I was blessed by a client purchasing Tundra for me, because he commissioned it to be used on a score. This was not deducted from the final fee. I love it. It's nice to see that it inspires you, and that's what it's all about .
What a delight it is to hear you share such a beautiful library..😊
@thailandemonamour69108 ай бұрын
Very fine video. You're so enthusiast and it's so rare ! You definitely convinced me to choose and buy Albion Tundra with black friday promotion. The "Fratres" interpretation by Kirsty Mangan and the very fine composer Homay Schmitz playing Tundra library with her on KZread is really awesome ! Thank you so much ...
@rasputin1917 Жыл бұрын
Your narrative sounds way too low and makes it really uncomfortable to follow.
@ArkturusMusic Жыл бұрын
I'm sorry about that and I'm sorry you were uncomfortable, I've since stopped doing reviews such as this but I'll make note of your feedback for the future.
@LetsSmiley Жыл бұрын
Came here to find the Vertical Lead preset because apparently it was used for Spiderman 2099's theme in Spiderman: Across The Spiderverse.
@charliemcgrain Жыл бұрын
This piano is worth it just for the "pad" patch. Exquisite!!!!...and wonderful playing, thanks you!
@jrb4484 Жыл бұрын
The youtube algorithm has been gracious today
@ArkturusMusic Жыл бұрын
This got recommended to you? That’s insane, thanks for the support!
@jrb4484 Жыл бұрын
@@ArkturusMusic anytime, wonderful song by the way :) Wish you much success
@MichaelMaurice Жыл бұрын
Very soothing, welcome back!
@ArkturusMusic Жыл бұрын
Thank you Michael! It's great to be back.
@jaythansparksmusic Жыл бұрын
OUTSTANDING, my friend!
@igorsenayoutube Жыл бұрын
Beautiful playing. I know they are both lovely sounding pianos and from different and more expensive libraries but if you could only choose one, would you get this one in the Olafur Composer Toolkit or the Cinematic Soft Piano? I'm very thorn but leaning towards the Cinematic Soft Piano.
@ArkturusMusic Жыл бұрын
I own both and I can give you a bit of insight (if you don't mind the slightly long read!) The Cinematic Soft Piano has more customisation and you can sort of fine tune it to make it sound a little more unique. You can't have that with OA's felt piano. In terms of sound, I greatly prefer OA's, it feels like it has been captured much more true-to-life than the soft piano. It has more life than the CSP, which makes it my usual go-to. But, the OA felt piano is part of a bundle which is much more expensive (unless you can buy it separately now) and comes with a lot of really cool stuff. As such, it's not meant to be the centre piece of the library, it has limited samples and round robins. It sounds great, but I find it really difficult to use for multiple projects because of that reason. The CSP is relatively inexpensive and is really REALLY good for the price, I find I can use it in many different projects with little hassle. My only quarrel is it is the fact is doesn't sound that grand at higher velocities, it's limited to, at most, an mf. The CSP is also modelled from a Yamaha U3, I am quite biased here as I don't really like Yamaha pianos all too much, so that's probably why I prefer OA's. In terms of functionality and value, I'd say the CSP is better. It's all a matter of opinion and personal preference, I'd give a few reviews a look to see which is best for you, but you can't really go wrong with either. Now if you want my vote for the best piano VST then it's Pianoteq by far, but they don't really have anything for that felted sound as far as I am aware, which is unfortunate. Hope that helps! Happy to answer any questions.
@igorsenayoutube Жыл бұрын
@@ArkturusMusic Hello. Thank you very much for taking the time to reply in such an extensive and informative way; i don't mind the long read at all. I will eventually get both because i'm a sucker for pianos ( have way too many if there´s even a thing as too many pianos lol ) and i have always loved the OA libraries but as you mentioned, the price on the CSP is just too good. I should have took a chance to buy them both in this past 50% sale Spitfire did some days/weeks ago. I have also been torn between getting Keyscape ( i also have Omnisphere so the extra patches that combine keyscape and omnisphere would be a good addition ) and Pianoteq but at the moment both cost way too much. There are so many great libraries that it's hard to pick one. It's one of the reasons why companies should have full demos. That way we could try them all and buy what suits our style/genre/taste. Thank you very much for your time once again and keep writing great music.
