Expect me to post some audio clips in about 6 hours from now. I think I will post a few audio clips to prove my point, but I'm not at home right now. I need the sound of a violin at note XX, and I could settle for "just ok" since it will be buried in a mix anyway but it's totally unusable. And I'm not talking about lack or warmth or the prescence of air noises. I want to control exactly what each instrument plays. I'm using cello/viola/violin/violin solo instruments to build my own quartet. If none of this works then you can't go wrong with LASS it's the best I've ever used. To be honest tho, expecting to get a nice natural sounding vibrato and warm sound at the extremes of the instrument range is also not realistic because you're at those extremes ! ( especially on solo strings) - move the part to a higher string instrument or change the line or key. That's kind of natural especially if micd up closely. with a large section say of violins the upper octaves do create all kinds of 'air' noises caused by all these upper harmonics bouncing around and also on louder playing the good old bows. The only thing that comes to mind is that you're actually talking about string sections rather than solo instruments ?. QLSO doesn't have a huge amount of solo string parts so making a realistic string quartet is not going to be so successful as you do need particularly good sample sets to pull off solo instrument lines. anyone who thinks it's not worth talking about perhaps needs to learn about orchestration and perhaps needs to compare the prices of these libraries. Whilst QLSO is not the very best on the market it is a superb library which many composers have used to score all kinds of productions over the last seven years. Not the right option if you're scoring properly with individual lines and parts. and too low in the range and the basses take over. That being said, most of the patches in Symphobia are big unison patches.so for making quick fixes using one patch it is simple enough but you don't get the individual sections so you can't say get the cello to play high in it's range because it switches over to violas. Symphobia is a lot of fun and it does have a superb string ensemble patches, the natural reverb of the hall it's recorded in is one of the best things about it. It's for soundtracks and stuff, but the strings sound big and beautiful The only library that made me crap my pants was Symphobia, but it's like $1200. I own EWQLSO too and I agree with you, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. Is there any good string library out there that actually has sampled the whole instruments note range so that it could be used instead of the real thing? They have gone to great length sampling dozens of legato and vibrato variations, but they didn't care to include all notes ? Everywhere I read reviews the EWQL is praised to be the best there is, or close to it, and I was just shocked to realize that I cannot use all the notes of it's instruments. The sound is so ruined in those high notes that I don't hear the instrument. The libraries I tried were Halion Sonic SE and East West Quantum Leap Symphony strings, ok I admit that I only have the 16 bit version of the EWQL, but that shouldn't make any difference. If they don't, then they haven't got the instrument covered imo. Now, I know that in the 80's it was ok to sample an instrument with a handful of samples and then pitchbend the rest no matter what the result gave you, but if I upload a modern string library of X Gb in 2011 shouldn't I be able to expect that they sampled all the notes? The sound is totally useless in every aspect. On top of it all, everything sounds like going through a bitcruscher or a RAT distortion pedal and in the end I just cant hear any string sound at all. What is supposed to sound like the bow scratchiness or something now sounds like sandpaper grinding on the instrument body, and what I guess is supposed to sound like a beautiful vibrato now sounds like a hysterical hyperspeed chorus or something. On both viola and violin you can hear in the last octave lots and lots of garbage in the sound. Pretty standard quartet if I'm not totally mistaken.Īnyway, when I was supposed to choose the fitting sounds, I was very surprised to find out that every f**king library had this weird thing going on in the highest of their notes. It's intended for cello, viola and 2 violins. Last night I sat and worked on a midi string part I have written.
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