Composer Anne-Kathrin Dern discussing Strings Libraries
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Geoff Grace
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I'm also enjoying your videos, Anne. Thanks for sharing your opinions, knowledge, and experience.
Best,
Geoff
Best,
Geoff
ProfoundSilence
Senior Member
Working on it as we speak, wait until the twittersphere hears about this!
I'm going straight to HR
I'll have you know that I don't think I've spent 5k on string libraries. I think it's close enough to demand a recount, but so far I've resisted the urge to purchase more lately. *cries in recovering sample addict*
Honestly I think I spent almost as much money on strings as I did on different reverbs trying to make sample modeling brass be something it wasn't.
fourier
Active Member
As a hobbyist I'm very grateful for the straight-forward messaging from Anne. Subjective, honest vidoes from someone in the business is not a dime a dozen. And I actually find Anne to be very humble in her opinions, as she frequently underlines that this is what she thinks based on her experience. This is one of my pet peeves in today's society, how bombastic and trumpian people can be when discussing or promoting their views on things. So to me, this is all very refreshing.
b_elliott
A work in progress.
I am a newb at what it takes to score to film so was fascinated with A-K Dern's video on strings amongst many other revelatory vids she made.
One comment from A-K was her template was cut from 1700 tracks to 800. Which leaves me with a question: What accounts for such high track counts? Is it that each instrument requires high track doublings (10 - 12 instances) to make the Hollywood sound; or, does, each articulation gets its own track (i.e., 40 articulations = 40 tracks)?
It was good for me to discover I don't need Vienna Ensemble Pro for my stuff; however, the question remains: What accounts for 800 tracks?
Cheers from Canada.
One comment from A-K was her template was cut from 1700 tracks to 800. Which leaves me with a question: What accounts for such high track counts? Is it that each instrument requires high track doublings (10 - 12 instances) to make the Hollywood sound; or, does, each articulation gets its own track (i.e., 40 articulations = 40 tracks)?
It was good for me to discover I don't need Vienna Ensemble Pro for my stuff; however, the question remains: What accounts for 800 tracks?
Cheers from Canada.
Bear Market
I am Legion
I too would like to chime in just to express my gratitude to Anne-Kathrin for sharing her knowledge and views, and for the way in which she does it. Much appreciated!
Bear Market
I am Legion
By the looks of Anne-Kathrin's youtube videos, it seems she favours the one-track-per-articulation approach. This will definitely contribute to the high track count. I'd also wager that there are a lot of auxes in her template as well, it appears she has a parallel compression aux setup for each instrument for example.
JonS
Senior Member
She is so strongly opinionated, which is not necessarily a bad thing, but I don't agree with her take on her personal taste about string libraries. I am not as blown away by Cinematic Strings 2 and Cinematic Studio Strings as she is. I think the Albions, Spitfire Mural, Spitfire Sable, and Berlin Strings are all significantly better than her portrayal. She has every right to have such a strong opinion, but for those out there that may not own some of these libraries please note that it's just her personal opinion and other composers are not automatically going to agree with her at all. She bashes Cinestrings and then contradicts herself when she realizes how harsh her initial opinion came off, it's very wishy washy. Just know that you may love a string library that someone else thinks little of, so the only opinion that matters is yours!!
Well that is your opinion as well. She isn't saying it's IS the best string library ever, she's saying that SHE THINKS they are (in the market anyways). Same as your opinion.
ProfoundSilence
Senior Member
I dont care for CSS really(I don't own CS2), and as far as I'm concerned there's absolutely nothing that could take me away from my berlin strings setup at this point... so certainly feels really odd to see someone else feel that she has strong opinions. Although to be fair I usually try to stick to the "if you don't have anything nice to say" rule when it comes to libraries, because people do not like it when you don't like something they spend hundreds on - even if you've paid for the right to not like something you spend hundreds on!
Ohh well, if they wanted her to pretend to like everything but only use xyz her channel's not for them I guess.
JonS
Senior Member
I did not suggest any library is the best or the worst, it's for each individual to decide that opinion, that's all. I don't want anyone thinking the libraries she doesn't recommend are not worth looking into, that's all. Many top composers swear by the Berlin and Spitfire libraries, which she basically dismisses.
I don't know about dense but you're missing some social cues. Even if she was serious and it wasn't hyperbole, I'm not sure what the harm is or how it is evidence of a lack of hubris. It's her opinion. And lastly, even if it was said in arrogance, not everyone is bothered by it, sometimes you're just there for the info, and it might not come in the most appetizing package, but beggars can't be choosers.