@aleksamrkela831 Жыл бұрын
Talk about a hidden gem. This sounds amazing!
@karl.weaver2 жыл бұрын
Too much talking!
@ArkturusMusic Жыл бұрын
Hi, I’m sorry that’s how you feel, I’m sure there are other reviews you can watch with less talking. I talk during my reviews, if that’s not for you then that’s fine, but I’m not going to change my format.
@DonovanGG__2 жыл бұрын
Hey, great video! I was wondering if you think this vst would be great for Elder Scrolls Skyrim or maybe Destiny?
@mft42 жыл бұрын
Enjoyed your demo and enthusiasm, thanks for sharing.
@stephno932 жыл бұрын
This song is one of the best songs I’ve heard in a while 🔥🔥🔥 You completely took me to a new world with this. It belongs in a movie. p.s. What bass do you happen to be using? I’m struggling with my bass sound
@ArkturusMusic2 жыл бұрын
Hey! Thank you for your comment, it's very much appreciated, although I rarely do things like this anymore! The bass I've used here were the bass patches included in the Alex Epton: Entropy Library, I can't remember off the top of my head but you can see them named on the side, so there's the Distorted Sub Bass, Looping Bass Drone and Sub Bass They've got a pretty cool sound on them, but from what I remember I had to had each bass note trigger per beat, as the loop was a little strange.
@toddfrombethesda69632 жыл бұрын
ST I think is the Spot Tree mics.
@gramski2 ай бұрын
In case anyone is unsure - this is from the manual - St - Stereo. An RCA 44 BX stereo pair set up at the front of the string band
@cedricmi2 жыл бұрын
More like 44 GB. 88.8 GB is disk space required during setup.
@eylab15412 жыл бұрын
Fantastic work. I might get this.
@wolfie87482 жыл бұрын
I think I missed but does this have rebow option ?
@TemmeSikkema2 жыл бұрын
Terrific demo - thanks for this.
@kkaner1812 жыл бұрын
Fantastic review thank you
@softkeys79302 жыл бұрын
My friend. Subtle beauty. A bit from another world…
@ArkturusMusic Жыл бұрын
Thank you - I never realised someone left a comment, and a kind one at that!
@marcvandammemusic2 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for this really excellent demo !!
@jefskott992 жыл бұрын
Ethan, thanks for pointing out the Soft & Wild Strings module, which I had ignored, and after seeing it here in your setup went back to and listened, and wow! Just great stuff I had lost sight of. Thanks for the comments and review here.
@ST-fl5fy2 жыл бұрын
Does the mod wheel control the vibrato?
@thomasvinelli2 жыл бұрын
My problem with spitfire libraries is when you first load a sound the volume is really low. What do you do to remedy this.
@oriomenoni76512 жыл бұрын
Very low volume in rthis video. I have both system and youtube audio pulled to the max and still I can barely hear what you say. Suggestion: normalize your audio track before publishing.
@addyhernandez92722 жыл бұрын
Audio is fine. Check your speakers on whatever you’re using mate
@pepinillosazucarados67432 жыл бұрын
FINALLY I FOUND AN INSTRUMENT AS GOOD AS THE EMBERTONE JOSHUA BELL VIOLIN !!!
@wesleycolemanmusic Жыл бұрын
I know! Lol. My exact same thoughts.
@gilydoesall Жыл бұрын
You ought to check out their bohemian violin vst. I thought the Joshua bell one was really good but man, their violin one is really S tier
@masterstacker28332 жыл бұрын
I good review.
@patcecil16852 жыл бұрын
I love Spitfire!
@almalaga39242 жыл бұрын
but this one and the violin..have a problem loading..arriving at 100% and delay loading for at list 1 min....virharmonics should fix that damn bug...
@MFJMD564 Жыл бұрын
They have already moved the Violin to a new engine, and it loads instantly now. For the Cello, it should be released VERY soon, they are already a little late due to technical issues.
