I bought it, did a 2 minute cue (Glass Strings and a piano) and sent the cue to a film maker for whom I had scored a film that he submitted to a regional film festival. HIs response - "👍nice! I love the strings!"...(We won best score...)...I'll also be using it a lot for a company I compose for, based in L.A...My "boss" there is also very particular........Glad you and your team created it, and glad I bought it and added it to my kit............Keep up the good work!
Spent a few days with this. It really is well recorded with a lot of authentic articulations. Blends well with CSS/CSSS, Abbey Road Orch Strings - so far. Adds some life and movement to those more traditional libraries. Sounds great on its own - I like the close mics so I can control the ambience in the effects/mix. Super easy to use and get usable results. Well, I bought it and so far it looks like it will find a place in my template. Not crazy about the reverbs, but that’s how I feel about most virtual instrument ‘verbs.
Sounds amazing! Glad I finally got to sit down and watch the whole deep dive. We need more of these in the future, because watching you work with the plugin on a deeper more educational level, that isn't just giving in demo, is immensely helpful to reference back to. I love to tinker, but often lack a fundamental understanding of how something is working or how to make it better. I never ended up buying chamber stings from Spitfire, but I picked this up after listening to the first few minutes of the launch vid :)
Fantastic. I totally get it. I have many libraries and have all of what you have released. After looking thru this, it IS worth more to my work. And I have worked in studio orchestras in Hollywood and know what sounds good. I love the throwback quality of these also.
Christian, You were the driving force back when you were with SpitfireAudio for me getting into Orch samples. This pack knocks it out of the park. Onward and upwards for you and your team of creatives. Thank you.
I’ve used Crow Hill’s libraries on a number of film scores now, very usable and much more “human” than the other two dozen string libraries I own. The Gestures add realism that you can’t achieve with traditional samples but it can take time to find the right movement and changes. It would be fantastic to have some kind of written notation … if that was possible. Regardless, your libraries are the best value out there. Kudos !
I love the sound design foresight in this , I’m not a composer, but this chapter from crow hill, really celebrates the importance of each note, the phrasing isn’t just lazy fillers , the gestures are literally animated characters in your creation . Emotional massages galore. Top notch stuff.
Just purchased it! I think this is the library I've been waiting and looking for for 20 years... let's see... It would appear that a comment I made about the usefulness of gestures, has now been developed in Glass. On the face of it, this could well be the ONLY string library you'll ever need, the ONLY step left after these would be live strings in a studio and even then I'm not sure you would always get the sound. Simply wonderful.
I have been listening to a lot of your tutorials and am continually amazed at your ability to communicate the technical as well as the love for what you do. Well done! Through your inspiration I bought Glass Strings, as I am enchanted by the sounds you make with it. As a classical musician for the past 40+ years one observation I will say about all the orchestral libraries is that they do not do classical music well. I have listened to reproductions of Prokofiev and Brahms and they sound silly. What I do love about them is their ability to write emotive, lush, textural strings with complex harmonies that are heartbreaking and beautiful. Something you and other film composers have done so effectively over the years. My question is this: does this tool then dictate your writing style as the limitation of believable strings in more of a scherzando and articulated style of let’s say, Strauss Tone Poems, lead everyone to write primarily in lush strings?
Separate out the fundamental and the "glass" and we can put reverb just on the glass, and distortion just on the fundamental. That would be pretty cool. :)
Really loving this unique library from Crow Hill. Begs the question if I get this does it replace the String Murmurations and Small string gestures that I already own? Would love to see examples of how they might play together.
Wondering the same too, I just got small string gestures and I love the sound. This seems to me like a much expanded version with more content and shorts & sustains. As with all sample libraries it's hard to know how useful it is to you till you've played around with it.
Truly inspiring tool. Mr. Henson once more has found the Philosofal Stone of musical expression with his unique inventive as composer, performer and programmer. Glass Strins is more than a library, it's a musician's palette where all ideas find an experimental path. Bless you man.
