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Samplicity announces Berlin Studio plugin

Living Fossil said:
Brass: Modern Scoring Brass
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Nice to see MSB used in a way that plays to its strengths. Just yesterday, I moved it from a slower drive back to a faster SSD with the idea of giving it another go.

Unrelated, anyone use this yet with any SWAM instruments? I'm tempted to go for their current bundle pricing.
 
I just bought "Teldex Studio", ah, I mean "Berlin Studio". It is AMAZING!

And a triple "thank you" to Peter Roos for communicating back and forth with me via email on a Sunday!
 
I can recommend to also experiment with this plugin in ways it wasn't intended for by not taking the descriptions too literally. For example, I just sent two identical copies of a small dry string section to two instances of Berlin Studio on two separate tracks. I used one instance to position the strings in the woodwinds section and soloed the Decca tree. In the other instance I positioned the strings at the sides and soloed the surround mics. Sounded good! :) Of course, you can create many problems this way, but might be worth it to try (if you're not going for a realistic representation of the orchestra).
 
My template is quite Teldex-heavy, so I'm definitely interested in this. Just have to wait for the trial to see how it runs on an AMD-based system.

Has anybody tried it out yet with solo instruments (vocals, strings, world instruments) to place them in front of the orchestra and give them a splash of that room colour? And if yes, which position(s) would be most suitable?
 
Breaker said:
My template is quite Teldex-heavy, so I'm definitely interested in this. Just have to wait for the trial to see how it runs on an AMD-based system.

Has anybody tried it out yet with solo instruments (vocals, strings, world instruments) to place them in front of the orchestra and give them a splash of that room colour? And if yes, which position(s) would be most suitable?
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I am using the mid-wide for a piano in front of the orchestra. I didn't really know what else to choose since there is no allocated place for a soloist.
 
ALittleNightMusic said:
Anybody done some comparisons to some of the usual suspects of reverb? The CR / SH of the world for example.
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Tried it against seventh heaven. I don't have audio snippets right now. Although Seventh Heaven is a beast and does an excellent job at instrument placement, Berlin studio has a bit more realism and complexity to it. I think that has to do with the different mic positions combined as well. Then having IR's for each different position in the room helps as well.

I now use BS for instrument placement and SH for the final touch on the whole mix.
 
Breaker said:
My template is quite Teldex-heavy, so I'm definitely interested in this. Just have to wait for the trial to see how it runs on an AMD-based system.

Has anybody tried it out yet with solo instruments (vocals, strings, world instruments) to place them in front of the orchestra and give them a splash of that room colour? And if yes, which position(s) would be most suitable?
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I run a Ryzen 3950X. Berlin Studio runs like a charm and I can run multiple instances just fine. Haven't tried to seek the limits though, but it looks like I will never reach that anyway :)
 
Loerpert said:
Tried it against seventh heaven. I don't have audio snippets right now. Although Seventh Heaven is a beast and does an excellent job at instrument placement, Berlin studio has a bit more realism and complexity to it. I think that has to do with the different mic positions combined as well. Then having IR's for each different position in the room helps as well.

I now use BS for instrument placement and SH for the final touch on the whole mix.
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If you get the audio clips and care to post them in the Mixing forum, that'd be awesome!
 
NeonMediaKJT said:
ahhh i'm pulling my hair out. I just bought precedence and breeze to achieve the same kind of thing... I love how this sounds. How do they compare?
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They’re shit. Sorry you wasted your money on them. :(

Berlin Studio is in an entirely different league above P/Br.
 
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NeonMediaKJT said:
ahhh i'm pulling my hair out. I just bought precedence and breeze to achieve the same kind of thing... I love how this sounds. How do they compare?
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I wouldn't agree with @Trash Panda (except for the fact that it's most likely abandonware)

Of course, Berlin Studio sounds way better and is indeed a game changer.

Still Precedence and Breeze have their place since they can provide many different room sizes etc.
Nowadays I use Precedence (much) more than Breeze, very often for recorded instruments.
(sometimes I prefer Schoeps Mono Upmix, but this is dependent on the material)

For the phase issues:
I would suggest to use the μ (Mu) mode. The other two can indeed introduce some reduced mono compatibility.
 
Living Fossil said:
I wouldn't agree with @Trash Panda (except for the fact that it's most likely abandonware)

Of course, Berlin Studio sounds way better and is indeed a game changer.

Still Precedence and Breeze have their place since they can provide many different room sizes etc.
Nowadays I use Precedence (much) more than Breeze, very often for recorded instruments.
(sometimes I prefer Schoeps Mono Upmix, but this is dependent on the material)

For the phase issues:
I would suggest to use the μ (Mu) mode. The other two can indeed introduce some reduced mono compatibility.
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So would you say Berlin Studio is more for placing super dry instruments in a room? My intention would be to use default mics on some instruments. Mainly I want to ideally use it with Infinite Brass.
 
NeonMediaKJT said:
So would you say Berlin Studio is more for placing super dry instruments in a room? My intention would be to use default mics on some instruments. Mainly I want to ideally use it with Infinite Brass.
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I think Berlin is fantastic for orchestral stuff, and it plays well along with every kind of libraries
(I posted a track on the previous page [#280] with Berlin in combination with different libraries, and
from those only VSL is a dry one.
You can adjust the mic volumes (and mute some of them) depending on how the library is recorded.

So far it works great with every library I tried (still have to try it with spitfire libraries)

I guess Berlin is great for Infinite Brass.
 
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