The Orchestral Sample Library Thread

[Giftheck 1,105]

After tinkering with it for a bit: yeah, I'd say the mic positions on these instruments are some of the best, even better than Hollywood Symphony's percussion. They give off a quality that's quite like the percussion is several movies I'm familiar with IE Revenge of the Sith.

[Giftheck 1,105]

Reminder that if you don't have it, today (Sunday) is the last day to grab True Strike at 30% off - after tomorrow, True Strike is being discontinued.

[Giftheck 1,105]

[Meredith McKay 7,847]

[Giftheck 1,105]

Interesting that they give us a demo for Lineage, was not expecting that at all. Is that why it wasn't out on the last Thursday of January, I wonder?

[karelm 3,190]

I bought Lineage Percussion.  Sounds great but I hate the instruments are not in concert pitch.  That's fine for unpitched instruments to be middle C but I hate that timpani you have to hit middle C for it to sound two octaves lower.  I hope they include a way to turn this auto-transposition of pitched instruments off or something.

[Meredith McKay 7,847]

On 01/02/2024 at 3:19 PM, Giftheck said:

Interesting that they give us a demo for Lineage, was not expecting that at all. Is that why it wasn't out on the last Thursday of January, I wonder?

 

[Meredith McKay 7,847]

 

[Meredith McKay 7,847]

https://8dio.com/products/new-century-strings-2-bundle?syclid=cnn1l3b7v77s73aamvi0&utm_campaign=emailmarketing_140647334088&utm_medium=email&utm_source=shopify_email&video=PaSRBvsseKs&variant=41310132109512

 

8dio century strings bundle for 48$

[Meredith McKay 7,847]

And now Century Brass:

 

https://8dio.com/products/century-brass-bundle?syclid=cnq7pikh33ns73ao6s5g&utm_campaign=emailmarketing_140727353544&utm_medium=email&utm_source=shopify_email

[Giftheck 1,105]

Nice! I wonder how long that's on for? Because those trombones sound great and I have neither money nor a big enough drive to put them on right now, so I'll have to wait to be able to buy that

[Meredith McKay 7,847]

43 minutes ago, Giftheck said:

Nice! I wonder how long that's on for? Because those trombones sound great and I have neither money nor a big enough drive to put them on right now, so I'll have to wait to be able to buy that

Till the 17th.

[Giftheck 1,105]

Ah, then there's no way for me, since I do not get paid until the end of the month 🙃  Pity.

[Drew 594]

Spitfire Abbey Road Soaring High Strings is on sale over the next couple days. I picked this thing up and no joke, I'm thinking about throwing away my string libraries and using this little patch for 90 percent of my high string stuff. It sounds authentic, the legatos are decent, and the spiccatos perform better than many of my string libraries. It sounds so good that honestly, can anyone really tell or care if the violas are missing? If you pick up the Legendary Low Strings too, you can simplify your string writing to just two tracks.

 

https://www.spitfireaudio.com/abbey-road-one-soaring-high-strings

[Meredith McKay 7,847]

45 minutes ago, Drew said:

Spitfire Abbey Road Soaring High Strings is on sale over the next couple days. I picked this thing up and no joke, I'm thinking about throwing away my string libraries and using this little patch for 90 percent of my high string stuff. It sounds authentic, the legatos are decent, and the spiccatos perform better than many of my string libraries. It sounds so good that honestly, can anyone really tell or care if the violas are missing? If you pick up the Legendary Low Strings too, you can simplify your string writing to just two tracks.

 

https://www.spitfireaudio.com/abbey-road-one-soaring-high-strings

I have pretty much decided to hold off on buying other orchestra libraries unless:

 

1: good deal

 

2: recorded in a studio a famous score was recorded in

 

So far these AR releases have sounded pretty good to me.

[filmmusic 2,605]

 

Does anyone know what instrument is the one that starts at 0.11''?

The written score says "ethnic flute", but it sounds too general to me. If you ask me, it sounds like a duduk? I don't know.

And is there something similar in a sample library?

[Meredith McKay 7,847]

12 minutes ago, filmmusic said:

 

Does anyone know what instrument is the one that starts at 0.11''?

The written score says "ethnic flute", but it sounds too general to me. If you ask me, if sounds like a duduk? I don't know.

And is there something similar in a sample library?

Sounds like a Duduk to me as well.

 

 

[Meredith McKay 7,847]

 

 

[Giftheck 1,105]

1 hour ago, Faleel said:

 

 

I'm gonna need a bigger external drive 😅

[Meredith McKay 7,847]

 

 

[Meredith McKay 7,847]

8dio Shadow Symphony bundle sale:

 

https://8dio.com/products/shadow-symphony-bundle?syclid=co83otkh33ns73cup8ng&utm_campaign=emailmarketing_141081673928&utm_medium=email&utm_source=shopify_email&variant=43434393731272

[Giftheck 1,105]

 

[Meredith McKay 7,847]

 

[Meredith McKay 7,847]

https://www.spitfireaudio.com/air-studios-reverb?video=52VZ2p4yEJ0&__s=8wmu4cmrlzzhwrl96ojt&utm_source=drip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Introducing+AIR+Studios+Reverb%3A+The+Most+Detailed+Convolution+Reverb&utm_content=AIR+Studios+Reverb+Launch

 

 

Neat!

