KVR Audio

GW · Post by GW » Sun Jan 02, 2005 10:42 pm

Sounds good to me. The piece by ZioKiller and the link from YBaCuO are great. Maybe it's the MP3 compression or the layering, but I'm not hearing the negatives the detrators are citing. I'm not an expert on this stuff, but I've never thought that samples of these instruments sounded very good. The inflections in the playing is what is so interesting here.

Group buy ? ;-)

dick · Post by **dick** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 1:09 am

If people spent like a couple of minutes reading the manual than the negative comments would disappear this thing is the best thing to happen to the emulation of acoustic instruments in 20 years and btw i just heard an original adante movement written for synful by an orchestral violinst and it slow and beautiful

kritikon · Post by **kritikon** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 1:54 am

I really want to try this thing out, but I just get tired of leaving the PC on download all night to play with a new toy

Reqs · Post by **Reqs** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 2:42 am

I'm not a pro, this is my hobby, and so for me a big part of this is the money. I've been thinking about GPO for awhile now, and then Synful comes along. I've played with it, and it is lots of fun (I'm no hard core orchestra guy either), but at $497, compared with GPO's $250, I can't justify it at all. That and no percussion, piano, organ, harp, etc. and for me it's just not a smart investment.

I'm interested to see just where the technology goes, however...

xander · Post by **xander** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 4:31 am

Just listened to the MP3 demos through Winamp using the Ozone-for-Winamp plug, and I am mightily pleased! Cool! Downloading demo now...

dick · Post by **dick** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 5:39 am

for those who need convincing that the violin can be very expressive at slow tempos

www.mimesc.com/music/Andante-Synful.mp3

from northern sounds

http://www.northernsounds.com/forum/sho ... e=28&pp=10

NPerez · Post by **NPerez** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 2:29 pm

i'm not too familiar with orchestras n whatnot.,.,but that sounds damn good. . the brass demo didnt impress me much, but I don't even think its possible to make a truly realistic brass. . well maybe for a ton of money.,.,i wouldnt know tho..

FredprogGH · Post by **FredprogGH** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 9:31 am

NPerez wrote: i'm not too familiar with orchestras n whatnot.,.,but that sounds damn good. . the brass demo didnt impress me much, but I don't even think its possible to make a truly realistic brass. . well maybe for a ton of money.,.,i wouldnt know tho..

Well, try this... again, Synful works best doing solos...
http://www.mydocsonline.com/pub/fredpro ... 20Demo.mp3

bmanic · Post by **bmanic** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 12:54 pm

Sounds really good..

RecordingArts · Post by **RecordingArts** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 4:04 am

How 'bout a group buy?

casey basichis · Post by **casey basichis** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 1:48 am

I second that notion... almost three years later

dougsyo · Post by **dougsyo** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 2:33 am

The price and Pace kept me away. I got GPO and later PhilharmonIK and between the two I'm good to go. These two libraries have different "colors" - GPO is kinda neutral and PhilharmonIK is "lyrical". Since I have Kontakt2 I have thought about Kirk Hunter Sapphire ($99), I'm told this has more "Hollywood" feel.

MusiciansFriend had good prices on GPO and Philharmonik (Classic, crossgrade and full) right now.

Doug

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Fri Jun 10, 2016 3:14 pm

Is this product still being updated?

They still sell it, but latest update was like 5 years ago, is it 64 bit or only 32 bit?

http://www.synful.com/

Krakatau · Post by **Krakatau** » Fri Jun 10, 2016 3:23 pm

i always appreciate the solo violin on synful : expressive in some ways like no current sample library can rival...

...perhaps sample modeling in a near future ?

wagtunes · Post by **wagtunes** » Fri Jun 10, 2016 3:25 pm

Numanoid wrote:Is this product still being updated?

They still sell it, but latest update was like 5 years ago, is it 64 bit or only 32 bit?

http://www.synful.com/

I was surprised something this old sounds as good as it does, especially the solo strings. And then I saw the price...$479.

Yes, it better sound that good for that kind of money.

However, look at the system specs.

MAC OSX Universal Binary and Windows XP/Vista 32/64 Compatible.

Nothing about Windows 7. So who knows if it will even work.

Shame, because it does sound good.

Synful Orchestra - wow!