11 Solo String Libraries Reviewed

hello everybody today we are going to embark on an epic review of solo string libraries we've got loads of them and so I'm going to be going through them one by one telling you how much they cost where they come from what you get for your money and then doing a little tiny weeny bit of scoring with them like like four or five bars or something just so you start to get the idea of how it all falls together um so this is going to be quite a long video but don't worry because we have chapter markers across the bottom so you can hop through the ones you're interested in I'm delighted that I've been joined by my very own um shed string quartet they live in here they're very very small and they're incredibly um useful because they don't need string samples so they'll be giving me a hand as we go through this giving me their point of view um so let's get stuck in and I'll show you how this is all going to work out so first up today is solo strings by Spitfire it's a library which has been around for a little while um it's 349 pounds um the download side's 43 gigabytes and you need 87 gigabytes of disk space in order to enjoy it in all its Glory um the kind of thing you get is this so this is the total performance violin you do have with this library and a really large selection of articulations let me give you a clue as to how that works if we just uh zoom in a little bit here we go right so if I take you through the individual articulation look oh my goodness gracious me yes so you can have long harmonic short harmonics you can have short brushed Baroque consoledino how what do you you say to the the you're saying to your violin player give me short whatever it was Baroque I mean no they they don't know what that means either anyway it doesn't matter because it's there so if on a Thursday morning in October you decide that's absolutely what you need you're in business now the library is recorded in the uh Lindhurst Hall where they recorded all the other um bits of the uh sit Farm Spitfire symphonic orchestra it means it's got quite a big Ambience to it it also means it Blends very well if you want a solar line sitting on top of the um Orchestra it works really well um if you want a really kind of tight dry sound it works less well but let's now just plow in and just write a few bars of music and see what happens um okay I'm gonna start the Elder is always as regular viewers will know a bit of a touchstone for me as to how things go uh spicato [Music] actually we're going to start with some cut stuffer okay I'm gonna just start with that and see what happens [Music] hello Luke right thank you very much okay now we're going to add to that um uh cello foreign [Music] virtuoso Legato monitor [Music] no it's not nearly right [Music] everyone really okay um let's use this first deck as a second violin uh what are we gonna use him for I'll go some pits okay [Music] okay there you go so it sounds um really nice obviously why space [Music] so that's a spitfast early strings um I didn't want my desks leaping about um it's been around for a while it's a really solid Choice uh it's extremely powerful you've got a whole load of different term options with your articulations and your um legatos and things like that so A good all of these are good choices and um shed quartet what do you think sorry put you down slowly I think I broke somebody's stradivirus in there right let's move on to Berlin first chairs from orchestral tools it comes to 299 Euros plus vat um again it's um it it's recorded in the um same Studio where they record everything else is it the tel deck stage in Berlin I think it is um and so it will blend very well if you're a Berlin strings user with the rest of the because it's the same Ambience and all the rest of it and exactly the same um caveat I was sort of talking about with Spitfire strings that if you want sort of super dry and close this is not probably a library view but it is a once again pretty comprehensive uh let's uh leap into the uh world of here we go so what you get if you look down the side here shall I zoom in are you ready shall we try zooming in yeah let's try zooming in you get sustained Legato sustained stuff sustain accented potato long potato short staccato spicato Pizzicato tremolando and trills okay so you're not getting um the kind of enormous Baroque brush whatever that you get with uh Spitfire but you've got everything you need there to um to to do whatever you really want I think for you know if you're going to do a really detailed string quartet and you want every articulation known to mankind then you're probably going to come up it's going to feel a little bit limiting but most of us don't do that do we so uh you know let's have a listen to what uh Berlin first chair sounds like obviously it comes up in the well obviously it comes in the sign player which is um um I really like it I think it's really useful I like that sound because it's not overly um vibrato sometimes I think the vibrato is just a bit too much [Music] potato long [Music] that's lovely short [Music] everything you want okay let's uh mute off me solo strings up there and give this a go I tell you what we're gonna I like that poltato we're going to use a bit of that two of them I know I'm cheating this time I'm going to try and work out what my chord progression is before I try and prank before I play it so what is it going to be guys [Music] so I don't know I'll work it out you just said you weren't going to do that I know