Im sure I will have lots of people mad at me after this.
But Im having a very hard time getting a good sound out of the Appassionata strings i just ordered. I own Garritan Personal Orchestra and EWSO silver as well and am having better results with Garritan so far. I beleive Im to used to garritan controls and i am having difficulty with Vienna's . Ive listened to tons of demos for the Appassionata strings and they sound very good I just can't get mine to sound the same. It seems like some of the samples attack is either to fast or to slow for what im doing, and changing the attack gives me these weird clicking sounds everytime i play the next key. Im having a hard time getting a very smooth natural sound when Im playing fast or slow. Do you guys use the presets it comes with or make your own? Is there possibly a video tutorial specifically for Appassionata strings? Also I have heard that you need a special kind of reverb for orchestra samples. Convulution reverb I believe. Most of my reverbs sound dreadful when I use them with orchestral samples. Is the right reverb expensive and does it help with the sound of Appassionata strings?