@ThatAdamGuy2 жыл бұрын
Hi Ethan, I checked out (and appreciated) your overview after learning about the current sale on the Bohemian Cello! And I have sort of an odd adjacent question for you: can you recommend any other libraries that are as incredibly and beautifully playable as the Virharmonic ones? I have yet to find, for instance, a solo trumpet or sax that is anywhere near as playable out of the box. Closest I've found (and purchased) are the Infinite Brass/Woodwind series (for playability), but they just lack that emotional & creative spark I enjoy in the Virharmonic instruments (and/or I'm playing them wrong).
@ArkturusMusic2 жыл бұрын
Hello Adam, thanks for taking the time to leave a comment! Sadly, I've yet to find anything close to the Bohemian Cello, although I've moved much more to the side of electronic music in the past year or so. What makes the bohemian cello so great is the fact they've got the closest (at least in my opinion) to replicating an actual cello's playability within the confines of MIDI whilst using real samples Sadly, there's not really anyone else I'm aware of that has that same character to it, the virharmonic series just oozes out character and emotion. The next best thing in my view would be the Emotional series, so Emotional Violin etc, those seem to be exceptionally detailed also, but I've not actually purchased them, only heard them in reviews. As for other instruments, I can't say there's anything quite like the Virharmonic stuff, Cinematic Studio Brass is decent for brass, I use that quite a lot in my cinematic writing. As for saxophone, I've been searching for months for a decent saxophone library, but I can't find anything! I'll let you know if I come across anything!
@ThatAdamGuy2 жыл бұрын
@@ArkturusMusic thanks for the kind and helpful reply, even if you didn't have a magical silver-bullet answer :p. I have and love the Bohemian Violin and just keep hoping either Virharmonic will branch out to other instrument families (seems unlikely) or some other scrappy startup or big established player will be inspired by Virharmonic's approach. I'm frankly pretty gobsmacked that at least the latter hasn't happened. Given how much playability contributes both to musical joy and also composing efficiency, it just seems odd that this isn't seen as a strong & important market differentiator when there are, like, at least half a dozen major brass libraries, quite a few sax libraries, and so on. Oh well :\
@ozanoguzhaktanir2 жыл бұрын
Awesome video. That sounds almost epic. What I wanna know is that if you can combine different style there? Can you imitate master? Are there ready made simulations of masters? Can you individually change the score so that you have all the styles mixed?
@jakeskate19982 жыл бұрын
If spitfire could make this sound into a fully playable string instrument with legatos and the ability to change chords quickly and all that it would be so amazing.
@jimrogers74252 жыл бұрын
Thank you, Ethan! While I own this, I've not yet spent time with it... however, this greatly video inspired me.
@ArkturusMusic3 жыл бұрын
Over 5000 views! What a privilege, thank you all so much for clicking on the video and listening to what I had to say, it means the world and more.
@Kraflyn3 жыл бұрын
fan of Arvo? <3
@GeorgeHammondMusic3 жыл бұрын
Beautiful!
@pranicmusic3 жыл бұрын
I found your enthusiasm for this library infectious! Thanks for your demo and walkthrough!
@ArkturusMusic3 жыл бұрын
Thank you Andrew, your words have made my day that much brighter!
@MichaelMaurice3 жыл бұрын
Very beautiful. I love how soothing this composition is!
@M4T3 жыл бұрын
Very ambient
@michellamontagne3 жыл бұрын
It sounds so natural. I have BBC Symphony Core. Was thinking to update with Professional, but don't really like their solo violin or Cello. Spitfire has regularly sales. Do virharmonic has sales also?
@jdisrael76073 жыл бұрын
Ive yet to see a sale for this product, I have the Violin and will be most likely updating to cello also.
