windyweekend
Active Member
Hi all
I'm looking to upgrade my strings from Albion ONE/VSL and would love to hear some opinions.
I prefer to compose w divisi so find AONE frustrating and limited. I'm thinking of going to Mural but can't bridge the financial gap to the entire bundle. Am considering starting with Mural 2 to get some more interesting articulations to layer over AONE with then targeting Mural 1 at a later date.
(Q - is this the right way round to go?)
The big concern I have is that if I do this Spitfire will dump the modular (and eventually affordable) Mural for a new 'Symphonic Strings' library the same way they have axed the modular Brass and Sable ranges - and then I'll have no way of getting what is now the M3 articulations without spending what will be many thousands to get what I essentially already have all over again - just to get the last missing articulation a. I was very close to buying both Sable and various brass packs earlier this year but chose not to because of this new, 'all-or-nothing', pricing model which suddenly had these out of reach. This packaging smells like commercial greed to me and has really pushed me away from Spitfire.
(They'd never do it, but I'd love to see them offer an a la carte pricing model one day where you can pick and choose what instruments/articulations you want and build your own bundles - will have to wait until a big Corp buys them I guess!)
Would love to hear people's thoughts on what I should do here.
I'm looking to upgrade my strings from Albion ONE/VSL and would love to hear some opinions.
I prefer to compose w divisi so find AONE frustrating and limited. I'm thinking of going to Mural but can't bridge the financial gap to the entire bundle. Am considering starting with Mural 2 to get some more interesting articulations to layer over AONE with then targeting Mural 1 at a later date.
(Q - is this the right way round to go?)
The big concern I have is that if I do this Spitfire will dump the modular (and eventually affordable) Mural for a new 'Symphonic Strings' library the same way they have axed the modular Brass and Sable ranges - and then I'll have no way of getting what is now the M3 articulations without spending what will be many thousands to get what I essentially already have all over again - just to get the last missing articulation a. I was very close to buying both Sable and various brass packs earlier this year but chose not to because of this new, 'all-or-nothing', pricing model which suddenly had these out of reach. This packaging smells like commercial greed to me and has really pushed me away from Spitfire.
(They'd never do it, but I'd love to see them offer an a la carte pricing model one day where you can pick and choose what instruments/articulations you want and build your own bundles - will have to wait until a big Corp buys them I guess!)
Would love to hear people's thoughts on what I should do here.
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