Musical Sampling 50% off sale inc Soaring Strings

[Guy Rowland]

Looks like a sale across the range (also from retailers such as JRR Shop) til 15th July, up to 50% off.

The range includes Soaring, Adventure and Trailer strings, brass and bundles.

Grateful for any thoughts on Soaring Strings in particular, had my eye on it for a while to cover the vintage molte stuff in particular.

https://www.musicalsampling.com

[kony]

Hmmm, I'm very tempted to get the orchestral bundle. Thanks for the update, Guy!

[Lawrence]

Guy, I was tied up for the day and through tomorrow, but I’ll try to put a quick user demo together on Saturday.

I especially like the cello section.

[Guy Rowland]

Guy, I was tied up for the day and through tomorrow, but I’ll try to put a quick user demo together on Saturday.

I especially like the cello section.

That would be hugely appreciated, thanks Larry. Reckon at that price it could be well worth adding to the arsenal.

[Scoredog]

Soaring Strings is nice but a bit memory hungry. As far as Vintage I always think that comes from the writing. It has a very nice motto vibrato patch for layering melodies, at half price it is a nice thing but...you have a ton of libraries already.

[Guy Rowland]

The writing of course. But the fact is that tonally with those violins in particular I can't get that sound with what I have. I had to do some vintage stuff a while ago, and in the end with a combination of libraries I got it sort of passable - not a disaster - but not that very OTT molte I hear in Soaring just in the walkthrough video playing single notes. And I tried pretty much everything in the arsenal in every combination.

[Guy Rowland]

(Just to add that I found my last post so self-persuasive I ordered it. Larry don't do a demo on my account, but of course if you want to for the good of the forum go ahead!)

[Lawrence]

Hahaha! Canceled.

There’s also an over the top molto legato violin patch from 8Dio that sounded pretty good to me but I disremember the name.

[kony]

I've reconsidered getting the orchestral bundle due to a limited budget. I'll get Soaring Strings but I'm also interested in their brass libraries. I'm currently using Cinebrass Core and Pro + Ark 1 for brass so I'm wondering whether Adventure Brass or Trailer Brass would add anything to the arsenal.

Could anyone please comment on Adventure Brass and Trailer Brass, and whether either of these libraries would be worth getting in the context of what I already have?

Edit: Please ignore - I've found lots of comparisons online ... and here of course!

[Guy Rowland]

I got my code yesterday but I've not been able to make it work. Although I bought from JRR Shop, the code and registration happens through Best Service. I registered the product fine with the code from JRR Shop. However, its the code from Best Service that I can't make any sense of. I didn't get any download links per se, but there was a Continuata manual pdf in my Best Service account link, so I assumed it was that. Continuata seems to acknowledge it as a real code, but it generates the error "please check your code is correct" and "product is not available, please conduct the vendor".

I've obviously contacted Best Service this morning but not heard anything. I figured being a weekend it might take a while, so if anyone has any ideas about anything I might be doing wrong here, I'm all ears.

EDIT - solved, I think. In the instructions pdf there is a link to what at first sight looks like the normal Connect app download. Instead it takes you to yet another registration screen. Put the 2nd code into that, and it generates a 3rd code. That then should work in Connect. Then once downloaded, simply put that in to the dilithium crystal, collect all 7 horcruxes, throw them all into Mount Doom and assuming your midichorians are active, away you go.

Bloody hell...

[Guy Rowland]

A cute irony - thogh the registration process is so convoluted it took me two days and two threads to navigate, the download itself was the fastest I've ever had, hitting 340mbps. As it's only a 4gb library (4gb!!), it took literally 3-4 minutes.

As to the product itself, few if any surprises, but that's just fine by me. By quite some distance, it's the violins that have that most distinctive molte molte sound, and I absolutely don't have anything else that comes close to this. The other four sections are all within the realm of normality, and on their own don't give me the same feeling of something quantifiably new in the arsenal, but of course they'll blend excellently with the violins.

I very much like that the recordings are pretty dry, just a short natural space with no long tail. This suits that era perfectly, and the reason why I've gravitated towards Hollywood Strings before to get anywhere near. Occasionally I feel I'm hearing almost a pumping effect at full throttle, a slight bumpiness in the sound somewhere that I haven't quite tracked down. The legatos seem very solid, play nice and quick. My only major reservation is that this was a library that also called for portamento, which is used quite liberally in a lot of this style.

The ensemble patches play great. Yes, of course there is a bit of a problem with section size build up, but that's to be expected. Here the molte molte can possibly exacerbate the issue, in which case swapping out for the individual instruments and leaning on the violas for harmony lines may help as they are less aurally thick.

Overall very happy. $249 for essentially one specific purpose for me was just a little on the rich side, but at $129 hits the spot. Its a non-Player libray btw.