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Hello Guy, Does Cubase 13 or Neundo work with this keyboard?

Without the Sub Bank, the browsing is useless. Also the large graphic doesn’t offer any extra functionality. Also for those that use Maschine, it’s missing the 5 dedicated buttons for integration. I have the Kontrol MK3 and it sits just the corner. My KKmk2 is still king.

lol The intro.....Fabulous video Guy.

pianoteq is amazing.. but misses so much quality and character on the attacks it makes it absolutely tasteless (have pro8) Any cheap poorly recorded sample library instantly outbeats it for this... but yeah, sympathic resonance, dynamic all this is hard to give up :P real piano.. best advice :D

BRILLIANT. Thank you from Australia....

you are a bit of a gear junkie Guy.. lol

So, as everybody has probably discovered with one new library or another from various companies, this one, you're saying, you'll almost certainly going to have to buy new faster and or larger drive for this. I assume you moved the previous strings from this new Spitfire AR over to that drive too? If so, how smoothly did spitfire handle that? Some companies if you have to delete and move libraries to make room for upgrades it can royally mess up previous projects. I have had spitfire get confused over where my LABS are, though now they have a whole new way of handling LABS, which might be a new Guy video at some point.

It doesn't sound like a real string orchestra at all - more like "Reginald Dixon's Blackpool Tower Organ" !

Those strings at nine minutes in sound like Bernard Herrmann, I love that.

This is extremely encouraging, more of this please Guy.

Is that cubase elements 13?

It's not "AI." It's just software, of the same kind arranger keyboards and Band In A Box have had for decades.

I love when Guy gives out to himself. He's just like me fr.

not buying the sound. Bows sound repetitive. Nice releases though. That is improved.

Needs more cowbells

It does sound impressive, but I've shied off Spitfire for various reasons. I did very much enjoy composing in the demo, though. Thank you.

I finally bought this reverb after a lot of hesitation and I am totally won over! Pure happiness for my wooden flute 🙂

Problem is that the revamped Spitfire SO recorded in Air Lindhurst offers arguably more for the money. The newly programmed performance patches for Kontakt are a joy to play, and have no issue with fast runs. It seems AR strings need more optimisation, not to mention the boring Spitfire player.

I've sspent thousands on Spitfire libraries, they are incredible. Many thanks for the tour, Guy, you are such great company.

I could have dropped this in the Discord, but would you guys add a Mastering extension for Nuendo since the core features are the same?

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Walked away from a 16 minute video with more knowledge than a week's worth of watching other videos on this. I feel like I understand so much more now

I own a good number of VST pianos. NI Grandeur, Acoustic samples: Yamaha/old black grand/kawaii, addictive keys, VI labs modern U, Hammers and Waves acoustic pianos, and recently I bought the entire catalog of VSL Synchron pianos. Although they're incredibly expensive, the Synchron pianos just completely blow everything else I have heard and played out of the water. The dynamics, the feel, the sound quality and miking options and the ability to tweak everything, it's like a mini DAW for your piano. Anyone who complains of Synchron pianos sounding too distant/reverberant: they can be made as close and dry as you want, unfortunately, most demos on the Internet seem to have them be used in reverb in a concert hall. The player preset is indeed very realistic, check out Merriam Music on YT for demos of many of the Synchron pianos.

smh i don't talk like that smh

Any recommendations from people on best SSD for sample libraries?

time signature change op move

The library is not convincing for me... but the review is great as usual !

The intro price is £1k, the real price is £1500 I really don't understand how Spitfire put the tag on their products. It's ridiculously over priced. And why should I pay £1500 for another Strings library which is not much better than the others. I purchased all the Berlin series around £1k last Black Friday, I received all the Berlins (think 6 Libraries in total) with tons of Articulation. And I know this truth that Spitfire only releases a library which is not complete yet and instead of finishing, leaving it and goes to the next one. We can see this truth in HZ Strings or BBC SO. IMO Sine is damn lot better than Spitfire player, the Mic Merging function in Sine is completely in a different league. I love Spitfire but seems they've got so greedy in recent years.

What's interesting Is Guy pointing out the voice count (which is high) it's definitely memory heavy, but on an M3 Max in Cubase you don't get any performance Peak at all even while playing live at 128buffer , much less than BBC Violin 1 ! and if you compare this to the SA Total performance patches in Kontakt which have massive CPU spikes (while playing live) this wins hands down , some how its very CPU light!

8:21 - you must have heard about Apple Intelligence. More than likely Apple is going to boost all their apps with it and charge for it. So if anything, this is a foundation for that move, so they won’t look as greedy. If you look at Apple, the only thing they care about is “Services”, so they would do anything to increase that. 11:03 - not doable at all mate. All contents are Digitally Signed and ID, so anything you pull out of any song and try to use it, good luck, flagged and removed.

Is there the part 2?

May I ask why you replaced and do not use your Kontrol S88 keyboard from Native Instruments?

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Hi, I prefer the sound of SSO. It's also a full orchestra and much much cheaper.

Yes yes yes, I went and bought it. Amazing, absolutely amazing. A lot under the hood. I put it on my French horn track, and it brought it alive. Almost as if the player is playing it.

Great vid Guy. Would you consider a tutorial on the subject on how one would choose what instruments to put to a tune one has created. Some of us sketch with piano and strings, and then we rub our chins wondering what instruments to orchestrate with, if you get my drift.

This didnt help me at all

A Spitfire "review" on Guy's channel = definitely not a paid advert, and not remotely biased. This library sounds like any high end hardware synth string patch and does not live up to the usual Spitfire standard. Compared to Appassionata or BBC Pro this is lame and not worth the ludicrous price tag.

This library in no way sounds real to me. It's very heavy and thick... and honestly it sounds like a Korg or Roland workstation string sound from 15 years ago.

sadly this is way out of our price range here in NZ as our exchange rate causes the price to be doubled... we always get hit hard when it comes to buying libraries down under

And you call yourself a professional. Tsk, tsk. ;)

"If the music sounds a bit rubbish, it's your fault not the samples." Made me laugh because it's true. Love it!

Have you noticed you always start off with the Godfather theme

I bought the new strings. They actually sound very nice. Unfortunately, it quickly turns out that they are very inflexible. The reverb is too long for me. So you have to mix different microphones. This even overloads my Power MAC. I also have the VSL Duality Strings, which sound at least as good. The advantage of the VSL is the shorter reverb and the almost unlimited programming options. I have programmed my own legato patches, which offer even more flexibility.

$1K investment, so you'd need 350K streams just to get your money back. These corporations are getting delusional.

Pedant here: Speed of data transfer is usually given in bits per second rather than bytes. Mbps is mega bits per second. Bytes is more typically used for data storage.

Ironically, Spitfire shouldn't have collaborated with a third-party brand to make a next-generation flagship library. Big names such as "Abbey Road" overshadow the prioritizing of utility and performance. A "generic" library that could handle complex compositions would speak for itself. AROSS is constrained not only by marketing, but by the unsophisticated music tastes of Spitfire themselves.

Don't sell your little melody short. In quick order you created some wonderful harmonies. Inspirational. And oh yes, this library sounds wonderful. However, since I'm retired and have extremely tight resources, I'll continue with my BBCSO library.

The abbey road collection is my favorit. I love every bit of it and cant without. Im so glad its start moving again. Now we just need the rest. However, how come we didnt get any leaders in this? Anyone know?

As a music newbie it's so inspiring just hearing Guy fiddle around.. I hope to reach these hights one day 😊