Why everything in this library sound so far away distant sounding.?

Thank you, this helped me enormously. I had bought this, largely on the strength of this review. Having bought it though, I instantly regretted it - when I played it, it really wasn't what I had expected. I cursed myself for a snap decision made based on the fact that it was inexpensive, and resolved not to make such impetuous decisions again. However, having now watched several other of your video reviews, I've really come to trust your opinion, so came back and watched this video again. It did not sound like the same library! So, I opened up the library again and started playing. That's when I realised my mistake. Unlike you, I had been playing each patch chordally - this how I like to play with other libraries (eg those I have from spitfire, such as Albion One, Tundra, BDT and Earth). For some reason, chords sound great on these, and whilst I might have expected that the solo instruments in Amadeus would not sound good using this approach, I guess I didn't give it much thought for the ensembles, and just played the same way. I don't know why, but I really don't like the sound when using chords in this library, unlike the others I mentioned, but then I played in individual lines, and it sounds so much better. I should have watched your video more closely. I totally agree with your conclusion: it's not the high end, but neither is the price, and it's actually really quite good, so I no longer regret the purchase. Thank you again - your reviews are incredibly helpful.

Man that piano sound is beautiful, love it, the acoustic guitar is pretty good also

Ah, what a nice way to present the various instruments! Its sounds like you had a lot of fun putting it all together. Cheers man!

This is exactly the right way how sample library should be used and performed. amazing skill, respect!

Finally got this library after months of deliberating. It's pretty wonderful for a first all-in-one orchestral library. The sound far exceeds its price, and it's very fun to sketch with. I'll definitely hang onto it until I have the experience and funds to move onto something like Nucleus.

This is such an insane value for the amount of instruments you get

You get to these reviews really quickly! I just picked this up based on a posting yesterday from Indiginus and the Sonic Scores video---but your walkthrough should be the one that they are using to promote this product. Your channel has become my first stop for orchestra, percussion, and developer library/instrument reviews. Thank you.

I met with the developers behind Amadeus, Overture, and other products (various companies) a couple years ago. Great folks who love what they do. I'm happy to see that Amadeus got a solid review. I'm not a user myself (my workflow is always up in the air with most libraries), but it seems to be a decent laptop-friendly library for Kontakt. It certainly suites RPG games and remixes really well.

I gotta say, any orchestra can sound good if the demo is so tasteful and lovingly crafted, you could probably make Garritan sound good 😊

Thanks for the review !! I was waiting to get BBC SO Core but for the use I will give the library (videogame composing), I think this is fenomenal.

God, I love these retro orchestra packs.

Thank you so much for creating this wonderful review of Amadeus! I only discovered this library recently and other than the overview video put out by Sonic Scores, I really couldn't find much about it online. While their overview video is actually very well done, it was your review that really helped me to realize that this was the perfect first time orchestral library for me. I'm a metal guy who's really into the symphonic and proggy side of the genre, but I also love symphonic film and video game scores and am interested in dipping my toe into those waters as well. Concequently I've had my eye on orchestral libraries for years, but I just couldn't justify spending the $500-600 (or more) to get something that actually sounded good. I downloaded the free edition of VSCO 2 a while back which is great considering it's free, but the sounds just didn't inspire me the way that this does. To my ear (especially considering the price) it sounds absolutely fantastic! I managed to pick it up for 99 bucks on Black Friday and at that price, to me it's an absolute no-brainer. I can use this incredibly inspiring and easy-to-use tool to get my creative juices flowing and if I feel the need to upgrade down the road I can do that. However for right now, this package truly seems to have everything I need. Again, thank you so much! I truly appreciate what you and others like you do for the music community. There has never been a better time to be a musician!

Excellent great sound & price will buy

I bought this after reading reviews. I’m trying to get a truer or at least drier ambience than what is provided by IK Multimedia’s Miroslav Philharmonic 2 software which I’ve used up until now. Authentic sound was a first consideration and Amadeus fillfills it nicely. Unless you are producing pure symphonic stuff and need every articulation possible, Amadeus is a really cost effective solution. And I’m not suggesting it sounds just okay buried in the mix. It is quite good on its own. When I found it retails for less than $200 USD, I pulled the trigger.

I actually quite like the sonic aesthetics of this library. Reminds me of old Nintendo DS games, but a bit higher in sound quality. Or FFXII. I'm gonna have to cop this one.

THE LICK! 4:30 Awesome reviews anyway. Will buy this library very soon.

The music you play is so so so beautiful. It totally reminded me of final fantasy 12 and 10

This library has it all, sounds good and isn't huge. Unlike other libraries that take half your ssd, are spread out between different instances, and or don't sound that great to begin with.

Great tool! Thanks for sharing. I hadn't heard of this one.

Dig the simplicity and unity. Great intro price at VI-Control.

Thanks for your review. I agree this is nice sketch pad

always love to see your demo flow cory cheers

Brilliant truthful review as usual Cory. Thanks again Cory.

