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mgpg89

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Aug 31, 2008
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I'm using the Ableton Live Suite and I'm looking for a good softsynth that produces some realistic orchestra sounds.
Violins, cello's, contrabasses, you name it.

Don't care about the price, but would be good if I can demo it before I have to buy it.
 

james-thescalie

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Dec 12, 2008
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probably not the most helpful reply but i like the ones that the NN-19 and NN-xt in reason has ill try upload some of the sounds but i wont be able to till friday, sorry
 

mgpg89

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Original poster
Aug 31, 2008
970
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Belgium
probably not the most helpful reply but i like the ones that the NN-19 and NN-xt in reason has ill try upload some of the sounds but i wont be able to till friday, sorry

Are those built-in presets in Reason or third party VST's?
If they are built-in, I guess there's no way to get them in another DAW, right?
 

ukmacpro

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Oct 1, 2008
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London
One of my favorite virtual orchestras is Garritan Personal Orchestra demos at http://www.garritan.com/mp3/

Although I use the MOTU Symphonic Instrument demos at http://www.motu.com/products/software/msi

Both work as plug-ins for most DAWs (I use Logic Studio) and also as stand-alone programs. Both used sampled sounds to build their instrument, so they sound much more realistic than a synth. The real skill in getting a realistic sound is how you sequence your MIDI. It's very hard to recreate subtle nuances of a musician playing live, you can create a pretty good simulation though.
 

james-thescalie

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Dec 12, 2008
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yeah they are the ones that come with reason. With it though you get re-Wire and you can have ableton live running with reasons audio output going through an audio track in ableton.
 

james-thescalie

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Dec 12, 2008
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just had a wave of genious...download the reason 4 demo. dont know if the demo alows re-Wire but at least you can hear the sounds im talking about. Have you had any more luck?
 
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