I was always blown away by how precise Acoustic Samples's stuff sounded. The legato is pretty much flawless, and they got everything to sound so clean and seamless. Hats off to the developers.

Santé ! 🥂Nous vous apprécions tellement, chère Anne-Kathrin ! Bien plus que le soleil, jaloux, à qui vous faites tant d'ombre... 😘

I remember getting the Aaron Venture Infinite Woodwinds, and I just couldn't stop smiling when using them. This new approach to virtual instruments is just so liberating!

This library is heading in the right direction. As a brass player, I have found the Sample Modeling Trumpet the most realistic Trumpet I've heard so far. The horn is great, as well. Then, the trombone and tuba are also top notch. They are wonderful to use as a layer to other brass libraries or on their own.

I love the interface but for those who have the time to tinker with the endless options, bless you. All these accelerated options are just deferring your greatness in writing.❤

Recently I have worked on a project and I needed a Rhode. I have wonderful libraries for Rhodes and so many keyboard in my house, including a Nord stage 4. I have made my demo with a library first and I quickly recorded the Rhode part of the music with the stage 4 Rhode patch. That was like travelling to an other dimension. 😅 Then the day of recording, at the studio, we had access to a real Rhode... Gosh the mighty! That was like a parallel dimension to access to heaven! The reactivity of the instrument!!🤩 Rhodes are not just electric instruments, there is a mechanical part in it that any patches on any libraries or keyboard emulating the instrument will never replace in my opinion. Imagine with acoustic instrument! Just to say that in my view, the real energy of human player playing a piece is something we will not be able to emulate perfectly before a very very long time. Playing music is not just following instruction on a sheet with length, rythm and dynamics instructions, but you probably know that more than any of us.😅 So developing libraries, software or scripts, is like dividing a number indefinitely for reaching zero without actually reaching it. I don't see AI as an enemy of musicians either. First of all because AI is actually not an AI. It is a very complex and well developed software but it is actually not an "intelligence". Companies developing those software call them AI but it is not really. Where I can see the threats is on a lot of smaller jobs for composers. Everything like those website where you can sell music for series, or anything like that, that is something that those "AI" will be able to do in a very near future (if not now). But it will not replace a song writer an original artist or a film composer, because you have that original research of creativity that is needed that an AI can't do. An other area in my opinion, that can be threatened by AI to a degree, is mixing and mastering. AI are still having mitigate results in that area but I can see how it will improve very quickly in the next few years. But again, that will work in very generic music in my opinion. We will still need a human being for any music that is very creative with more "complex" arrangement or orchestration.

Missed your content so much! Thank you for all the tricks and tips! As usual, your make up and your hair is GORGEOUS!

I was thinking the same as the game developer. I went back and played Dark Forces last summer and I noticed its adaptive soundtrack for the first time, which was MIDI and super responsive. I'm only worried that having these libraries available in game engines is going to become a major licensing hassle. We'll see where it goes. For what concerns the future: I'm hoping for this technology to be the future. After having spent a few years working on Aaron Venture Infinite Winds and Brass and Sample Modeling Strings, I find it super hard going back to traditional sample libraries. I want the freedom of writing a scale run and have the instrument play exactly how I've conceived it.

This must be the best sounding orchestral software instrument I ever came across. Thanks for sharing

Thank you for putting Simon Passmore on my radar.

35:24 - PURE ESSENCE !! Can't agree more than that.

Maybe it's just me as a clarinet player but I don't find the clarinets convincing, they sound kind of saxophone/english horn. This shouldn't be the case because while all are closed tube models all of the instruments I mentioned are conical bores and clarinets are cylindrical, so they should generate completely different overtone series. I listened to the demos on the product page and yes the true niente isn't modeled correctly and the vibrato is crazy but the tone on some of the sustains is unfocused. Listening to the Aaron Venture Infinite Woodwinds the over exaggerated vibrato is still there but overall the sound is more convincing.

Beautiful dear Cathherine

This song at the beginning is so beautiful.

Vive la France et l'Allemagne ! Anne-Kathrin, ich liebe Currywurst, Weisswurst, Streusel, Strudel, und Schnitzel. Ich hab immer viel Spass wenn ich Deutschland besuchen kann.😊 MfG aus Frankreich.

17:23. You said it 🙂 20:20 - this is another essential thing. "What's the right choice ?" Myself for example - I would probably need some professional guidance in this regard, preferably from some established Hollywood mixer. Having multiple mic positioning choices to choose from in DAW's plugins - that's one thing. Another thing is to know the reason why to apply them, how and when. Especially when it comes down to mixing two opposite styles of music : orchestral and jazz (or blend of both, where proper mixing can be a real game changer). 24:53 - welcome to the club !

