Use a lot of spitfire stuff on my projects and need to evoke different composers' styles. this was hugely helpful!

Thanks for sharing your thoughts Stephen.

Subscribed! This is exactly the style of content I try to find and usually fail: A comparison of many libraries with nil to little bias and a simple quick example without the melodramatic descriptions and embellishments. Thank you- I learned a lot about the libraries I don’t have, mostly that I was right but a couple sing

I have 14 of these libraries and love them all. Well, most of them. Going to add a few more during the next sale.

Great video! More impressed by your ability to walk at the end with out looking where your going! lol. Thanks!

So many great options. Thanks for sharing!

Remarkable presentation. And extremely useful as I am myself a Spitfire Audio customer and always wanted to hear a side by side comparison of their entire libraries using Strings.

Thank you very much for this video. It helps me a lot.

@Stephen, thank you so much for this video. This is going into to my "keep" list for referencing when I want to find the right library for my inspiration. Thank you.

excellent presentation!! thank u

Great video Stephen, the frozen strings really stand up surprisingly well compared to the bigger libraries.

Excellent thanks.

Sweet video, Stephen!

Great comparison! thanx

Good reference, thank you so much!

Well done !

´Sakkoni´ strings ;) Nice comparison! It is still unclear to me what the difference is, ultimately, between OA chamber evos and Fragile evos though. It seems to be essentially the same exact concept and ensemble size. As for Tundra, it is just a thing of beauty.

I have LCO strings, really good on their own for a smaller tight sound and for layering with a bigger section. In addition, it has unique modern articulations.

Solstice clas sounds so good!

Great Video!!! with this info i can choose perfect what i need to buy. Thank you!

Very informative video, thank you

Brilliant video. Extremely Helpful. Please tell me you've done one for short string sounds as well!

Just discovered your channel. Nice video, thank you. I just got the Appassionata Strings from their Summer Sales. At some point, I also plan to get (probably in that order): - Abbey Road One Collection - Abbey Road Two - Chamber Strings Pro - BBC SO Pro - Zimmer Collection That should cover most of my need from Spitfire Audio. I did a lot of researches and I did listen to a shit ton of demos to finally come to this conclusion that I can't afford to get everything and even if I could, my composer level isn't high enough to really exploit them fully, so I prefer to restraint myself to only few libraries so I won't spend my time chasing more libraries and I will instead learn to use them. So my criteria was to have libraries from different studios and from different orchestra sizes, so I could cover most of needs. I also decided to limit myself to a number of developers too, such Orchestral Tools, VSL, Spitfire and then eventually CineBrass, EW and few libs here and there to complete some eventual missing. I know it's a very controversial position to have, mainly in a world of "always more" like we can read on forums such VI-C, but someone I don't care, I just don't want to work just to pay for the next library. So thank you for taking the time to make such a video, it helps again to put a sound on the libraries I'm gonna get. Cheers

The everything drive, such a dream 😍

Excellent video, really appreciate the effort man. I have BBCSO Core and am not a huge fan of the mix so virtually never use it. The idea of upgrading to professional to potentially get use out of it seems a bit much. Would love the section control from BBCSO in Abbey Road.

looks like Dinton pastures with the Lodden in the background ....lived Bracknell for 25 years and now last 18 here in BC Canada Now

Really helpful! Im looking for some dry and close individual strings. What would you rather recommend as a whole package: Abbey Road Two or Solo Strings?

Great video. I like many of them but I'm looking for strings to add to my original songs. Mainly pop ballads. Hans Zimmer sounded great but it might be overkill.

I've used the Chamber Strings for two years now in pretty much every song I've released (that being rock and metal) and now want to add a large string section/orchestra to my kit but man deciding on which one I like best is freaking hard

Thanks, now I'm more confused than before 😅😆

I have Appassionata and Contemporary Drama Toolkit and it's by far my favorite Spitfire libraries as it fits the intimate type of emotional music that I'm creating. Abbey Road One is probably my least favorite at the moment because of how dry the high and low strings sounds. But I am torn between getting either Albion Neo or Tundra.

would you say that there is much difference between Angular Strings Evolutions and Symphonic strings evolutions?. Thank You for your videos.

I'm looking for a library that has super low double bass. Any suggestions? The Abbey Road Low Strings doesn't go very low, I've found...

Maybe it’s just me but i wish these library comparison videos would address when the libraries were recorded as much as where. Symphonic strings is almost 6 years old so I feel like it’s something to consider, for example, you know you won’t be getting any updates for your buck.

Can you remove the chamber sound from the chamber strings?

Directly compared the symphonic strings are more real and preferable for Williams music-but he didn’t explore the 240 articulations in Zimmer unavailable in any other library

Funny thing, no matter how hard I try, I cannot hear any major differences between most string libraries.

Why are you using divisi sections (4A, 3A, 3A, 4) in the Studio Strings Pro ? The full versions (8,6,6,6,4) sounds bigger

Hello guys, excuse me what library should you recommend for music like Rob Dougan, Furious Angels Instrumental, Im not driving anymore Instrumental, and There's Only Me.. I would really appreciate it... Thanks!

The thing is wich one of aaaaaall the libraries could stand alone with a little tweak to perform almost everything?

Which would you recommend for detail disco strings? Abbey road 2, chamber strings or studio strings?

Yes.

that's rough, I was hoping for a comparison of shorts and legato sounds as well

Am I tripping or Albion Neo w/ A+B patches sounds 90% similar to Chamber Strings?

I already have OAE, OACE, Orchestral Swarm, Frozen Strings, . I would like to complement them with either Fragile String Evolutions or Angular String Evolutions. It is very hard for me to make a decision between the two.

Sounds like you have the vibrato on full, makes ensemble patches sound weird.

One library I see missing is Contemporary Drama Toolkit

The examples are only slow movements.

They all sound like a synth patch…dissapointing.

The Originals really hit the mark with VFM for the hobbyist! Intimate and Epic for everyday and Cinematic Frozen for scoring. I upgraded BBCSO Discover to Core recently, but still find I prefer VSL Synchron Strings.