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Spitfire Audio - "It's all about to change" - BBCSO Core / Discover

ism said:
How about a 7 hour youtube review of every single possible detail of the bass flute - any volunteers?
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Agreed! And the brass section too, to see and hear if they made any improvements to that from all the feedback provided by the community. We need coverage on the brass too! :laugh:
 
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MarcHedenberg said:
So are we just not gonna talk about the fact that they gave current BBCSO owners the bass flute?
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Well, as a classically trained traverso player, I’m more than happy to welcome this bass flute. Even though I would be able to play one myself, it’s a much more expensive instrument and less easy to master.
 
Also seems like they updated the page, they have core and discoverr templates
www.spitfireaudiothepage.com

Core Templates — THE PAGE

Christian Henson & Jake Jackson have put together orchestral templates for Logic, Protools, and GarageBand for use with BBC Symphony Orchestra Core. You can download those templates below.
www.spitfireaudiothepage.com www.spitfireaudiothepage.com
For logic, pro tools and garageband, interesting!
 
Matt Damon said:
Here's what one can do and achieve a much better result and for not much more money.

Invest in a Sibelius subscription.

Invest in Noteperformer 3 which you can now get on a rent-to-own thing for 10 bucks a month, cancel anytime.

You can also apply your own reverbs to it if you want. It's affordable, and you will be able to write music that totally wrecks whatever you'll be able to do with this "discover" thing. Like, you'll be able to write music that's actually musical.






That's a Matt Damon promise!
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I prefer the level of control and the workflow of a DAW for what I do. If the goal is a good MIDI mockup, notation software is much clunkier for that purpose. If somehow I'm going straight from sheet music to musician's stands (which doesn't happen in the industry at all AFAIK), then I might as well just use notation software, but in that case I don't see the point of note performer because I don't need to make a mockup...
 
purple said:
I prefer the level of control and the workflow of a DAW for what I do. If the goal is a good MIDI mockup, notation software is much clunkier for that purpose. If somehow I'm going straight from sheet music to musician's stands (which doesn't happen in the industry at all AFAIK), then I might as well just use notation software, but in that case I don't see the point of note performer because I don't need to make a mockup...
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Yeah, but those NotePerformer mockups sound a lot better and go a lot quicker than 90% of most DAW mockups that try to play that kind of music.

And for a lot less money.
 
Matt Damon said:
Yeah, but those NotePerformer mockups sound a lot better and go a lot quicker than 90% of most DAW mockups that try to play that kind of music.

And for a lot less money.
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Please point me to one that you think illustrates that. Not challenging you, honestly curious.
 
Ashermusic said:
Please point me to one that you think illustrates that. Not challenging you, honestly curious.
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BBCSO PRO vs Noteperformer on the star wars opening.

Regardless, the discovery version is a terrific idea - but I don't see the main audience as music students!
A kid playing the violin and wanting to write orchestra music already thinks of music as notes on a page and is going to start there, not messing around with Garageband. That kid is gonna want to write for his friends, his school band, etc...

The main audience, I think, is musicians and producers in other genres (including kids/students). These people see music as being in a DAW and are going to see the possibilities of utilizing orchestra sounds in their productions. They are gonna be primarily concerned with ease of use, transferability between systems, and sonic fidelity - which discovery nails. These people are also likely to be used to spending money on gear and might be tempted to buy a larger package if they get hooked.

My guess is that spitfire is realizing there is a cap on the film scoring/realistic orchestra samples market, and need to pivot more of their demographics to producers of other types of music if they want to continue the massive and unprecedented growth they have had.
 
tonaliszt said:
BBCSO PRO vs Noteperformer on the star wars opening.
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Yeah, I was unaware of this mockup from Spitfire and I have to say the Noteperformer one is absolutely better.

and this is 150 dollar software (excluding Sibelius) vs roughly 1000?

OOF

Not to mention that that's just from loading in a music XML file and slightly tweaking it in Noteperformer. Even if one could, with putting in the time, make it better with Kontakt samples — I seriously doubt I'm gonna hear an example that justifies the time input and cost.
 
I was relieved; Paul was very excited. :grin:

Thinking of getting the Core version - if I manage to dig the pennies from somewhere before the introductory price ends (being unemployed at the moment).
 
For me, there is a different angle to the BBCSO Discover.

I always wished there was a 'try before you buy' with Spitfire Audio products.

There was always so many mixed views on the BBC stuff, even after viewing all the reviews and hearing the demos and walkthroughs, I was not sure if it was for me.

Now I can play around and see for myself before committing to a €1k library with no resell option.

I know this wasn't the point of Discover, but maybe in the future Spitfire could offer a free 'longs and stacc' lite version with perhaps 2 or 3 instruments of any new libraries costing over 500€.
 
This is exactly why I have given up on them long ago. I can't stand the way they perpetually promote rubbish. I have deleted all of their piano libraries as they had too many faults. Overpriced eye candy.
 
For me it's a change indeed.
I have BBC SO Professional (pre-ordered), but the BBC SO project I started writing on my Windows 7 machine was not playable properly on my new Windows 10 PC. Clicks and pops, CPU overloads all the time.

Yesterday I updated to the new version of the plugin, project playback was smooth, CPU load was around 35-40%. Still to be tested, but very promising for now.

Can anyone else confirm the improvement on performance?
 
tadam said:
For me it's a change indeed.
I have BBC SO Professional (pre-ordered), but the BBC SO project I started writing on my Windows 7 machine was not playable properly on my new Windows 10 PC. Clicks and pops, CPU overloads all the time.

Yesterday I updated to the new version of the plugin, project playback was smooth, CPU load was around 35-40%. Still to be tested, but very promising for now.

Can anyone else confirm the improvement on performance?
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So software you bought last year didn't work, they do hype marketing that turns out to be an update only for your software to work.

Fab.
 
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