@jdisrael76073 жыл бұрын
Update: I emailed them and they gave me a 15% discount today. Ask for a coupon deal
@DavidFedele3 жыл бұрын
Great video, thanks so much! I have a question about this library, not sure if you can answer .... I love the "sound" that Olafur Arnalds gets with these evolutions ..... but I am looking to use them as "regular string instruments" as opposed to just "evolutions" (ie: to play melodies, legato, etc). Don't suppose you have worked out a way to do this with this evolution library? Or could advise on a solo strings library which sounds most similar to the "sound" the Olafur Arnalds gets? Many thanks!
@ArkturusMusic3 жыл бұрын
Hi David, I initially bought the evolutions library to act as a solo string library, so I feel I can actually give some advice here! After a long time using this (and the regular evolutions) in some capacity, I can say I would not recommend it as a flexible solo library, the samples are designed to be played at length and are quite frustrating to use for melody-writing. The regular evolutions suffer from this more, and some individual evolutions can be usable, but I wouldn't use this as a solo string library. It's more for textural applications and world-building in some respect. I don't currently have a recommendation in terms of solo strings, I've never really used a solo string library before, I find they're too unreliable and inconsistent to be believable. I will say however that these are good places to start: Cinematic Studio Solo Strings Berlin 1st Chairs Emotional Violin (and Viola etc) Virharmonic Violin/Cello I've mainly used the 1st chairs on the BBCSO Professional, but they have no real substance to them and it's tough to find inspiration from them, Virharmonic's stuff is incredible, but it's a bit too show-boaty for the sound Olafur has. I believe Olafur uses Cinematic Studio Solo Strings to demo out his songs, but I'm not 100% sure, I know that a few high-profile composers like to sketch and demo with CSSS Berlin 1st Chairs is probably the best in terms of raw sound, but they're designed to go over the top of Berlin Strings, so keep that in mind The Emotional violin stuff I've only heard in reviews, but what I've seen has wildly impressed me, maybe check a few reviews out? Sorry for the lengthy reply, I've spent an unfortunate amount of time messing around with these things! TL;DR No, I wouldn't recommend OACE or OAE for what you need it to do! (I also found this comparison which goes over a lot of the solo stuff, hope this helps! kzread.info/dash/bejne/oph_udCjdq22gbQ.html)
@manuelfilho112 жыл бұрын
@@ArkturusMusic Wow, that was a very clarifying response. 👍🏼
@SiTheMon7773 жыл бұрын
Great vid mate. I love Tundra
@coolvibesradio32673 жыл бұрын
Volume is too low!
@krittikamandal72423 жыл бұрын
how to use this in fl studio?
@tomgreenmusic3 жыл бұрын
Hey man! Great overview :) I'm a long-time synth user looking to get into sample libraries to further my compositional skills. I'm trying to pick between Albion One, BBCSO and Tundra for my first library. Albion One seems to be the 'classic' library for entry to composing, whilst BBCSO requires much more effort to get full sounds due to instruments being separated. Buuuut Tundra seems to be right up my alley in terms of the sounds I like - the Spitfire demo and this demo sound incredible to me. Even though it sounds good, do you think going with Tundra would be very limiting in terms of the types of styles you could write in?
