Albion Solstice (key timepoints) The Solstice Orchestra : 1:00 The Elders (Strings) - Classic Octet 1:24, The Elders (Strings) - Trad Sextet 23:35, The Elders Bass 43:54, The Callers (Brass & Winds) 48:35, The Mystics (Pipes) 56:35, The Blaggards (Band) 1:07:40, The Hosts (Choir) 1:14:00, - Interlude - (The Assassin/Jing Theme) 1:17:15, The Generator Trio (Electric) 1:28:25, The Gut Circle (Acoustic) 1:39:25, The Nursery (Bells & Mallets) 1:47:00, The Marauders (Percussion) 1:57:55, The Cassette Orchestra 2:03:50, The Drone Grid 2:17:10,

@tearnfourstar

2 жыл бұрын

You're a star 🙏 thank you

@Crimzan4

2 жыл бұрын

Ayyyy, thanks a ton for this!

@ChrisRamis

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much !

@eylab1541

2 жыл бұрын

You're the boss

@macavalon

2 жыл бұрын

@@eylab1541 thanks ;)

I'm glad you ended up liking the library after all, thanks for the stream.

I’m starting to love this library, i will find many uses in my TV endeavors for this!

always loved your energy

Andy Greys percussion contributions as ‘The Visitor’ are wonderful.

Just pulled the trigger on Solstice because of your brlliant video. Beautiful showcase and playing!

Wow. The best interpretation of this instrument I've heard so far. You made me buy it 😁

Thanks for the balanced review!

First time here. I really appreciate the in-depth and helpful critique; well beyond the typical KZreadr.

Beautiful sounds, some lovely playing. Appreciate be able to hear before considering to trade money to make music with it. So many to choose from, cleverly created so that there is at least one soul touching instrument in each product.

I've already started using on a music project for Leeds Opera Festival - end of Aug

14:27 almost like the short strings sound (with echo) from His Dark Materials theme!

Good take. I bought this immediately because I love all the shorts, bells, electric guitar and whatnot - but even though the string longs are gorgeous the sucking effect just makes them so hard to use. I thought the release bar was bugged to be non functional until I tested it thoroughly and dry. All they'd had to do was make those tails optionally longer and this bundle would be perfect.

It's weird, but Daniel's taste and kind of music is the almost exact opposite of what I do, and he usually dislikes my favourite parts of most libraries (I want this library mainly for the drums), yet he is always the one who makes me go. "Ohhh, This is so much more useful that I had imagined", because he still works works in sort of the same way I do. Maybe it's because we're both singers?

46:40 -- Fortune's theme, yeah!

What would be a great alternative to solstice? Thanks for the review!

Once you have beaten the sucking fx i do really love the noisy spectral ambiance Spitfire put into their libraries

would love to see your thoughts on spitfire symphonic orchestra or spitfire studio orchestra

1:18:00 Do you really need attack and release? Aren't dynamics and expression enough to modulate also the attack and the release?

It’s always that I look to Daniel for my yay or nay decisions!

have you ever talked to anyone at spitfire about your issues with the legatos and the sucking effect? also what would be some libraries that have a lot of unique stuff in it where you feel they do a great job on the legatos and longs and stuff?

29:21 probably works best extremely soft in the background due to the intentional detuning.

thank you! can i ask how you obtain sustained chords on sounds (evo for ex) one channel when playing other midi channel?

finally, the last night stream

can you post your computer specs please? thanks!

1:34:07 for future reference (dark, cool sound)

Genuine question - how did you get to be so unbelievably fast at this? (the manual input sketching you do on the classical bit, just tons and tons of practice?) I ask because I'm a theatre composer and I've contemplated trying film composing (I already use sample libraries and a DAW for demos as it happens) but I'm well aware that deadlines seem far tighter in film than theatre and the speed you compose at is unbelievable tbh, is this normal of film composers (from years of working to that tight deadline) or are you abnormally fast compared with others?! (Hope you dont mind me asking! a genuine question as the speed that film composers seem to work at puts me off a little making that transition as Im not sure my brain is wired that way?)

Awesome Library if you were gonna score some ancient fantsy Game of Thrones or Vikings type thing...

. I was going to get this, but that bass though... Jesus.

1:13:37 1:43:00 2:04:10

What's the best and more realistic library than spitfire for concerto music then?

Spitfire audio hammer review ?

whats that at 2:34:10?

7:22 just a reminder to myself

Im a EDM producer but i enjoy this so much

That brass legato tho is pretty good. Much better than the strings...

1:54:58 it is

I'm always TADAY!

i wish they recorded those strings with down portamentos as well as up but in any case this looks like such a cool library. Spitfire haven't impressed me in a while because they've been doing a lot of samey samey content for a while

I miss attending your stream and chatting with u and the community lately :(. It was really helping through the last 12 Months. But its saturday evening in Europe and it is hard to justify sitting at home and not to go out drinking a cold beer with family and friends :D without Covid19. Hope I will tune in live soon again. I got just one point, I would really like to see what u are playing on the keyboard. But anyway, it was a nice stream/ avin a look keep up the good work.

