What is the general consensus here with this new chamber strings library?
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Odeon chamber strings
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Piet De Ridder
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Re: Odeon chamber strings
I don’t know about the general consensus, but having watched and listened to all the videos, I didn’t feel any strong urge to click the purchase button, I must say. Yes, there are a few nice timbres captured — I quite like the mid and lower register of the violas, for example (something that not every strings library gets right) — but there also seems to be a lot included which I find very unappealing: pretty much everything I heard from the celli, also those unpleasantly aggressive shorts of the low strings, plus all that noisy, smeary ricochet stuff, to name just a few things.
The sound of the library — and I mean the actual sound of the recordings, not the timbres of the instruments — is not something I can get enthusiastic about either. And in all the examples: the more sections that are being combined, the worse the sound gets, I find. That’s always a bad sign. Some of the sections sound OK on their own, but none of the tutti do. Not to my ears anyway. It’s a bit of a grainy, hairy, and often even a low-budget-y type of sound. (A useful sound for emulating 70’s-80’s European movie scores with, though.) For all those reasons, and also because of the rather pronounced and somewhat peculiar spatial element in the recordings, I’m also not sure if this library will work well with orchestral libraries from the likes of, say, Orchestral Tools, Spitfire, EastWest, etc. …
But it’s certainly not all bad. There is, for example, a hint of a more classical colour in the violas and violins at lower dynamics which you don’t encounter very often in sampled strings. And that’s something I would have use for. But not much else.
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The sound of the library — and I mean the actual sound of the recordings, not the timbres of the instruments — is not something I can get enthusiastic about either. And in all the examples: the more sections that are being combined, the worse the sound gets, I find. That’s always a bad sign. Some of the sections sound OK on their own, but none of the tutti do. Not to my ears anyway. It’s a bit of a grainy, hairy, and often even a low-budget-y type of sound. (A useful sound for emulating 70’s-80’s European movie scores with, though.) For all those reasons, and also because of the rather pronounced and somewhat peculiar spatial element in the recordings, I’m also not sure if this library will work well with orchestral libraries from the likes of, say, Orchestral Tools, Spitfire, EastWest, etc. …
But it’s certainly not all bad. There is, for example, a hint of a more classical colour in the violas and violins at lower dynamics which you don’t encounter very often in sampled strings. And that’s something I would have use for. But not much else.
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My name is Nobody
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Re: Odeon chamber strings
Indeed, general consensus isn’t correct, it’s all individual evaluations of products that may be of value or not.
I was triggered myself by the swell and subsequent release that seemed to give good results.
But after taking the time to listen through there is an audible thickening happening when playing polyphonic.
Less and less it becomes a chamber library and it loses clarity of sound.
I was triggered myself by the swell and subsequent release that seemed to give good results.
But after taking the time to listen through there is an audible thickening happening when playing polyphonic.
Less and less it becomes a chamber library and it loses clarity of sound.