New String Library from hideaway Studios

Hi
Just received an email from Dan at Hideaway about his new Kontakt Library called String Collection - Nothing particularly new but I had a listen and decided to buy because I thought it sounded really good and it's only 10 pounds....

http://hideawaystudio.wordpress.com/

Nigel

Pretty nice sounding for modelled strings. He sure did a good job. I'm a little on the fence with this one, but by the end of tomorrow I've probably picked it up anyway

These will sound fabulous mixed in just a tad with a "real" legato string package.  Adding just the right amount of warmth and phatness.

These do sound nice!  I kept on thinking that the GUI and web page layout with other instruments for sale below looked like it was a Hollow Sun product.  Listening to the audio it sounded like it was a Hollow Sun project, but it is a Hideaway Studio project.  THEN I read the credits and noticed that Stephen from Hollow Sun was credited for layering engine, GUI and Graphics.  What a nice collaboration.  Warm and evocative use of a Novachord and other string synths.  I may have to get this one.

Thanks for the heads up, the demo sounds great.
 
I have the S-VX and orbitine Collections and really like them. Very warm and lots of creative possibilites.
 
The pricing is also great!

Glyn Barnes


Did I count correctly? - 17 instruments in their total collection

Yep, and what's amazing is that Dan's just gotten started late last year.  Hideaway Studios is cranking them out like hotcakes.  And, unless you're getting a late start, the offerings are all so inexpensive as to be no-brainers.  I don't even bother to listen to the demo tracks when a new one is announced.  I just press add-to-cart and proceed to download.
 
One more thing.  If you check out the Hideaway site in detail, you may be very intrigued by the Novachord restoration project.  If so, head on over to Hollow Sun to pick up the Music Laboratory Machine Novachord offering, which was made using the restored instrument.

Just had a look at the Hideaway site and there is another new product. Price £1.50

After Dark is the latest atmospheric addition to The Blue Zone Series for Kontakt 4.2.4 and above. It comprises of 4 multis and 7 instruments made with several pieces of cherished gear in the studio including the Minimoog (FM plucks), a Studio Electronics Omega 8 (xmod bells), and two high frequency 1960′s tube signal generators mixed to form an audible superheterodyne effect similar to the Theremin…

Nigel - thanks for the tip. Even though I had no plans for further purchases ( at least for a while) the strings won me over.

Unfortunately not - they will work as a demo but cut out after a few minutes. You need the full version of Kontakt
Nigel

newbie, think about saving up for Kontakt. Yeh, it's a hefty outlay up front but it will save you money in the long run if you like virtual instruments. 

The reason is that anyone who creates a library that runs in the free player has to pay substantial royalties to Native Instruments for the privilege, a cost that is passed on to the consumer. But anybody can create a library for full Kontakt without paying NI, so instruments that require full Kontakt are considerably less-expensive. Lots of excellent libraries out there priced between $5 and $50, or even free.

Yeah for right at $31 USD I picked up both Pentodian Choir and the String Collection -- 10 pounds sterling each.  They are fun right out of the box, but are also easy to tweak and come up with all kinds of new tonal delights that you can save as your own patches.  Just dialing the coarse tuning on one of the choirs make it all sound different.  

This was a great addition to my growing Kontakt library.  Like Bitflipper said above, owning a full version of Kontakt opens you to a world of quality third party libraries.  Hideway Studios has some very affordable gems.