What are your favorite / workhorse Hollywood Strings articulations / patches?

[dadadave]

People keep mentioning how unwieldy HS is in terms of patches, so I'd thought I'd ask and see if it's a case of there being a lot of gold (or diamonds...) in a handful of patches that are hard to find amidst all the countless variations, or if it's a case of "they're all good, there's just a lot of them". The recent "Soaring Strings" tutorial video had a few interesting tips, but what do people here think (and use the most).

Also: What would you say Hollywood Strings does particularly well, compared to other libraries (e.g. runs)?

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[Beans]

This is a good post that influenced my template:

Which library would you choose...

Then the other half is trailer work...I would like to focus at first, on trying trailers...so that's where I'm at. Thank you for the detailed explanation and your time ...out of all those you own, which is the one you use most? You shouldn't listen to me... for instance because I never do...

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Another:

Hollywood Strings patch suggestions for template

Hi all, I'm creating my Hollywood Strings template in CB9. I have been using VI for a while but very new to orchestral libraries. This library has so many patches, any suggestions as which one I should include ? I just switched to CB9 from PT and still testing different workflow. I definitely...

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It was lovely to trim down my selections to these, pulling in others as experiments.

 

[Snarf]

I usually start with the following patches:

Shorts MOD SPEED
Leg BC + Slur RR LT 6 Ni (dynamics and vibrato linked to modwheel - might switch to Powerful system patches later on)
- alternatively I use the StacSl variants (and/or + Port for those few occasions I need them)
Pizz RRx4
Tremolo Ni
Measured Trem TS Ni (or Repetitions TS Ni)
Trill HT WT Ni
Spic Runs smooth (or another run patch, depending on which works best)

And sometimes a Detache or Sus RR 4th pos Ni patch, or other speciality articulations as needed.