For me it's clear, I love this library, but even love has a price, $400 max, more I'll pass my turnCould you lads please stop raising the price of the library?
The idea of different movie scenes ( love, action,barbaric, ethnic, thrill, etc etc) is really a super idea. Every nki is ready for a different scene.
Amazing.
hahah that would be an insane price.
It's effectively 2 libraries in one, a 40-ish piece string orchestra and a 20-ish piece one. Each of those may not be a "workhorse" but they do have true legato, sustains, spiccato, and 3 mic positions. Already we're getting into the territory of roughly competing with certain other libraries available at $249 and $299 although it's not an apples to apples comparison.
BUT... then on top of that "2 very basic workhorses" library there's a chamber size high strings section with true con sordino and legato, trills and tremolos sampled up to an octave, chamber string flautandos, pizzicatos, several different kind of "ethnic portamento" strings, sound design patches, aleatoric cluster sustains and shorts, and the remaining 1/3rd of the library we haven't seen yet!
And everything is sampled with a beautiful tone and emotion!
I will be pleasantly surprised if this is cheaper than LASS, BST, etc. Afflatus may not be thoroughly deeply sampled "vanilla strings" like those libraries but it could easily end up being just as large a chunk of your SSD.
I think that question is subjective to the composer. What makes this library special is that the articulations presented are developed in a stylized way. For instance, the Impressionist patches. You can create trills with this but it's character is different than most trills, the same with all of the legato patches.I'm curious what's missing that doesn't make this a workhorse library?
I'm curious what's missing that doesn't make this a workhorse library?
It has cellos, just not in certain patches like the "Scene D'amour"no Celli?
I am not too fond of price guesses in a commercial thread.
I agree. With all this content in one library i am ready to pay whatever it will cost.You have min. three totally different legatos for Celli as well as the standard articulations. There is no Scene d' Amour Celli, because it didn't make sense to record one for this particular style.
Afflatus has all the core articulations you need to write basic string arrangements covered as well as more advanced techniques. Just because we said on youtube that it is a great addition to any other string library out there, due to it's advanced articulations, doesn't mean it can't be or wasn't designed as a workhorse library.
Now talking about pricing: Afflatus will have a similar approach as our other releases. There will be a reduced price at release day and as some of you might know we always put loyal customers first, so expect some crossgrade discounts to be available.
This is by far our biggest project to date. Auto divisi with polyphonic true legato, various section sizes, an integrated sound design library, orchestrated ensembles with choir, ethnic instruments...and huge full ensemble sections with tons of content, which we will reveal soon, comes at a certain price. It was important to us to not put any nice to have one shot recording in this collection, but only useable and playable sounds.
And yes we listen to you and always try to add content/features you want to have in one of our libraries even after release. For example we added 8 Polyphonic True Legato Patches for free to Wotan this year. So maybe there will be a Scene d' Amour Celli section in the future...
Yes full ensembles !!!! Reveal....reveal.....shark Strings legatos !!!!!! That's The best nki name ever !!!!!! Sharks!!!!!!!You have min. three totally different legatos for Celli as well as the standard articulations. There is no Scene d' Amour Celli, because it didn't make sense to record one for this particular style.
Afflatus has all the core articulations you need to write basic string arrangements covered as well as more advanced techniques. Just because we said on youtube that it is a great addition to any other string library out there, due to it's advanced articulations, doesn't mean it can't be or wasn't designed as a workhorse library.
Now talking about pricing: Afflatus will have a similar approach as our other releases. There will be a reduced price at release day and as some of you might know we always put loyal customers first, so expect some crossgrade discounts to be available.
This is by far our biggest project to date. Auto divisi with polyphonic true legato, various section sizes, an integrated sound design library, orchestrated ensembles with choir, ethnic instruments...and huge full ensemble sections with tons of content, which we will reveal soon, comes at a certain price. It was important to us to not put any nice to have one shot recording in this collection, but only useable and playable sounds.
And yes we listen to you and always try to add content/features you want to have in one of our libraries even after release. For example we added 8 Polyphonic True Legato Patches for free to Wotan this year. So maybe there will be a Scene d' Amour Celli section in the future...
DaaaDap DaaaDap...!!!!!! Sharks!!!!!!!
And the other point of my post, which I perhaps made too subtly, is that people are being too compartmentalized in their thinking about this library.
The library in a sense encourages you to think of "Minimalistic Strings" as an entirely different mini-library from "Chamber Strings" or "Scene D'Amour."
But please remember that these are the same musicians in the same space playing the same instruments.
The playing styles are about the mood & instructions to the musicians, not like they whipped out a totally different set of instruments to play the "Scene D'Amour" samples right?
So you can mix and match. When you add up the different articulations available across the "little" libraries, you're not that far from "workhorse":
all that's really missing is some more variety of shorts - although there are plenty of libraries out there with only spiccato + staccato (and no tenuto) so I consider this just a different variation of the standard setup.
- you've got legato
- pizzicato
- spiccato
- sustains
- trills
- tremolo
- tenuto shorts