

It's interesting because I adore the sound of Berlin Strings and bought them soon after they were released at full price (minus an EDU discount). From what you can glean from walkthroughs and such, do the libraries fit how you work? Also do you hear your music more in these libraries than the libraries you already have or in other libraries that are available to you? Then look as much as you can at the workflows required. (Many, many others loved them too.) I'm not saying anyone should buy these libraries, and I'm trying to convince myself not to buy them, but it's important to not get too caught up in what anyone else is saying and listen to what you are hearing and whether you hear your music in these libraries. I use the SSW as a lower second layer, almost like a natural recorded reverb.Ĭlick to expand.Doesn't every library have issues like this? I'm old enough to remember when folks complained about the legatos and inconsistent volume levels in the Kontakt versions. So, BW, SSW and CSW are good players here. They don't have that spatial signature as strong, but, they are a good intermediate. Oh boy, this legatos are just brutally good. It's sounding more and more like when Spitfire stoped putting more work into SSW and left them like that. But, honeslty, it sounds like that library reached it's development peak.

SSW have a real hard time with runs.īW has the individual players and an intermediate space.

I only ended up using that vsl library for runs as the legatos were very clean and quick. Missing the spacial real data is just something so important. Clean legatos, but, huhhh, that dry flat sound was just too much for me. I started with VSL woods synchronized version. It has weakness, but, sound is not one of them at all.

Click to expand.I have to say that I agree with both.
