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Cinematic Studio Solo Strings - available now!

Herewith a small piece for string trio, that I wrote years back: Horo staccato. Traditional rhythms form Bulgaria but in a modern version, the time signature is 11/16 (4+3+4). It was a delight to hear this piece with these fabulous solo strings, a bit intentional roughly performed. Never got this better with other stuff. I hope you'll enjoy.
I was so pleased with the abundance of shorts of these strings.
So here we go on the shorts...

 
So I finally caved and bought these super sexy strings.
Decided to try them out on the opening of "Bittersweet Symphony"
It just further confirmed what I heard earlier;
Sampled solo strings have NEVER sounded as good.

Since the constellation lacked a contrabass, I took the liberty of adding the Cinestrings Solo Bass to the mix.
Worked splendidly!
 
rottoy said:
So I finally caved and bought these super sexy strings.
Decided to try them out on the opening of "Bittersweet Symphony"
It just further confirmed what I heard earlier;
Sampled solo strings have NEVER sounded as good.

Since the constellation lacked a contrabass, I took the liberty of adding the Cinestrings Solo Bass to the mix.
Worked splendidly!
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Cinestrings Solo Bass or Contrabass from CORE ?
 
No wonder this library took forever. Alex and his team did some really good programming on this. Check it out!



I think for me this library will become an indispensable "component" of CSS (loaded into the same Kontakt instance, not on separate tracks as shown here). Twice the RAM, but it's worth it.

EDIT: it's funny, I just realized something... for a long time I've thought that the CSS basses were just a tiny bit too loud at the same point on the modwheel as the other strings, and now I realize that's by design because they don't have a soloist. CSS was designed with CSSS in mind from the very beginning. Amazing.
 
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Hi,

A bit late to the party, I just ordered CSSS :2thumbs:

So many great sounding demos here, CSSS sounds wonderful. Thanks for all the user feedback on the forum.

Congratulations to Alex, and his crew, for producing this great sounding library, and Thanks for the discount offer for CSS owners, An Awesome Library, at an Awesome Price !

Cheers,
Muziksculp
 
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I have a little question: on the FAQ page, it says that we need 45 GB of hard drive space for the library, but my fully installed folder reads 38.7 GB.

Is there any material missing?... The installation went well and the product is authorized.

That library is to die for, congrats!
 
rottoy said:
So I finally caved and bought these super sexy strings.
Decided to try them out on the opening of "Bittersweet Symphony"
It just further confirmed what I heard earlier;
Sampled solo strings have NEVER sounded as good.

Since the constellation lacked a contrabass, I took the liberty of adding the Cinestrings Solo Bass to the mix.
Worked splendidly!
Click to expand...


This sounds fantastic!

At first, I was a bit skeptical since I have heard many (not so good) renditions of this piece. The library is really exposed in this context and it sounds surpisbgy good.

Great job!
 
Christof said:
I just did a very simple short demo piece which features CSSS 2nd violin as soloist, the short articulations are wonderful, legato is okay but anyway great for a solo string sample library, which is probably the hardest thing to sample besides vocals.
Funny that the 2nd violin sounds far better than the 1st violin, it's probably a player with a nicer tone.


https://www.dropbox.com/s/1r9llywyrysnp94/CSSS%20tiny%20walz_1st%20violin%20solo.mp3?dl=0 (Here) is the same piece with the 1st violin playing the solo.
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Thank you so much for this: right you are: much more expressive and much better for solo work.
 
wbacer said:
FYI, I emailed Alex regarding the 1.5 update and this is what he said;
If the update worked, you should see "version 1.5" down the bottom of Kontakt when you load one of the patches. You can also click the "C" part of the logo on our GUI to display the message again if you have already loaded a patch.

I hope that helps!

Best,
Alex :)
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Hmmm....well my update didn't work. So then how do we fix it? I tried Vin's suggestion though apparently that didn't work.
 
Guys ,

Is there a way to change the panning of individual instruments here? If I want to use V1 or V2 as a solo violin, center panned?
 
@NoamL In all the years I've used logic, I've never seen those green circles to the right of the track names, what are they?
 

This was me while composing this::dancer:Pure joy; i cant belive how good this library is. Alex: :2thumbs:
One question.. the levels of the library are very quiet, i supose that they are the natural relative levels in relation to CSS? i havent tried to use both at the same time yet.
 
Fer said:

This was me while composing this::dancer:Pure joy; i cant belive how good this library is. Alex: :2thumbs:
One question.. the levels of the library are very quiet, i supose that they are the natural relative levels in relation to CSS? i havent tried to use both at the same time yet.
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LOL that sneaky Elgar reference! ;) Love it!

mac said:
@NoamL In all the years I've used logic, I've never seen those green circles to the right of the track names, what are they?
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Those just show which tracks are outputting audio. Not sure how to turn them on or off..
 
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