Berlin Studio captures the Teldex Studio that Orchestral Tools uses. That is also a great reverb plugin I use that has mic positions :)

Would love to see you review some of the new Performance Samples libraries :) Cheers.

Not willing to spend this much on just strings... I got Pacific Ensemble Strings and Cinematic Studio Strings and can't be any happier. Also got the Air Studios Reverb, so putting those strings in that space is good enough for me. I do have the Abbery Road Orchestral Foundations so I use that for layering.

Interesting review. On the flaws, this seems to be a bit of a Spitfire 'thing'. They are very good at capturing the organic sound but sometimes fall short on the technical stuff especially when you consider that performance scripting is an increasingly important tool. I guess they will get there at the end of the day but I can't help feeling they have perhaps lost a little of their former lustre. It happens.

They should really have an option to only download the mic positions you want.

I love a number of Spitfire's products but not this series. Yes, the sound is great but the cost is insane, plus there are too many omissions. I use CSS, MSS and BBCSO, as well as Tundra and Neo.

It's just way too expensive for us down in New Zealand. You have to double the price, and in these current climates, this is just something for the super pros because spending $2000 plus of our money on a string library is a joke. Plus i can make all the other string libraries i have sound like this lol

Great video! I think that AROSS have too many problems for this price range, definitelly. By the way, I know its "little bit" off topic but i would like to ask if You could do some even short one video in near future, about tricks and ideas to fix CSS latency legato problems. Im new in CSS series i have strings and solo strings and gosh they are really amazing but im really struggle with this latency not being on time problems. I know they are some scripts for this like CSS control panel but to be honest i have no idea how to set it up correctly. I think this kinds of video would be really helpfull for many. Greetings

Is the first sound an effect? It's still your real voice. Thank you

7:59 That's actually a slurred, sliding legato, not a short staccato.

New to Project SAM and your reviews have been ultra helpful - thank you! I love your showcase of Symphobia 2 and I love the Metropolis Ark style ensemble mixes. You've convinced me to snag this one up as money allows. Symphobia 1 I'm not so keen on since I'm well covered (too covered, perhaps) on the bread and butter orchestra stuff. I see you have a review on Symphobia 3 so that's where I'm off to next! Thanks again, Sam!

This reverb is worth every penny, the best I have heard in a very very long time. I am a reverb fanatic, and this definitely cuts the mustard. Great stuff.

The baroque piece was tons better in terms of emulating a more natural performance. The legato joined up strings sounded much more vst in the behaviour . It's inherently more challenging to get natural sounding joins between notes

Thanks for your review Sam! I have a question. Would you benefit from plugging this reverb into vsts by spirfire that were already recorded live in air, or would it make it sound less realistic? I’m considering this because I like the ability to move the reverb around in the space and get the feeling of realism but am unsure if using this in spitfire symphony orchestra would degrade the natural sound of air that I am getting from the live performance. Maybe I should try adding an algorithmic reverb like cinematic rooms. What are you learning thoughts?

thank you for this! I wonder, what choir have you used? sounds beautifully too!

I'm currently learning this reverb and I have to say it's one of my absolute favorites. The other reverb I use regularly is the Berlin Studio Reverb, which simulates the reverb characteristics of Teldex, Berlin. Berlin Studio is excellent in its own way. While the reverb doesn't offer the same level of control as the Air Studio Reverb, the quality is equally good!

Of course you need it! Everyone needs more reverbs!

Your vocals are fantastic! The review of Spitfire Air Studios Reverb is also really well done. Thank you!

I was inboxed when this reverb was first released with its introductory price. I remember Spitfire mentioning that a surround version may be down the track. I came to the same conclusion, that understanding the reverbs you already own is a great first choice, rather than opt for that extra few percent. I've purchased a few commercial convolution reverbs, and keep going back to Space Designer included with Logic Pro. I run in surround, as it includes true surround impulses. With tweaking I can get just as good a result as the commercial products. You pay for nice wrapping, and refined presets, with the commercial products, but the quality and spacial info in the multi impulses is pretty fundamental to how good the reverb will sound. When Spitfire upgrade it to surround I will consider purchasing it, just to have the Air Studio sound available to all my instruments, not just my Spitfire libraries.

what a fantastic video, so enjoyable and knowledgable, happy Solstice

Nice work - god midsommer!

That was actually very impressing, you can be proud of your singing! Wow! //Also Swede

Spitfire Audio is not a company that creates reverb plugins... and from this offering it's obvious that they are not as they completely missed adding a surround option into the Air Studios Reverb. They would have been wiser to partner with a company like Liquid Sonics or someone else to help them create a more full featured plugin. This is not one for me! For a much better high end reverb I'll go to another company who does this as their specialty.

Nice job, Sam and I'm sure you are singing something profound and insightful in Swedish and not just singing about your grocery list this week 😁 - But it's a great arrangement in either case! The reverb sounds pretty amazing. I bought Heavyocity's Vast earlier this year which is unique for sound design verbs. Between that and Sonible's Smart: Verb, Spitfire's offering is not something I would get now, but definitely a serious choice for someone in need of a quality plugin.

Awesome! Had to listen more then once to check out all the sounds!

38:24 Buzzinga!!

How do you do that in LOGIC PRO ?

I love this review this much. Afflatus Brass is awesome! I've got to purchase this.

Very good walk through, thank you.

There is a stage during my composition when I tend to add divisi on NOT divisi patches. This video reminds me the importance of doing it correctly. So, thank you!

This video is helping me to learn how to use this software. Thanks so very much.

Hi what orchestra library did you use?

Easily explained. Thanks a lot

This is def using

Hey i subscribed thanx for the video thinking of buying this one i already bought the striings

Audio modeling desperately needs artificial intelligence to adapt vst settings like dynamics velocity etc to the real violin player model. Without this, it will never sound realistic. Humans are terrible at computer settings.

Thank you for this!!!

Which DAW are you using that makes those note velocity curves? ProTools doesn't do that.

Excellent.

Very nice sir!

Bravo! Holy Vivaldi!

Very nice work! Love how it’s a modern orchestral feel while the violin plays a more baroque era melody. You should do this type of thing more often!

Appassionato. I like it very much. I would put the choir even more up front!

Obviously very Barroque, with a twist of modernity! Love it very much!

Even 'though it's Opus' day, sometimes I like to go Bach to Play.

The V1 comparison sounds noticeably different to me. Samples may be the same; but it sounds like they've done some refinements under the hood. Essentials sounded more consistent and smooth in your example. Were you playing back a MIDI clip or playing live for both examples. That could explain the difference I'm hearing.

Awesome playing. The symphonic horn sounds the most realistic i.m.o

For that ending, if you wanted to go with a recipe anyway, you could have made the choir sing the actual song “Chocolate Salty Balls”… 😂

Thank you for this video, Sam. When this library showed up in my subscription I thought it looked cool, but I haven't found much use for it. You've given it a little more perspective for me. Also, great piece of music.