2:35 Tina Guo 4:39 Vienna Sync Strings 9:04 Cinematic Studio Solo Strings 12:50 Nocturne Cello and Violin 15:12 SWAM Strings 17:40 CineStrings 20:28 Chris Hein Strings 23:10 Joshua Bell violin 25:45 Emotional Violin and Cello 28:10 Taylor davies Solo Violin
Great showcase of libraries. I really like your no bulls**t approach and passion for music. At the end, it is not a contest between libraries, but a matter of what inspires us. What a great keyboard player you are! Keep up the good work with your channel. You are an inspiration.
Bohemian Violin is the best one. Flexible toggles and with its last update much more articulations. The second one is Native Instruments Stradivari Violin.
Joshua Bell is one I've had my eye on for a while now. It's so expressive and seems to do exactly what you want (most of the time). Sounds very authentic. I feel it will accompany Tina Guo very well for when you just want a stunning solo in any style of music.
Good evening Dom Sigalas. Thanks for your tips, I'm Brazilian and with your library tips I bought my controller and with your choir video I made the right decision, I follow all your videos which are very good thank you
Thank you so much Dom ! This expression and sadness in the Joshua Bell Violin ! Just amazing ! I would appreciate to see a Video from you . Tina Guo is also a fantastic dramatic sound for emotional lines. Thx for all your engagement. Learned so much from you
Same - I have the Joshua Bell library and it's amazing. Shout out to the makers Embertone - top quality libraries. Their Blakus cello is spectacular. I also love their 'Sensual Sax', which has it's own 'SEX' button :-/
Thank you so much for the amazing video! I really like the Tina Guo and Joshua Bell libraries, they sound so realistic! And shout out to you for your amazing playing skills!
Thank you for a fabulous presentation on all of these wonderful libraries.👏🙏 Exactly what I was looking for to use on a follow-up of sorts of our Appaloosa 1969 recording,🙏
Very nice comparison and playing. And come on y’all, 48.5 thousand views and 1.6 thousand likes? Give this man some appreciation. This was one of the better head to heads.
Gigastudio! Haven’t heard that name in a while! I used to play shows with a rolling workstation with a tower computer, CRT monitor and a midi controller using Gigastudio strapped to it!
You are such virtuoso, because you can play all these instruments and you also do producing and mixing. You might have made a video about your story, but I love to hear it in detail how you've developed to such level of mastery in so many different domains.
Tina Guo wins the day for me. I just love the sound of an emotional cello! Have you ever tried any of the 8Dio solo strings instruments such as Deep Solo Violin or Deep Solo Cello?
I had not heard the Joshua Bell library. I liked that for performance, especially for a library built on Kontakt 5. Agree with another comment on velocity switching. Dom: would like to have heard some phrasing with double stops. Maybe for a follow up?
Thanks! So useful! There are multiple cellos and violins from Chris Hein; can you demo the others? Thanks! Another video idea would be to play each library with a backing track to demo how they’d sound n could be used in context. But soloing them as you did here is the most useful!
I do have Vienna Solo Strings which are amazing. I'm an oboist so I'm maybe more familiar with articulations than most non orchestral musicians. Hundreds of articulations are a bit daunting but with time and patience I've produced some excellent musical sounds such as Benjamin Britton Fantasy for Oboe Violin Viola and Cello, the reason I desired to own Vienna Solo Strings. All the other "lush" sounding libraries are great in their own unique ways depending on the sound that works the best for your particular orchestration sound and arrangement. Are we all familiar to the different sound of a chamber orchestra vs a symphony orchestra vs an orchestra that needs more strings like a sparse community orchestra, or a classical symphony blending many extra string desks with 200 voices for Beethoven 9th?
Ooo! Would love to see you sneak in the violin solo from Mi Mancherai (Josh Groban) when demonstrating the Josh Bell Violin! Also, the last one (Taylor Davis) reminded me of the sound from Céline Dion's "To Love You More". Would love to see you play that solo too! ;)
Can't believe you didn't have any Virharmonic Bohemian series in this video!!! Criminal! Virharmonic have been updating Bohemian Violin & Cello for free for years and they don't just suit one style but have "Moods" called Improv, Emotive, Assertive, Classical and Sprightly for different styles. Amazing libraries which should be in this video, Dom!