Thank you! Yes, physical or hybrid modeling is definitely the future of virtual instruments. But, that will also mean that composers will have to be much better players themselves if they want to really use all the possibilities of such instrument. Or, they will have to spend much more time editing expressions of already played track. Which also means that good musicians will not be in danger. On the contrary! Awareness of good musicians will just rise and they will have I believe even more job than before.

Good music, wine and cheese. What ever could go wrong. ❤

Here for this

The big band demo is impressive.

wow - this is really inspiring - thanks for your work to review this! all the best from austria!

As a French, can't agree more 😆 Great review as usual. Nice to see you back online.

✅ All articulations in one track ✅ No negative delay ✅ Low tax on system This is huuuge! Thank you for the video!

You're such an inspiration... Danke ❤

Acoustic Samples also unofficially announced that they'll release libraries for strings using that same technology. No timeframe yet, though.

Well, I had planned on skipping all the Black Friday samples sales this year, but thanks to your video I'm now the owner of the two Acoustic Samples VWinds libraries. 😀

Thanks for the review, Anne-Kathrin. Food (and wine!) for thought. Will be checking out these libraries tomorrow. Yes, a new string library could be a game-changer. Now… why do I fancy a glass of wine? 🍷

The plugin Kick 2, used be a lot of EDM veterans is an example of a hybrid approach where the kick drum is synthesised and then they layer it with a sample of a click at the beginning of the sound. It works well. I think most physical modelling instruments are hybrid.

French singer here... I understand you like our wine and cheese 😅👍🏼 Sancerre is pronounced Sansserre, if I may 😉 🙏

Love this piece. Great taste… my goodness.

Literally bought the saxophones and horns yesterday and your vid just confirms how awesome Acoustic Samples is!! I haven't been this excited about a new library in forever!

Another banger, Anne-Kathrin! And yeah, I'm right there with you. These are game changers. I've basically only been using Sample Modeling Brass and Aaron Venture's stuff for a while, abandoning everything else, but I will be trying the VWinds because they do sound wonderful. I can't imagine there's anything else left to do with orchestral percussion, and the moment someone manages to do this with the strings section (supposedly Aaron Venture's been working on this) I'm dropping CSS and everything else. Can you imagine being able to have all your orchestral instruments in like a couple dozen tracks? *faints*

Wow the compsotion and your orhestration are amazing!

Although the quality of sounds is really important, you can get away with a lot with good programing and production. Alex Ball did this a few years back with his "My Computer is a 1950s Orchestra", using only sample libraries from a few vendors. It sounds pretty mind blowing. Like you said, had I not known I doubt I would've noticed

8:03 Samplemodeling (the company) also uses samples. As far as I can tell, the basic concepts of Acoustic Samples and Samplemodeling (or Aaron Venture, for that matter) are very similar. I guess the standout accomplishment of Acoustic Samples has been to capture the tone of the instruments exceptionally well by the standards of that niche.

Hi Anne-Kathrin! Thank you so much for putting the spotlight on this unfairly overlooked company. I've just bought the double reeds and clarinets Vseries back to back, and I'm literally blown away by the quality and ease of use (although I'm creativily debatting with myself on the same points as you...). I really feel like I can play all these instruments on the keyboard, it's incredible. I didn't feel the same way with the Orchestral tools woodwinds, which I also own, because you have to change or do something each time you want a different articulation. With the Vseries, it's all done in one go... It's a dream! And yes, sorry, WE are French 😈 But I must confess your french accent is not bad... And yes, as Marc pointed out, it's pronounced San[ss]erre 😊 Continue ce magnifique travail ! Merci !

Your last point is the most important for me, being able to write without thinking about to make it sound good. I KNOW that a real player would be able to play what's in my head and make it sound good, so I hate having to make changes because the samples can't handle it. So I'm watching how modelling progresses with great interest. Also, Port Salut is the best cheese.

I learned a lot! Thanks for the nice video🎉 From Japan with gratitude🇯🇵

Been using these for years, I thought no one like them, so surprised

Woah… that big band test blew me away! Holy moly! 😮

Its getting better and better for sure, i was blown away from audio modeling swam solo, you can control the bow with a midi controller or mouth, controller, always getting more real feelings 🎉and easy on cpu

Beautiful piece of music and really interesting video. Good to see you back!

I always find your videos very useful and interesting. You have insightful tips on orchestral mockups and I found your exercice on doubling and texture very useful and loved doing them! Also, I know it really isn't the point of your video, so I'm sorry if it's inapropriate but: Your makeup is so on point! It really highlight the deep blue of your eyes. I find that the red, the blue of your eyes and the hair harmonize so well together!

I recorded many live Jazz Ensemble concerts while a young college music student in the late 80's, have relied on midi to compose instrumental music from the start, & Sax Ensemble samples libraries are still the big kahuna to overcome in terms of realism. IMO the VHorn Saxes I heard at the start of the Big Band demo are no exception, though their solo saxes I've listened to on their site or user demos are THE best I've ever heard. So when they & other developers, can also nail a jazz horn ensemble sample library that can convincingly play independent melodic lines without being blended or used sparingly to hide their weaknesses, then I'll salute them!