@ArkturusMusic3 жыл бұрын
Hi! Thanks for your comment, it's greatly appreciated. Tundra is very much a niche product, personally I've not managed to get much use out of it, although that's more down to my own shift in compositional approaches and musical vocabulary. It's not as versatile as the other two libraries, but what it lacks in versatility, it certainly makes up for in character, capability and quality. I own BBCSO Professional, and whilst it's great as a do-all orchestral library, it lacks a character, it's designed to just be an orchestra, there's no real substance to it, I don't really enjoy using it to compose with, nothing from it really inspires me to write. It's not a library I'd use to write music with, but more produce a finish product with. That's not to say BBCSO isn't fantastic, it's the most realistic and usable orchestral library I've come across so far, but perhaps writing for full-scale orchestra has since gone beyond the scope of what I'm interested in composing with. Tundra is, in some ways, the opposite. I could spend all day sat browsing through the vast collection of presets, it'll almost always give me some form of inspiration to write music. Each patch is excellent in its character, although some patches can be quite difficult to use in a more melodic sense. Tundra is very much a background library, it's great under dialogue, or under synth leads, it blends beautifully with ambience. The non-orchestral patches are excellent to and can be very cinematic in their own right, it's just, well, they're presets, I've never been too keen on using presets personally, but these ones are definitely much more characterful and functional than others I've come across before. Albion One is the do-it-all albion for film composition in a cinematic sense. It's big, it's bombastic, it's bright, powerful and in-your-face. So it's not really my thing, oddly enough. It has it's own subtleties that make it an amazing library to have, but I wouldn't have any real usage for it in my own workflow (unless I was working on an action movie, in which case, I'd use BBCSO and CSB!) If you like the character and sound of Tundra, then by far it's an excellent investment to make, I am criminal in my underuse of it, the more people comment on this video, the more I regret not making full use of it. I'm not sure what type of synth work you're in to, but Tundra is exceptionally effective in blending with synthetic sound sources, especially ambience. TL;DR, Tundra has the most character of the three, but the least functionality. Albion is a mix between character/functionality, and BBCSO is all functionality and no character. I'd recommend Tundra out of the three personally, like you said, there's no real effort required to get a world-class sound out of the Albions, it's just immense out of the box. Oh, it may also be worth checking out Albion NEO, I've not had chance to buy it yet, but the fundamentals seem to be quite similar, it has a lot of character and varying ensemble sizes, as well as all of the curated presets. There's also the new Albion which was just released, but I've not even seen a walkthrough of that yet, so I can't comment. Hope this helps! Let me know what you decide on!
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I was blessed by a client purchasing Tundra for me, because he commissioned it to be used on a score. This was not deducted from the final fee. I love it. It's nice to see that it inspires you, and that's what it's all about .
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Thanks for stopping by! Hope you enjoyed it!
What a delight it is to hear you share such a beautiful library..😊
Very fine video. You're so enthusiast and it's so rare ! You definitely convinced me to choose and buy Albion Tundra with black friday promotion. The "Fratres" interpretation by Kirsty Mangan and the very fine composer Homay Schmitz playing Tundra library with her on KZread is really awesome ! Thank you so much ...
Your narrative sounds way too low and makes it really uncomfortable to follow.
I'm sorry about that and I'm sorry you were uncomfortable, I've since stopped doing reviews such as this but I'll make note of your feedback for the future.
Came here to find the Vertical Lead preset because apparently it was used for Spiderman 2099's theme in Spiderman: Across The Spiderverse.
This piano is worth it just for the "pad" patch. Exquisite!!!!...and wonderful playing, thanks you!
The youtube algorithm has been gracious today
This got recommended to you? That’s insane, thanks for the support!
@@ArkturusMusic anytime, wonderful song by the way :) Wish you much success
Very soothing, welcome back!
Thank you Michael! It's great to be back.
OUTSTANDING, my friend!
Beautiful playing. I know they are both lovely sounding pianos and from different and more expensive libraries but if you could only choose one, would you get this one in the Olafur Composer Toolkit or the Cinematic Soft Piano? I'm very thorn but leaning towards the Cinematic Soft Piano.
I own both and I can give you a bit of insight (if you don't mind the slightly long read!) The Cinematic Soft Piano has more customisation and you can sort of fine tune it to make it sound a little more unique. You can't have that with OA's felt piano. In terms of sound, I greatly prefer OA's, it feels like it has been captured much more true-to-life than the soft piano. It has more life than the CSP, which makes it my usual go-to. But, the OA felt piano is part of a bundle which is much more expensive (unless you can buy it separately now) and comes with a lot of really cool stuff. As such, it's not meant to be the centre piece of the library, it has limited samples and round robins. It sounds great, but I find it really difficult to use for multiple projects because of that reason. The CSP is relatively inexpensive and is really REALLY good for the price, I find I can use it in many different projects with little hassle. My only quarrel is it is the fact is doesn't sound that grand at higher velocities, it's limited to, at most, an mf. The CSP is also modelled from a Yamaha U3, I am quite biased here as I don't really like Yamaha pianos all too much, so that's probably why I prefer OA's. In terms of functionality and value, I'd say the CSP is better. It's all a matter of opinion and personal preference, I'd give a few reviews a look to see which is best for you, but you can't really go wrong with either. Now if you want my vote for the best piano VST then it's Pianoteq by far, but they don't really have anything for that felted sound as far as I am aware, which is unfortunate. Hope that helps! Happy to answer any questions.
