Neocymatics clarinet collection

[My name is Nobody]

has anyone here tried this clarinet kontakt library?
Its promoted as being able to handle jazz, classical and eastern flavours.

https://neocymatics.com/products/clarinet-collection

I bought the hybrid strings long ago but could never get it to sound like the skilled player in the vids.

So, anyone here tried it?
And willing to share their findings?

Thanks
JES

[Piet De Ridder]

I listened to the three demos a few months ago, and again today, with the exact same finding as a result: while there are some really good moments in the bass clarinet demo as well as in the ethnic demo, the classical one is too much of a disappointment (to my ears) to take the risk buying a €180 package. A further obstacle is the fact that the SWAM clarinet, which I have, is also pretty good in mock- or pseudo-ethnic material, so I don’t really need another one of those. Which makes it €180 for just a bass clarinet (and maybe some other useful instruments that are included but not demoed) and I already have the SWAM bass clarinet too.
Now, I wouldn’t mind paying that amount for another really good, agile, expressive and believable bass clarinet — the SWAM one is decent enough, but not great, in my opinion — but then I’d need to hear more of it first because that demo, quite nice though it is at times, focusses on just one style of playing, thereby ignoring many other important techniques, phrasings and articulations that I would like to hear as well before making a decision.

But as it is, it's above all the poor quality of the classical clarinet, plus the fact that the ethnic instrument often sounds as if there's some doubling going on an octave lower, which stops me from jumping in.

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[My name is Nobody]

Thank you Piet for your view on the sound of this library.

I haven’t looked at the swam clarinet(s) recently which are at the same pricing roughly.
I listened to it again, and there is always this hint of artificiality that stops me from going in that direction.
Playability of it is good as is shown in the vid.

But similarly to what you describe about neocymatics clarinet ( my main reason to get it is the more gypsy , jazz, and ethnic flavours) is that when listening closely to the ethnic demo indeed this doubling or chorusing effect seems there plus the attacks of the sound has some oddities to my ear. Whilst it resembles that playing style I would need to hear it on its own ( with no other instruments) to hear what is actually made audible by playing it.

Thanks again for your post and views…. I will still do some swam research for now….