well I did work it out so that's portato short now let's go for let's try this so look everybody wants to know what the Legato sounds like and so we put the lookout on the top of that I don't know what this screen is doing [Music] wow [Music] there there's strange things going oh what oh yeah I don't care I'm just gonna go with it um right and with this we'll use some spicato or that's right that's nice I like that chunky chunky is how you describe that [Music] thank you we also have a base with this of course which will add some pits um where's some pits pits down there yep um yeah I think I'll have some pits some have the base some don't but of these low [Music] foreign [Music] okay we haven't used alveolar yet and out of deference to the viola players union I will do so okay here we go um [Music] I've got to work out a middle part now [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] it worked out right I think oh Lord what happened they rather like that thank you boys and girls very nice of you okay and now onwards to cinematic Studio solo strings um this is 299 um dollars plus v80 and 42 gigabytes of your precious hard drive space um it is uh it looks a little bit like this here we go come up my friend boing um it is a little bit different to some of the others and I'll show you how um for example if we zoom in there we go um if we take staccato and I'm now moving the mod wheel it the mod wheel chooses between spiccato to cartissimo staccato and sportsando [Music] once you get your hand your head around it it's quite useful because in Real Time Performance likewise you can do Pizzicato [Music] Etc um with the um sustains you've got you can either have legato um or sustained [Music] one of the nice things one of the nice things is this um the Legato I mean the um vibrato is controlled by cc2 that's my little blue lights down here ready vibrato [Music] I like that that's really useful that kind of control over the vibrato because sometimes there's just too much and it's a bit kind of and other times it's too flat but actually the what you're getting there is a really nice transition between [Music] which is good stuff another thing I really like about CSS the right number of s's yes CSS is um they have an ensemble patch which is super useful [Music] really good right let's get into this and write something um what am I going to do this time am I going to come up with 10 different pieces of music okay we'll go for it we'll start with [Music] you know don't do everything in c minor guy it's getting boring a minor no uh G major [Music] no idea what's going to happen here Ah that's good for Chelly [Music] no nearly okay now we go for a Top Line [Music] okay come on in try and Salvage this piece guy [Music] and this is not my finest work okay [Music] shall we go with something which is not am I gonna go tremino [Music] well why not [Music] oh lordy lordy lordy okay look um with uh audio apologies to cinematic studio so you happen to cop for the time when the wheels fell off what what what what that was not very polite the orcas of the sample is very my composition was very okay Moving On Right Moving On next up is cremona okay so what would happen if you um attempted to samples you know the world's greatest instruments you know stradivari amarty violas stradivari jelly violins all the rest of it that's what the cremona quartet is it's um 179 pounds 50 currently but full price is 359 pounds it's included in the Native Instruments complete collector's edition and it um the Corp Tech comes with four uh four instruments two violins uh Stradivarius uh guanieri and amati Viola and a stradivari cello um I actually had a a wonderful cellist I used to work with Tony please uh absolutely great and he had a stradivaraches would you like me to buy tomorrow of course you go you know and it can be really loud it did sound absolutely incredible and you know so there's this guy with a cello which was worth more than a house anyway totally off topic right let's get into cremona and there is a couple of things about criminal which is uh uh quite well it's a number of things which is interesting about it firstly the way it's programmed you get to set up how you want it now what this means essentially is what look so you've got virtuoso detached by a staccato Pizzicato well then you can choose what you put in there so if we want uh spikatissimo on that one you can also choose oops let's bring down what the key switch is going to be look you can choose that or you can even just go like that and then say that's the one um so you get a lot of control here over how the um instrument is set up the actual sound itself sounds very much like this [Music] um really quite a nice sound um let's try the cello here we go hello stradivaricello [Music] and you've got control over various aspects of the vibrato and what else can you control all kinds of things look those are the kind of articulations you get sustain makata detache adaptive virtuoso short so Tilly single spicatissimus picata staccato Pizzicato tremolando Trill ricochets or delay Crescendo de menuendo and Longs uh silpont soltaste harmonics and coleno that's quite a list and you get controls over things like the position you know on the string because it makes a difference to how it sounds um and but that's normally left on automatic unless you feel particularly adventurous uh and again you've got a choice of how um the uh the vibrato Works do you want it passionate intense wide evolving narrow or intermediate um anyway