I guess OT will raise the bar with their new Ben Walkfisch Library (No Loops, Bowing directions, Divisi)

Roland has been using a similar technology in their pianos and drums for many years now (as have other manufacturers). Aaron Venture appears to use a similar technology as VWinds and has been around for 5 years. It's sort of surprising that sample-based modeling hasn't been developed further with orchestral VSTs considering the limitations of samples.

Hello. First time viewer of your channel. Loved watching this video. I'm now a subscriber. Beautiful piece with this library. I have been following Acoustic Samples for a while now. I think the quality and sound of these libraries are fantastic! ON top of that, the amount of control is amazing! I will say I do agree with all points you covered. I do think what Acoustic Samples is doing is the future. It was really cool to hear these sounds from a classical point of view. I love Jazz, but its great to know that these work in multiple styles. I will add that as a blind musician, the learning curve with sample libraries can be steep some times because of the amount of key switches developers would add. With Acoustic Samples, the fact that you can just play whatever you feel and how you want is really cool. One thing about people using their own player... there is a possibility developers don't think about accessibility when it comes to developing those players. I always work with them to help make products accessible for blind users. I gotta get in contact with UVI to see what can be done. Anyway, keep up the amazing work. I'm curious how the other V Horn libraries fit in your workflow. I think they would sound fantastic.

Such a charming, lovely composition! Noire Italian vibes...

WOW!! This sounds stellar!! I'm going to have to get that!

Ennio should be happy hearing this. Sehr schön und romantisch.

There is no question that accoustic samples represents a superior form of sound library. I have 4TB of space on my laptop and my computer was full after installing all my old sound libraries. But then I discovered the Vseries which had both superior sound/playability ratio by far, and also much smaller harddive footprint. There are only positives with the Vseries so I deleted my old sound libraries for the most part and switched over to Vseries. The only reason there isn't more hype around their approach is because Spitfire hasn't adopted this yet and thus started their patented Spitfire hype train marketing campaigns.

Great opening!

i was just on a Simon Passmore video commenting how 3 other youtube-moc up enthusiasts i subscribe to were in his comments, and then I click youre most recent upload and... small world :')

Welcome back!

Stunning piece, Anne. Ooh, I hear elements and or inspirations from Morricone here too! Well done.

I think this is the first sample lib review video I have seen when I suddenly feel the urge on buying another product on Black Friday BUT THEN also get hungry!!! 😂

FOUND THIS VID VERY INFORMATIVE ON SAMPLE MODELLING.

Great video ! I also discovered Acoustic Samples with their VWinds (Double Reeds first, then Clarinets were an insta-buy) and it has been a real game changer for me. I even got myself an EWI to play those wonderful instruments. So satisfying.

I'd be curious to see a comparison between these and infinite winds.

These samples sound incredible! I love that they can also be purchased a la carte as well. Thanks so much for this video

hey Kathrin, you also have SWAM from Audio Modelling, wich is a completely modelled library

You should definitely try Beaufort affiné minimum 12 mois. Sancerre is a good choice, it goes well with oysters, and if you can find Tariquet premieres grives, you'll be half way between a Sauternes and a Sancerre, also half way to heaven :)

After this video...guess i will go get my 'support' beer :). Thank you for this video and your very candid talk...love it.

Hi Anne-Kathrin from the beautiful Hintertaunus 😁 I only recently discovered your channel and would like to thank you for the great and valuable content! I think every artist should be fascinated and worried at the same time about the changes ai-technology will bring to the whole creative market in this century. I believe that soon we'll see ai based virtual instruments that not only sound as realistic as the real thing but that can emulate every specific model or form of any instrument ever created and even create an endless number of totally new ones and simulate every playing style in every possible recording situation. I can also imagine that the whole process of composing will drastically change so that you'll don't use knobs and faders anymore to change the playing style of an instrument but instead just tell the program what it should do or for example use your own singing as a reference. And of course completely ai generated music will see a huge rise in entertainment productions as well which will make it even harder for most professional composers/musicians to live from their work. But I'm still optimistic that despite or because of those new endless possibilities, people will some day appreciate more again the works and creations coming from breathing carbon units and all those technologies will just be more effective tools to create art we cannot even imagine yet. 🙏😊

❤❤❤interesting………..

Glad to see you back again. Great video and great topic. I'm glad to hear someone else thinks that the SWAM stuff can have a very synthy feeling to it. I hear the demos and others going on about it and thought maybe it was just me. I've been an Acoustic Samples for quite some time and glad to see them get some recognition. I've used their acoustic bass, that is more jazz oriented and their various guitar libraries for a while. And their new stuff sounds great to me as well, I have all them, I just need to really learn how to make use of them, just as you've pointed out.

