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I downloaded SYNFUL Orchestra and when I tried to open it I was warned that a virus scan was inconclusive and that the publisher was unknown. I followed the recommendation not to install. Has anyone else encountered this issue?
East West's stuff is quite good, but has reverb tails that can't be removed. I found their Symphony Orchestra Platinum Pro was unusable for chamber group stuff for that reason. If you want concert hall ambience, East West can't be beat, IMO. If you want anything else, you have to use something else.
The most faithful digital emulation I've heard of the instruments in which you're interested is done with Synful Orchestra ( ). It has two playback modes: one is quick and dirty, but not bad, at all; the other is impressively realistic but a PITA to use. You can demo it long enough to see whether it'll do what you need.
In a sense, there's no such thing as "better" or "worse" when it comes to sample libraries. It all depends on the music you're writing and the sound you're going for. Right now I'm writing a piece using Logic's stock strings (individual violin, viola, cello, bass sections) because the sections have a smaller sound than my other libraries. And that's what I'm after, a smaller section sound.
Mind you, the stock sounds aren't "brilliant", but they're getting the idea across. I'll likely replace some of them once I'm done writing when I start to focus on making the mockup sound more realistic, but I know already that I'll definitely keep some of them for certain sections. Which brings me to the other point...
When you're doing orchestral writing, it makes absolutely no sense to be "loyal" to just one library. Use whatever sounds that suit the emotion, even if it means using one brand of (say) violins for the majority of the piece but using other brands for certain phrases (or even single notes) where the attack, vibrato, lack of vibrato, or whatever it is about that other brand suits the feeling.
I also have the EW strings and like them very much. Tons of articulations but that can mean lots of time spent finding the right combination of articulations to fit the part. But in terms of sheer sonic beauty I find they are head and shoulders above the Logic strings, which I also use.
Thank you, Homina. One more question for now. I use LPX 10.6.3. I assume the 24-bit version of EW is the right one for me, and that I don't need to spend extra for the 24-plus-16-bit version of EW. Correct?
I recommend talking to EW's customer service people about which product is right for you. They're willing to identify and sell you the best choice for your needs. In general, 24-bit products will take longer to load and impose a greater burden on your CPU. The benefit to them is greater fidelity and more extensive capabilities. You're the only one who knows whether one or the other is the better choice for you.
As for AU instruments, the category exists to enable your use of non-LPX instruments, so you're certainly not going to find them IN your LPX library. You select an instrument to use on a virtual instrument track via the "Instrument" button on the track's channel strip:
Drive speed hasn't changed the physics behind bottlenecks; they still happen for the same reasons. Put too many simultaneous demands on a bus, and you saturate it. When that happens you'll experience some really quaint instability as your DAW software tries to make sense out of chaotic data streams. Keeping your samples off your boot-bus significantly reduces the likelihood of saturating that bus, which can stop you cold and affect your project's integrity in unpredictable ways. Same goes for your work or scratch drive. By keeping separate busses busy you prevent any one of them from choking easily. I run physically separate SSDs for everything, and still encounter occasional instability. Logic still gives me glitches and bug-bites - and some of those have been whoppers. Solving and avoiding them requires the same logic and troubleshooting as in the days of yore and relics, and bus saturation is still frequently the core of the problem. If this hasn't been your experience, good for you. When it does happen to you, look to the same old solutions to get past it.
That is true of the Symphonic Orchestra, which was recorded in a concert hall by a Classical engineer. It is factually incorrect regarding the Hollywood Orchestra, which was recorded at EW Studios by a film engineer.
As Ashermusic said, MIDI is MIDI. A piano roll is connected to each individual track. You supply the MIDI data to a track, the track's piano roll displays it. Until you assign a virtual instrument to the track, the notes produce no sound. The same MIDI notes will be used to trigger whatever virtual instrument you assign to that track, regardless of the company that produced that instrument. Logic's piano roll will display, collectively, the MIDI notes of whatever tracks are currently selected, but each track plays only the MIDI notes that exist on its own piano roll, and trigger only the samples associated with the instrument assigned to that track. It's a very straightforward process and signal path.
Having just completed a project involving numerous orchestra tracks, I necessarily became reacquainted with some products I haven't used in a long while. I found them all wanting for my immediate purposes, which was the liquid smoothness Diana Krall's orchestra reliably exhibits in her recordings. As was the case ten years back Logic's string instruments were still the least impressive, and East West's Symphonic Orchestra strings still came closest. Regardless of what product I used, however, even at the very lowest note velocities I still heard way too much high-frequency noise during the string section's peaks and swells. All the samples I tried, regardless of product, had a significant bow-noise component. After removing it what remained sounded too much like a failing oscillator, so the bow-noise had to remain for the samples to sound authentic. East West also offered the greatest selection of articulations, and the highest degree of control over player-level characteristics (e.g., level of vibrato). Ultimately I had to shave a lot of the high-end off all the strings for the resulting sound to be anywhere near as smooth as Krall's orchestra. It made me curious about the process by which that orchestra was recorded; evidently somebody, somewhere along the way, had to remove a whole lotta high-end.
First, few reasons for making it:
To my experience sampled strings are either lacking nuances, sounding dull or they are very unpredictable and complicated to use. The latter means that samples have variety but it's difficult to control them. They may have different attack time and sound, different volume levels, different tone qualities and they are sometimes out of tune etc. Large string sample libraries may sound real to a certain level but unfortunately they sound like bad orchestra. Large library is also of course very demanding for computer.
What a string instrument should have:
Obviously good enough basic sound model to reproduce string tone (easier said than done of course).
Lot of controllability to have natural crescendos and diminuendos, staccato-marcato-legato, vibrato etc. Very important thing is also to have natural transitions from a note to another note, from one dynamic to another.
It would be also a marvelous thing have a chance to have one solo intrument or bigger section.
Spitfire sample libraries sound absolutely awesome, their Albion/BML range is recorded in one of the greatest halls in the world (AIR studios, where Hans Zimmer loves to record his scores), and the result is nothing short of amazing.
If that demo above sounds like a bad orchestra to you, well... All I can say is that modelled strings would not sound nearly as good. Case in point - check out Synful Orchestra, which is sample based but employs a variant of modeling (sadly, developer seems to be MIA and there haven't been any updates in years). It sounds so thin and lifeless, despite its apparent expressivity.
I have to agree that some of those libraries sound pretty impressive but I fear situation is quite similar with sampled pianos. They sound realistic simply because they are real in sense that they are real instruments recorded in real space. Problem arises when you start making music with them. It's hard to make them sound exactly how you like as performer or composer. I mean many small imperfections which make them "alive" start to control you instead you controlling them. Maybe I have had worst string libraries (which btw sounded great on demos) cause I've needed too much time to make them sound right. I have been scracthing my head how to make good sounding crescendos or tweaking pianoroll to make attacks times even etc. IMO Pianoteq isn't the most realistic piano sound but it's one of the most playable and flexible. With strings I could give up little of realism if I could get easier and more flexible strings. Quite often you would like to have strings "feeling" instead of ultimate realism, get kind of a perfect orchestra to play exactly how you want as a composer. And put your time and creative power to composing, not to endless tweaking of CCs, velocities, start times etc. And this is not to say that other times you may want to have realism which needs sample libraries.
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