You are really making music, Love you !

Like many noobs, I bought this library thinking it would be a good intro/starter, not realising that it was much more than the sum of it's parts. I'm also probably not alone in still not really having good enough knowledge to exploit it's potential. Then watching this video for the 'I don't know how many'th time' it struck me as perhaps an idea to see if you'd be open (Possibly with the developer's blessing, and help) to do some tutorials on how to orchestrate with the library, and to really play to it's strengths. An idea might be to make it project-based, so the pupil can follow along in the recreation of a few example projects, in a few different genres. In this way, we also get to learn general orchestration practices from a master. Perhaps it could be crowd-funded, or released as private videos/streams to a certain Patreon-funding tier. And perhaps the developer might be happy to give a little discount for people buying the library with the intention of taking the course. Such a low-cost level-of-entry for the software and the know-how. If it were not possible for you to commit to such a course, perhaps consider selling the midi scores to some projects. Yuri Wong, here on KZfaq, does some really good movie score recreations using just the 'stock' Logic Pro instruments (He has a playlist for the Logic Pro stuff), and he sells those project files, along with the presets/channel-strip settings for (I believe it's) $5, on Gumroad. At the point of writing this comment (Feb 10th 2020), the video has 40,988 views, and is by a wide margin your most popular video. Certainly seems like there could be quite a lot of interest. Anyway! Not wanting to make too many assumptions about your personal/private life, whether you'd have the time, or even the inclination. Just thought i'd put it out there. Please take it in the spirit intended. Thanks for everything you do. All the best!

Best lib on the budget

Uhm... just wanted to say thanks. Always great stuff!

When everyone in the orchestra came down with a terrible cold that shut down their throats and their ears and have the recording engineer put everything on auto, set the limiter to the max and left the room. You're way better off with Miroslav Philharmonic 2 in that price range.

It sounds good! I tend to like these smaller libraries that are usable and straight to the point. Starting to use those 50 to 100 gb libraries less and less.

Thank you for your very good demo

Just bought it last month! Very nice and quite realistic samples. Some need tweaking to make it sound close to the real instrument, but for the price, can't complain! I use it to play with a MIDI guitar, as I'm not a keyboard player, and the patch I use the most is Symphony, wich can be customized to change at certain pre-chosen intervals, and without even touching the VST! Quite incredible (for me at least!) I never saw anything similar in another VST or Kontakt instrument. If any of you have some ideas, please let me know, as this is one very useful tool for a guitar player! Cory, I would have loved if you could expland on the "APC" tool inside the Symphony patch.

Good review Cory - thanks!

Using this library to do a cover of Falco - Rock Me Amadeus!

13:45 I absolutely adore that woodwind bit (and would love to learn how to make something like that...) Any ideas where I could find more of that type of music?

Spitfire Albion, Project Sam and Mars, Venus from Sound Iron for me, so far, but nice price point

Such a good, no-nonsense review! Love to see somebody approach sound libraries from a different perspective (with most other people exclusively interested in the realism of orchestral libraries). Have you ever handled Halion Symphonic Orchestra? I really like the synthetic quality older libraries like Peter Siedlaczek's orchestra provide, and although I trialed HSO a long time ago I don't really remember it. Do you have any opinions on the library?

Subscribed just cause of your voice.

I've heard good things about Diamond Symphony Orchestra by Kirk Hunter. It normally costs 499 but now seems to be often (permanently?) available for 99. Wondering if that one might beat Amadeus in terms of quality / quantity / beginner-friendlyness.

I'm tired of people calling this only a sketching orchestra (which oddly, this review does and even the company does...doesn't exactly make for a ringing endorsement)...you can do some very good FINAL work with this orchestra. yes, there are better libraries with more features, but you'd have to spend a ton more and the difference is not night and day at least not for the main orchestral instruments. I don't think the choir and guitars are very good at all but I didn't need that, I needed an orchestra

huh, Final Fantasy fan, that explain why you have so great arrangement ability. that game is story with some many beautiful music.

This is suuuch an amazing review. Thank you so much. I'd be curious how you think this compares with Palette Symphonic Sketchpad

Nice library for all in one pack...are you planning a cinematic studio brass review?

The library ain't too bad tbh. The choir could use some work but the rest is to a respectable degree, impressive.

nice walkthrough!

Hey man I'm evaluating my first library buy. I already own BBC discover and all the free stuff which is available with kontakt player. I'm mainly into trailer music. Sometimes ago I've had the chance to use a workstation with Jaeger on it, and I felt in love with it. I don't have the cash for it, so I was looking for some cheaper alternatives and this one looks very comprehensing ( and it's on top of my budget). Do you suggest It against nuclues lite, which is not Jaeger from what I hear, but I could bypass the ensembles problem with the single section by spitfire BBCso discover?

Garritan Personal Orchestra is also another alternative, GPO5 is $150 as well.