[Laserschwert 571]

Have you guys heard of Phaseplant? It's basically a synth to create your own sounds.

 

But it isn't limited to electronic sounds, as user Joel Blanco Berg has created some incredible orchestral instruments with it:

 

 

 

 

While the plugin is at least a bit of an investment at $199, the instruments themselves are relatively low-priced on his Gumroad.

[Meredith McKay 7,847]

 

[Drew 594]

Orchestral Tools just released a brass library recorded in AIR Lyndhurst! They even sampled the principal trumpet player of the London Symphony Orchestra. They claim that this library is aimed at John Williams-style brass writing.
 

 

[Giftheck 1,105]

https://www.orchestraltools.com/store/collections/beaufort

 

Oof, that's expensive. But it does sound really good.

[Drew 594]

31 minutes ago, Giftheck said:

https://www.orchestraltools.com/store/collections/beaufort

 

Oof, that's expensive. But it does sound really good.

The good thing is that buying patches separately over time is barely more expensive than the normal price of the whole library.

[Meredith McKay 7,847]

 

[A24 4,805]

Just downloaded the free staccato strings from Heavyocity. I like it!

 

[Giftheck 1,105]

EW Iconic, a 138GB set of instruments sampled from some of the rarest and most iconic synths

 

 

[Laserschwert 571]

Man, trying out several (affordable) brass libraries over the years, I just checked out Aaron Venture's Infinite Brass, and holy shit! This is the one I should have used all this time. This is damn easy to use - no more (key)switching between different articulation patches, and the sound is - at least to my noob ears - fantastic!

 

I've updated my Fate of Atlantis opening with it:

 

 

The french horns aren't updated everywhere yet, and I haven't touched the trombones, but the trumpets in IB alone are so much better than my old VSL Fanfare Trumpets.

[whitenoise23 31]

On 03/11/2024 at 4:02 PM, Laserschwert said:

Man, trying out several (affordable) brass libraries over the years, I just checked out Aaron Venture's Infinite Brass, and holy shit! This is the one I should have used all this time. This is damn easy to use - no more (key)switching between different articulation patches, and the sound is - at least to my noob ears - fantastic!

 

I've updated my Fate of Atlantis opening with it:

 

 

The french horns aren't updated everywhere yet, and I haven't touched the trombones, but the trumpets in IB alone are so much better than my old VSL Fanfare Trumpets.

 

The Infinite Series is top-notch and affordable. I used to use the SWAM brass/winds but I've found Infinite to have a similar sound while "sitting in space" and blending better/with less work. (SWAM I still like for more exposed or solo lines.) Plus, free upgrades! I've heard that the next iteration will have it's own player.

[Laserschwert 571]

3 hours ago, whitenoise23 said:

I've heard that the next iteration will have it's own player.

Yeah, I'm looking forward to this. I hope it's not much longer, because I've refrained from buying Kontakt for another $300 (which is needed for Infinite Brass) just to get a free alternative shortly after. Thus, I'm running IB in "demo" mode right now, which gives me like 15 minutes of playback before I have to throw out and re-add the Kontakt VSTi. That's a little annoying (but not $300-annoying).

[A24 4,805]

For those who want to put their orchestral samples or other instruments in a great hall:

 

https://bedroomproducersblog.com/2024/11/08/wave-alchemy-magic7/

 

It's free and it's probably the best reverb you have ever heard! I sh!t you not.

[A24 4,805]

 

[Meredith McKay 7,847]

 

[Laserschwert 571]

I can't get over how good Infinite Brass sounds:

 

 

[Manakin Skywalker 5,649]

On 10/11/2023 at 10:16 AM, Drew said:

Apparently you can buy Cinesamples' whole catalog for $300 with their Musio player until December 31. This deal is unbelievable.

 

https://musio.com/

 

Worth noting they dropped it down to $149 for Black Friday this year.

[Drew 594]

On 25/11/2024 at 2:34 PM, Laserschwert said:

I can't get over how good Infinite Brass sounds:

 

 

 

I generally don't think it sounds all that real, but I like it better than NotePerformer in terms of modeled libraries.

[Meredith McKay 7,847]

Orchestral Tools has apparently released a free Berlin Orchestra...

 

https://www.orchestraltools.com/berlin-free-orchestra?utm_source=clever-reach&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=bfo-ko-ga

 

 

[Meredith McKay 7,847]

 

[Giftheck 1,105]

A mystery solved: where Don Davis got that 'clang sound' he uses in his Matrix scores from (and John Williams for The Big Parade in TPM).

 

It's a modified anvil hit sample from a Roland S-760.

 

https://gearspace.com/board/electronic-music-instruments-and-electronic-music-production/1249684-mystery-clang-movie-tv-possibly-roland-preset.html