@@ArkturusMusic Hello. Thank you very much for taking the time to reply in such an extensive and informative way; i don't mind the long read at all. I will eventually get both because i'm a sucker for pianos ( have way too many if there´s even a thing as too many pianos lol ) and i have always loved the OA libraries but as you mentioned, the price on the CSP is just too good. I should have took a chance to buy them both in this past 50% sale Spitfire did some days/weeks ago. I have also been torn between getting Keyscape ( i also have Omnisphere so the extra patches that combine keyscape and omnisphere would be a good addition ) and Pianoteq but at the moment both cost way too much. There are so many great libraries that it's hard to pick one. It's one of the reasons why companies should have full demos. That way we could try them all and buy what suits our style/genre/taste. Thank you very much for your time once again and keep writing great music.
Talk about a hidden gem. This sounds amazing!
Too much talking!
Hi, I’m sorry that’s how you feel, I’m sure there are other reviews you can watch with less talking. I talk during my reviews, if that’s not for you then that’s fine, but I’m not going to change my format.
Hey, great video! I was wondering if you think this vst would be great for Elder Scrolls Skyrim or maybe Destiny?
Enjoyed your demo and enthusiasm, thanks for sharing.
This song is one of the best songs I’ve heard in a while 🔥🔥🔥 You completely took me to a new world with this. It belongs in a movie. p.s. What bass do you happen to be using? I’m struggling with my bass sound
Hey! Thank you for your comment, it's very much appreciated, although I rarely do things like this anymore! The bass I've used here were the bass patches included in the Alex Epton: Entropy Library, I can't remember off the top of my head but you can see them named on the side, so there's the Distorted Sub Bass, Looping Bass Drone and Sub Bass They've got a pretty cool sound on them, but from what I remember I had to had each bass note trigger per beat, as the loop was a little strange.
ST I think is the Spot Tree mics.
In case anyone is unsure - this is from the manual - St - Stereo. An RCA 44 BX stereo pair set up at the front of the string band
More like 44 GB. 88.8 GB is disk space required during setup.
Fantastic work. I might get this.
I think I missed but does this have rebow option ?
Terrific demo - thanks for this.
Fantastic review thank you
My friend. Subtle beauty. A bit from another world…
Thank you - I never realised someone left a comment, and a kind one at that!
Thank you so much for this really excellent demo !!
Ethan, thanks for pointing out the Soft & Wild Strings module, which I had ignored, and after seeing it here in your setup went back to and listened, and wow! Just great stuff I had lost sight of. Thanks for the comments and review here.
Does the mod wheel control the vibrato?
My problem with spitfire libraries is when you first load a sound the volume is really low. What do you do to remedy this.
Very low volume in rthis video. I have both system and youtube audio pulled to the max and still I can barely hear what you say. Suggestion: normalize your audio track before publishing.
Audio is fine. Check your speakers on whatever you’re using mate
FINALLY I FOUND AN INSTRUMENT AS GOOD AS THE EMBERTONE JOSHUA BELL VIOLIN !!!
I know! Lol. My exact same thoughts.
You ought to check out their bohemian violin vst. I thought the Joshua bell one was really good but man, their violin one is really S tier
I good review.
I love Spitfire!
but this one and the violin..have a problem loading..arriving at 100% and delay loading for at list 1 min....virharmonics should fix that damn bug...
They have already moved the Violin to a new engine, and it loads instantly now. For the Cello, it should be released VERY soon, they are already a little late due to technical issues.
Hi Ethan, I checked out (and appreciated) your overview after learning about the current sale on the Bohemian Cello! And I have sort of an odd adjacent question for you: can you recommend any other libraries that are as incredibly and beautifully playable as the Virharmonic ones? I have yet to find, for instance, a solo trumpet or sax that is anywhere near as playable out of the box. Closest I've found (and purchased) are the Infinite Brass/Woodwind series (for playability), but they just lack that emotional & creative spark I enjoy in the Virharmonic instruments (and/or I'm playing them wrong).