Picked this up a couple days ago and very excited to put it to use. I do have a question about the SHIFT setting on the gestures. It seems to select a key, but exactly what does that mean? And it seems to put different samples on each note depending on what is selected. And, are the gestures in major or minor (or both?). I understand what you mean by setting it for "C" but playing D-Dorian. That would imply that all Gestures are Major? And that SHIFT loads Major scale gestures onto the major notes? But what about the notes not in the Major scale? Some details on SHIFT would be nice.
Thank you for these precisions about your library, Christian, sounds excellent. I was affraid it was "gestures only" (you insisted a lot about this feature in the previous videos). I like these phrases, yes, but I'm always cautious with these "premade" things as I'm affraid hundreds of composers use the sames. Now I know I could use it in a traditional way by playing the notes myself 🙂
Just bought it. This is an excellent library that helps me quickly put my inspiration into action. I no longer have to worry about forgetting important ideas during composition because of needing to write each instrument part separately.
Really nicely done - the tone is beautiful, and they have life! very nice :) Honestly, I struggled to use the 'gestures' previously, but when I heard the motors and movements in the intro I was blown away. I have a question though - the 8ths motor sounds beautiful (around 22:06) but then a measured trem or similar comes in towards the end? Are those baked into the samples, or do we get each movement style in separate banks/presets? Ideally I'd love to have each broken out into it's own patch, so I can have more control over what's happening - is this do-able with the library?
Are the gestures repeatable? Nothing worse than having a track where you get the gestures just right but then each time you play the track, they come out different.
@@brymusic1542 From my experience of the murmuration libraries it will repeat the same every time. Having said that, the inherent problem with baked in musicality is everyone sounding the same because the library is doing the work for you. I'd say this should only be used as an ideas and inspiration pad and at this price it's well worth the money. It's main attraction is going to be that it makes you sound good instantly even if you're not, like me.
Indeed they are repeatable, the way the gestures work is that a gesture is one recording and it's programmed to one note, so let's say you play a gesture that is programmed to a C key, it will always play that one recording.
I have another question - I have the library and it now sounds great - after every couple of bars of longs there's a clunk, presumably where the samples start again. Isn't this transition meant to be smooth and seamless?
This sounds incredible Christian! I was wondering, as I am on a budget at the moment, would it be worth me buying this library if I don’t currently have a mod controller? I have just been using my digital piano as a midi controller, but it doesn’t have the function of controlling the modulation etc. should I buy the mod controller first, then save up for this, or vice versa? 😵💫
Looks like an early prototype of VS_Faderbox which CH has endorsed before and that I bought because of it. It’s a great! Super quality faders custom made by one dude
I don’t know of any string libraries that are. Which seems crazy to me. Everyone was so excited about MPE and then…nothing. How amazing it would be to control the expression of each note with pressure? I hope someone does this someday!
Forgive me if I have missed something, but, I think it would be useful to have a graphic that communicates where the individual instruments cross over with eachother on the keyboard.
I wasn't looking at the screen when he said "all you need is a pair of these" i thought - bollocks. hes telling me to take risks, To make sure i scanned back, it was ears. of course it was lol.
Sounds great but….. Shouldn’t I be writing these motifs myself? If I’m relying on preset motifs do I really know what I’m doing? If my composing is relying on a happy accident of the alignment of preset motifs, how do I develop a theme and produce variations?
There's plenty of those kinds of libraries around. And this library won't really write you any melodies or rhythms, but it will, I guess, breathe life into the foundations with a human touch.
Sounds great. Of course you’re not really writing anything, you’re just playing back some thing other people wrote. OK, I guess. You could always just listen to some music written by someone else without leaving your hand draped on the keyboard.
Not as deep dive as I was hoping. All the pad like stuff is nice but I was hoping to hear more of what the shorts can do before I consider this as being close to definitive for me.
To be honest, messing with the glass option sounds like EQing gone wrong. The gestures are lovely but overall, the sound of the strings is not my cup of tea. Too "synthi" for my taste.