Emotional Violin is easier and faster to get a nice sound, emotional sound. Ornaments keys helps a lot. This library is unique for that reason. I'd like they make an orchestral string section too.
Really like the expressiveness of those Swarm instruments. I really wish you could combine the tonality of the sampled libraries and the swarm instruments expressiveness. The swarm instruments doesn't sound as close to the real thing as sampled libraries, but the controlability makes up for this. If you can use it well they sound so close to how a real musician would play the instrument. They are also very expensive, and imho physical modelling still have a way to go to sound exactly like a real instrument. But the expressiveness ... amazing.
I use SWAM instruments by Audio Modeling. In my experience, they *require* automation of the performance parameters to sound real and expressive -- bow pressure, speed (expression), bow position, vibrato depth and speed, and various parameters that control attack. Also tasteful compression and reverb can make a huge difference unless you have the ear of an audio engineer. Also -- most people don't explore all the instrument models under each instrument, which have noticeable timbre and dynamic differences. You also need to think like a violinist (or trumpet player, etc.). All together, I'm a big fan.
@@russellcameronthomas2116 Exactly, and at least for the wind and horn instruments you can get a pro breath controller today. I have only tried an old Yamaha bc-1 years ago and it was basically just the same as aftertouch when it was introduced in the DX-7. I havn't seen a "bow controller" 😄unless you can get one of those Yamaha Silent instruments with build-in midi 🙂
@@mrdali67 I don't even try to control all these parameters in real time. Or at least not yet. I have some cool multi-controllers, and would like to get a Linnstrument for that purpose, but for now it is sufficient for me to automate the performance parameters in my DAW after recording the MIDI notes. Some people hate working this way, but I am very comfortable with it, and I am getting faster. I realize that most people want "free + fancy lunch": very realistic and expressive solo instruments + simple keyboard playing w/ few or no additional controllers. I don't believe that is possible for real-time instruments. (Might be possible with 2-pass batch processing with AI software. I might even write software for that purpose.)
@@russellcameronthomas2116 Ya, I know you really have to have some leet skills if you have to control either multiple articulations with key switching or all the possibilities you have with those swarm instruments. Some of the libraries DOM showcased here do have some pretty good coding for figuring out from how you play which articulations to use. I have always been pretty impressed with how fairly easy it is to get the Yamaha SA sounds found in the Tyros/Genos/Montage/ModX line by just "playing" and it automaticly selects artulations and only 2 buttons to control special art dependent on the sounds without taking up imense memory space. Gets a little harder with these Libraries that have tons of different articulations. Pretty close to impossible to do that live without a backing where you have the key switches and cc changes prerecorded if you want it to be perfect.
Hi Dom! Thank you for your wonderful demonstration! In you video: Get Crystal clear mixes EVERY TIME - tell me, what song is it? And who is the wonderful singer?
I have cinematic studio solo strings and they are great but hard to work with some times. The native instruments Cremona Quartet I think is stunning. Infinitely playable and stunning sounding but they are a little on the sterile side.
This is a great review, so much quality in your judgment. So, as a newbie, I say: THANK YOU. By the way, I hear an excess of the 1st harmonic in the Emotional violin???? it's almost like if it was "octavized"; it happens the same on the viola...
Thank you for this content Dom! Those are incredible libraries and you play them all so well! Is it possible to get a video on good chamber string libraries?
Super video Dom , I enjoyed it very much . I have two questions though, what library would you recommend for some kind of oriental strings? And what library would you recommend for that "Godfather" / "Italian Mafia" sound? I think you know what I mean. Greetings and thanks for your awesome videos !
I really dug those Chris Hein Solo Strings. Which one of these libraries would you recommend for playability without having to learn 10-20 keyswitches ? Like you said all of these libraries sound good. Give me all of them if anyone would donate the money 😂
I bought the Emotional Cello and was disappointed. When holding any of the sustain legato programs, there is a very noticeable dropout where the loop begins. They also sampled many very unmusical cello noises. I thought maybe I had a corrupted download. The response from their tech support was it is what it is. Basically live with it.
What's the most flexible, most realistic option for multi-genre work? It must be difficult for a sample company or modeling company to achieve that. Chris Hein's descriptions of his products caught my eyes because he reminds me of Virharmonic's Bohemian Violin/series
Great showcase, but you missed one of the best solo strings out there, the Cremona Quartet with a Stradivari violin and cello, sampled in Cremona where the mayor closed several streets around the museum/studio, and asked all its residents to keep it quiet in the month or two that it took to sample them.
