@Craig Sharmat said:
That said I have never seen a large string ensemble sampled well. Most often in samples, the larger the section, the more synthy it becomes. Large sections of course can be fantastic recorded live, but so far the larger sections sampled (EW, KH) do not work well.
Having produced one set of the above initials in three different formats, I can experientially disagree. That's because we found that what creates the synthiness is processing.
I have a set of gig files from the above initials that were not processed. Just basic looping, a little filtering for noise, and that's it.
The sound is really unbelievable. I had Larry Seyer (Larry Seyer Reverb in GS3) listen to it, and he concurred.
Then I talked to the fellow who's reprogramming GOSII but in Kontakt. He removed all the processing from the original set and got the same results we did.
Both of these string sets were recorded in two different halls. One was in Lincoln Center, and the other I'm under non-disclosure to not reveal. But independent of each other we achieved similar results.
I tested my set with very dense harmony from Vaughn Williams, and I didn't have any synthiness at all. Nor phasing.
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