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Originally Posted by lolilol1975
I agree Kontakt is essential. As for orchestral libs, the Vienna Symphonic Library has the immense advantage of being generic (not "Hollywoodian") and recorded without reverb. Problem is, it's super expensive.
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Yes, vsl sounds fantastic too. And when I'll be able to afford it, I'll definitely snatch it. Thought most of kontakt libs, as well as play etc. they do have close mic's too. And personally, I do really like "Hollywoodian" sounding samples, thought there must be some misunderstanding, cause for example ewql does sound like that, but it actually sound like real hall performance way more then dryer libs!
Anyway, there is few options that op can go with, but I think just getting some libs that work in free kontakt player, is good for starters! And I just reminded myself that there is planty of free libs for it too, and they sound fine. I think there is even couple of free orchestra libs, not converted from sfz, but build from high quality recordings.
[And please, to anyone who say's sfz sound good; they don't ]
And to close, I sometimes also use Zebra2, finding it to be the roundest sounding, authentic and vintage imitating synth out there. But I never pushed to learn it properly, so that's something to do down the line.