Hmmm Great libraries! I got a few too. Did you ever considered to use a Touché by Lie? That controller if used with for example Swam is simply awesome! Just to add a more true human feel rather than just midi controllers……. It amazes me how good and easy you can switch and plays those instruments so easily!! Pretty awesome! 😊 Cheers
Hey Dom, great demo! Quick question - what parameter(s) are you controlling with your fader when demoing the CSSS? Say on 10:45? Is it vibrato x-fade? Cheers!
Thanks for sharing!For my experience Swam violin and Joshua violin are the best solo violin,Swam violin would require a lot of cc works but it comes out really the best.But Swam Cello and Bass on the other hand,sounds relatively fake for me.For cello I think Tina Guo is best for emotional pieces,and I like first chair Lass Cello for the beautiful legato sound.Chrishein solo cello also sounds really nice in their demo,but I haven't tried yet.
Though I don't like these walkthroughs because this is not how strings are played, *once again* I think you've surfaced a library I can put to use. (I don't do comps or movie themes, my pieces will be played live in somewhat intimate context by organizations with modest budgets, thus my mockups will need to be believable from that smaller point of view.) A previous demonstration you did sold a library that has completely transformed my audio environment, a bit of hardware, along with your mission of constantly upgrading our Cubase chops.
Hey, great video! You really are an amazing pianist who has such an infectious passion for music! I was wondering if you might be able to point me to a synth that does something a bit unique, and ideally, a video of you demonstrating it? I'm looking for a good single-string [or something that can be isolated to a single string] VSTi with bowing control to make a sorta virtual tagelharpa having each string on a different track. Bowing control doesn't need to be fully one-to-one gesture-based, but the ability to control starting and stopping of bowing independent from the note selection is absolutely paramount to achieving the right sound! Any thoughts? Thanks!
All very nice but I especially love the Joshua Bell Library, that is on my list now. Like you I have Montage, I have found some of the string options to be very good, do you ever use Montage for strings in production? Great vid as usual, really enjoyed that one. I love the expression with which you play.
Again... Stunning performance Dom... Could you please tell what are the libraries used for the INTRO of the video ... & your favourite picks... 🤓 Thanks....
I own a modx and know you are a big fan of Montage, what advantage to these libraries have over the onboard strings of the Montage. Are they really sampled better? Better articulations? Wondering if I should invest or not.
Amazing playing. I feel like most of them have a flute or clarinet like timbre, especially in the runs or trills. It's missing the grain and imperfections 😢
Listened to this while making my wife and my breakfast; great way to spend a Saturday morning😊 I’m going to be working on a solo cello heavy score soon, so I’m grabbing that Tina Guo library right away. Just curious, why did you not include Spitfire Soli Strings?
You can try it for a month with UVI’s subscription plan… Unfortunately I wasn’t happy in the end although it has some interesting stuff (adjustable tremolo speed by stretching the samples, forced per string samples for all string instruments, and many articulations that can’t be found in other libraries). For expressive solo parts it’s quite limited for me (dynamics, round robins, different kinds of attacks). Better than the solo instruments in the free Alpine project orchestra, but not a deep sampled library for sure. If your budget is tight you could also try Musio for 10 bucks per month which includes Cinesamples solo strings, Tina Guo and Taylor Davis violin which are covered in Dom’s review.
How does it sounds when the string instrument plays a double stop? I orchestrate, but the biggest problem is playing a chord. If you have multiple violins and they play divissi, the chord will sound all the notes as one. But a violin does not play all the notes of the cord at the same time. The bow have to go across the finger board to play al the notes. It's supose to sound like a broken chord, but I would need to rewrite the music so it sounds like it's supposed to. I've written a couple of pieces for violin, but the playback does not know the nuances of playing more than two notes at the same time.
