Impressive sound with so little effort - good job!
 
And to think... I can get this for just under $1000 ! ()

I wondered about the Pocket Orch too Randy... thanks for checking and clearing that up!
 
I believe the latest GPO4 includes solo samples from the Gofriller and (I think) the Strad, but alas, they are only samples.  The other two used the SampleModeling technology from a partner that (quite unfortunately) split and went separate ways from Garritan.

jsaras


LA Scoring Strings is the game to beat.  Here's something I threw together just using a crummy MIDI file I found on the internet.  I used two articulations (legato and staccato) and I used a first chair cello as well as 3-player ensemble patches.  No other editing to the MIDI was done.
http://www.audiorecordingandservices.com/LASS_Strawberry.mp3

Not bad at all. Just imagine if you had actually put some effort into it!

LASS not only has anti machine gun/round-robin programming, it also has a humanizing/slop feature as well.  This really helps when you start stacking patches on top of each other...each channel sounds a tiny bit different.  It saves a lot of programming time.

Sijel


Impressive sound with so little effort - good job!
 
And to think... I can get this for just under $1000 ! ()

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Exactly[/rant].

I used the same MIDI with GPO4 and I layered a solo patch with an ensemble patch (basically what I did with the LASS example).  I used the same reverb plugin on both examples.

http://www.audiorecordingandservices.com/GPO4_Strawberry.mp3

For someone in school, working on a masters, with all the related tuition expenses, this is probably not the time for LASS, VSL, etc. 

Even if the OP has the extra funds, the high-end libraries are not really the best place to start unless the person knows he/she wants to do extensive orchestral writing. 

+1 for the comments about GPO.  For a single line for a homework assignment GPO would be perfect. 

The cost is quite small, and GPO is a great starting point for orchestral composition (and with extensive editing can also be used to create very good orchestral mock-ups, though admittedly not on a VSL level).

jsaras


I used the same MIDI with GPO4 and I layered a solo patch with an ensemble patch (basically what I did with the LASS example).  I used the same reverb plugin on both examples.

http://www./audiorecordingandservices.com/GPO4_Strawberry.mp3

Oh oh, Jonas, you cut off the reverb tail at the end of the clip.  So, now you get an F for this assignment.

jsaras


LASS not only has anti machine gun/round-robin programming, it also has a humanizing/slop feature as well.  This really helps when you start stacking patches on top of each other...each channel sounds a tiny bit different.  It saves a lot of programming time.

I agree that the poor grad student won't be helped much by this... unless audiobros/LA has a free demo version!  Nonetheless, it's _very_ cool to know what's on the top of the go-to tool list of the pros around here.

For the fun of it, I did a quick job on a Strawberry Field passage using the Garritan Gofriller:

Strawbery Celli

A quick scratch file using 4 tracks.

Randy B.