I bought it, did a 2 minute cue (Glass Strings and a piano) and sent the cue to a film maker for whom I had scored a film that he submitted to a regional film festival. HIs response - "👍nice! I love the strings!"...(We won best score...)...I'll also be using it a lot for a company I compose for, based in L.A...My "boss" there is also very particular........Glad you and your team created it, and glad I bought it and added it to my kit............Keep up the good work!
It's the notes and the spaces
THAT’s what I call a ROI!!
Good for you. Hope you are saving
One of the greatest things is seeing you back again, and creating these beautiful tools! Big love Christian! ❤️
This instrument is absolutely amazing! Really outstanding
Spent a few days with this. It really is well recorded with a lot of authentic articulations. Blends well with CSS/CSSS, Abbey Road Orch Strings - so far. Adds some life and movement to those more traditional libraries. Sounds great on its own - I like the close mics so I can control the ambience in the effects/mix. Super easy to use and get usable results. Well, I bought it and so far it looks like it will find a place in my template. Not crazy about the reverbs, but that’s how I feel about most virtual instrument ‘verbs.
Sounds amazing! Glad I finally got to sit down and watch the whole deep dive. We need more of these in the future, because watching you work with the plugin on a deeper more educational level, that isn't just giving in demo, is immensely helpful to reference back to. I love to tinker, but often lack a fundamental understanding of how something is working or how to make it better. I never ended up buying chamber stings from Spitfire, but I picked this up after listening to the first few minutes of the launch vid :)
Fantastic. I totally get it. I have many libraries and have all of what you have released. After looking thru this, it IS worth more to my work. And I have worked in studio orchestras in Hollywood and know what sounds good. I love the throwback quality of these also.
These are my new go to string library! Thank you for all that you do, Christian!
Christian, You were the driving force back when you were with SpitfireAudio for me getting into Orch samples. This pack knocks it out of the park. Onward and upwards for you and your team of creatives. Thank you.
I’ve used Crow Hill’s libraries on a number of film scores now, very usable and much more “human” than the other two dozen string libraries I own. The Gestures add realism that you can’t achieve with traditional samples but it can take time to find the right movement and changes. It would be fantastic to have some kind of written notation … if that was possible. Regardless, your libraries are the best value out there. Kudos !
I really missed your videos, glad to have you back.
Thanks Christian, this is just beautiful. I would love as many tutorials as you can pump out, please! (I still have no idea what I am doing.)
I love the sound design foresight in this , I’m not a composer, but this chapter from crow hill, really celebrates the importance of each note, the phrasing isn’t just lazy fillers , the gestures are literally animated characters in your creation . Emotional massages galore. Top notch stuff.
This looks INCREDIBLE! Any plans to make an equivalent for solo strings / string quartet?
Just purchased it! I think this is the library I've been waiting and looking for for 20 years... let's see... It would appear that a comment I made about the usefulness of gestures, has now been developed in Glass. On the face of it, this could well be the ONLY string library you'll ever need, the ONLY step left after these would be live strings in a studio and even then I'm not sure you would always get the sound. Simply wonderful.
Love these sounds, the places where they lead us, unbelievable.
Very nicely done especially on the gestures! What a lovely coughing technique you added to the strings 😅. Hope you feel better soon!
I have been listening to a lot of your tutorials and am continually amazed at your ability to communicate the technical as well as the love for what you do. Well done!
Through your inspiration I bought Glass Strings, as I am enchanted by the sounds you make with it. As a classical musician for the past 40+ years one observation I will say about all the orchestral libraries is that they do not do classical music well. I have listened to reproductions of Prokofiev and Brahms and they sound silly.
What I do love about them is their ability to write emotive, lush, textural strings with complex harmonies that are heartbreaking and beautiful. Something you and other film composers have done so effectively over the years.
My question is this: does this tool then dictate your writing style as the limitation of believable strings in more of a scherzando and articulated style of let’s say, Strauss Tone Poems, lead everyone to write primarily in lush strings?
Keep up the amazing work Christian. Love your videos. Love your sample libraries. Tim (Shed Seven)
This is where I wish you could sell / trade libraries. Because I would swap out some for this 😆
it's very good, i got it before it went off the intro price - very cheap considering the quality, thanks to the team!