okay let give this a run for its money right I'm going to start with uh I don't know I think I'm going to start with a chunky little staccato cello or do I want let's go on let's switch it up guy just ordinary spicato that's nice if I say it myself that's nice thank you that wasn't very good but there we go it doesn't matter it's not going to last long oh Guy come on have some confidence [Music] nice [Music] foreign there's a lot of characters in this sample no no no no no really [Music] why am I playing it up there if it's a viola why don't you start guy with a violin yeah why not good idea [Music] okay there's one uh retro record it didn't do it sorry [Music] oh had me vibrato turned down nice [Music] um let's see how this goes [Music] wow car crash okay [Music] now let's put something in the middle foreign [Music] nice sound [Music] this is harmonically conflicting conflicted [Music] that middle line which isn't any good so I'm going to take it out and I'm going to change it for something short and we're going to put in that's what's so Tilly what's that I do remember what so Tilly what is it again [Music] okay let's now listen a little performance ladies and gentlemen the cremona quartet [Music] right lots of character lots of control you notice that the vibrato again came in on cc2 down here which is uh which is a good thing um yeah and you've got multi-mic oh no it's good it's really good um I haven't really played Reddit match before and I have to say I'm you know I'm very much warming to that not least because um what you may be starting to notice as we go through this is if what you've been there all the time no don't be nice I'm not boring I think you've got the patience of the Saints the the shed control quartet saying anyway um the you can really feel the character which comes out of some of these libraries and um we got some others coming up which are real we've got lots of character which you know it which can you know if it happens to be your thing and you want it to blend in with your style of music um then it can be a big plus okay so coming up next um is um vsl Vienna symphonic Library they've been at this for a while um this is the synchronized solo strings um which is 595 Euros um so what the synchronized bit means is they take a library which was written for their original vsl player and they import it into their new player which gives you a lot more control over various things so it wasn't originally recorded for the synchron player but do we care not much if it sounds good it is good now welcome to the world of vsl at First Sight is can be a little bit baffling so let me just talk you through it um you've got a lot of choice with vsl synchron player so you can have single notes multi-shorts bow changes uh you can have phrases sultasto they're all pumped each other that's clearly pumped that's Testo cross trade between the two whoa that's really useful scale runs [Music] God I there's an awful lot in here I haven't found them before right okay Dynamics soft Dynamics one and a half seconds look look at the um strong Dynamics three seconds that's a diminuendo three five and a half second crescendo [Music] uh let's try um pfp uh over six seconds okay I am very impressed I had no idea it did all that right okay so we got all that going on pizzlinia harmonics all the rest of it Go blimey gov as they say somewhere in here there's also tons of Legato so look you've got so many different ways you can play oh here we go oh no that's Legato runs one of the singles uh long loads there we go Legato Loop download fast legato you get the gist this is a very very comprehensive library with an absolute ton of choice a lot of people end up use I'm not end up but a lot of people choose to use vsl when they want things to sound really real that uh I was talking to an incoming orchestration Master student yesterday evening and he works a lot with Live players and he was saying he's so favors towards vsl and when I was doing a job last year which was half sampled and half live Orchestra I ended up using quite a vsl because it Blended best with the live Orchestra and because it sounded the most similar um to a 50 60 piece session Orchestra so vsl is very has is very popular uh for that reason if none other well it you know there's a lot going on here let's jump in and um I'm gonna I'm gonna take advantage of some of these um Dynamics I really like those uh pfp it's three seconds this is on the violins [Music] oh [Music] and this is just with the built-in Reverb obviously I'm not using anything there's no external sound on any of this let's go for all legato Auto speed legato [Music] oh I love it when they do Bow change leather Auto speed of guard let's try this one vibrato Crossfade you see [Music] oh you have to set it up with one of these Dimension things which I'm not going to do immediately but in other words you've got control over the vibrato as well let's try the portamento [Music] nice [Music] Okay so we've obviously got Bass with this as well which some of the others you may have noticed did not have um what are we going to use for him Dynamics again let's try short crescendo [Music] uh that's not short one and a half is short [Music] oh what happened to my middle line did it not record oh cello also you get two solo cellos so this is cello [Music] I think it was better that time anyway so um what we're going to have here let's try something different okay let's go for the let's go for the cross fady Sul Testo to thinly Bob foreign [Music] [Music] very