Please try to use a breath controller. Sensible one, best experience for solar strings I have with hornberg….. It’s expensive a little bit more difficult to program, but the most sensible. The TEC BITE and breath controller is suitable, not like the Hornberg, but less than half the price. Sorry for my English only want to give you my experience. I do a lot of composing and arrangements for TV… TKKG, Tatort, Bonnie Tyler, Kool & The Gang,…. Commercials …Bla bla bla If you want to reach a natural performance, you have minimum 4 controllers to control again sorry for my English. Volume cntrl 7, expression 11, attack release, mic distance (means instrument distance from mic……… this has to be programmed and rehearsed. Make your setup, best not to change controllers even by use of different libraries, feet, left hand and breathcontroller ….. I hope you understand and again sorry for my English
I haven't tried many of these. I've been using LA Scoring Strings for many years. But recently, I'm going for SWAM for solo strings because its just so easy to set up and use live. Sample libraries seem so clunky in comparison. I don't think its the best sounding strings, but it is good, very expressive possibilities and any deficiencies in pure sound quality are lost within the context of a mix.
Great video as always! Off topic question: Is there a way to see the actual chords when using the NI Komplete Kontrol chord feature? I would like to see the chords and not just the key that I press when recording it in Cubase. Same with the arpeggio feature
Hello I am using cubase trial and I am trying to create a ranchera song but I can't find the right loop sounds. could you make a tutorial about creating salsa, rancheras and merengue?
2:35 Tina Guo
4:39 Vienna Sync Strings
9:04 Cinematic Studio Solo Strings
12:50 Nocturne Cello and Violin
15:12 SWAM Strings
17:40 CineStrings
20:28 Chris Hein Strings
23:10 Joshua Bell violin
25:45 Emotional Violin and Cello
28:10 Taylor davies Solo Violin
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Thankyou
Thank you.
Great showcase of libraries. I really like your no bulls**t approach and passion for music. At the end, it is not a contest between libraries, but a matter of what inspires us. What a great keyboard player you are! Keep up the good work with your channel. You are an inspiration.
The Chris Hein are awesome :O
I use and love the Cremona Quartett (Part of NI Komplete Ultimate). Needs much RAM on the system but sounds incredible.
Grabbing coffee and ready for another awesome video! Woohoo!
Bohemian Violin is the best one. Flexible toggles and with its last update much more articulations.
The second one is Native Instruments Stradivari Violin.
Joshua Bell is one I've had my eye on for a while now. It's so expressive and seems to do exactly what you want (most of the time). Sounds very authentic.
I feel it will accompany Tina Guo very well for when you just want a stunning solo in any style of music.
My Joshua bell kontakt gets reset to default patch every time a project is loaded, do you have this problem also?
@@darotm7628 this happens sometimes with EthnoWorld 6
More than the quality of libraries the way you experience the sounds and setting you made to the raw sounds make it great. Thanks for everything
Thank you for the kind words Kamal ❤️❤️❤️
Good evening Dom Sigalas. Thanks for your tips, I'm Brazilian and with your library tips I bought my controller and with your choir video I made the right decision, I follow all your videos which are very good thank you
I love your passion when you play these libraries.
Love this video...even just to admire your playing skills! As a Double Bass player, thanks for covering the Contrabass ❤
Thank you so much Dom ! This expression and sadness in the Joshua Bell Violin ! Just amazing ! I would appreciate to see a Video from you . Tina Guo is also a fantastic dramatic sound for emotional lines. Thx for all your engagement. Learned so much from you
Me too for the Joshua Bell. Thx
Same - I have the Joshua Bell library and it's amazing. Shout out to the makers Embertone - top quality libraries. Their Blakus cello is spectacular. I also love their 'Sensual Sax', which has it's own 'SEX' button :-/
@@aldo34 😜😜
Thank you so much for the amazing video! I really like the Tina Guo and Joshua Bell libraries, they sound so realistic! And shout out to you for your amazing playing skills!
Love the off the cuff expressive playing. So many amazing sounds. I bought the Tina gao on your recommendation and I adore it
Thank you for a fabulous presentation on all of these wonderful libraries.👏🙏 Exactly what I was looking for to use on a follow-up of sorts of our Appaloosa 1969 recording,🙏
I love this guy, chilled out, supper musical, got awesome Gear too
Very nice comparison and playing. And come on y’all, 48.5 thousand views and 1.6 thousand likes? Give this man some appreciation. This was one of the better head to heads.
This entire video is phenomenal! You’re incredible!
Definitely do a review of the Joshua Bell violin pleaseeee :) Awesome video, thanks!