Hey Christian can you please make it possible to map CC1 to both Timbre and Expression simultaneously?
Separate out the fundamental and the "glass" and we can put reverb just on the glass, and distortion just on the fundamental. That would be pretty cool. :)
美妙的声音，做得好 Christian ！ -best Chengyu
This Strings library is frickkin dope!!!
Really loving this unique library from Crow Hill. Begs the question if I get this does it replace the String Murmurations and Small string gestures that I already own? Would love to see examples of how they might play together.
Wondering the same too, I just got small string gestures and I love the sound.
This seems to me like a much expanded version with more content and shorts & sustains.
As with all sample libraries it's hard to know how useful it is to you till you've played around with it.
Truly inspiring tool. Mr. Henson once more has found the Philosofal Stone of musical expression with his unique inventive as composer, performer and programmer. Glass Strins is more than a library, it's a musician's palette where all ideas find an experimental path. Bless you man.
Picked this up a couple days ago and very excited to put it to use. I do have a question about the SHIFT setting on the gestures. It seems to select a key, but exactly what does that mean? And it seems to put different samples on each note depending on what is selected. And, are the gestures in major or minor (or both?). I understand what you mean by setting it for "C" but playing D-Dorian. That would imply that all Gestures are Major? And that SHIFT loads Major scale gestures onto the major notes? But what about the notes not in the Major scale? Some details on SHIFT would be nice.
Thank you for these precisions about your library, Christian, sounds excellent. I was affraid it was "gestures only" (you insisted a lot about this feature in the previous videos). I like these phrases, yes, but I'm always cautious with these "premade" things as I'm affraid hundreds of composers use the sames. Now I know I could use it in a traditional way by playing the notes myself 🙂
“But we can go deeper than that daddy surely” 😂
Beautiful library! 🔥
Gorgeous.🙌
Wow I've got to buy that when I can.
Definitive string library it’s all about preserving humanity!!!!!!
Just bought it. This is an excellent library that helps me quickly put my inspiration into action. I no longer have to worry about forgetting important ideas during composition because of needing to write each instrument part separately.
0:17, 0:42, 5:40, 6:20, 13:18, 13:38, 14:38, 15:37, 19:52, 20:22, 21:14, 22:09, AR 22:56 23:01, 25:26, 28:26... All so beautiful
As an always curious wanderer along some of your orchestral bibliothèques, I’m already eager to let my ears explore these new shelves…
Really nicely done - the tone is beautiful, and they have life! very nice :)
Honestly, I struggled to use the 'gestures' previously, but when I heard the motors and movements in the intro I was blown away. I have a question though - the 8ths motor sounds beautiful (around 22:06) but then a measured trem or similar comes in towards the end? Are those baked into the samples, or do we get each movement style in separate banks/presets? Ideally I'd love to have each broken out into it's own patch, so I can have more control over what's happening - is this do-able with the library?
Are those gestures synced to tempo?
Eat your heart out EastWest, this is gonna be my next library!!
Are the gestures repeatable? Nothing worse than having a track where you get the gestures just right but then each time you play the track, they come out different.
@@brymusic1542 From my experience of the murmuration libraries it will repeat the same every time. Having said that, the inherent problem with baked in musicality is everyone sounding the same because the library is doing the work for you. I'd say this should only be used as an ideas and inspiration pad and at this price it's well worth the money.
It's main attraction is going to be that it makes you sound good instantly even if you're not, like me.
Indeed they are repeatable, the way the gestures work is that a gesture is one recording and it's programmed to one note, so let's say you play a gesture that is programmed to a C key, it will always play that one recording.
@@Mark_Nowa_Taylor_Composer Does this not make it extremely limited once you've made a couple of tracks?
Wish you would also play in major scales to get a better idea how the library might sound in a happier or pop context.
This is a genuine question: can this library be used to make happy, positive music, or is it best suited to pensiveness, heartbreak and tragedy?
That depends on the composer. Seems to me it can do both.
Thanks, appreciated.
To my ears, melancholic would be the "happiest" of emotions you could get out of this library.