Hello Adam, thanks for taking the time to leave a comment! Sadly, I've yet to find anything close to the Bohemian Cello, although I've moved much more to the side of electronic music in the past year or so. What makes the bohemian cello so great is the fact they've got the closest (at least in my opinion) to replicating an actual cello's playability within the confines of MIDI whilst using real samples Sadly, there's not really anyone else I'm aware of that has that same character to it, the virharmonic series just oozes out character and emotion. The next best thing in my view would be the Emotional series, so Emotional Violin etc, those seem to be exceptionally detailed also, but I've not actually purchased them, only heard them in reviews. As for other instruments, I can't say there's anything quite like the Virharmonic stuff, Cinematic Studio Brass is decent for brass, I use that quite a lot in my cinematic writing. As for saxophone, I've been searching for months for a decent saxophone library, but I can't find anything! I'll let you know if I come across anything!
@@ArkturusMusic thanks for the kind and helpful reply, even if you didn't have a magical silver-bullet answer :p. I have and love the Bohemian Violin and just keep hoping either Virharmonic will branch out to other instrument families (seems unlikely) or some other scrappy startup or big established player will be inspired by Virharmonic's approach. I'm frankly pretty gobsmacked that at least the latter hasn't happened. Given how much playability contributes both to musical joy and also composing efficiency, it just seems odd that this isn't seen as a strong & important market differentiator when there are, like, at least half a dozen major brass libraries, quite a few sax libraries, and so on. Oh well :\
Awesome video. That sounds almost epic. What I wanna know is that if you can combine different style there? Can you imitate master? Are there ready made simulations of masters? Can you individually change the score so that you have all the styles mixed?
If spitfire could make this sound into a fully playable string instrument with legatos and the ability to change chords quickly and all that it would be so amazing.
Thank you, Ethan! While I own this, I've not yet spent time with it... however, this greatly video inspired me.
Over 5000 views! What a privilege, thank you all so much for clicking on the video and listening to what I had to say, it means the world and more.
fan of Arvo? <3
Beautiful!
I found your enthusiasm for this library infectious! Thanks for your demo and walkthrough!
Thank you Andrew, your words have made my day that much brighter!
Very beautiful. I love how soothing this composition is!
Very ambient
It sounds so natural. I have BBC Symphony Core. Was thinking to update with Professional, but don't really like their solo violin or Cello. Spitfire has regularly sales. Do virharmonic has sales also?
Ive yet to see a sale for this product, I have the Violin and will be most likely updating to cello also.
Update: I emailed them and they gave me a 15% discount today. Ask for a coupon deal
Great video, thanks so much! I have a question about this library, not sure if you can answer .... I love the "sound" that Olafur Arnalds gets with these evolutions ..... but I am looking to use them as "regular string instruments" as opposed to just "evolutions" (ie: to play melodies, legato, etc). Don't suppose you have worked out a way to do this with this evolution library? Or could advise on a solo strings library which sounds most similar to the "sound" the Olafur Arnalds gets? Many thanks!