very nice so you're getting a sense of what you're getting here um a lot of power and control and a really interesting sound [Music] yet another thumbs up right next one is something really different and so to the Wacky World of sample modeling Now sample modeling is a really different way of approaching sampling this is sample modeling solo and Ensemble strings created by the legendary Peter Sidler Tech and Giorgio tomasini it's 326 pounds including vat and it comes to a tiny weeny five gigabytes of disk space this is only five gigabytes is because it uses completely different type or sorry a different type of approach to sampling and control over the various parameters within the sample instrument so the actual bass instrument is relatively small but you have control over almost literally everything within this um this little sample world so look just to give you an idea everything is run with continuous controllers knobs and buttons and things like that okay so if you go to the main view um here we go you see an awful lot of things are happening automatically but few then move into real-time sound shaping you'll see you've got control first of all you have to move cc11 before the thing makes any sound that's your volume but you've also got vibrato which is on CC1 and CC and cc19 is vibrato rate so you've got the depth vibrato and the rate of it so you start to see and as you flick through pitch control how much you you get this little tiny variations in Pitch how The portamento Works tumble shaping you know I mean it goes on and on and on and um it means that you can control almost literally every single aspect of the sound but that does mean it takes a little bit of getting ahead round so what you're probably going to need at some point is controllers with you know like um these kind of things with knobs and buttons and you know and all that kind of stuff um because that's really how you're going to get the most out of it I've got a a monogram with um this thing here when I just open up the you remember this thing um which I've set some of the common ones 38 26 19 11 26 25 all these are the ones which sample modeling uses quite a lot so I'm using that to control the instrument so for example if I use 36 it gives me control over the um the the shorts essentially so it is much more like learning to play a real instrument but then let's play a real instrument takes time so you're going to have to invest some time to get into the video tutorials what I mean about different libraries suit different people's workflow if you're looking to try and create something which is you know incredibly detailed in its realism this is a really good way to go but if you're a quick Smash It Out solid dude then you're gonna have to do a little you you need to invest more time in order to get the best out of it is what I'm saying let's look without too much more faffing I think I'm just going to start writing something um here we go I quite like the way I'm getting Longs and shorts out of this this [Music] foreign start on the downbeat guy that would be a nice help that gives you a good example of how the whole thing works actually [Music] right let's add a cello line [Music] all right okay um [Music] no I'm not loving that foreign [Music] you've got traditional key switches [Music] so there we go so look this is I I mean this one of all the libraries I've only really scratching the surface here because I could spend quite a long time just getting to know how it works let alone actually doing it justice [Music] ah look this Pizzicato is set to momentary key switch so as soon as I stop playing it it stopped pizza cuttering here we go now it'll do it [Music] too well that's cello vibrato gets a bit on the fast side towards the end so I'm going to modify it using a key a controller so uh that one this one here do you see okay no you can't see it because it's it's behind my head so let's just zoom in there we go right watch that one going up and down there that's the that's the vibrato rate for the cello this is [Music] do you hear the way it backed off just towards the end there that's because I can right so that's sample modeling um sample modeling obviously the as you can tell it uses very little memory so for those of you on more limited resources it's quite a good option but it is a very different approach and a very different um kind of proposition right moving on the next one is pateris vasque's strings which comes from orchestral tools um tennis fast is a very well known contemporary classical composer from Latvia I'm fairly sure and here is a picture of the man himself for reasons best known to himself standing on a tree stump I'm sure that gives him pleasure recony themes there is a work on nature spirituality and The Human Condition and this is there that is where the the recording took place so you get the gist it's a beautiful Ambience it's a small chamber Ensemble but it also has solar strings as well the nature of the library gives this uh is very much in tune with the nature of his music and so let me show you quickly what this means um so we have for example um um with the first chairs sustains lyrical expressive or the things you'd expect then you have fast change first J can't speak first chair gestures lots of glissandos Interest look glissando trills two octaves um um Trill short waving Longs upbeats and Longs so you've got lots of little kind of interesting touches which I think will make quite a big difference if but there's a there's certainly a