@DJLA

2 жыл бұрын

Hey mate and we are sad to see you go. But Prioritizing friends and family is something I will never give you shit for. My streams usually end up on KZread and the chatter can also read the comments so say hi every now and again, they are good people. And enjoy life mate, im glad we got to be here for part of it, but I would rather you lot be happy :)

Thanks for this Daniel. I know about the sucky strings, I bought Abbey Road. SF are good but I wish they'd fix this issue.

@DJLA

2 жыл бұрын

I am hoping they find out 'a way' to do it, then update all their old libraries to purge the sucking effect. I would have so many more useable sounds!

Daniel is absolutely right. The sucking effect! Makes me laugh. I have been able to adjust, but it takes a bit of doing. Fortunately I can play an instrument, so that helps to get to it quicker. I usually use another library if it's to laborius..Recently started to use Audio Imperia stuff..

@paopis

2 жыл бұрын

I am pretty sure these libraries are meant to be programmed, and not played live or like a synth. They do not have ADSR modulation because you are supposed to program ADSR by automating dynamics and expression. If you had ADSR defined like a synth, the notes would fade in and out always in the same way. But this does not happen when an orchestra plays for real. Every time the attack and the release are slightly different and the Spitfire libraries allow you to have control on attack and release (and everything in between) for every single note. You just need to program dynamics and expression by automating them in your DAW.

I’m confused. You’re saying there isn’t a release option for the strings... but I’m seeing a release slider right there on the GUI.

@ChaiMingze

2 жыл бұрын

That slider is already all the way in the video but still kind of short

@DJLA

2 жыл бұрын

There is, but as I point out a few times in the video it doesn't really do much. Or at least it doesn't do enough.

@mybiggrin

2 жыл бұрын

@@DJLA I think the reason for that is that realistically, strings will stop when you stop bowing. The key press triggers the bow. Spitfire recommends that you manipulate the expression and such to descend before you stop pressing a key. You have to program what you're trying to emulate. I get that it's not the best method for "keyboard strings", but it's pretty great once you draw in the relevant data. If the strings hung on it would sound very synthy.

@-Meric-

2 жыл бұрын

@@mybiggrin True but in a full room the sound rings out a little bit. Pretty much every other lib also has longer tails on the release. What's the point in having the user ride the mod wheel down every time, instead of just leaving it by default. Even if it's not fully "realistic" it does sound much better. Plus you can always trim release tails, you can't make them longer. So why not record them long and just let the user determine how much sucking they want?

@mybiggrin

2 жыл бұрын

@@-Meric- It was recorded in a smaller room. Your comment kind of insinuates that it sounds artificial... which is doesn't at all. If you want more room, pump up the room mics. The point in having the user ride the mod wheel is that you have varying degrees of expression. This is why their libraries are indisputably real.

You are quite right about the EDNA GUI. It gives me a headache just looking at it. The presets are interesting and useful but manipulating them with the 'thing' is just too muddled and confusing. Shame.

tfw a library comes out JUST after you finish a project that it would have been perfect for

@DJLA

2 жыл бұрын

Every. Fucking. Time.

At last somebody who knows how to showcase strings. Most demos out there make them sound awful. They actually sound pretty warm and detailed, but I don't know why they decided to record them with hardly any vib.. makes them very niche to use. A bit more vibrato would be made them much lovelier in my opinion. Still, you brought those strings to life! And omg, about the 'sucking effect', I can't believe somebody else picked up on that. I hate it... I cant find a way to add more tail, no matter what. The only way to mitigate it is to make full use of the dynamics and expression and gradually bring them down before you release the keys, so that it doesn't sound so abrupt. But it still kinda sounds abrupt..

Just kill everything with reverb .’ 😵‍💫

Re spitfire legatos- yeah - for some reason it's a hit and miss! What you talk about at 45mins- absolute truth! It's like they are lazy or something

@DJLA

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah exactly, we know they CAN do it, they just seem to not want to. But when they do its great! So frustrating.

like you said Daniel,we mostly have all these articulations in our arsenal wich dont have that sucking effect,using any other string library for the normal articulatione,and then add action strings 2 + sunset strings and you have pretty much all the possibilities the albion solstice library can do,why pay 350€ when you already have all these capabilities with other libraries

OMGBBQ, turn that metronome off on playback!

So, this or contemporary drama toolkit?

@the_real_kieganjones9932

2 жыл бұрын

You’re really talking about two separate libraries that have completely different uses . Once more pad like in nature that creates a bit of sound underneath what you are creating and one has everything you really need to create a neo folk. Now both work really well together personally I think everybody should pick up CDT

@NicStride

2 жыл бұрын

The drama toolkits dont have shorts, legatos or percussive elements. They're very cool for scoring and textures, but see them more as "Extended Evos" than "Toolkits" in my opinion. Very niche and very cool, but not an all round package like an Albion, by any means. :)

@sourcefor

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for all the info, purchased Solstice!

@NicStride

2 жыл бұрын

@@sourcefor Awesome, hope you enjoy! :)

@mmhcreates

2 жыл бұрын

@@andreboulard9686 best way to determine your answer, is to listen to the content available out there. Your ears will tell which you prefer.

Spitfire doing the same old things lol

Kind of a 1-trick-pony.. A lovely pony though..

@mmhcreates

2 жыл бұрын

Every articulation is a new trick.

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