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Spitfire Audio “This is London Calling” - BBC Symphony Orchestra

redlester said:
I don't have anything like the amount of time available to play with it as I would like (applies to eveything, not just BBC), but still very impressed with it and it's the first thing I consider if I want to fanny around explore some creative time with any orchestral stuff.

Regarding the marketing, they haven't forgotten it; Spitfire have put out a tweet just an hour or so ago with a link to The Page.

Finally got round to actually finishing a track with it, which started off as a synthy Tangerine Dream rip-off idea but morphed into something completely different. Great fun to do, and I am very comfortable with the Spitfire interface now, despite all the flak it gets.

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Great piece. I'm always partial to a bit of Tangerine Dream myself. :) I do think there might be two pieces in there that could be separated out and developed (the second half pretty much there already).

"The dream is always the same. Instead of going home, I go to the neighbors'. I ring, but nobody answers. The door is open, so I go inside. I'm looking around for the people, but nobody seems to be there. And then I hear the shower running, so I go upstairs to see what's what. Then I see her; this... girl, this incredible girl. I mean, what she's doing there I don't know, because she doesn't live there... but it's a dream, so I go with it. "Who's there?" she says. "Joel," I say. "What are you doing here?" "I don't know what I'm doing here; what are you doing here?" "I'm taking a shower," she says. Then I give her: "You want me to go?" "No," she says; "I want you to wash my back." So now, I'm gettin' enthusiastic about this dream. So I go to her, but she's hard to find through all the steam and stuff; I keep losing her. Finally I get to the door... and I... find myself in a room full of kids taking their college boards. I'm over three hours late; I've got two minutes to take the whole test. I've... just made a terrible mistake. I'll never get to college. My life is ruined. "
 
Edit: I tried this with my other libraries and none do it well! It has been a blind spot for me.Customer service reached out to me and were very helpful.

So - since SA seems to be a bit swamped right now I'll try here if that's ok.

Has anyone else noticed this strange artifact when playing a legato patch?

As soon as I play an interval higher than an octave, the transition is really strange - instead of transitioning from the low note to the high, it transitions from the low note, then to the note one octave above, then the final note. This happens on all the instruments (tried it at least with 15 patches). Some just has the artifact on one direction (like, it sounds good going up but then weird going down).

I've updated BBCSO to the latest version (1.0.9), don't know if it was there before.
 
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I just used BBSCO on a job, which consisted of two separate pieces, for one they wanted Tangerine Dreamish and the other full on orchestral fireworks bombast-y. (How's that for staying in the flow of the thread!?) The first was synth, sound designy, etc. For the second I tried using BBCSO for the first on time an actual job and it did great! Well, the client was happy anyway, so I'm happy.

BBCSO really did make things easy for an orchestral ignoramus like myself, much less muss and fuss than I'm used to writing orchestral (or as close as I get to that). Whoops just remembered I think I used some other horns on it, maybe Junkie XL or... not sure.

It's actually gotten me interested in the whole Staffpad thing: Write notes, press button, hear music. But I need to buy a new mac before getting a new iPad. Plus I suck at writing time. Suck is an understatement. I've managed to get through life so far without writing rests...
 
krockodundee said:
So - since SA seems to be a bit swamped right now I'll try here if that's ok.

Has anyone else noticed this strange artifact when playing a legato patch?

As soon as I play an interval higher than an octave, the transition is really strange - instead of transitioning from the low note to the high, it transitions from the low note, then to the note one octave above, then the final note. This happens on all the instruments (tried it at least with 15 patches). Some just has the artifact on one direction (like, it sounds good going up but then weird going down).

I've updated BBCSO to the latest version (1.0.9), don't know if it was there before.
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I’ve noticed this but what you describe seems to only happen on mine if playing the keys at a reasonably high velocity. If I play more gently, it doesn’t happen. Perhaps something to do with the velocity options?

Edit: Scratch that. I think it's to do with how you play. If I input a legato sequence into the Logic piano roll, using the Force Legato command, it doesn't happen, regardless of velocity or anything else. If I play the keys with crossover of notes, i.e. first note still activated when I press the next, then it happens.
 