Gigastudio! Haven’t heard that name in a while! I used to play shows with a rolling workstation with a tower computer, CRT monitor and a midi controller using Gigastudio strapped to it!
Very nicely done! Great playing and info. I have several of these libraries that I rarely use but I’ll go back and try them again.
Another informative and positive video from a humble teacher.
You are such virtuoso, because you can play all these instruments and you also do producing and mixing. You might have made a video about your story, but I love to hear it in detail how you've developed to such level of mastery in so many different domains.
Tina Guo wins the day for me. I just love the sound of an emotional cello! Have you ever tried any of the 8Dio solo strings instruments such as Deep Solo Violin or Deep Solo Cello?
I like that you go exactly on the topics and problems that hurts ; )
I had not heard the Joshua Bell library. I liked that for performance, especially for a library built on Kontakt 5. Agree with another comment on velocity switching.
Dom: would like to have heard some phrasing with double stops. Maybe for a follow up?
Unbelievable Intro Dom... Loving your content more & more.. Thanks so much for this eye opener...🤓👍🎉
I do not have Cinestrings, but I so much prefer their velocity based approach to triggering articulations. I have to check it out. Thanks, Dom!
Thank you for your content! This is very useful information! Your channel deserves to have a lot more subscribers on it!
You are a genius! Wonderful playing
Right, Just going to grab that coffee before I continue, it's been a watch Dom Sigalas day today 🙂
Joshua is clearly the best solo violin. I cant imagine what their next solo violin could do. Its surreal.
Awesome content as always sir...
You play gloriously BTW😊
Thank you my friend ❤️
Great video. Very useful to hear direct comparisons. The J Bell instrument is outstanding.
Thanks! So useful! There are multiple cellos and violins from Chris Hein; can you demo the others? Thanks! Another video idea would be to play each library with a backing track to demo how they’d sound n could be used in context. But soloing them as you did here is the most useful!
I do have Vienna Solo Strings which are amazing. I'm an oboist so I'm maybe more familiar with articulations than most non orchestral musicians. Hundreds of articulations are a bit daunting but with time and patience I've produced some excellent musical sounds such as Benjamin Britton Fantasy for Oboe Violin Viola and Cello, the reason I desired to own Vienna Solo Strings. All the other "lush" sounding libraries are great in their own unique ways depending on the sound that works the best for your particular orchestration sound and arrangement. Are we all familiar to the different sound of a chamber orchestra vs a symphony orchestra vs an orchestra that needs more strings like a sparse community orchestra, or a classical symphony blending many extra string desks with 200 voices for Beethoven 9th?
Ooo! Would love to see you sneak in the violin solo from Mi Mancherai (Josh Groban) when demonstrating the Josh Bell Violin!
Also, the last one (Taylor Davis) reminded me of the sound from Céline Dion's "To Love You More". Would love to see you play that solo too! ;)
Can't believe you didn't have any Virharmonic Bohemian series in this video!!! Criminal! Virharmonic have been updating Bohemian Violin & Cello for free for years and they don't just suit one style but have "Moods" called Improv, Emotive, Assertive, Classical and Sprightly for different styles. Amazing libraries which should be in this video, Dom!
I had to actually remove several libraries as the video was 90minutes long initially! 😢 maybe I need to do a part 2!
@@DomSigalas pls review the muse score violins as well 😂
@@DomSigalas Haha, fair doos. That'd be great if you did!
@@DomSigalas For sure, Dom.
Love your videos, but have to agree on this. The Virharmonic Bohemian Violin is the most expressive and "human" sounding solo violin I ever played.
Emotional Violin is easier and faster to get a nice sound, emotional sound. Ornaments keys helps a lot. This library is unique for that reason. I'd like they make an orchestral string section too.
I'm going to dedicate on of my old controllers to have a dedicated page for this.
Really like the expressiveness of those Swarm instruments. I really wish you could combine the tonality of the sampled libraries and the swarm instruments expressiveness. The swarm instruments doesn't sound as close to the real thing as sampled libraries, but the controlability makes up for this. If you can use it well they sound so close to how a real musician would play the instrument. They are also very expensive, and imho physical modelling still have a way to go to sound exactly like a real instrument. But the expressiveness ... amazing.
