Three guitars are involved – an ESP LTD Deluxe, an Epiphone Custom and a Fender Strat TexMex, all plugged into a 1962 Drawmer preamp – and you get a good degree of governance over the sound thanks to the onboard EQ, envelope controls, filter and LFO-driven gate. It has to have at least most used articulations: legato, tremolo, short notes, pizzicato - libraries like "legato only" don't count.Aimed at songwriters looking to conjure up instant acoustic and electric guitar parts for compositional purposes, 8dio’s cleverly constructed library lets you trigger major and minor chord loops in all 12 keys, with four keyswitching strumming rhythms and 12 keyswitching effects. Has to have complete string experience - that means separate sections Vln1, vln2, vla, cellos, basses - solo only/ensemble only don't count.ģ. To really focus it a bit, here are the restrictions:Ģ. So after this lengthy babbling, what are best string libraries? Same thing really with Impact Soundworks and their Guitar stuff. They made absolutely great orchestral expansion, but literally no one talks about it because Toontrack isn't a big name in "classical/scoring/orchestral" market. Everyone and their mother knows that it just doesn't get better than Toontrack when it comes to anything percussion. For anyone really doing DAW stuff with pop/rock/metal/country/jazz/funk/whatever-not-orchestral, when you speak about percussion it is instantly obvious that the answer is Toontrack. Without this inclusion, the answers would be just CSS over and over, because it's probably THE most popular string library.Īnd a side thought - some companies and libraries can be overlooked even if they are big and successful, just because their main focus and origin of their fame comes from a slightly different market.Ĭase in point - Percussion. Cinematic Studio is kinda different, because it's not a big behemoth of a company, but I include it because of sheer popularity of their libraries. The first four were pioneers on the market, and they successfully capitalized on it, especially Spitfire. But why they use them? Well, because someone at one point recommended it to them, because it was popular etc.īy "Big 5" I mean: Spitfire, Orchestral Tools, Vienna, EastWest and Cinematic Studio. They are popular, because a lot of people use them, so they recommend them. Popularity of these libraries becomes somewhat like self-fulfilling prophecy. When somebody asks for string library, they are rarely even mentioned as possibility, usually all devolves into "Just get CSS/BBCSO/Berlin". So there you are at least three, but there is little talk about them, not counting dedicated threads. With Sonokinetic and Audiobro I don't have much experience, but at least Sonokinetic's Oud is best on market. These are all great companies, I love Impact Soundworks for their guitar libraries, they are absolutely number 1 on the market. I noticed that in the last year and a half, at least three big string libraries were released - "Tokyo Scoring Strings" by Impact Soundworks, "Orchestral Strings" by Sonokinetic and "Modern Scoring Strings" by Audiobro. So that was the first thing that inspired me to make this thread. These are great, but there are also great libraries made by other, smaller companies. There are always the same recommendations in these threads, BBCSO, CSS, EW Composer Cloud, Berlin etc. No, there is NEVER too many "best string library" war. I know I know, another "best strings thread". So I probably have to make some preface here.
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