Most of us don’t have the budget of The Beatles - we can’t afford to hire an entire orchestra. Heck, many of us can’t even afford to pay one or two string players.That’s why a kick-butt plugin can be a DIY musician’s savior.Stringed instruments are the most difficult for software developers to replicate. Imagine having more than 500 orchestral instruments at your disposal.
Film Score Companion has five main components to it: brass, strings, woodwinds, Big Bang Cinematic Percussion, and the grand piano, Eighty Eight Ensemble.Brass - not only do you get the brass ensembles, you have a selection of solo instruments at your disposal. This section includes trumpets, trombones, bass trombones, French horns, and tuba, all with different techniques and methods.Strings - this component is great for composing and using as a background orchestra. Thanks to the individual instruments, you can build custom sections piece by piece.Again, you have the option to use different techniques with first violins, second violins, violas, contrabasses, and cellos.Woodwinds - you also have a wide selection of woodwinds, which are actually the closest instrument to the human voice in frequency and tone. So they can be a nice compliment to a vocalist.Eighty Eight Ensemble 2 - this component is a beautiful recreation of a Steinway 9-foot CD 327 grand piano, packed into a great piece of software.You’ll get the real grand piano sound (in 1,500 samples) that you’d expect in your home recordings. What more could you want?Big Bang Cinematic Production - no matter what you need - from big drums to supplemental rhythm - the BBCP has you covered. If you want real strings played by real people, the Miroslav Philharmonik 2 plugin is the one to check out.You can choose from legatos to pizzicatos to spicattos to staccatos and all the other “os”. You may not have heard of Keith O.
The whole point of Instant Orchestra is to make arranging an orchestra super easy, sans sequencing and annoying setups. This allows anyone to orchestrate quickly and beautifully.It only takes a minute to get the ideas in your head into audible music.You can mix and match ensembles, including all of the same instrument or a combo of strings, horns, and woodwinds, for example.The emphasis is in getting the instruments to flow together in perfect unison.Plus, you get plenty of effects for post-production, like glissandi, rips, and harmonics, among many others. This plugin also provides playing techniques to make everything sound that much more authentic.You can even find samples based on the mood you need, giving you a great starting-off point for your arrangements. If you need top-notch orchestral sounds that are ready at the touch of a button, Session Strings might be a good choice for you.They recorded their samples at one of the best studios in Germany, using instruments from the 18th and 19th century played by some of the top musicians from the best orchestras in Europe.With this plugin, there’s no need to spend hours upon hours tweaking little parts of your arrangements. It’s super easy to get up and running.The sounds of these instruments don’t require post-production - they’re at a pro-level right from the gate.But if you do want to tweak the sounds in post-production, you have EQ and reverb available.Plus, you have the Animator feature, which takes your orchestra and “funkifies” it.
You can use it to riff on chords, adding rhythmic staccatos, spiccatos, or pizzicatos. Some say CAGE is the most comprehensive orchestral plugin.The Custom Aleatoric Group Effects (CAGE) was put together by Folmann and O’Malley, the same award-winning producers who produced the Century Strings Bundle from 8Dio.The woodwinds volume includes nine microphone positions for a wide range of sound options.Under the umbrella of those nine positions, there are two main groups: Ensemble and Divisi. So you’ve got options, to say the least.The woodwinds sections also have over 380 effects, making it almost impossible to not find the effect you need. EastWest is on the list yet again, this time with their brass plugin.It’s one of the most powerful and realistic on the market.
Its quantity matches its quality - it has 10 times the amount of content than the next guy.It’s easy to play and uses just one MIDI channel.This top-notch performance is thanks to producers Doug Rogers, Nick Phoenix and Thomas Bergersen as well as award-winning sound engineer Shawn Murphy.They recorded these samples in one of the best studios for brass recording - EastWest Studio 1.Using five mic positions, the brass sound they’ve capture is meant to perfectly meld with Hollywood Strings. Hey, developer of VSCO 2 CE here- not affiliated in any way with the camera app as you suggest.
Nov 03, 2015 The full depth and realism of STRING ENSEMBLE is revealed in these easy-to-follow tutorial videos. Watch them all and create true-to-life scores in record time. This is part 1 in a series of 9.
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‘VSCO’ stands for Versilian Studios Chamber Orchestra and is only used because writing that out over and over is a lot of work, just like GPO or EWQLSO are popular abbreviations for other orchestral libraries. The company name is Versilian Studios, rather than Versil Studios.Just a semantics side-note- VSCO 2 CE is really just a set of.wav files (and some basic SFZ’s). Folks like Bigcat and Paul Battersby have made their own versions in VST/AU, Kontakt, SFZ, xrni, and other formats. Some use the VSCO designation, others using completely different names (e.g. Sketching Chamber Orchestra); that’s why Bigcat also has a VSCO 2 VST/AU set like the Percussion you linked as the last entry.
Orchestral Strings One was recorded utilizing the legendary acoustics in the famous Berliner Hall - home of the world class BERLINER PHILHARMONIKER. Our full string orchestra contains 14 violins, 10 Violas, 8 Cellos and 6 Double Basses.The NEO Hybrid Modeling Engine offers you the best from both the sampling and modeling worlds. The Authentic Sound of Sampling combined with the Playability of Modeling makes for a string experience that you have to try to believe! No steep hardware requirements here. Orchestral Strings One takes up less than 200MB of disk space and doesn't overly tax your CPU.
The NEO Hybrid Modeling Engine gives you absolute control over every aspect of each string - you can even design your own string! There are nearly 20 controls waiting for you to tweak! Some of you (you know who you are!) just HAVE to dial up the legato and velocity, fiddle with the dynamic response, and play with those timbre differences.Unlike static samples, modeling technology really brings the Orchestral Strings One to life. And more importantly, Orchestral Strings One focuses on the continuous flow of melody, not on just a single note. For example, you can progressively transform a sustained note by first adding slow vibrato, then medium vibrato and finally fast vibrato.
While doing this, you can also use the expression controller to change from crescendo to decrescendo. This sort of control is just about impossible to achieve with sampled strings.Orchestral Strings One is very easy to use. You can play with all the parameters on the fly with a MIDI keyboard using key switches and controllers. A keyboard player can easily and freely play our Orchestral Strings One without any difficulty.