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Box Of Tricks
Reviewed By Rik [all]
February 20th, 2016
Version reviewed: 1.0 on Windows
I love these instruments... There is real beauty in the MBira and the tongue drums + the body percussions are amazing. Been using it alot.
HALion String Edition
Reviewed By Rik [all]
March 25th, 2003
Version reviewed: 1.02 on Windows
The string collection by itself is fantastic and very well designed. I think this collection is well suited for pop and other kind of music as it has a bright and punchy sound that cuts out through mixes. For a non experimented orchestral programmer like me I found the preset very easy to use. The Xswitch and Xfades banks benefit from the mod wheel which changes the accent and velocity of the orchestra. This allows a great and easy expression. I listened to the demos on the steinberg web site but they are not so impressive. I rather suggest if you consider this collection to listen to Claudius Bruese strings on wizoosounds (which is the same collection). And this collection is 24 bit !
That is for the good points.
Then if you plan to use this collection under any other host than Cubase, then forget it. The player is the most instable VST I ever used, preset management is very buggy and is not usable in Sonar (despite the DXi logo).
Streaming works in other hosts (and some users report the issue on Cubase too) works few minutes and then stops. For such issues, Steinberg customer support didn't have much solutions and their only suggestion was to play it in the Cubase demo and record the output !!
Even Cubase users seem to have issues with presets.
For documentation, there are many very interesting advices and a great tutorial for programming orchestras and making them sound realist. So I suggest to avoid this collection on other host than Cubase until they make a serious update. But it should be worth to wait, sound and presets are fantastic.
Read ReviewThat is for the good points.
Then if you plan to use this collection under any other host than Cubase, then forget it. The player is the most instable VST I ever used, preset management is very buggy and is not usable in Sonar (despite the DXi logo).
Streaming works in other hosts (and some users report the issue on Cubase too) works few minutes and then stops. For such issues, Steinberg customer support didn't have much solutions and their only suggestion was to play it in the Cubase demo and record the output !!
Even Cubase users seem to have issues with presets.
For documentation, there are many very interesting advices and a great tutorial for programming orchestras and making them sound realist. So I suggest to avoid this collection on other host than Cubase until they make a serious update. But it should be worth to wait, sound and presets are fantastic.