I use SWAM instruments by Audio Modeling. In my experience, they *require* automation of the performance parameters to sound real and expressive -- bow pressure, speed (expression), bow position, vibrato depth and speed, and various parameters that control attack. Also tasteful compression and reverb can make a huge difference unless you have the ear of an audio engineer. Also -- most people don't explore all the instrument models under each instrument, which have noticeable timbre and dynamic differences. You also need to think like a violinist (or trumpet player, etc.). All together, I'm a big fan.
@@russellcameronthomas2116 Exactly, and at least for the wind and horn instruments you can get a pro breath controller today. I have only tried an old Yamaha bc-1 years ago and it was basically just the same as aftertouch when it was introduced in the DX-7. I havn't seen a "bow controller" 😄unless you can get one of those Yamaha Silent instruments with build-in midi 🙂
@@mrdali67 I don't even try to control all these parameters in real time. Or at least not yet. I have some cool multi-controllers, and would like to get a Linnstrument for that purpose, but for now it is sufficient for me to automate the performance parameters in my DAW after recording the MIDI notes. Some people hate working this way, but I am very comfortable with it, and I am getting faster. I realize that most people want "free + fancy lunch": very realistic and expressive solo instruments + simple keyboard playing w/ few or no additional controllers. I don't believe that is possible for real-time instruments. (Might be possible with 2-pass batch processing with AI software. I might even write software for that purpose.)
@@russellcameronthomas2116 Ya, I know you really have to have some leet skills if you have to control either multiple articulations with key switching or all the possibilities you have with those swarm instruments. Some of the libraries DOM showcased here do have some pretty good coding for figuring out from how you play which articulations to use. I have always been pretty impressed with how fairly easy it is to get the Yamaha SA sounds found in the Tyros/Genos/Montage/ModX line by just "playing" and it automaticly selects artulations and only 2 buttons to control special art dependent on the sounds without taking up imense memory space. Gets a little harder with these Libraries that have tons of different articulations. Pretty close to impossible to do that live without a backing where you have the key switches and cc changes prerecorded if you want it to be perfect.
Been using the Tina and Taylor the last year+ excellent libraries.
I think Joshua Bell Violin is the best solo violin library till date. I like Tina Guo its very expressive specially the legato patch but its limited.
@@ShaniArshadMusic I heard she has sustained notes but without any natural decays….is that true ?
Great! please create a video regarding latin percussion and latin brass like trumpets & trombone
Since you were using mostly kontakt libraries, i expected to see the cremona quartet from the komplete bundle
Hi Dom! Thank you for your wonderful demonstration! In you video: Get Crystal clear mixes EVERY TIME - tell me, what song is it? And who is the wonderful singer?
PLEASE tell me!!!!
I have cinematic studio solo strings and they are great but hard to work with some times. The native instruments Cremona Quartet I think is stunning. Infinitely playable and stunning sounding but they are a little on the sterile side.
Exactly Stradivari and Guarneri are my favourite 🔥😍, for solo and live playing don't think anyone can beat them..
Thank you so much! This was great.
Thanks for all that you do 😎
11:00 you can play fast stuff much better if you switch to the marcato legato! it's designed for fast runs and that sort of playing.
This is a great review, so much quality in your judgment. So, as a newbie, I say: THANK YOU.
By the way, I hear an excess of the 1st harmonic in the Emotional violin???? it's almost like if it was "octavized"; it happens the same on the viola...
Great video Dom 👍. If you need violin for country genre try Indiginus - The Fiddle. It's amazing!
Day 1 of asking Dom to do a part 2 video about mixing the Tuyo cover with Iro from a while ago. The Streets need it Dom. Do it for the streets!
CSSS is an amazing library! Just have to read the manual in order to use it to its maximum potential! :D
Thank you for this content Dom! Those are incredible libraries and you play them all so well! Is it possible to get a video on good chamber string libraries?
Super video Dom , I enjoyed it very much .
I have two questions though, what library would you recommend for some kind of oriental strings?
And what library would you recommend for that "Godfather" / "Italian Mafia" sound?
I think you know what I mean.
Greetings and thanks for your awesome videos !
I really dug those Chris Hein Solo Strings. Which one of these libraries would you recommend for playability without having to learn 10-20 keyswitches ? Like you said all of these libraries sound good. Give me all of them if anyone would donate the money 😂
love it. thanks.
