Raw_Sounds_Creation
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In my obsessive research for the string library to best fit me, I came across the Hollywood series. From what I can tell, Hollywood strings 1 seems as if it could fit a dedicated string library just as well as the Berlin series.
What makes me leery is it comes with a full orchestra and is a fraction of the price of the Spitfire abbey road string bundle or the Berlin string bundle. Every since I tried Musio (And returned it) I have been rather weary of "Too good to be true" libraries.
Is it hard to work with? Does it not sound as good? I am looking for a good bread and butter string library, I may add a chamber string later but just a base string section.
If its really as good or similar to say Berlin, its hard to pass up also getting brass/woodwind/etc.
I also have seen very few suggestions for it, and I am not sure if that's due to iLok, its player, or the resource hogginess.
At first I thought "Well some of the samples are older" but so is OT and Spitfire orchestras. Then I thought "Is it a lack of articulations?" and that doesn't seem the case, it also seems legato is on par.
Whats strange is, despite being an East west product, there isn't much on it in the way of reviews. East West has demos which are of course amazing but they were also made by the top in the industry and mixed by the top in the industry taking who knows how many hours. Any professional level VST can get great results if its used well, but how is the work flow and do you have to write *with* the VST or *for* the VST.
I had dismissed East/West for years, but is that really a good call or no?
What makes me leery is it comes with a full orchestra and is a fraction of the price of the Spitfire abbey road string bundle or the Berlin string bundle. Every since I tried Musio (And returned it) I have been rather weary of "Too good to be true" libraries.
Is it hard to work with? Does it not sound as good? I am looking for a good bread and butter string library, I may add a chamber string later but just a base string section.
If its really as good or similar to say Berlin, its hard to pass up also getting brass/woodwind/etc.
I also have seen very few suggestions for it, and I am not sure if that's due to iLok, its player, or the resource hogginess.
At first I thought "Well some of the samples are older" but so is OT and Spitfire orchestras. Then I thought "Is it a lack of articulations?" and that doesn't seem the case, it also seems legato is on par.
Whats strange is, despite being an East west product, there isn't much on it in the way of reviews. East West has demos which are of course amazing but they were also made by the top in the industry and mixed by the top in the industry taking who knows how many hours. Any professional level VST can get great results if its used well, but how is the work flow and do you have to write *with* the VST or *for* the VST.
I had dismissed East/West for years, but is that really a good call or no?