Hi David, I initially bought the evolutions library to act as a solo string library, so I feel I can actually give some advice here! After a long time using this (and the regular evolutions) in some capacity, I can say I would not recommend it as a flexible solo library, the samples are designed to be played at length and are quite frustrating to use for melody-writing. The regular evolutions suffer from this more, and some individual evolutions can be usable, but I wouldn't use this as a solo string library. It's more for textural applications and world-building in some respect. I don't currently have a recommendation in terms of solo strings, I've never really used a solo string library before, I find they're too unreliable and inconsistent to be believable. I will say however that these are good places to start: Cinematic Studio Solo Strings Berlin 1st Chairs Emotional Violin (and Viola etc) Virharmonic Violin/Cello I've mainly used the 1st chairs on the BBCSO Professional, but they have no real substance to them and it's tough to find inspiration from them, Virharmonic's stuff is incredible, but it's a bit too show-boaty for the sound Olafur has. I believe Olafur uses Cinematic Studio Solo Strings to demo out his songs, but I'm not 100% sure, I know that a few high-profile composers like to sketch and demo with CSSS Berlin 1st Chairs is probably the best in terms of raw sound, but they're designed to go over the top of Berlin Strings, so keep that in mind The Emotional violin stuff I've only heard in reviews, but what I've seen has wildly impressed me, maybe check a few reviews out? Sorry for the lengthy reply, I've spent an unfortunate amount of time messing around with these things! TL;DR No, I wouldn't recommend OACE or OAE for what you need it to do! (I also found this comparison which goes over a lot of the solo stuff, hope this helps! kzread.info/dash/bejne/oph_udCjdq22gbQ.html)
@@ArkturusMusic Wow, that was a very clarifying response. 👍🏼
Great vid mate. I love Tundra
Volume is too low!
how to use this in fl studio?
Hey man! Great overview :) I'm a long-time synth user looking to get into sample libraries to further my compositional skills. I'm trying to pick between Albion One, BBCSO and Tundra for my first library. Albion One seems to be the 'classic' library for entry to composing, whilst BBCSO requires much more effort to get full sounds due to instruments being separated. Buuuut Tundra seems to be right up my alley in terms of the sounds I like - the Spitfire demo and this demo sound incredible to me. Even though it sounds good, do you think going with Tundra would be very limiting in terms of the types of styles you could write in?
Hi! Thanks for your comment, it's greatly appreciated. Tundra is very much a niche product, personally I've not managed to get much use out of it, although that's more down to my own shift in compositional approaches and musical vocabulary. It's not as versatile as the other two libraries, but what it lacks in versatility, it certainly makes up for in character, capability and quality. I own BBCSO Professional, and whilst it's great as a do-all orchestral library, it lacks a character, it's designed to just be an orchestra, there's no real substance to it, I don't really enjoy using it to compose with, nothing from it really inspires me to write. It's not a library I'd use to write music with, but more produce a finish product with. That's not to say BBCSO isn't fantastic, it's the most realistic and usable orchestral library I've come across so far, but perhaps writing for full-scale orchestra has since gone beyond the scope of what I'm interested in composing with. Tundra is, in some ways, the opposite. I could spend all day sat browsing through the vast collection of presets, it'll almost always give me some form of inspiration to write music. Each patch is excellent in its character, although some patches can be quite difficult to use in a more melodic sense. Tundra is very much a background library, it's great under dialogue, or under synth leads, it blends beautifully with ambience. The non-orchestral patches are excellent to and can be very cinematic in their own right, it's just, well, they're presets, I've never been too keen on using presets personally, but these ones are definitely much more characterful and functional than others I've come across before. Albion One is the do-it-all albion for film composition in a cinematic sense. It's big, it's bombastic, it's bright, powerful and in-your-face. So it's not really my thing, oddly enough. It has it's own subtleties that make it an amazing library to have, but I wouldn't have any real usage for it in my own workflow (unless I was working on an action movie, in which case, I'd use BBCSO and CSB!) If you like the character and sound of Tundra, then by far it's an excellent investment to make, I am criminal in my underuse of it, the more people comment on this video, the more I regret not making full use of it. I'm not sure what type of synth work you're in to, but Tundra is exceptionally effective in blending with synthetic sound sources, especially ambience. TL;DR, Tundra has the most character of the three, but the least functionality. Albion is a mix between character/functionality, and BBCSO is all functionality and no character. I'd recommend Tundra out of the three personally, like you said, there's no real effort required to get a world-class sound out of the Albions, it's just immense out of the box. Oh, it may also be worth checking out Albion NEO, I've not had chance to buy it yet, but the fundamentals seem to be quite similar, it has a lot of character and varying ensemble sizes, as well as all of the curated presets. There's also the new Albion which was just released, but I've not even seen a walkthrough of that yet, so I can't comment. Hope this helps! Let me know what you decide on!