![]() So it isn't lost in the mix, as my previous post was fairly long, I just want to point out that SWAM can get good results, but not necessarily without effort - just a different type of elbow grease than what one needs for adding articulation switches in fully sampled libraries. Very warm sounding (to my ears almost a bit closer to East/West than the usual Vienna sound. There's been controversy over Synchron Strings but I like them, and the Pro version gets a bit more love. Specific to legato strings though, if one doesn't care if the winds come from another source (certain libraries mix together better than others), VSL recently did a LOT of editing work on their strings (and other instruments) to further improve legato handling, both with and without velocity cross-fade, and now offering a looped and un-looped version (referred to as natural or organic, I forget which), for Synchron and SYNCHRON-ized (older libraries converted to Synchron Player). I sometimes use their brass as well, and try their woodwinds now and then but still feel VSL is king of the hill for woodwinds (and even VSL-haters tend to agree). Unfortunately, there are issues, bugs, and inconsistencies across their line, but most can be worked around. So I have to use Logic to convert Note On Velocity to a MIDI CC (as far as I know, this feature is still not available in DP), and use another sound during tracking or just go from a score directly. I sold my SWAM stuff as I didn't feel it sounded realistic enough timbre-wise, and haven't had time to delve into the Sample Modeling strings much yet, so can't make much comment other than to suggest looking at them.īeyond that, Spitfire has some nicely recorded libraries from a few years back that aren't as wet as their earlier stuff, but it's hard to work with their libraries as all dynamics are via MIDI CC, and Note On Velocity rarely has much of an effect on any aspect of the sound. These are just solo strings though not a full section or orchestra.Īlong those same lines, the SWAM and Sample Modeling stuff (both now have solo strings but I think only Sample Modeling has section strings), can do a pretty good job of intuiting likely articulations from your MIDI note files. I've never been successful with it running, even with fairly top-end computer specs, but they promise an update soon, which will include Viola (they currently have Violin and Cello). If you want to avoid articulation mapping altogether, you can try the VirHarmonic stuff if it'll run on your computer. I usually copy each note track in full, then shift ahead by a number of ticks and start mapping the articulations, careful to wait until I'm confident of choices before erasing unneeded no-transition ones. ![]() But there's no getting around the eventual work to map your score properly. Some of the Big Bang stuff, and some of the articulations in Synchron Player, reduce the amount of work you have to do for initial renderings to sound relatively tolerable. I never invested in the Hollywood series though. ![]() I rarely use my east/West stuff as I don't like the way articulations are handled and organized and as I find the libraries very uneven in quality, but I have a few cherry-picked instruments that do get a lot of play. You can also delve into VSL Synchron via the affordable Big Bang libraries, which may be a bit closer to your East/West experience in some ways. ![]() And yet, there's still slots to make some custom switches of your own. The organization and arrangement of articulations is more laid out in front of you at all times, making it less intimidating and easier to learn, and the switching itself is consistent across instruments and libraries and already done for you. In Synchron Player, there's only one "preset" per se, as all articulations are available at all times, and you can manage the memory use by not selecting unused articulations for loading. I'm almost done converting my workflow to a pure 100% Synchron Player approach, but still have some Vienna Instruments hosted libraries in my workflow, for which I put in a tremendous amount of time creating presets that collect my most common articulations. FWIW the Synchron Player makes things a lot easier for those whose eyes glaze over when they're set to the task of "programming" presets and the like.
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