You sound like the guy from Fl Studio Guru xD Nice video! Tnx for sharing!

I like your demonstration. simple and on point, no BS. Could you recommend any sources or books to read and improve my midi scoring skills and get more realistic sounding projects?

Some of the brass has too much shine/high frequency which makes it sound like an 80's synth. But honestly, for the price...oh and apparently we can tune up or down the low and high ends

Very good review.

Danke schön

For $150. That is a great Starter Kontakt library.

This is awesome

I did buy this as a sketchpad, it works well for that, I then use 'EasWest Composer' for final scoring.

Gee! How do you get those colour gradients all over your template in studio one? Looks great.

Hey!! great video, as always mr Cory. I just want to know how many round robins the short articulations have. and are you using reverb in this video or this is the "out of the box" sound?

Hello... Thanks for this video. I have one question. How can I configure the "expression" of this library in studio one. I just know to config the "modulation"...

Does anyone know how this compares to VSL Epic Orchestra 2.0?

Darn, I have dozens of great orchestral libraries, but I think I'm getting this too! Very nice! Variety is the spice of life, right! Would this compliment, say, NI Orchestral instruments from the Komplete 12 CE bundle?

All of it being amazing, I believe if this library carried one more thing, it would've knocked everyone out of the park: which are string runs in detache and legato mode.

What would you recommend out of these three? 1.Nucleus Lite 99$(offers upgrade at crossgrade price to Nucleus) 2. Amadeus Symphonic Orchestra 149$ 3.Sonokinetic Da Capo (it's on sale for 120€ at the moment). Which one has better sound/expression?

I have "Solid State Symphony" from Indiginus. I love to play it, with all the velocity switches etc, but I feel the soundquality could be better. Can it be that the patch "Symphony" at the end of this video sounds better than that? I consider purchasing Amadeus for this patch! (I think the seperate instruments sound better in my Orchestral Tools libraries...) Thanks

thanks

That harp sound is actually really nice, the guitar and soprano solos where also pretty good. The electric guitar was a standout in being absolutely horrible.

Bro really said that $149 is affordable 💀💀💀

Libraries like this have a great place in video game soundtracks. Although a $2000, mockup-quality orchestra assembled from various developers has its own appeal, Indie games sound nice with toy-like orchestras like this. Not everything is about realism. Sometimes it's more important to be concerned about the music.

Does this library work fully on free Kontakt player 6 without showing its demo ?

With the name so close to the movie font I thought it was 18th century instrument reproductions. Still not bad.

How are you putting vibrato on the end of woodwind notes? Please let me know if you have time.. I have both Nucleus Lite and BBC Discover, and I cant do that...…. Thank You

Wow! Why didn't I watch this video all these time

Wonderful review....is it just a library ...or standalone program?

How do you change expression and dynamics?

I've just started moving away from ensemble patches, using individual instruments (currently Chris Hein brass compact among others) and playing via Divisimate instead. I'd love to buy Orchestral Tools new Orchestra, but I'm not rich enough. This looks like it may be a poor mans alternative.

Would you recommend this orchestra for someone searching for a lightweight library for film scoring? I have the Film Score Companion from SONiVOX and was wondering how this library will be layered with the SONiVOX library for added depth. Thanks

Wait, so it doesn't have dynamic crossfades? How does it work? Only velocity sensitive?

how dose it compare to Cinematic Studio Series Strings

But you need kontakt 5.8 or higher although the site says OS X 10.10 will work you can’t get anything higher than 5.6 unless you upgrade kontakt I would love kontakt 6 but then i have to upgrade OS X to 10.11 but then I can’t run pro tools 11 which is very stable for me and I’m not paying monthly for something I own, ratchet up BS

Hook! 3:44

If its for armature what would it sound like for real composers. No doubt this is the on for me. My Tyross 5 sounds shit compared to this. AMAZING. Thanks for your great help & advise.

Not playing the woodwind part at 6:22 should be considered a crime

Some of my patches aren’t working

Would you still recommend this?

How Do I get to the Symphony patch?

How's the CPU usage?

All my patches didn’t download after attempting several times to resolve; with little to no tech support. It’s only fair to let everyone know what one may encounter purchasing from this company. You’ll have better customer service purchasing from SpitFire Audio.. Facts

Choir and electric guitar? Did I hear Halo 2?!

Percussion sounds good (with the exception of tubular bells). Strings sounds... ok. Piano, harpsichord sounds good. Acoustic guitar sounds ok. Brass sounds... not very good. Electric guitar sounds terrible, not even close to a guitar, more like a Hammond. Anyway, for the price you get a lot of sounds.

Interesting but... I found this library is not really better than the factory orchestra of kontakt with a good reverb like Reflektor (for the global quality of the sound).

6:53 Jaws?

Very good but no string harmonics and CS, come on

Nice review but sounds a bit dated and not so realistic

But it's not free. If it was free then it WOULD be affordable for me.

sounds really um..........nintendo 64rish