sound to the whole thing um it's the orc the library is 549 Euros plus vat uh it comes to a whacking 234 gigabytes of samples it works inside the um orchestral tools um sample player and it sounds absolutely lovely um if we right so what we've got here is [Music] very very nice legato Let's uh sustains lyrical sustains espressive plus the girl so foreign [Music] that's with natural Reverb [Music] sawtasto legato portato my old friend [Music] harmonics tremolo [Music] it's got a really strong character of this Library um you know for a general purpose Library it might not be one you want but if if you want character [Music] [Music] you've got all kinds of things going on in here [Music] right so for the classical contemporary classical uh amongst you there's a lot to play with in here okay what are we going to do what are we going to write we're going to use some this is the viola first chair um [Music] and let's um whoa it's lovely I did that before didn't I come on think of something new guy oh I'm still in um overdub mode here we go replace that's better [Music] [Applause] thank you turn the click off because it doesn't it's not actually contributing anything at all here okay uh [Music] I think I may need a little bit of extra help volume wise oh it's nice it's nice [Music] [Applause] [Music] you see how much instant kind of Karma you get from this I mean so [Music] oh that's that's a dodgy note up to there was going right so I'm going to take that dodgy note out and leave the rest in at um and we will oh shall we have a gesture well we're just going to go with you know it just sounds nice as it is I'm not uh uh troubling short harmonic sustainer okay I'll do a harmonic sustain why not glassy sound up there is lovely so I think you can start to hear this has a really strong personality if you are moving towards this style of kind of music then this could be a perfect choice for you um it's not a general purpose solo string Library um you know if you wanted to do muscular Baroque types solo strings this is not going to cut it but it does have a unique place and also obviously there's chamber strings which go with this as well so a really interesting option for those of you who are into this kind of style of music um what I want to look at now is I know quite a lot of you subscribe to compose a cloud from east west to Museo from silly samples and quite a lot of you've got BBC Symphony Orchestra Pro so if you've got those and you're already subscribing or you already own those what are your solo string options that's what we're looking at next let's start with muzio um from cine sample it's uh currently 9.99 10 a month or 100.99 actually a year and in terms of solar strings within a museum you get uh edited highlights of cinestring solo and bits of Tina guo as well so let's have a little look and see what uh it comes up with the Museo um software loads one uh one an articulation at a time so this is violin one [Music] that's um violin one Legato um Legato espressivo let's load the normal legato foreign [Music] Trails have we got Let's see we got Reverb and expression that's about it so it's fairly straightforward but you know if you're already subscribing uh what okay let's see what's sustain uh espressivo is yep it works um let's have a look at the Tina guo uh you've also got uh Viola and I put the cello in from Tina girl because that's obviously acoustic cello thank you [Music] it's very nice it's quite slow to speak [Music] so it's really good for those sort of more lyrical lines probably less so if you wanted to play something faster uh spiccarto foreign [Music] Let's uh okay let's start with that let's just do just do something quickly to give you some idea how this works [Music] um okay so I'm going uh let's go for uh sustainville and play it let's go for the espressivo sustain viola Ah that's violin sorry let's go and find the viola espressiva that one there I double click on things and it loads twice go you guy it speaks quite it's quite sort of Pokey when it starts [Music] so what is it G minor B flat F C okay [Music] yeah yeah yeah it's not great never mind actually I'm now going to change it back from that to Viola Legato because actually that's what I ended up playing so or should I go for a Legato espressiva why not do that yeah see it loads pretty quickly this system actually [Music] oh that's Thomas bergson's tune isn't it uh heart of whatever thanks Thomas [Applause] wow come on G minor think G minor [Music] that's really not my best work but there we go um a bit of Tina [Music] [Applause] foreign [Music] proved it no end actually quick run through then [Music] [Applause] foreign [Music] you know you're off to a reasonably Good Start um East West uh composer Cloud 20 a month 200 a year um surprisingly um only has violin and cello and not Viola I mean I'm from the National Association of violists Doug Rogers we got your number we want solo Viola or there'll be a horse's head turning up in your bed um yeah surprising really because East West do so much stuff just not soliviona player must have reversed into his car in a car park once or something and said I'm Doug Rogers you shall not have a solo Viola in my library no probably anyway um the uh it's classic kind of um East-West Opus stuff so you get um all these different choices legato's with bow changes uh tons and tons of different expressions and Longs and lyrical and sustain and non-verb and verbum it's uh Brown Robins with pizzicatas and Martelli and spicato so you've got you know perfectly