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Thank you for your input, it's intended to be "right out of the box" as suggested by the title. I will be posted an updated version of comparison soon, as this is a relatively old video in this ever changing industry with much better and much more realistic libraries coming out everyday.

@@KadenCore Well, I have BBC SO, Berlin Orchestra, Anthology and Spitfie Studio Strings Pro. And what I meant was that using out of the box sound without a fine tuning of the CC does not sound realistic. And you must do that to each library because they react differently. In most of your examples, velocity, CC1 and CC11 are too high. I think that the best way to compare them is to show they can render realistic mockup. I hope you understand my point of view.

Thank you for your feed back. I will make sure about that next time. I am hoping to get a new series of videos up in the future, stay tuned, and thank you for your support! :)

Thank you for checking this video out.

Thank you for your feedback, greatly appreciated! Sorry for the clicking sound, I believe it's something to do with sample rate issues between OBS and OS. EQ was left as out-of-the-box, but I can look into that in next comparison. Thanks again.

That's a great idea! I will probably soon make a video about guitar libraries. Stay tuned. Remember to subscribe and hit the bell :)

@@KadenCore I'd like to see that comparison also. If possible, please include modeled instruments, not just sample libraries. Thank you.

Yes they are.

I'll see what I can do next time! Thank you for your input :)

Can't really pin to only one, depends on what I am writing. Recently, I am in love with VSL libraries. But some libraries are my all time favourites, like BBCSO, Jaegar, and more.

Great choice! I think I will include that one in my next comparison video!!!

Thank you for your feedback. I do notice the sounds afterward. I suspect it's due to sample rate of the video software. Will have to look into it next time when I create a video. 👍

@@edwardm9975 I know.... :( something's wrong with coding or rendering the video.

So hard to choose, because it really depends on what kind of track. I would say, EW Hollywood Strings, BBCSO, and Jeager, because they each provide sounds that's very different from each other, and suitable for various applications. But of course, it would be better to have more than just 3. lol.

@@KadenCore I know haha

Haha, yes!!

I can try doing that in the next round. There are so many new string libraries out since this video! I can put some 8dio Centuries in the next round.

@@KadenCore I wrote you in Facebook and instagram. I have one question about this library)

You mean you have a super slow loading time for the 8Dio library? Maybe you need to resave batch? Usually it's much faster after you resave the batch. :)

@@KadenCore thank you for answer I tried but it doesn't work :)

@@KadenCore what do you think best strings library? :)

That really depends on what type of music you are writing. Also, usually layering with two different libraries may give you some unique sound. :)

@@KadenCore cinematic and film score :)

Thank you for your suggestion, I will try to remember doing that next time :) it's a great library all in all, and the patches are great out of the box.

@@KadenCore I'm really enjoying this library. It was an early Christmas gift to myself (smiles)....

Great choice Jaythan! There are also other choices at this moment, depends on what type of music you write. Have you checked out LA Sessions from OT, or Abbey One from Spitfire?

Thank you!

Thank you for watching my videos! Sounds like you have some great libraries already, especially BBCSO, I love it! And yes, you may need to add some reverbs to suit your needs. Try liquidsonics, they do have some great ones, and you put a slight reverb on all to glue everything together. If you want to take advantage of Black Friday, 8dio does have some great sounding libraries, but you need to try which ones will allow you to use the 55% off coupon. If you are doing doing K-pop do you find BBCSO a bit too orchestral and warm? Have you checked out Orchestral Tools' LA Sessions, which contains a lot of different instruments including strings of course, which might be more useful when writing pop. LASS is VERY dry, definitely not sounding good right out of the box, but it does give you more flexibility to add your own reverb. Do you have any solo violin/cello libraries? They can be useful to add countermelody lines to your pop songs....

@@KadenCore Thank you so much for your polite comments. Thanks to that, I learned a lot of new good libraries. It was an opportunity to study and hear the difference between the nuances of a string instrument suitable for pop and a string instrument for orchestration by listening to the standards you mentioned. I ended up buying CSS in addition to session strings and BBCSO. The reason is that I have found that I still lack the ability to create sounds with fine control. I still feel a lot of deficiencies in expressing my solo instruments with BBCSO. First of all, I plan to use CSS (including convenient presets, spaces, reverbs, etc.) until the arranging ability improves a bit, and then purchase additional instruments that you recommend. Thank you very much^^ Please make a lot of good content in the future. Best wishes for a Happy New Year.

Thank you for watching my videos, I will try to make some new ones soon. Just have been busy with little projects recently. Cheers! :D

They are all very good libraries. I have those ones as well, but since you have Jeager already, maybe layer with CSS instead? However, Areia does give you a more epic trailer sound right out of the box! :) These guys are GREAT!

@@KadenCore thanks for respond i'm still not sure which one will be better for me like you said both sounds good hard choice

It is a very hard choice to pick... really depends on what kind of music you are making, and how much tweaking you want afterwards.

Agree! For me, CSS has a smoother transition between notes. Areia has more of that epic uplifting type of sound. So if you are more interested in more lyrical type of music and you already have Jaeger, I would go for CSS! 😊

yes

Thank you for watching! I have been working on multiple projects recently, but I shall put up some new videos very soon!

You're welcome!

Will definitely try to do that next round. Thank you for your input.

Thank you for your support. Have you used Symphonic AI in your music? Please share with us 🎶 😃😃

Oh you are superb! Love your channel! I need to learn from you guys. 👍👍

Oh yes! Those are great as well! Met Ark 1 seems to be a bit more specific to certain music genre, and 8Dio has a LOT of good libraries too! Can't include everything in this little video, maybe in the next one :) Thank you for watching!

Glad you enjoyed it and I hope it helps to show some Amber sound in the track! Thank you for watching and subscribing!!

@@KadenCore just bought Amber. This sort of textural and original library will be nice to complete my collection. It seems to be really great for low Dark and emotional music 😉. Thanks for your video.

Yes I agree! It's totally unique, and definitely will add some darker colors to your track, layer this library with other strings, painting your track with some edgy sounds :) So much fun to play with these packs. Great job from #orchestraltools

Thank you Ty 🙏 still trying to get better. You rock all the time 🎸!!!

@@KadenCore Ah my friend we are all always on the road to getting better ^.^ I have been STRUGGLING with the latest track I'm working on :D

Oh? What's the challenge? Let musicians support each other here :) friendly platform! 😃

Kaden Core Music it’s a track for Really Slow Motion 😱😱😱😅 SO. CHALLENGING. 😂

OH WOW!!!! Congrats!!!!! I can't wait to listen to it!!!

I just got it to complement Nucleus with more strings articulations. I like it already

@@M4T Yes, it's great complement to Nucleus, and they just released the new AREIA LITE if you don't have AREIA yet, and they offer upgrade option after if you want to upgrade. Pretty great company they are.

Thank you for listening. I honestly don't remember what I used, it would probably be Omnisphere or Zebra. (Most likely Zebra2).

@@KadenCore Thank you! Lovely music btw! :)

Thank you so much, I am hoping to put some more different kind of music out. :)

Nice, thank you for sharing that Marko. :) Another great option for musician of course.