Hi All,
We're pondering upgrading our Orchestral VST setup and wanted to get some opinions about what's the best thing/s out there at the moment. We write music for TV so use it a lot. We've been using EWQLSO Gold and Gold XP for all our bread and butter orchestration for years as it's easy to use and sounds pretty good straight out of the box. But we feel like we need a lot more flexibility and articulations - particularly with Brass and Woodwinds. We got Hollywood Strings a few years back and have found the sound was good but the Play interface quite unwieldy and buggy. We now use LASS 2 for most of our strings as it sounds lovely but at times we still need something 'bigger' for them too.
What are people's feelings about what's 'top of the heap' for Strings and for overall orchestral stuff? EWQL are doing the whole Hollywood Bundle very cheap these days (less than half what we paid for just the strings a few years back!) and the brass sounds amazing but we'd be stuck with the interface. I've tried the 8Dio stuff and Cinematic Strings on other people's machines and been a bit underwhelmed. And heard the demos on some of the Spitfire things and felt likewise. It's a big long-term decision so we don't want to mess about!
Any thoughts greatly appreciated.
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