Is it possible to stack the articulations by control clicking on more than one?
not yet but added to our request list!
You said in the text that you don't care much about round robins, but isn't that something worthwhile in a library?
Gnar-gnar bro keep it up
Dramatic silence in the dialog at 26:30. ;)
Be yourself, by playing a riff library everyone else can use to “create” the same music.
Lol, foreal... but it does sound great, though
I have another question - I have the library and it now sounds great - after every couple of bars of longs there's a clunk, presumably where the samples start again. Isn't this transition meant to be smooth and seamless?
This sounds incredible Christian! I was wondering, as I am on a budget at the moment, would it be worth me buying this library if I don’t currently have a mod controller? I have just been using my digital piano as a midi controller, but it doesn’t have the function of controlling the modulation etc. should I buy the mod controller first, then save up for this, or vice versa? 😵💫
Stunningly great
❤
Christian, slowly starting to look like Bubbles from Trailer Park Boys. Side note - this sounds incredible. Great job!
Two greats!
I know it's been asked already but are the gestures random or are they just one variation per note?
Instant purchase! Love the sound of these strings! Downloading as I type this! Can I ask what kind of fader controller are you using?
Looks like an early prototype of VS_Faderbox which CH has endorsed before and that I bought because of it. It’s a great! Super quality faders custom made by one dude
@@AndreasSaag Thanks!
Is it MPE compatable?
I don’t know of any string libraries that are. Which seems crazy to me. Everyone was so excited about MPE and then…nothing. How amazing it would be to control the expression of each note with pressure? I hope someone does this someday!
Only motors preset in Media..?
I’m confused about the bass? Sounded like it was still in the cello range? Is it doubled with cello?
doubled at octaves with the cello.
Can we please know the number of round robins and velocity layers? (Why is this not in the product description?)
Does it play good and sound good ? If yes, does knowing really change anything. I don’t know 🤷♀️
@@TodzuumSound good in what context? The number of round robins and velocity layers matter. I believe you deserve to know what exactly you’re buying.
@ any context and every context and no context , if you play it and it sounds good every time
Haha rest assured he’s not gonna tell you…probably 2 or 3 (it’s not Vienna unfortunately). Oh and btw of course it’s important.
Forgive me if I have missed something, but, I think it would be useful to have a graphic that communicates where the individual instruments cross over with eachother on the keyboard.
I wasn't looking at the screen when he said "all you need is a pair of these" i thought - bollocks. hes telling me to take risks, To make sure i scanned back, it was ears. of course it was lol.
Oh will someone do a rendition of Adagio for Strings using glass strings so we can really hear how close to the real thing this library is? Please! 🙏
I wish it was a flat rate. It was 190 US dollars a few days ago now its 202.
Sounds great but….. Shouldn’t I be writing these motifs myself? If I’m relying on preset motifs do I really know what I’m doing? If my composing is relying on a happy accident of the alignment of preset motifs, how do I develop a theme and produce variations?
There's plenty of those kinds of libraries around. And this library won't really write you any melodies or rhythms, but it will, I guess, breathe life into the foundations with a human touch.
I own it, it’s beautiful. It’s a tad irksome to be emailed notifying of a new video drop about the library, only to find it’s not a new video at all.
was available to watch on our site but not published on TH-cam
Sounds great. Of course you’re not really writing anything, you’re just playing back some thing other people wrote. OK, I guess. You could always just listen to some music written by someone else without leaving your hand draped on the keyboard.
Not as deep dive as I was hoping. All the pad like stuff is nice but I was hoping to hear more of what the shorts can do before I consider this as being close to definitive for me.
26:31 what?😄
@@LeeGee Is that what he said? 🤣
No demo?
I really dislike these GUI designs.
Ah yes, the from Spitfire so familiar "use three fingers and a modwheel, and the instrument will create the music for you"
And so all the music on tv and film is the same.
"This library is for everyone" "This video is for the serious pro" hihihi
To be honest, messing with the glass option sounds like EQing gone wrong. The gestures are lovely but overall, the sound of the strings is not my cup of tea. Too "synthi" for my taste.
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