CSS seems way overpriced for all the hype that it gets. I mean what's the draw? The expressiveness, or the control over parameters? Whenever I hear it in sound comparisons I'm immediately shocked by how synthetic it sounds, so I imagine there has to be some other reason so many people are riding the hype train to the scene of the wreck... Maybe it gives you so much control that it can sound good in the right hands, but mostly ends up sounding meh for people who don't have the time to tweak everything in post? I've heard more convincing out of the box sound from East West Symphony Orchestra, and that was recently on sale for well below $200 with a ton more articulations.

You know what is sound easier to tell the difference between the software and the acoustic recording, the Brass instruments. Because unlike strings that have sounds easier to replicate. Brass instruments have far more articulations and specific flavors of sounds, that alot of the VSTs still struggle to replicate just right without sounding overprocessed right out of the box, with the limiters, and the equalizing.

how does this compare to the cinematic strings 2.0? i own that, but feel i need to learn automation techniques. but is this a vastly superior update?

Wow. Thanks

This is beautiful! Did you publish this anywhere?

pretty hard to believe as long as Cinematic Studio Strings library has few milliseconds gap due to the script complexity. If you check other demos no one note is quantize perfectly.

Incredible realistic. U probably you have a lot of patience to record and edit :)

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/la19o5mG1LOyqHU.htmlsi=Th38WAERgk-AZzhb they use only VST strings (including CSS). visit if you're interested in this.

Hello Oliver, which kontakt script do you use to be able to quantize CSS on the grid and not having all the different delays ? Thanks.

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What a beautiful music. Keep up the great work!

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/la19o5mG1LOyqHU.htmlsi=H8H93koAKigTzNu0

Beautiful arrangement. Love it!

Nice sound. It would be a tad more realistic if the trumpet player had time to breathe 😅

Vraiment magnifique 💖

Thank you very much for the very well made video! I wish that the chords were shown in international notation. So for H7 = B7 or G/H = G/B and so on. You also write Ab and not As, as the German spelling suggests! Nevertheless, once again a big compliment for the arrangement and the instructive transcription!

no time to die orchestral

Really? When the camera switches to midi it’s actually css?

Hello Mr.Schmellenkamp, I'm a student interesting in learning to compose pieces such as this. I have all the software, keyboards, etc but I'm just not sure where to start. Do you have anything tips regarding composing?

Beautiful

I like to feel the emotional purity of the music classical. In each instrument is joined the ideal of the musical beauty and the spirit of creativity in the present instant. It's a beautiful harmony when the doing and the saying go it together. Music gives meaning to sound, from meaning to sound, is born emotion. Symphony No. 10 in F-sharp major. Excerpt from Movement I. Adagio. It is the last work of the composer Gustav Mahler. When he dies at 50, only the first movement is finished. All my gratitude to Gustav Mahler and the Budapest Scoring. *Lucien*

Marvellous. Out of curiosity what fx did you use?

Richtig gute Komposition!

How about showing velocities??

A Great Example that.shows..... often it is not a Library Problem ( all kind of library) ...but an USER problem! Nice Test Oliver!

hi do you use any kind of eq on CSS to delete noise or something?

Is there a score?

Serms all the time the library...

Very nice! Which Upright Bass library is it?

if you use release then it can be fixed a little bit. obviously no comparison between that real warm sound. but still

beautiful

Trumpet player need to breathe the rest is very nice cool jazz!!

Rare who can unveil the true potential of CSS and you Oliver are doing it. If you could share a video of your midi programing your modulation expression etc.. that would be liquid gold. Thank you very much

0:27 Until libraries figure out how to handle intonation that's purer than equal temperament like this, nothing will beat live players.

lovely sound

bellisimo

Cara, que coisa linda!! Fiquei maravilhado com esse arranjo!! Meus parabéns!!

this is phenomenal

Can't tell any difference

bro this is almost exactly mahlers 10th symphony.... same key i think from 50s onwards. watch out lol or u might steal some melodies without even knowing, anyway, nice programming.

Thanks so much for this! In my heart I knew Cinematic Studio Strings was the library I was missing, but I needed this in-your-face overwhelming demonstration. :)

Wow. Absolutely outstanding. Beautiful composition, but those results really blow me away, even though the real orchestra of course sort of breathes warmer.

How do you use the articulations

Very impressive music. But these CSS displays on your vids would be super helpful if we knew which colour represented which instrument

Superb, can u teach how to arrange like this

Are u the new Mozart?

Please expand it to full orchestra in places thus magnifying the crescendos. Would be awesome. Wonderful piece!

Dear Oliver, superb work! Btw do you use "Cinematic : Sessions Strings 2" by Native Instruments, or just "Cinematic Strings 2"? Thank you so much, subscribed!:)

The trumpet player has really HUGE lungs!!!!

CSS sounds amazing in this context too. If you don’t mind I would like to ask you how you process CSS to sound the way it does here. Are you layering it with anything else?