Long time big fan! Keep up the awesome work man. Really enjoy seeing a music lover and professional scorer's mind at work, excellent combination.

I'm always impressed by your level of creativity.

Always nice to watch your videos, Daniel! I picked up Appassionata Strings on release day and I'm very impressed with it. Spitfire nailed it with the legato that everyone's been wanting from their libraries. Should gel together quite well with Abbey Road One or Chamber Strings.

Fascinating to watch your process Daniel as always. I am seriously thinking about this for my template as a hobbyist it's certainly priced well. Thank you for posting👋

@DJLA

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome, glad I could be of use. Have fun with it man :)

@davidvalens3337

2 жыл бұрын

@@DJLA best legatos?

As always absolutely clear, useful and perfect! Thousand thanks Daniel! Where do the 'Celeste Bells' come from?

Absolutely gorgeous!! I have the same library, what a lovely price for such an amazing library. Are you sugin Cubase 11 or 12 in this video ?

Very nice sketching! It will take me a while to get my user demo composed & uploaded...

Hi ! Very nice work and beautifull piece ! Why do you use soundshifter ? Is lowering the pitch makes the sound better ? Cheers :)

@DJLA

2 жыл бұрын

I just use it to transpose everything in to a new key so I can hear the track with fresh ears, from a new tonal perspective. Helps you hear things you might miss because you are too familiar with it in the regular key. Once I have finished listening I turn it back off.

@golgoth787

2 жыл бұрын

@@DJLA This is very smart. Thank you for this tip ! Have a wonderful day :)

Whats the brass library u use? Sounnds good

great vid mate . is it possible to control the vibrato on this library?

@easonyanmusic

Жыл бұрын

No. Vibrato goes high as your CC1 goes high.

If you had to pick one, for those romantic lines - would you go with this or Vista? I Watched your video on both, and they both sound great!

Nice James, as always! Using Appassionata 'shorts' is hard to work with I experienced (just posted some demos using primarily longs). The expressive, passionate core of this lib reveals itself on the longer notes more I feel. Curious about your point of view. Thums up for your work, and be well, Jeff

@DJLA

2 жыл бұрын

For me I will only be using the legato in this library. It felt like the delay offset only works for the legato but leaves the shorts out of place, but to be honest I only bought it for the legato patches as they sound great.

Hello Daniel, Since you’ve used both, which do you prefer? Appasionata or Cinematic Studio Strings for their legato? Thank you if you take the time to reply.

@DJLA

2 жыл бұрын

I am liking Appasionata for the emotional melodic lines more at the moment. CSS is usually my bread and butter so its possible most times I will end up layering both for the final sound (having two great but slightly different legato patches playing the same line adds some 'humanity' due to the legatos not being identical it feels a bit more alive)

@lefteriscomposer

2 жыл бұрын

@@DJLA thank you for replying

Hello James , what is your bus reverb please? Sounds Amazing 🤩

@ForkySeven

2 жыл бұрын

He likes Eventide blackhole

@DJLA

2 жыл бұрын

On my orchestral bus is usually an insert of ArtsAcoustic reverb. And yes I also use lots of Blackhole.

@theavramium

2 жыл бұрын

@@DJLA ah your beloved artscoustic reverb I remember 10 years ago in Ableton you used it. I must give it a try 😉

what do you think about appassionata strings so far James?

@DJLA

2 жыл бұрын

I approve for the legatos.

This is amazing Daniel!! what are the system features of your computer? I'm thinking of buying a new PC - (Intel Tiger Lake Core™ i7-11800H 8C/16T; 24MB L3; 8GT/s - 16 GB RAM - 2TB SSD) be enough for big Orchestral Mock-up's?

@sorcerersyooo2973

2 жыл бұрын

Might want more ram for orchestral production

@lonard7221

2 жыл бұрын

@@sorcerersyooo2973 Thank you! might be 32?