This is the plug in you play alone in a room with out reverb. It is the best stress medication.
Thank you for this! Have you had any experience with Spitfire Solo Strings or Kirk Hunter Lyric Solo Strings? Would like to know what you think.
I bought the Emotional Cello and was disappointed. When holding any of the sustain legato programs, there is a very noticeable dropout where the loop begins. They also sampled many very unmusical cello noises. I thought maybe I had a corrupted download. The response from their tech support was it is what it is. Basically live with it.
Great video ! Thanks 🙏🏽
What's the most flexible, most realistic option for multi-genre work? It must be difficult for a sample company or modeling company to achieve that. Chris Hein's descriptions of his products caught my eyes because he reminds me of Virharmonic's Bohemian Violin/series
Great showcase, but you missed one of the best solo strings out there, the Cremona Quartet with a Stradivari violin and cello, sampled in Cremona where the mayor closed several streets around the museum/studio, and asked all its residents to keep it quiet in the month or two that it took to sample them.
Hmmm Great libraries! I got a few too. Did you ever considered to use a Touché by Lie? That controller if used with for example Swam is simply awesome! Just to add a more true human feel rather than just midi controllers……. It amazes me how good and easy you can switch and plays those instruments so easily!! Pretty awesome! 😊 Cheers
Great Work sir
Hey Dom, great demo! Quick question - what parameter(s) are you controlling with your fader when demoing the CSSS? Say on 10:45? Is it vibrato x-fade? Cheers!
no cremona quartet and virharmonic easily best solo libraries,you should try it.
Thanks for sharing!For my experience Swam violin and Joshua violin are the best solo violin,Swam violin would require a lot of cc works but it comes out really the best.But Swam Cello and Bass on the other hand,sounds relatively fake for me.For cello I think Tina Guo is best for emotional pieces,and I like first chair Lass Cello for the beautiful legato sound.Chrishein solo cello also sounds really nice in their demo,but I haven't tried yet.
thanks. what do you think about cremona quartet form NI (stradivari violin, stradivari cello, amati viola and guarneri violin) ?
Hi, Why you don't talk about Bohemian Violin/cello UVI Falcon wich expressions are so natural like no others...kind regards from France.
Hi... Can't agree more... UVI stuff is REALLY next level yet really underrated... Bohemian stuff is a killer ! 🤓
How many libraries can I fit in one video 😂😂😂 30 minutes and the YouTubr police is already coming for me!
@@DomSigalas lol...I'm a rookie, I apologize
@@DomSigalas your channel is a great tool for me teaching ...you helped me upgrade my skills...many thanks
@@DomSigalas 🤣🤣🤣 So Grearful for all of your efforts Dom.. Always.. Forever..🤓👍👍
Tina Guo Cello sounded good, then the next one I liked is the Cinestrings. Bowed strings are hard to do well,.
Though I don't like these walkthroughs because this is not how strings are played, *once again* I think you've surfaced a library I can put to use. (I don't do comps or movie themes, my pieces will be played live in somewhat intimate context by organizations with modest budgets, thus my mockups will need to be believable from that smaller point of view.) A previous demonstration you did sold a library that has completely transformed my audio environment, a bit of hardware, along with your mission of constantly upgrading our Cubase chops.
Thanks for your very useful videos. What controller would you recommend for expression and volume?
All the best
Hey, great video! You really are an amazing pianist who has such an infectious passion for music!
I was wondering if you might be able to point me to a synth that does something a bit unique, and ideally, a video of you demonstrating it? I'm looking for a good single-string [or something that can be isolated to a single string] VSTi with bowing control to make a sorta virtual tagelharpa having each string on a different track. Bowing control doesn't need to be fully one-to-one gesture-based, but the ability to control starting and stopping of bowing independent from the note selection is absolutely paramount to achieving the right sound!
Any thoughts? Thanks!
Take a look at Maxime Luft's 'Iconic Violin' library.
Dom is always. 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
All very nice but I especially love the Joshua Bell Library, that is on my list now. Like you I have Montage, I have found some of the string options to be very good, do you ever use Montage for strings in production? Great vid as usual, really enjoyed that one. I love the expression with which you play.
The winner is the Cremona quartet ❤
Thanks!
Thanks so much for the support David ❤️
Again... Stunning performance Dom...