Conté is the best! Love your vídeos, hugs from Brazil.

Modeling is the future. Have you tried the audiomodeling instruments? I have them also and find them even more controllable. The main difference is they don’t have the orchestra seating that AS has. You have to create your own solution.

What a talented woman.

Beautiful piece ! Sounds really good

I recognized that VWinds right away 👍👍I've used their clarinets and bassoons on a project recently. Not a big fan of the their English horn or oboe, but they might still be the best oboes and English horns using this type of technology I think (far better than SWAM, anyway). As far as their brass and saxes, they work great for certain contexts, but the inconsistencies become kind of obvious when played in isolation. At any rate, I love how their instruments work with my Aerophone. Their initial trailer seemed to indicate that they were going to make a VWinds Recorder as well, in addition to the flutes

Unbelievably beautiful

Prost! It's snowing here in Tirol and it's -8 C so we're drinking Glühwein and watching KZfaq on the living room TV 🍻

It has been, SWAM instruments, Sample Modelling, and now this. Physical Modelling is way way better than bulky traditional samples for many instruments. I have the SWAM clarinets, I can't believe how they sound.

These seem perfect for performance with a wind-synth. I got good such results with my old Yamaha VL-70m played on my WX-11. That’s the most organically-integrated way of playing the controllers simultaneously with the … “raw notes,” so to speak.

Hahaha emotional support wine! I love it! Great video, thank you!!

You had me at "all articulations on one track"! Thank you for this video, something new to look into is always fun. I need my own ESW (emotional support wine) LOL

Great video! Thanks for making this

Great review i spent some money! But OMG stunning composition and great to see your dry humour returning😂

Always thought that a combination of physical modeling and samples would become the future, just figured that the best of both worlds would pretty much create a paradise.

This is so gorgeous!

Cheers wonderful lady!🍷😁

Awesome demo!! Keep up the great work!

Warm hello from France 🇫🇷 Good wine and cheese choices 😉 But also interesting video 👍

"Their main flaw is that they're French".....I laughed out loud at this!

So glad to hear the issue of "Room Buildup". In my naivete I thought having all the OT libraries being recorded in proper locations at Telex would stop this problem, but NO. I keep hearing this background buildup and getting annoyed. This kind of problem is something nobody seems to talk about. And indeed Acoustic Samples seems to have solved this as well as quite a few other problems.

Great video ( Once again I should add) especially the french part🇫🇷. I didn't know acoustic samples took that road. Made me think about Aaron Venture with the infinite series. But this sounds like they went even further. I definitely try these new libraries soon. Thanks for the review 👍🏿

Yesterday I purchased the horn and double reeds. I purchased the clarinets on the day it was released. I am looking forward to seeing a flute library.

I can only agree with what you've said. I've been playing around with these instruments for a while now and I think they're amazing. They lack some noise factor when playing staccati or flutter tongue. Especially in the lower instruments. However in lyrical and expressive passages with a lot of dynamic shifts and nuanced articulations, no sample library can beat these. IMO they combine really well with the first VSL libraries.

My god. Beautiful.

We do need this. I have been playing modelled instruments for a while, Truepainos is so expressive and has been my goto for over a decade. I think the future is with modelling and also with MDI 2. MIDI 2 brinbgs property exchange, meaning you just .load your library and your ocntroller keyboard is custom set up for that library. Your not stuck with 128 steps either.

Being able to slap the French in the face and simultaneously tell them how great they are is a rare skill indeed 😂😂 Well done 👏

I pinch the controller data from the Acoustic Samples midi demos. An idea is to cut out snippets of expression, name them, and drag them in. Then scale and stretch the controller data to fit.

My day job requires me travelling between three different locations regularly, so it would be an absolute dream to have a versatile library that fits on a laptop ssd with me at any time. The size of some sample libraries is what is keeping me from going completely mobile, because even with a powerful laptop, it always means carrying an external 4TB hard drive with me just for samples (not including my projects folder), which kind of defeats the purpose of a laptop for me. And even with my desktop rig at home (which I can't use while on the road), I'm just over the whole "where can I fit another hard drive in here and how fast does it have to be?" thing. That's why I'm very interested in this approach and will keep my eye on it.

My goodness, a touch of French here 😊. Good tastes. Thanks

Thank you!

That was a beautiful music piece 👌

Wow, you're taking your time to review this one with even some cheese and wine. I like the V-Winds a lot after I have listened to each and every one of their products. Too bad that my Mac is just a little too old for the UVI player.

Acoustic Samples is my favourite company by far. Their last seveal releases have been amazing.

Le morceau est superbe et les instruments évidemment et bonjour de France 😉🍷🥖🧀