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BBCSO is driving me crazy after I reorganized my hard drives.
I have two hard drives where the library is. One for my MacBook, one for my studio computer.
Now I wanted to work on the MacBook again and although the library is assigned to the correct path I can't load patches. Error #1, again.
Repair does not work because I supposedly used up all repair attempts.
I completely lose interest in this new player. I am about to delete the library and put Spitfire BBCSO (sorry, the library, not the company) on my blacklist.
How can they create such a user unfriendly system.
Just the fact that I can't use the same hard drive on two machines is an absurdity.
The name of the hard disk is identical and I did not change anything on the MacBook disk, only on the studio computer I copied the library to another hard disk.
Nuts!

And no, I don't use them at the same time.
 
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Alex Fraser said:
Who’s still using the BBCSO? Has it lived up to the hype? Been put to one side in favour of another? Anyone using it daily for commercial work? Who’s still in love?
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I would like to, but the new player makes me constantly a dash through the bill.
Love? Far from it.
 
I go back and forth between a MacBook and a stationary PC and I find that using vst3 works better in terms of cross-platform stability.
 
AndyP said:
BBCSO is driving me crazy after I reorganized my hard drives.
I have two hard drives where the library is. One for my MacBook, one for my studio computer.
Now I wanted to work on the MacBook again and although the library is assigned to the correct path I can't load patches. Error #1, again.
Repair does not work because I supposedly used up all repair attempts.
I completely lose interest in this new player. I am about to delete the library and put Spitfire BBCSO (sorry, the library, not the company) on my blacklist.
How can they create such a user unfriendly system.
Just the fact that I can't use the same hard drive on two machines is an absurdity.
The name of the hard disk is identical and I did not change anything on the MacBook disk, only on the studio computer I copied the library to another hard disk.
Nuts!

And no, I don't use them at the same time.
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Works for me without any problems.
 
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AFAIK repairs are "authorisations" tokens, so if you ran out of them contact Spitfire to explain your issue so that they can give you more and help you with your issue
 
krockodundee said:
So - since SA seems to be a bit swamped right now I'll try here if that's ok.

Has anyone else noticed this strange artifact when playing a legato patch?

As soon as I play an interval higher than an octave, the transition is really strange - instead of transitioning from the low note to the high, it transitions from the low note, then to the note one octave above, then the final note. This happens on all the instruments (tried it at least with 15 patches). Some just has the artifact on one direction (like, it sounds good going up but then weird going down).

I've updated BBCSO to the latest version (1.0.9), don't know if it was there before.
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I don't have BBCSO so I don't know for sure, but in EW Hollywood there are no legato transitions larger than an octave. I guess this is because, during production, a line has to be drawn somewhere so as to avoid having to sample a legato transition between every single note across an instrument's entire range.
I imagine the odd transitions you're noticing is just the programming script doing it's best to move between two notes for which there is no single legato transition available.
 
Brasart said:
AFAIK repairs are "authorisations" tokens, so if you ran out of them contact Spitfire to explain your issue so that they can give you more and help you with your issue
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I wrote a ticket but don't expect an answer before Monday and until then I can't use the library mobile.
What annoys me is the maximum cumbersome authorization principle of this new spitfire player. With every third start something is either repaired, updated, reorganized, whatever.
Other manufacturers show how it works better. Just the fact that you can't use one hard disk on 2 computers is a no go. This is an unnecessary additional cost.
As long as SA maintains this principle I will not license any additional library that runs on this player.
Why limit the number of possible repairs? If there are only copy protection reasons, then SA has chosen the worst possible variant one can imagine.
This is, excuse me if I make it so clear, an exclusion criterion for me to buy more SA player libraries because it becomes unpredictable and the risk of not being able to use BBCSO on the road is too big for me.

Everybody has to reorganize libraries and hard disks from time to time and this should be possible with a simple re-linking to the source. The license is on the computer anyway ...
 
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I understand your frustration, but I think you might be overthinking this; pretty much every software company only allows a very limited amount of installations; rarely some are nice enough to give you more if you ask for them, and right now I can only think of Spitfire and Ableton.

It just so happens that "Repair" is the name Spitfire gave to their authorization process, but maybe they could give a better explanation of what it does indeed.
 
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