Orchestral Tools x Benjamin Wallfisch keynote event
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ธ.ค. 2023
- Join us for a special keynote event from Teldex Studios, Berlin. We'll be unveiling the details of our collaborative project with acclaimed composer Benjamin Wallfisch.
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Regarding Stringscapes: The thing that always concerns me a bit is, as great as the prerecorded aleatoric phrrases, effects etc. are, when they are used in mockups and then are supposed to be orchestrated, all we can always just do is trying to do take-downs or completely rewrite/rearrange them from scratch.
If there was an option to also have the scores/sheet music of these phrases available when using the samples (like e.g. Sonokinetic's "tutti" sample library does), it would make the lives of us orchestrators a lot easier 🙂
As amazing as they sound and as much inspiration as they provide, some reference is always helpful.
Exactly!
Yay👊👏👏!!! Caleb Cuzner!!! So much hard work for an amazing result!!
Yes! Thank you!
Great announcement! Congratulations. I'm looking forward.
Congratulations OT and Ben! Absolutely stunning collection. Great presentation too. Can’t wait to put it to use. 🔥
Take my $$$ already! This sounds gorgeous!❤
Congrats ! What a sound... what a vibe... !!
I remember buying the first product when this company started. Amazing how far they have come
Wow, thank you so much for your support :)
This shall be magnificent.
Can’t wait!!!
Is there anything better than OT releasing a big library for Christmas? 🎄
Yes!!! Now do Benjamin Wallfisch Percussion
Congratulations @OrchestralTools for raising the bar and closing the gap betwen real world-music & sample libraries once again! I won't download all mic positions, I'm good with Tree & Close usually :D
I need another SSD, before I even buy anything more lol ❤
This is great! (I would like to know where to get the keyboard desk with built-in keyboard controller Hendrik is using). Just what I have been waiting for. Thanks, Orchestral Tools. Blessings!!!
Bravo!!
Great textures and sound!!! As usual, if you are looking for realism OT is like one of the best! Plus, I always like to remember to the complainers, that these are tools to write music not to replace musicians! And this is is like the closest you get with realism, we got so used with perfect and modified programmed sounds that we don’t even know anymore what the real deal sounds like! Great product and character for me!
Thank you very much!
sounds beautiful :)
Thank you 👏
Congratulations! Thank you so much!
Are you using an external reverb effect, or is that included with the Benjamin Wallfisch strings?
No external audio effects were used during the keynote :)
Please make polyphonic swells! If you can pull that of that would be awesome!
Thank you for the suggestion!
@@Orchestral-Tools Correction: I meant polyphonic legato swells! =)
In the same room, changing a snare drum out for a drum kit can dramatically change the tone, over all kit sound and overall performance. Sorry, but this does not work the same way with large string sections. I love OT, and not saying this is a bad product, but I am having a hard time determining if that is that much more useful than any other string library regardless of what goes up or down.
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Ok, another String Library?
Sounds awesome but man, its pricey!!
I agree. Around $500 would be the sweet spot. This is just another string library with a lot of mic positions; which amplifies the download size.
I'm not a complete purist, but presumably this new library allows an almost infinite - and impossible - section of downbow playing - or conversely upbow playing!
I guess that's not recommended, but some may do it anyway.
Boy I miss being excited about a new sample library for strings. Ah, the good old days when we all waited for the next string library to solve so many other problems, that was exciting. Now I have $30,000 worth of Spitfire libraries just sitting on the shelf doing nothing. The question is, can I muster up enough excitement to drop $800 on this library?
Almost there... Was hoping they were going in the direction with strings as with what Acoustic Samples are doing with woodwinds in terms of UI... The upbow and downbow sampling is a start just not there yet when it comes to practicality.
The articulations sounds nice, however, the overall sound seems more metallic and thin sounding comparing to Berlin Strings. Berlin Orchestra Series sounds like recordings from Deutsche Grammophon. This new one sounds pretty ear piercing.
ok I've locked my bank card in the safe...I'm ready
Is the library is also released right on the 14th, without pre-order?
the first collections is going to be released today the second collections in the summer
My personal impressions. A disappointing lack of articulations. None of the following are present:
Sul ponticello, harmonics, sordino, sul tasto, flautando, senza vibrato, sforzando, marcato, controllable portamento, measured tremolando and trem ponticelli; no ultra-vibrato or performed dynamics; no random, user-defined detuned sustains. The latter is something I always hoped would be introduced to a string library. Here was a missed opportunity. The reason why most high strings sound so "synthy" is because the tuning is too static and perfect. Oh, and no first chair.
Only sustains and legato on the divisi sections. Huh?! That's just weird. Frankly I'm bemused and disappointed by these omissions.
The upside: it sounds ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE (in the right hands), which make the omissions even more disappointing.The sound is second to none.
So, is it the ultimate, all in one string library? Not a chance. Rather, a magnificent addition to the many other libraries. Will I buy it? On the fence, because those omissions really are so glaring; almost painful, actually. So many exotic bowing techniques missing, which are in common usage. As it is, the Stringscapes library attracts me far more.If it had all the above-mentioned missing articulations, it would probably be the one-stop answer; no competition. Astonishing sound, but a gaping lack of additional, oft-used techniques. Well, just my 10 cents.Don't kill me!
Congratulations on getting this far, though. I hope I'm not coming as too negative, because the sound is astonishing.Thank you for your efforts.
Thank you for your honest feedback, we really appreciate it ☺️
Thank you for not being offended! I meant to be constructive.If you could just feature more of the articulations I mentioned and also apply it to the divisi, you'd have a world-beating library. I absolutely love your SINE interface and the depth and ease of use, but I feel that everyone has something to learn from AudioBro's divisi and some of their other deep programming features.
On a final note, some cynics might say your loop-free approach is going back to the days of the Mellotron. Not me, of course! I think it’s a great idea.
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Great feedback although I think if they had introduced all these other articulations, the library would be too big! (I think it's 1Tb of data for the Strings product). On the other hand, perhaps these other articulations may be coming later down their roadmap as future products offering.@@MichaelVickerage-Composer
Thank you. Yours, too. Yes, of course you're correct about the size, but I like big. My 48 TB drive wouldn't mind it! But seriously, I would hope they will do as you wisely speculate, because it's such a falling short of an extraordinary sound.I mean: imagine this library with all those other bowing techniques...@@benpit2762
More of the same....and not easier to program. This is already old :(
Wow what an incredible achievement! My only criticism is I feel the Violins are not convincing in the mid to high range - I know these products are meant to provide a tool to help you compose and shouldn't be the final product. The remaining string sections are incredible, however the violins, at least to me, could have offered something a little more "lifelike" - is it just me? If we want soaring violin melodies then layering with other sample libraries may be a good option. Congratulations again to everyone at Orchestral Tools and Benjamin Wallfisch's incredible vision.