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Can anyone suggest a good VST that does strings very well, or would I be better off just trying to look for string samples?

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i got this as a 20 dollar deal of the day thing a while back. worth every penny

http://www.applied-acoustics.com/stringstudio/overview/

H20nly wrote:i got this as a 20 dollar deal of the day thing a while back. worth every penny

http://www.applied-acoustics.com/stringstudio/overview/

This IS the Tension instrument in Live Suite 8 BTW.

Good call on the Tapetronic VST, download their whole pack and a number of their VSTs are actually really cool and pretty straight forward. I prefer a VST that doesn't do much, but what it does do it does well, instead of a VST that tries to be everything and you get more caught up in the VST vs writing the track

I'm liking Session Strings by Native Instruments at the moment, some nice animation features like slides and dives. Runs nicely in their free player. A tidy little package.

Going to look into Session Strings, love NI's Kore player. What free player are you talking about by the way?

UKRuss wrote:I'm liking Session Strings by Native Instruments at the moment, some nice animation features like slides and dives. Runs nicely in their free player. A tidy little package.

+1 to this - very good strings, however the sound does seem very orientated to pop/rock/dance music production rather than orchestral style production. There even mowtown version of mos fo the sounds - so gives you a clue

For me If I need convincing orchestral strings, then ill tend to look at strings in the kontakt library. However, if I need a some nice disco type strings for a house track - then session strings, because they have more character. I also tend to use it at times I need a solo instument (usually viola or cello, ocassionally both) to give something a kind of folk feel.

There alot of useful articulations in session strings as well - especially if funky/disco house type stuf is your thing (good for lots of other genres too of course, just as I do alo fo funky house type stuff, then this was mainly why I got session strings.

Ill tend to go back to kontakt library when I want some orchestral strings to thicken a pad sound for eg - nothing like a good contra bass to beef up the low end of a synth pad, or subtle use of violas ans violins to breath more depth into synth string pads etc.

BTW - Session strings is not included in Komplete 7, but its a good use of the $50 voucher

My favorite: L.A. Scoring Strings

also: Hollywood Strings

Yes, session strings are very much orientated towards contemporary string sounds. They run in Kontakt Player which is a free download now at NI.

Definitely not that geared towards orchestral sounds for sure.

Naturally the all-singing and dancing Vienna set would be the ultimate...

Never messed with any of NI's production software besides their Kore player. Is the Kontakt Player just a VST pluggin you just install and open as an instrument on a midi track?

Why must it be a plugin? How about a sample collection. Ableton has orchestral strings that run in Sampler, anyone tried it?

Looking for synthetic style strings or realistic?

icedsushi wrote:Why must it be a plugin? How about a sample collection. Ableton has orchestral strings that run in Sampler, anyone tried it?

Looking for synthetic style strings or realistic?

I originally asked for VST's or if I would be better of using samples,and it seems the majority here are leaning towards VST's so I'm just going to start there and see what comes of it

Oh sorry I see, missed that part, was referring to thread title.

Still wondering if you're doing orchestral arrangements that require ultimate realism or something more approximate or abstract, which scutheotaku asked earlier.

icedsushi wrote:Why must it be a plugin? How about a sample collection. Ableton has orchestral strings that run in Sampler, anyone tried it?

The Ableton EIC 2 strings sound decent, but don't offer much articulation. I've run one of my jazz arrangements through it, it's on my Soundcloud page. (check my signature)