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Hello all

I'm looking for a budget string library. I aware that there's quite a bit out there (e.g. GPO, 
EWQLSO Silver, and so on) but I'd really like to get samples in native (EXS) format.

I read about Session Strings ( http://www.bigfishaudio.com/4DCGI/detail.html?950 ) last 
year but have never seen it reviewed. The demos (on this site) sound fine to me. 

Does anyone have these? Any Comments?

Cheers
-Andrew

On 5/8/04 12:08 PM, "rocksteadybeats" <rocksteadybeats@...> wrote:

> I'm looking for a budget string library. I aware that there's quite a bit out
> there (e.g. GPO, 
> EWQLSO Silver, and so on) but I'd really like to get samples in native (EXS)
> format.
> 
> I read about Session Strings (
> http://www.bigfishaudio.com/4DCGI/detail.html?950 ) last
> year but have never seen it reviewed. The demos (on this site) sound fine to
> me. 
> 
> Does anyone have these? Any Comments?

Get VSL !

While I'm sure it's wonderful, VSL is hardly "budget". Why not look at
Garritan Orchestral Strings "Lite", which you can get for under $200 in Giga
format, then convert to EXS using the built-in converter, or with Translator
or CDXtract. For considerably more, you can get the Sonic Implants Mini
string library, but on a Mac that's difficult to install. If you have a PC,
that's another matter.

I haven't tried the Session strings, but I have GOS Lite and it's quite good
(not perfect). Some of the demos for Session strings sounded OK, others
rather cheesy. But any library can be made to sound cheesy if the user
doesn't know how strings are supposed to sound, so it's hard to tell how the
Session strings might work for a skilled sample user.

If anyone's interested, I can put up examples of an original orchestral
piece I sequenced using the Garritan library (GOS Lite), as well as the same
piece using the Sonic Implants (SISS Mini), and with both GOS and SISS
blended together (which I like the best.)



Don Newmeyer


on 5/8/04 10:41 PM, Robert Ludwig at ludwig.robert@... wrote:

> On 5/8/04 12:08 PM, "rocksteadybeats" <rocksteadybeats@...> wrote:
> 
>> I'm looking for a budget string library. I aware that there's quite a bit out
>> there (e.g. GPO,
>> EWQLSO Silver, and so on) but I'd really like to get samples in native (EXS)
>> format.
>> 
>> I read about Session Strings (
>> http://www.bigfishaudio.com/4DCGI/detail.html?950 ) last
>> year but have never seen it reviewed. The demos (on this site) sound fine to
>> me. 
>> 
>> Does anyone have these? Any Comments?
> 
> Get VSL !
> 
> 
> 
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Don's right, VSL is out of my budget - even Opus 1. It's also way over the top for what I 
need. 
I completely understand that those scoring classical music need to have all these different 
articulations sampled but as a non-classical person, I don't know what most of them 
mean.

I'm look for something that sound's convincing - in the context of a tune with a 'disco 
beat' pumping through it ;-)

I'm really surprised that I've heard so little about the session strings library - there are not 
many cheap exs native string libraries on the market after all. I'll probabley just have to 
'bite the bullet' and risk the $99 on this unknown library.

p.s. Don, I'd love to hear your tunes. 

All the best
-Andrew

> Don's right, VSL is out of my budget - even Opus 1. It's also way over the
> top for what I need.
> I completely understand that those scoring classical music need to have
> all these different
> articulations sampled but as a non-classical person, I don't know what
> most of them> mean.
>
> I'm look for something that sound's convincing - in the context of a tune
> with a 'disco beat' pumping through it ;-)
>
> I'm really surprised that I've heard so little about the session strings
library - there are not
> many cheap exs native string libraries on the market after all. I'll
> probabley just have to
> 'bite the bullet' and risk the $99 on this unknown library.

Check http://www.gigfiles.com, they have a cool string soundbank for modern,
disco things. Much better than GM, but very playable. (about 500 mb
soundbank).

Nikko