@DJLA

2 жыл бұрын

More RAM is important for composing, because in order to be able to play and stream multiple wav files used by sample libraries you need to store the first few seconds into RAM which can be played immediately as you press a key on your midi controller, that few seconds of 'preload' allows time for the computer to load the rest of the wav file. Its very clever, but is heavily RAM focused. I have 64gig 12core 2013mac pro

@-Meric-

2 жыл бұрын

16GB enough for Ochestral Mock-up's. Big Mock-up's? You'll need to be watching your RAM meter... especially if you aren't using Kontakt and are using players which do not have a purge feature. Sample libraries load their sounds with DFD, only a portion of the sample is loaded in RAM for quick playback while it fetches the whole thing off your desk. You can save some RAM by lowering this DFD number size down if you have an SSD (Which you do) but the real RAM saver would be purging. That is removing all the samples from RAM and only loading them in when you play the note. Many samplers do not have this, but Kontakt does. If you want to not worry about RAM 32 should be a good amount for any starter who doesn't have the huge flagship libraries.

@lonard7221

2 жыл бұрын

@@DJLA Thank you so much Daniel! I'm grateful.

I am really considering this. How do you think it will fit with Spitfire Solo Strings?

@tivermusic

2 жыл бұрын

They are recorded in the same hall. It shouldn’t be a problem blending the libraries.

@deyvidpetromusic

2 жыл бұрын

@@tivermusic yes, that was what I was thinking.

Hi, what is the extent of short note this library can play? Is it capable of realistic 8th note l Legato at a reasonably pacey tempo? -Edit: seeing that you went fast now

@DJLA

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah its good for the faster lines, it does have a limit when you get to 16ths but even in the mix that could work.

So you rate it then? Above Abbey Road Collection? Sounds good in your hands.

@DJLA

2 жыл бұрын

I rate the legatos for sure in this one! Abbey Road was just a brand name slapped on a half assed library. So yeah much better!

I am a novice. What DAW do you use in these tutorials ?

@joelwybrew

2 жыл бұрын

He’s using Cubase :)

what piano did you use, Daniel, please? Sounds le awesome! :)

@TiagoNugentComposer

2 жыл бұрын

He uses the Gentleman from native instruments

@Kraflyn

2 жыл бұрын

@@TiagoNugentComposer Le thnx!

What kind of piano plugin is used in the beginning?

@DJLA

2 жыл бұрын

The Gentleman by NI

this sounds like the jumanji song by jack black

@DJLA

2 жыл бұрын

My music sounds like most movies most of the time it seems.

Damn, I didn't get the notification of your last two streams :(

@DJLA

2 жыл бұрын

If you use Twitter I always post there when I go live. @h2daniel If not I think there are settings on twitch to allow notifications when someone goes live. Might also get stopped by your system preferences (ie do not disturb mode). Those are the things that usually catch me out.

Is there a discord for his community?

@DJLA

2 жыл бұрын

Hey yes there is! this is the join link: discord.gg/jGMUgdK

@premiummusicacademy17

2 жыл бұрын

@@DJLA thank you!!!

You haven't bashed Spitfire in this video, so either you're not feeling ok today, or maybe (just maybe) the program includes product placement ;) But seriously: please tell us what is your opinion on this library, because I'm about to spend some money :)

10:09 which video games 👀 ?

@raoufghojoghi8700

2 жыл бұрын

and I think you had access to this library before it got released right ? Cuz you said you “already used it” …

@ahilkhilkingen6061

2 жыл бұрын

@@raoufghojoghi8700 Considering his history with Spitfire Audio I'd say that's rather unlikely - I would assume he bought it as soon as it was released and used it right away

@DJLA

2 жыл бұрын

Just some games I am already working on. As Ahilk mentioned, I bought it when it came out and it immediately made its way into the tracks I am currently working on for some gaming projects :)

Of all things - why that library? Thank you anyway for sharing,

@DJLA

2 жыл бұрын

Because the legato sounds great, I will buy whatever I have to to make my work the best it can be. Regardless of who makes it.

And you make on tutorial

Hi

I am send track you