Parsifal666
I don't even own a DAW, I'm just a troll.
I'm really liking the tuba and horns here. This would be a steal at the price imo... I am beginning to crumple in the face of the audio, really impressive imo.
I agree that the lowest dynamic layer of the legatos is pretty good on most instruments (horn 1 remains a problem—even when it doesn't sound bad, it doesn't sound like a horn to me). The higher dynamic layers are often good as well, but the layer transitions can be quite bumpy. As @paulthomson's example shows, even the very bumpy one on Trumpet 1 can be neatly finessed if you play with an understanding of how the patch is constructed, and there are two trumpet legato patches so what doesn't work on one, will likely work on the other. E.g., if you need to write a lot of major sevenths, probably try trumpet 1.After a few hours of playing with Studio Brass Pro I'm generally pleased. Especially at the lower/lowest dynamic layer the sampling and instruments are simply stunning.
Agreed the horn does not really sound like a horn to me (I still have yet to find anything that beats the horns in EW Hollywood Brass), but the euphonium sounds quite good.I agree that the lowest dynamic layer of the legatos is pretty good on most instruments (horn 1 remains a problem—even when it doesn't sound bad, it doesn't sound like a horn to me).
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I also quite like the euphonium, especially in the upper register, and this was another draw for me as a supplement to SSB.
TBH, I find the horns to be the weakest instrument in this library by far. So if you like the horns, I'd say you will very much like the library as a whole. The non-legato horn patches are, however, much better than the legato patches.I'm really liking the tuba and horns here. This would be a steal at the price imo... I am beginning to crumple in the face of the audio, really impressive imo.
You know, there is an earlier post that reminded me of how good that EWHB is. And it can be an eminently malleable, dry library. It has balls, but lower velocity dynamics can be quite pleasing there as well. In fact, I'm going to break out those horns and tubas today. A really good library.TBH, I find the horns to be the weakest instrument in this library by far. So if you like the horns, I'd say you will very much like the library as a whole. The non-legato horn patches are, however, much better than the legato patches.
The bells up patches are suitably raucous, especially in the two solo horns. (I haven't yet done a side by side comparison of the bells up patches in SSB). I also like the very muffled sound of the stopped horns. The long sfz is nice both open and stopped.
I think you're reaching there, sorry.It's kind of telling that Paul came here and tried to shift this around to how they're the victims because people are mean to them and criticize the work people there do, instead of trying to fix the problem and tightening up QC and policing the ideas there more to be on the level of their past quality.
Absolutely agree.Dd
I think you're reaching there, sorry.
I believe Paul is genuine about his products and I believe re-peat is genuine in his beliefs. It's a difference of opinion, nothing more. I don't think it's helpful to start up a narrative where Spitfire is trying to protect it's interests like a slippery PR company. That'll send the thread downhill fast.
Piet, what brass and, for that matter, winds don't you hate? Since at the end of the day, hating stuff doesn't get the music written.Making so much heavy weather in public about a library is very uncharacterstic for me though._
Piet, what brass and, for that matter, winds don't you hate? Since at the end of the day, hating stuff doesn't get the music written.
In this post I believe you dismissed every woodwind library in existence, which is helpful info up to a point. But after all the judgement has been dispensed you still have to load something into your DAW.
What are your thoughts on this library, Alexander? I ask because I value your opinion.Well I don´t think he hates it, does he? Well, its dissapointment which speaks there, but hate...come one..I don´t think that this term serves quite accurate here..
Instead of "hate" let's say "strongly look down upon".Well I don´t think he hates it, does he? Well, its dissapointment which speaks there, but hate...come one..I don´t think that this term serves quite accurate here..
What are your thoughts on this library, Alexander? I ask because I value your opinion.
Would like to know too, their libraries were usually very well received here and the guys from the Cinesamples were always cool.Thanks Land of Missing Parts. I'm not sure about EastWest. Their presence was EastWestLurker and he didn't really leave VIC, he just left EastWest and became Ashermusic. Shame to hear about Cinesamples, yes it appears they haven't posted since 2017. I wonder why they left?
Instead of "hate" let's say "strongly look down upon".
As in this post "[The] Virtual Woodwind Land, to me, is a dull, barren waste of musically unsatisfying and sonically inferior efforts that will compromise just about every phrase you give to them and every orchestration they’re part of."