Good VST for strings?

[Nephew]

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

Cheers!

[H20nly]

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/

[shuutobi]

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.

[Nephew]

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

[UKRuss]

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.

[Nephew]

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

[Khazul]

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

[lapieuvre]

My favorite: L.A. Scoring Strings

also: Hollywood Strings

[UKRuss]

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.

[EX]

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

[Nephew]

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?

[icedsushi]

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?

[Nephew]

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

[icedsushi]

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.

[MPGK]

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)