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Wonderful video, thanks Miguel! Could you share other effects such as reverb/EQ that you're using to achieve Appassionata sound? Or you may not be... It sounds fantastic.

hi there.While I do appreciate your time and effort to make this otherwise remarkable comparison ,claiming that 8Dio has used cheap mics is hillarious at least; cause they DID created a wealth of articulations ,extremely well sampled ,and you come and say to people they used cheap mics? Have you ever used high end mics? Do you own any high end mic ? any high end mixing console? How can you make such a statement so light ? What do YOU know about high end mics and engineering to say this?

Pacific Strings and Berlin Strings are The best so far, Spitfire is an OVERRATED company an TOO Expensive

To OP, For the CONs section of SSS what is downtune to 438hz referring to?? Thanks

Thank you! I really appreciate that.

None. All sound pathetic against the real thing

Me encanta. Qué bonito ver algunas sonrisas que ya no están

"Honor" The pacific main theme, beautiful !

Homay sold this to me Quite EASILY 😍 I’m DEFINITELY going to buy this Library!

Chamber and Opus Steings are the best,now i get Cinematic strings.

Buen trabajo!!!Muchisimas gracias!!!!

IN ALBION ONE THE VIOLINS SOUND WITH A 8va UP, that is why the sound is a little bit different.

Где можно послушать целую композицию ?

I don‘t get it! Soloist string ensembles are judged sounding ‚synthetic‘ here ? Possibly people do not know anymore how real string instruments sound with all these megalomaniac hollywood washed junk unison sound we got… B.t.w. the last should not even be inside this comparison, as it does not aim to be like these others, overprocessed, unnatural sounding stacked sound, that multiplies to ridiculously huge amounts of virtual performers with polyphonic note...

Amazing well done!

Very useful, thank you so much for doing this comparison!

Could anyone please recommend a free, legato solo strings library? I can't seem to find any good ones... Violin/viola/cello...

Interesting comparison, I like the use of the same phrase, and video production used to communicate was really good. I own all the libraries used. There was one thing that bothered me - for the Abbey Road Two - you put as PRO "Warm Sound" and the con being "Synthetic Sound" - which makes me ask - which is it? The only thing I could think is that the string texture might come through more in their samples - perhaps making it a bit "synthetic". I saw one video with Hans Zimmer where he said at the start of a project - it becomes a "Sound Safari" where you have to go looking for that right sound - and that is what I see drives my collecting sound libraries. I appreciate the work that goes into these videos - and in their own way -they can be inspiring to revisit what we have.

Albion One - MVP

What the name of this music?

love your review on the pros and cons comparison. Chamber strings definitely requires higher learning curve that's why I love using CSS. But now Appassionata String give another option for easy playability.

Cool stuff.

I wouldn't find a better piece to compare strings libraries. It's one of my fav Hans Zimmer's.

Thank you for putting this up. This gives us something to compare. The Pro and Cons section was extremity helpful.

Super useful and well-crafted video. Thank you!!

I have 5 of the 8 libraries. The ones I don't have are Appassionata, Sonokinetic, and AR2. I can do without the last two but will strongly consider Appassionata the next time Spitfire Audio has a sale.

Spitfire Symphonic Strings

0:53- Cuerdas de cámara Spitfire,,,THE CLEAREST

Of those that have come out I only have Appassionata, Abbey Road Two has surprised me, it has a very special sound. As for Albion One I think it is very overrated. In certain aspects his years are noticeable. As for Legatos, which is what we are talking about, 8DIO has some very interesting things.

Thanks for proving me that I'm not crazy. Always heard Spitfire's Symphonic Strings lower!

This is great! Thank you, Miguel!

Thank you for this video. Very informing. Great work!

Firstly, thank you for this video, the piece itself is very warm. I certainly hope to hear the rest some day. Secondly, as a visually impaired creator myself, I would hugely benefit from the relevant time-stamps if you were able to put them in? Right now, I can’t make an informed decision on which library to buy, because I cannot see which one is currently being played, when it is being played. With time-stamps, your video is more accessible, and easier to navigate as a previous commenter suggested, but the benefit for everyone else is of course, the ease of making an A/B comparison. If you have the time to address this someday, users such as myself would be grateful to you. Thanks.

You own so many libraries...!!!

Spitfire LIBS ? No! until they fix the interface ! Completely unreadable on 4K screens. Total disaster. Too bad because they sound so awesome !

Really love this comparison. I have a few of the mentioned libraries myself - but I cannot make them sound like you did. Maybe you could create a little tutorial video explaining how you played and used modwheel here?

thanks, but for me, the best were and are still are cinematic strings and studio strings legato

Great comparison!

It's interesting that you omitted arguably the best legato ever achieved in a virtual instrument: Cinematic Studio Series Strings: cinematicstudioseries.com/strings

I was amazed by the bad sound of Abbey Road and I loved Apassionata.

For that kind of sound... I suggest BBC ( Spitfire )

Very good !!!!

Thanks for doing this! Really helpful.

TYVM for this video!!! Go more plz!

Spitfire strings are great, except for the solo strings. They just can't seem to get them right. In their defence, hardly any companies know how to get those right.

Just a quick tip, if you leave timestamps in the description of your videos you create a cool effect on the video that shows those timestamps on the progress bar. That way people can easily click around to compare examples!

You should also check out Performance Samples VISTA and Pacific Strings (when it comes out)

Considering their age, I think the older generation of spifire libraries should be cheaper. They still sound quite good, and I think it's such a waste to make them all so expensive after so many years.

How is Century sordino not getting any love??

I thought Albion One sounded fantastic considering it's age!