound.

To me it’s mindblowing that I can play in my computer a violin from 1727 and it sounds that good. But, the sound quality is amazing, and it’s a fascinating story what went behind the scenes to be able to capture all that. The only problem there is the rather poor GUI that makes an amazing sounding library look like a cheap one, so small and hard to read that it gives you headaches. The only ones that I have acquired lately that sound remarkable to me, and very realistic, are the Cremona Quartet that comes with Komplete 14 CE. Some of them sound pretty good, but no matter how much I tweak them, on their own they sound fine, but when I compare them to the scores I have on CD, and I have a fairly decent collection, they just sound a bit artificial. But so far, I can't find a single library with a string ensemble that sounds absolutely real to me. Nobody’s forced to read it, but I will be very grateful if you do and can help me make a decision, and hopefully this will also help many other people looking for the same thing)Ī few months ago, I set out to get the best strings libraries available, and I got some decent ones, some OK, some not so good. (Note: I apologize for the length of this post.