EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

I have Opus 1 and have used it for a variety of things, mainly classical but
in some pop stuff.  I would say its not really best for what you want -
samples are quite dry but not really aggressive enough for motown strings
feel.  Isn't there a motown strings library from somewhere?

Gareth Hemmings

On 8/12/04 11:33 am, "exs-users@yahoogroups.com" <exs-users@yahoogroups.com>
wrote:

> Message: 2       
>  Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 06:11:12 EST
>  From: topfloormix@...
> Subject: Opus 1 vs EWQLSO gold?
> 
> 
> Dear friends,
> 
> I was wondering if one of you could comment briefly on those two libraries.
> 
> Northernsounds is having a group buy on the EWQLSO, and I also read that it
> was recorded with ambience which is not desirable for me as I am after dry
> samples for disco/funk/motown style.
> Would one of you know how "not" dry it is, i.e: is the ambience really
> getting in a way that it limits you when mixing down?
> 
> I heard the big complete pro VSL library, it sounded fantastic, but out of my
> price range, so I was wondering also if Opus 1 was comparable to the bigger
> one, i.e: dry samples, fast attack, great dynamics/velocity "headroom", would
> it be suitable for my needs?
> 
> Tx
> LG
> 
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been

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Thanks Gareth,

I don't know any other motown style string library. I do have 
Ultimate strings, but only few patches are useful same for P.Sied, I 
also have a D.Jaegger collection Cd in Roland format which sound 
great but once converted in EXS it ends up with hundreds of patches 
so it is not that great at the end;-) I did like the VSL pro I hear 
but I haven't heard the Opus 1. Are they similar? Maybe you think 
that it is not aggressive but the small libray I have is not better, 
far from it. Is GPO any good for my need maybe?

Tx
LG

--- In exs-users@yahoogroups.com, Gareth Hemmings <ghemmings@b...> 
wrote:
> I have Opus 1 and have used it for a variety of things, mainly 
classical but
> in some pop stuff.  I would say its not really best for what you 
want -
> samples are quite dry but not really aggressive enough for motown 
strings
> feel.  Isn't there a motown strings library from somewhere?
> 
> Gareth Hemmings
> 
> On 8/12/04 11:33 am, "exs-users@yahoogroups.com" <exs-
users@yahoogroups.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Message: 2       
> >  Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 06:11:12 EST
> >  From: topfloormix@a...
> > Subject: Opus 1 vs EWQLSO gold?
> > 
> > 
> > Dear friends,
> > 
> > I was wondering if one of you could comment briefly on those two 
libraries.
> > 
> > Northernsounds is having a group buy on the EWQLSO, and I also 
read that it
> > was recorded with ambience which is not desirable for me as I am 
after dry
> > samples for disco/funk/motown style.
> > Would one of you know how "not" dry it is, i.e: is the ambience 
really
> > getting in a way that it limits you when mixing down?
> > 
> > I heard the big complete pro VSL library, it sounded fantastic, 
but out of my
> > price range, so I was wondering also if Opus 1 was comparable to 
the bigger
> > one, i.e: dry samples, fast attack, great 
dynamics/velocity "headroom", would

> > it be suitable for my needs?
> > 
> > Tx
> > LG
> > 
> > 
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been
> 
> --

From: "topfloormix" <topfloormix@...>

>I did like the VSL pro I hear
>but I haven't heard the Opus 1. Are they similar?

Same samples, just fewer programs and samples stretched across a 
whole step rather then every note.

>Maybe you think
>that it is not aggressive but the small libray I have is not better,
>far from it. Is GPO any good for my need maybe?

They're all aggressive if you use the ff programs and use a long predelay.
-- 

Nick Batzdorf
818/905-9101, cell 590-9101, fax 905-5434

Thanks for you input as well Nick.

--- In exs-users@yahoogroups.com, Nick Batzdorf <recording@e...> 
wrote:
>   From: "topfloormix" <topfloormix@a...>
> 
> >I did like the VSL pro I hear
> >but I haven't heard the Opus 1. Are they similar?
> 
> Same samples, just fewer programs and samples stretched across a 
> whole step rather then every note.

Thanks for that, this is a good news as I did like this library.
 
> >Maybe you think
> >that it is not aggressive but the small libray I have is not 
better,
> >far from it. Is GPO any good for my need maybe?
> 
> They're all aggressive if you use the ff programs and use a long 
predelay.

Do you mean the library I already have? I is not as aggressive as the 
VSL I heard, and I don't want to get back into "reprograming" the 
samples. 
The important thing for me is the live response, the same I got with 
the VSL, my library doesn't have enough good patches for that 
purpose, I would say they are best suited for writing and 
programming... I usually play and record the performace live, and 
then tweak it post recording.

LG