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A quick look & review.
well I've always said I prefer dry libraries. I'm pretty sure I've said that multiple times on this forum. To each his own. I've been doing this for 40-something years and have developed a lot of opinions.I mean, personally, I like wet libraries, and find them easier to work with than dry ones, but I didn't find anything you said in the first minute especially controversial. And certainly the most common complaints about SCS and SSS do center on the difficulty of working with the wet room.
It's the Bricasti M7 - Rear of Chapel IR available with the free Halls of Fame convolution reverb from Best Service. I've played with the settings a bit.By the way, what's the hall reverb you use in the video?
Apparently I've already upset someone with this review....
I did, and will be uploading better versions in the future. Thanks.btw, didn’t you previously have Kontakt tweaking videos? They were great
I find a real lack of videos that address how to make simple tweaks and scripts and multiscripts for Kontakt that help you modify commercial libraries. There's more content on how to build your own instrument but a lot of that doesn't apply in the same ways to modifications (especially what you can do under the hood that won't mess with the basic functionality of the instrument).I did, and will be uploading better versions in the future. Thanks.
Hey I can totally confirm that! Really now, when I see your profile photo or nickname I immediately think: "that's the guy who adores bone-dry libraries"!well I've always said I prefer dry libraries. I'm pretty sure I've said that multiple times on this forum. To each his own. I've been doing this for 40-something years and have developed a lot of opinions.
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I believe in the video I say it's a "drier" library than the usual Spitfire offering and allows you more control. I hope no one thinks I'm suggesting it's bone dry or even close to it. That said, my feeling is that anyone trying to replicate the sound of a live (or even recorded) orchestra has a lot more problems to deal with than room reflections and added reverb.The Studio Strings, particularly the core version, isn’t a dry library.
In my opinion/experience, the Studio Strings (and the two other libraries that make up the Studio Series) are at their singular best either without any additional reverb or, if you really must, with a tasteful bit of nice chamber reverb. But as soon as you cross into ‘hall’-territory with the core versions of these libraries, the mismatch between the small baked-in space of the samples, on the one hand, and the suggestion of largeness from the added reverb, on the other, becomes rather off-putting, I find.