reasonable amount of choice in there um as long as you're a viola player sorry I could stop going on a banner [Music] I'll tell you what oh these are coming up a little bit on the quiet side let's just add some oomph to them different libraries normally actually East West is pretty loud but this slot seemed to have come up slightly quiet so we'll add a few DBS in there just to bring them up and the viola I have put in is from east west gold because why not I can if I want to do that I can do that what they think that this uh is a really actually I didn't understand a word they just said I just was pretending I understood right anyway um [Music] okay let's uh get something knocked out here and move on here we go [Music] why am I playing that on the Garter when it should be on speaker [Music] whoa you see the difference that's East West gold thank you [Music] I left out the middle bit because I couldn't work out what to play Okay so foreign [Music] track Which is my default work around when I want to play things in [Music] I think I had a better idea than that but we'll see [Music] okay that'll do for now okay please [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] misgivings it sounds alright doesn't it well so I just want something to go at the end there and then it's done [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] okay and I'll add the viola part in [Music] okay one more time [Music] good okay there is a short piece using Espress it's not ideal it's not really string quartet land foreign [Music] but you can make do and so we come to the world of HDO and in this particular instance we're looking at their um their deep solo The Deep solo quartet so it consists of a solar violin Viola cello and bass and if you look at this they're 99 each per instrument 88 Ultra detailed articulations including 18 different types of short node three types of polyphonic Legato they come to about 10 11 gigabytes each so it's about 40 gigabytes for the whole lot um so there's lots and lots and lots of stuff going on you also need the full version of contact to run this rather than the player okay so what exactly have we got going on here and where does this fit into the great scheme of things um here is uh um here it is this is the the violin loaded up um in a very idea which way this is how they like to organize things you can customize these you can click on the empty slot there's all there's all the shorts look martelly hanging martellia Volante Cole Mercato Pizzicato nailed they've even got one which is Pizzicato trim somewhere here we go where is that okay anyway um they've got um lots of lots and lots and lots of different stuff so if you want um performance ones like this [Music] very nice actually I like that um so there's loads of what's of course it is yeah that says what else we got going on here uh about I've suddenly I'm quite a lot of fun here okay what's colay okay that's what colay is let's try Martelli hanging now you may say why do you need 18 types of shorts that's why because if you listen to a violinist playing a phrase you know they would naturally play umpteen different types of short you know they're not trying to be completely identical to every note they're expressing themselves and that's probably what you need so just having three or four is probably not going to cut it um so what's virtuoso short okay yep that's a virtuosa for you all trouble virtuosi right um and then we've got the legati [Music] I can lit you can see that's waggling up and down that's my mod wheel if I link it with the expression [Music] um let's now try a different type of Legato let's go for that Legato uh runs [Music] [Music] yep that definitely does the business um so you've got lots and lots and lots and lots of stuff poker vibrato [Music] um if I briefly turn off the Reverb now you see let's now play with this distance knob [Music] yeah so you get a sense of it being close there and further away there but it is quite a close tight sound and therefore I've added the Reverb on as well right so that's where we are with all this let me put my Legato back on right that's how it works here they are what are we going to start with well as we've got 18 types of shorts I think it would be foolish not to should we try but [Music] what type of short would you like not maybe Volante I quite like Cola a bit short um martellia abrupt no it's also quite a short I tell you hanging hahaha oh come on guy make a choice this is the trouble you've now got too much Choice okay I'm going to go back to Valenti [Music] come on then [Music] I have no idea if that was in time it wasn't even recorded or was it yes it was there we go um okay guys keeping the game away look you can see all the other stuff underneath okay the HDO Library arrived after the others so I had to get this out of the washing basket come back in here and pretend that was the same day but you're not full of are you because you can see there's a whole load of do you care do you really care I've got a nice cup of tea right let's assume that that is wonderful because I think it probably is and let's tuck in right hello Mr cello hello how are you I'm very well actually uh [Music] oh that's an interest it's not a normal sound but it's a nice sound [Music] [Music] no I don't want that okay I'll go with that get ready boys here we go [Music] okay hello Bass oh boy I wondered if you get around to me right we've got 18 types of short we're going to try a different one [Music] better also yeah yeah come on baby [Music] [Music] [Music] oh dear did you notice the horrendous timing issue we bumped into towards the end there dude where did it happen [Music] should be like that shouldn't it I think [Music] it'll do now what are we going to put on the top [Music] right hello my friend we go with the normal one right [Music] we're going to go with Legato violin starting from here start from beginning [Music] thank you [Music] that ain't too bad [Music] there you go sounds like the opening to a detective series or something which is the kind of thing this would be good for so there you go I mean it's a a very effective sound you've got loads of articulations and that's before we've dug into some of the performance stuff and all the rest of it um three types of um Legato and the Legato doesn't sort of punch through in that kind of virtuosic way that some of the others do but that's not right for everything and you can hear this has a kind of a delicacy and a sort of transparency to it which I quite like um and there are some sounds in here which I haven't heard before there's vibrato Pizzicato and things like that well you can imagine what that gives you [Music] oh sorry that's a bit loud that is deep solo quartet by ado moving on what about those of you out there who've got BBC um uh Orchestra it's lots and lots and lots of you've got it those of you who've got the professional Edition will undoubtedly have noticed or if you haven't here's a revelation for you you have something called strings leader there you go and you have strings one uh violin leader you have strings two leader these are essentially first chairs so you've got solo um solar players and each of these um is not half bad um because look you get quite a lot of um of stuff here let me just get this in the middle of frame so you can see it there we go so you get Legato Long's Longhorn sardino flautando spicato staccato Pizzicato tremolando major and minor trills sultasto long harmonic short harmonics Bartok pits and Mercato you know so in all honesty you're getting as much there as you do in most um libraries let's put these let's just go straight into it I'm going to put go for flautando because what key have they been in today I've been in the same one all day I've never really um [Music] thank you [Music] ah that um I don't think the boys in the Box will be very impressed with that on they go until I get it right oh trumpets I can't see anything okay come on guys just do something [Music] that sounds lovely [Music] um that's spicato so let's go back to legato [Music] please that sounds pretty good to me uh ah I didn't record you idiot guy oh [Music] I got it right first time sounds all right um [Music] I'm gonna quit while I'm ahead that sounds alright look BBC Symphony Orchestra professional you're getting the whole Orchestra and a string quartet go on let's have one more for a performance [Music] they really like that look that's it this has been an epic do I have a favorite no they're all different um every single one of them is totally viable every single one of them you could leap into life tomorrow and be delighted with each one has a character as we ever sing and what you need is down to you your workflow your particular style of music all these same kind of things you know but it just shows you how lucky we are to have such an incredible range of stuff out there we can get stuck into um so look if this is your kind of thing um did you subscribe when we first started it seemed so long ago I've forgotten you've probably forgotten as well anyway if you haven't no it's that way isn't it down there that's where the little um subscribe button is and um you know please check out thinkspaceeducation.com because we are well into all kinds of music education from um contemporary music production sound design for video games um you know training music all if you want to learn something about music or Sound design I bet you we've got something to show you something like this see you next time there's probably more open doors in the games industry than there are in any other industry that allows you to eventually make a living for music every player need to feel like the score is bespokefully written for their experience and the game itself that can be the case rather that two different players will have two different experiences of school because they go on very different Journeys through the game there's just something about the energy and game music because that's maybe one of the things that I like about games is that you are allowed to build a whole universe [Music] so I would go to game jams well I did a couple of in persons I never did an online one but some people swear about them because if you're really passionate about it you're probably already making something so why not make something with other people that actually gets put into something because you'll learn a massive amount in a situation where you fail it's not the end of the world it's designed to be a sort of learning environment learning how to make use of the vertical possibilities of music and learning how to to create Loops that actually work and enhance the game is mandatory because game music is Loop music and game music is adaptivity and it's interactive and that's what's so much fun yeah that's the most important thing don't lose having fun making music

Channel: Guy Michelmore

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Id: gP-JisEsV44

Length: 82min 36sec (4956 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 14 2023