It may be called MSS but once you turn the three convolution reverbs off and bring up the close mic you have an incremental step from LASS. I am super disappointed after having waited for literally years and feel I've wasted $549. I'm definitely in the latter camp right now.ĭon't get it, you don't need it, anything you already have is better than this. I seem to go in waves, alternating between times when I say I won't buy anything but somehow do, and times when I really don't buy anything. I just can't face setting up another string library in the template! Have something like 10-12 of them already, I'm sure I'll get by. Hi you two - I doubt it, I'm not planning on buying it any time soon. Somehow that never quite convinced me with LASS, and it doesn't here either. There is even the same dry-ish sound with adding IRs (and later maybe color profiles) approach that LASS had. But basically it looks like much the same approach to sampling orchestral strings. On the other hand it has 'only' two part divisi over LASS's three. It has a few things that LASS doesn't (intuition patches, more aleatoric content, ostinato feature). With the prospect of Sonokinetic Orchestral Strings also featuring divisi, I am not buying Modern Scoring Strings if not user demos come around that knock me out.Īpart from the dark sound signature I am not quite sure what sets MSS apart from LASS. And I also think the official demos mostly sound fine, but not exciting. For my tastes the sound signature is too dark, and somehow dense.
But I am with you in having some reservations about the sound. Feature-wise this library is outstanding. Were I in the market for a string library, I think I'd go for it.Īlso quite odd that there isn't a single demo that zooms in on the divisi capabilities. I'd have hoped with all the customisation and tweakablity the effect might have reduced a bit though. The opening of Wayward Runs sounds stunning, but within 15 seconds you're thinking "oh there it is again", which is the pitfall of nearly all runs in libraries. I don't hear anything in that that says sterile or unmusical, far from it. I think the opening of the legato video above is the best demo I've heard, and its not a demo. I genuinely don't know but I'm 60/40 its the writing. And what I can't decide is whether or not its the writing or the library. The demos sound good to me, but - if you'll excuse the phrase - not orgasmically good. I've been thinking about this post, and I can't figure out if I agree. Just IMO of course.Īnyway a clear pass for me which saves the wallet. I don't know but it is a similar issue that vsl suffers from sometimes.
There might be a trade off between a lot of tweak ability and musicality in the samples. It seems like that they kind of forgot during scripting all the features that in the end it is supposed to create music that sings and breathes. If needed, I could provide a midi export, the project file, and / or various screenshots.Apart from shying away having to set up and get used to such a big library again I'm unexpectedly very disappointed by most of what I hear from the first demos. Heavyocity Damage (Organic Percussion, Cymbal rolls).Rhapsody Orchestral Percussion (Tubular Bells, Shakers, Glockenspiel).Cinewinds Core (Flute, Clarinets, Bassoons, Oboe, Piccolo).Metropolis Ark 1 (Low Strings, French Horns, Trumpets, Cimbassi, Bass Trombones, Male Choir, Female Choir, E-Guitar, Bass Guitar).Cinematic Strings 2 (Violins, Violas, Cellos and Double Basses).