Good budget Orchestra sounds?
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 838 posts since 27 Nov, 2003 from UK, Polegate
So many orchestra libraries to choose from nowadays. I have the free ones, Project Sam with Kontakt player, and the Spitfire BBC library. Oh and the handy little free Sonatina vst which makes a good sketchpad.
They're good, I'm just wondering if I can do better or not, with a small budget and no full Kontakt ?
They're good, I'm just wondering if I can do better or not, with a small budget and no full Kontakt ?
- KVRian
- 963 posts since 20 Oct, 2018
This sounds nice and are tweakable.
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 838 posts since 27 Nov, 2003 from UK, Polegate
Thanks Saffran I'll check 'em out
- KVRist
- 216 posts since 25 Jan, 2021
What's a small budget? Perhaps getting the Core update to BBCSO Discovery (usually at around 200 EUR when on sale) might fit.
There aren't very many 'cheap' orchestras like: Areia Lite, https://www.audioimperia.com/products/a ... akt-player that in my opinion I would not get, but instead save for the BBCSO Core upgrade. It's just that good.
But whatever you do, don't get orchestral libraries at full price. They are very frequently on sale.
There aren't very many 'cheap' orchestras like: Areia Lite, https://www.audioimperia.com/products/a ... akt-player that in my opinion I would not get, but instead save for the BBCSO Core upgrade. It's just that good.
But whatever you do, don't get orchestral libraries at full price. They are very frequently on sale.
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 838 posts since 27 Nov, 2003 from UK, Polegate
Thaks cdbaksu , sounds like BBCSO Core is one to save up for.cdbaksu wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 10:53 pm What's a small budget? Perhaps getting the Core update to BBCSO Discovery (usually at around 200 EUR when on sale) might fit.
There aren't very many 'cheap' orchestras like: Areia Lite, https://www.audioimperia.com/products/a ... akt-player that in my opinion I would not get, but instead save for the BBCSO Core upgrade. It's just that good.
But whatever you do, don't get orchestral libraries at full price. They are very frequently on sale.
- KVRAF
- 2239 posts since 25 Sep, 2014 from Specific Northwest
You can find decent ones for under $100US. Check out Miroslav Philharmonik from IKMulti, the one from Garritan and the one from UVI. Some oddball instruments as well as some articulations may be missing.
Be sure to look at the instrument lists and listen well, and wait for a sale. Each of the above has a particular sound to it,
Be sure to look at the instrument lists and listen well, and wait for a sale. Each of the above has a particular sound to it,
I started on Logic 5 with a PowerBook G4 550Mhz. I now have a MacBook Air M1 and it's ~165x faster! So, why is my music not proportionally better?
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- KVRian
- 809 posts since 2 Mar, 2018
Don't know that I'd recommend either frankly, esp Garritan, which was one of the better offerings years ago but time has passed it by. If the OP is looking for quality but inexpensive, I would take Amadeus over either of those ($149). Check the online demos...someone else turned me on to this and I was surprised how good it sounds, and it's more full-featured than anything mentioned so far, including BBCSO, which is a memory hog and has no string solo instruments or any ensembles. Some are high on Audio Imperia's Nucleus also, which can be had for abour $250 on sale.
For free, check out Palette and VSCO's offerings. Of course all this depends on how much functionality you need too.
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 838 posts since 27 Nov, 2003 from UK, Polegate
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- KVRAF
- 7754 posts since 15 Sep, 2005 from East Coast of the USA
Anthology Orchestra Instrument for Concerto is free now through Roland Cloud. It's not like Spitfire Audio super high-end sounds, but you may like it.
https://www.roland.com/us/products/rc_a ... orchestra/
https://www.roland.com/us/products/rc_a ... orchestra/
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 838 posts since 27 Nov, 2003 from UK, Polegate
Palette and Amadeus appear to require full Kontakt BTW- not familiar with how Roland cloud works-will check , thank you
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- KVRAF
- 7754 posts since 15 Sep, 2005 from East Coast of the USA
It should work OK with the free Roland Cloud account, so you'd need to sign up for that. Then after installing the Roland Cloud Manager, on the left side click where it says "Software", then at the top-right click on where it says "Discontinued".
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- KVRAF
- 7795 posts since 28 Apr, 2013
Worth exploring for me. Do these run independently or do they need the 'Concerto' host plugin?
Which I'm not seeing anywhere as I did before in my free account. (Just the discontinued banks/packs.)
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- KVRAF
- 7754 posts since 15 Sep, 2005 from East Coast of the USA
When you install the 4 Orchestral soundsets (or even just one of them) it has Concerto included. It is required.
You can see I loaded some various soundsets in this screenshot and they show up on the left side where you can set them to different MIDI channels, or layer them on the same channel.
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- KVRian
- 809 posts since 2 Mar, 2018
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 838 posts since 27 Nov, 2003 from UK, Polegate
You're right , apologies I got muddled