![best kontakt string library 2017 best kontakt string library 2017](https://plugintorrent.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/b34b1430fdf9.png)
If you’re a fan of the sound, upgrade to the pro version which boasts more detailed sampling and a true sustain layer. With a little massaging it’s possible to conjure some really interesting piano tones from the Felt Seiler to form the basis of wistfully emotional cues. There’s also a huge variety of traditional and designed impulse responses for the convolution reverb section. A suite of FX includes filter, compression, EQ and delay.
![best kontakt string library 2017 best kontakt string library 2017](https://audiophiles.co/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/cremona-quartet.jpg)
Adjust the settings beneath each fader for stereo spread or choose a gentler sound with the “soft” button, which swaps to an alternate set of soft-pedal samples. This gives a warm and intimate tone, recorded in 4 dynamics, captured with a variety of close microphones and then summed to one position. The upright piano was prepared for recording with a layer of felt between the piano hammers and strings. Playback of these layers can be individually reversed to create a more other-wordly sound. Three different synth layers can be mixed in the interface. That, and the much higher number of articulations in SCS - along with the relatively small amount of chamber string libraries to choose from out there - could be a main reason for people to pay the extra it costs to get SCS.Similar to the piano above, Strezov Sampling’s free Felt Seiler for KONTAKT Player combines a piano tone with texture. The main disadvantage of LSCS for me is that there's only one short articulation, so one needs to use the Speed function to adjust that sample to one's liking: this uses *a lot* of CPU power. At the moment I'm trying to figure out why I often get stuck/hanging notes when using this library - I just contacted L&S about it. Most people seem to like SCS, so I don't think this is a big problem for a lot of people, but LS has something very natural/warm/open about it's sound, which at least isn't as pronounced using the three included mic sets in SCS.Īs mentioned earlier, I'll post a review of LSCS later. I agree that this to some degree can be true at the highest dynamic levels and especially if the close mics are used, but by tweaking dynamics settings, mic positions and maybe some EQ a lot of this can be addressed - even more so with the extra mic sets I guess. I like both libraries, and they both have something the other doesn't have. Maybe this has to do with one of them possibly being adjusted to a tempered/stretched piano tuning. Maybe that will come if/when Spitfire ports SCS over to their own player.Īnother difference is the tuning: if you play eg an A5 in the each of the two V1s, the pitch in SCS is higher. SCS does a lot of articulations, but unfortunately - doesn't have that function. This will become very useful if LS gets more artics. But LS allows you to define which articulations you want to have available by selecting them from a menu, like in Berlin Strings' multi presets. SCS, on the other hand, lets you set unique mic position levels for each of the articulations. And using the pedal will trigger the full end of the sample, including the tail (+ a surprisingly long pre-tail portion of the sample). But LS has some useful functions called Range and Split. LS has no separate vibrato control, no release parameter, and no portamento. There are of course pros and cons with a library having been recorded rather wet - or rather dry. LS is also a drier lib: there's no really ambient mic set as with SCS LSCS is recorded in a smaller place. The ensemble presets are also more useful in SCS, not only are there more of them, but they use a lot less polyphony.
![best kontakt string library 2017 best kontakt string library 2017](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/D1g3HeXy4rA/maxresdefault.jpg)
LSCS gives more more bang for the buck, but SCS offers a lot more articulations (see image). I also tried to use Logic's Match EQ to make it sound like LSCS, and that process made SCS sound more warm/open. Click to expand.I have spent some time comparing the two, but only using the 3 mic sets that come with SCS (will upgrade to the expanded version soon) - versus the 7 mic sets that come with LSCS.