orchestral samples?

virtualstudio · Post by **virtualstudio** » Sat Oct 19, 2002 6:46 am

hi

I want to invest some money in my orchestral sample libary, does anybody have suggestions on:
*strings
*brass
*woodwinds
*percussion

I have a few in emu format but I like them in sts format. I've heard "smart violins"at a friends place, but was not very impressed.

thanks
Terranova-Amsterdam

marcuspocus · Post by **marcuspocus** » Sat Oct 19, 2002 10:30 am

For strigs, have a look at 'Garritan's Strings'. They're said to be the best thing available... Personnaly, i use 'EMU Advanced Orchestra', i find them ok.

virtualstudio · Post by **virtualstudio** » Sat Oct 19, 2002 11:43 am

how do you import them in sts?

eliam · Post by **eliam** » Sat Oct 19, 2002 11:54 pm

The new, big libraries are released mainly in giga format, because of its streaming capabilities. I used a 1.5 gig piano program with plenty of room to load many more instruments in giga. But, a friend of mine with an emu sampler took that piano bank, polished it and reduced it to 250 meg without any quality loss, and in fact with an enormous improvement due to the filtering which he programmed in his sampler... He also made a diluted version of 60 megs, which sounds better than the 1.5 gig version!!
So when you resize and clean the samples, you can make these programs manegeable on non-streaming softwares.
As for the coming orchestral libraries, there are amazing products coming soon. We can say gigantic libraries, which might make everything else more or less obsolete. Check at http://www.northernsounds.com in the quantum leap orchestral library forum. The other project is called Vienna symphonic library. For horns, check the amazing sam horns sold at an amazing price! I'll probably be buying the sam cd as soon as I can.

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virtualstudio · Post by **virtualstudio** » Sun Oct 20, 2002 10:59 am

first of all thanks for info.

I'm really a nitwit with those things, I also have Emu piano program but I would not know how to load them in the STS, same for giga format.

To MARCUSPOCUS: Respect man!!! how you always take time in both forums to help other people, and on top you find time to make music.... thanks

Terranova-Amsterdam

marcuspocus · Post by **marcuspocus** » Sun Oct 20, 2002 7:33 pm

On 2002-10-19 12:43, virtualstudio wrote:
how do you import them in sts?

For all kinda CDs, i use CDXtract4, the fastest of them all, and now support import from/to STS completely, included splitting 8layer programs into 2 keygroups of 4 layers (Giga to STS).

Pretty cheap also for what it's worth

braincell · Post by **braincell** » Sun Oct 27, 2002 12:22 pm

Gigastudio works great for me when I am playing the piano but as soon as I hit record the sequencer goes crazy and slows down a lot when too many notes are played too fast.

marcuspocus · Post by **marcuspocus** » Sun Oct 27, 2002 1:15 pm

Yeah, that's why i left gigastudio. Too much of a resource hog. The streaming of sample, while it is very desirable for hi polyphony count, you need a second physical drive for that, if not a complete second PC!

My STS5000 is far more performant when it come to 'everything on the same machine'. And i also have LOT more control than giga.

braincell · Post by **braincell** » Sun Oct 27, 2002 9:57 pm

Well it is streaming from a second drive. I think I'm going to use the gigastudio on another computer. A lot of people use two computers with it.