Could you please tell what are the libraries used for the INTRO of the video ... & your favourite picks... 🤓 Thanks....
Joshua Bell and Tina Guo :)
@@DomSigalas Thanks millions dear Dom... Under your fingers whatever library will tell their story... 🤓👍👍🏅
Nocturne violin is unmatched
Hi!
What string librares you using at the begining of the video?I didn't heard that sound later.😀Thank you.
Cinesamples 4 sure.Probably the most powerfull solo strings library.
I own a modx and know you are a big fan of Montage, what advantage to these libraries have over the onboard strings of the Montage. Are they really sampled better? Better articulations? Wondering if I should invest or not.
Amazing playing. I feel like most of them have a flute or clarinet like timbre, especially in the runs or trills. It's missing the grain and imperfections 😢
Listened to this while making my wife and my breakfast; great way to spend a Saturday morning😊 I’m going to be working on a solo cello heavy score soon, so I’m grabbing that Tina Guo library right away. Just curious, why did you not include Spitfire Soli Strings?
would love to get your impression of the IRCAM Solo Instruments 2
You can try it for a month with UVI’s subscription plan… Unfortunately I wasn’t happy in the end although it has some interesting stuff (adjustable tremolo speed by stretching the samples, forced per string samples for all string instruments, and many articulations that can’t be found in other libraries). For expressive solo parts it’s quite limited for me (dynamics, round robins, different kinds of attacks). Better than the solo instruments in the free Alpine project orchestra, but not a deep sampled library for sure.
If your budget is tight you could also try Musio for 10 bucks per month which includes Cinesamples solo strings, Tina Guo and Taylor Davis violin which are covered in Dom’s review.
What you think about Spitfire's Solo Strings for example?
Where can I buy that augmented sixth shirt? 👍😉
What about the Embertone ISS bundle? NI Cremona?
How does it sounds when the string instrument plays a double stop? I orchestrate, but the biggest problem is playing a chord. If you have multiple violins and they play divissi, the chord will sound all the notes as one. But a violin does not play all the notes of the cord at the same time. The bow have to go across the finger board to play al the notes. It's supose to sound like a broken chord, but I would need to rewrite the music so it sounds like it's supposed to. I've written a couple of pieces for violin, but the playback does not know the nuances of playing more than two notes at the same time.
I would be curious how good you think the Native Instruments Libraries are (Stradivari Violin, Stradivari Cello, Guarneri Violin, Amati Viola)
I have used Joshua Bell from day one. Unfortunately tech wise it is very buggy and unstable. But worth the fight every time.
Thanks!! I'm wondering if any of the libraries are reverb free, or it that's baked in due to recording in a hall. Anybody know?
Please try to use a breath controller. Sensible one, best experience for solar strings I have with hornberg….. It’s expensive a little bit more difficult to program, but the most sensible. The TEC BITE and breath controller is suitable, not like the Hornberg, but less than half the price. Sorry for my English only want to give you my experience. I do a lot of composing and arrangements for TV… TKKG, Tatort, Bonnie Tyler, Kool & The Gang,…. Commercials …Bla bla bla If you want to reach a natural performance, you have minimum 4 controllers to control again sorry for my English. Volume cntrl 7, expression 11, attack release, mic distance (means instrument distance from mic……… this has to be programmed and rehearsed. Make your setup, best not to change controllers even by use of different libraries, feet, left hand and breathcontroller ….. I hope you understand and again sorry for my English
I haven't tried many of these. I've been using LA Scoring Strings for many years. But recently, I'm going for SWAM for solo strings because its just so easy to set up and use live. Sample libraries seem so clunky in comparison. I don't think its the best sounding strings, but it is good, very expressive possibilities and any deficiencies in pure sound quality are lost within the context of a mix.
Great video as always!
Off topic question: Is there a way to see the actual chords when using the NI Komplete Kontrol chord feature?
I would like to see the chords and not just the key that I press when recording it in Cubase.
Same with the arpeggio feature
Great video! subscribed! Can I ask you which is the library that you play at the very beginning of the video? Suonds like sample modelling...
Hello I am using cubase trial and I am trying to create a ranchera song but I can't find the right loop sounds. could you make a tutorial about creating salsa, rancheras and merengue?
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I have Bell and Emotional violin, but my dream is to buy Virharmonic :)