Sonatina for Kontakt 5

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Well here it is. A Konversion of a very nice sounding free orchestra.

http://bigcatinstruments.blogspot.com/2 ... ntakt.html
Last edited by bigcat1969 on Sun Aug 03, 2014 10:59 am, edited 2 times in total.
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Not to demotivate you or anything, just a question...

Wasn't Xtant Audio/Total Composure's Total Composure Orchestra freebie basically a Kontakt version of Sonatina? They say they sourced it from all kinds of free material, but I recall it was mostly just Sonatina with some added bits.

Always nice to have options of course ;)
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Very good question. They certainly used some of the same sources, but they aren't identical. TCO is certainly much more technically advanced and hats off to them for this fine freebie.
When I compare the 1st Violins TCO wins hands down in every category save one. 4 articulations, per note sampling for sustain, excellent scripting for control and to simulate round robins. And some how it sounds so very digital, like a computer emulation of a violin playing. Lightly sampled, with no script to speak of and only sustain samples, the SSO Violin sounds significantly more like someone dragging horsehair over catgut.
That ultimately is my problem with TCO. For all it's excellence it sounds like a purposefully digital representation of an orchestra. SSO sounds like it at least its attempting to be a real orchestra.
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Woohoo. Thanks.

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Bump for finishing up. Could someone(s) pound on it a bit for me and find some of my trademark mistakes that always seem to slip through? Any help appreciated. I'd like to find any errors before I put it all in one zip file that starts showing up other places on the old inet and is beyond my ability to fix.
http://bigcatinstruments.blogspot.com/2 ... ntakt.html

As a bonus I forgot that I had Sasje's cool instruments on my mediafire account.
http://bigcatinstruments.blogspot.com/2 ... ments.html
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