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Help - Violin VSTi's - help
Posted: Tue May 02, 2006 1:34 pm
by fullyrecordingz
Hey every1. i need to get my hands on some good vst's or plugins that i can make some sick violin and string sounds on. i am currently using fruity looops 5. anyone know any? thanks
Posted: Tue May 02, 2006 4:34 pm
by shonky
Alright mate, what sort of string sounds are you after?
Solo violins the most difficult one, as it's difficult to get it to sound vaguely realistic.
Found one a while ago that I tinkered with
http://www.lnt.de/~stepe/demo/VSTPlugin ... ?&lang=eng
which is a free virtual modelling vst - seems capable of quite a lot of other noises besides. May take some programming though, but it don't cost anything.
If it's samples you're after try
http://theremin.music.uiowa.edu/MIS.html
They've got a project collecting multisamples of instruments, so you can find most orchestral instruments here. They're played at various velocities, so if you can set up your sampler to be velocity sensitive, you could get some quite varied layers here.
Checked the mp3 demo on Krakli of Stringz
http://www.krakli.co.uk/freesynths.asp
and it sounded OK if you wanted fuller orchestral sounds, there's an mp3 demo if you want to hear how it sounds, quite a few other free vst's if you're interested.
A full list of the KVR vst database for strings can be found here
http://www.kvraudio.com/get.php?mode=re ... t=1&rpp=30
Depends what you're after, but I quite liked the strings on
http://www.evmsynths.com/ultrasonique.htm - they're more synth than actual strings, but sounds pretty good.
Posted: Tue May 02, 2006 5:40 pm
by fullyrecordingz
safe safe ur big ur big
Posted: Tue May 02, 2006 10:11 pm
by bleep
edirol ochestral?
Posted: Tue May 02, 2006 10:30 pm
by emalkay
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Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 10:13 am
by Citrus Boy
ditto on edirol orchestral..
it does just use the roland soundset so it sounds a bit shit for solo instruments but you can load up to 16 instruments into it and build some sick sick string/brass/orch ensembles.
Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 10:50 am
by forensix (mcr)
edirol's alright but requires a bit of subtle eq'ing and reverb to make it sound good
er cheese machine is free and you can get good sounds from it
but youre best bet is a multi sample of a real violin using a bit of lfo modulation to get tremolo and of course reverb
Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 1:23 pm
by fullyrecordingz
safe for the tips fam
on the download now.
Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 2:21 pm
by secretagentgel
get a friend to play it for you? nothing beats the real thing.
Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 4:06 pm
by fullyrecordingz
secretagentgel wrote:get a friend to play it for you? nothing beats the real thing.
lol man aint got da sorta friends dat play violinz u get me kuz
Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 4:15 pm
by forensix (mcr)
go for the multis mate find some and then stick em in yor sampler
Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 5:49 pm
by fullyrecordingz
4 my latest tune Shifter Riddim I got puuure "orchestra sets" and sampled em, sequenced the notes how i wanted, along with reverb and echo effects, then EQ'd each sequence in the channel to get a good contrast in sounds. distored some to mek it grimey instead of posh. i added a 10 voice chorus to some sounds to get power and hype. ill check out the edirol ting though stillos
Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 6:00 pm
by docwra
Cut up film scores
Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 6:24 pm
by fullyrecordingz
fo shizzor
Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 9:22 am
by forensix (mcr)
Docwra wrote:Cut up film scores
thats what i do all the time
Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 11:31 am
by 8bitwonder
a mixture of sampled orchestra-layered up with a synth string can be very powerfull
Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 5:26 pm
by narcossist
Found this link this morning on Rupture's 'Mudd up' blog:
http://theremin.music.uiowa.edu/MIS.html
Quality multi-samples of most wind and string instruments recorded in an anechoic chanber with top notch gear.