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I would agree with Littlewoodg. remember this is string section only and in that regard these are superior to sampletank miroslav string sections (which I have and will still use). I have been using mostly with TC-Data and that can send quite a flurry of notes and cc data at any midi connection. isymphonic orch sounds just brilliant with that. no dropped/cutoff notes which I have seen with sampletank and my favorite bs-16i orch sf2s. if you need realistic string sections on IOS, this is the gold standard.
The audio engine here is what intrigues me with low latency disk streaming. my wish list is a more orchestral sound sets (winds, brass,etc), possibly a GM set, and of course AudioBus2!
The wind/horns in the above sound demo, are they from the app?
@ChrisG: Since you listed your orchestrial desktop libraries can i ask you which you would recommend more, EWQL Silver or the IK Miroslav Philharmonic (which i could get for 90€ at the moment).
Edit: Well, i will go for IK Miroslav Philharmonik since it's now also in 24bit and i don't need a stupid iLok key for another 30 bucks. Also from the demos i heard i find it a bit more "emotional". That's what i need. I also have the mobile edition and it's still the best orchestra library on my iPad and iPhone. So i think for 90€ against 50€ for an limited iPad library without proper demos and tutorials it feels right
Edit from the Edit: Damn....it's only in 32bit.... that makes it useless since Logic Pro X just works with 64bit.
My desktop DAW has been dormant for a few years. But what I can say about EWQL is that they are a bit "beefier" (or more Hollywood if you like), like it was sampled with some of the natural hall ambience, compared to something like Garritan which is very close up & dry. The Silver edition have some nice, basic, string articulations, but not that many (goes for the whole package). It's quite slimmed down compared to the other more expensive editions. The 32bit Miroslav VST, I got that one for free from IKM during a promo IKM had going, and I haven't tried it yet (only tried the mobile edition) so don't really know how it stacks up to EWQLS.
You do know that you can work around to still use 32bit on LPx right @Cinebient?
@TGiG: No i didn't
Since i'm new to the Mac world. But i was thinking that 64bit is standard today....
64bit is the current standard but there are plenty of Logic users who have invested a LOT of money on VSTs that are only a couple of years old.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Use+32bit+plugins+for+Logic+Pro+X
It's interesting that this app is from the guys who created JACK
Thank you
No problem
Actually, they ported JACK. They weren't involved in the original development of JACK on other platforms.
@cinebient If you're willing to wait, Miroslav has often gone on sale for super cheap. If you need it to be 64-bit, then getting Sampletank 3, is probably the way to go. My advice is use Logic for now, and wait for the super sales, they always seem to come with IK. Might be 6-12 months wait though.
Not sure about this and not blown away by the above demo sounds. Doesn't sound like the best thing since sliced bread. As an iOS app, it can do a job at the price range. However, if you can afford the EWQL gold edition then just buy it as this does not stack up to it. I have the EWQL pianos and they sound just gorgeous. Sometimes with music apps or VSTs you do get what you pay for.
Another take: maybe, we are beginning to see the signs of iOS music apps getting pricier as the platform matures.
@Flo26 good find, thanks.
Really liking the two Staccato Orchestra presets. The strings sounds good as well, but on that part I'm content with Miroslav in Sampletank and the various soundfonts, I'm no Mozart anyways so
. The playing is static, no reverb etc, which in IMO is better then it being drenched in effects etc to showcase how it could sound. Clean nice samples it seems like. I'd really love to get my hands on those two staccato presets, but 60 bucks is a lot if I'm only gonna make use of 2 presets.:/
I forgot about the pianos in EWQL, they sound amazing as @frankiejay mentioned. That's a big plus for the EWQL libraries.
Yep, tempting but I will stick with Miroslav in ST for now.
Mmhhh.... for me it sounds not very good. Not sure if it's recorded or streamed via you-tube in very low quality but i would never spend 50€ for this.
It is unfortunate that this demo was made without reverb, as this makes the releases sound extremely unnatural and is not at all how someone would actually use it in real life. Hopefully follow-up demos (by anyone, hopefully Crudebyte themselves!) will address that.
The last 30seconds are with reverb but it doesn't sound better
How can someone release a 50€ app without tutorials, demos or even a hint of support (no answer after days). Sorry, the first impression is important... failed!
Maybe i'm a bit harsh but for just 600MB of lower medium quality (from what i heard in the 2 available demos i heard) it's at best a 2 Star app. If someone prays the "pro" in his app. For just a few bucks a got a 10 times bigger desktop library in higher quality.
Must be now not too far away until the first 99€ music apps come
From someone who bought it, the sound quality of these is great. I'll 2nd the Staccato String quality. The on-board reverbs are great but I've been having fun using this with AltiSpace. I'm loving this!
Some of the sounds are quite artificial sounding (I don't think the origins are synthetic). That's not a bother to me though. I find a lot of stuff in this ilk short of John Williams scores to sound synthetic.
@ChrisG actually, I went back to Miroslav in ST after this and it didn't sound as good as it used to. Damn. I know what's going to happen next.
@CalCutta have you tried this app using virtual MIDI - how is it?
It's only IAA or CoreMIDI, worked fine for me in both cases. You have the choice of using IAA MIDI alone or in conjunction with CoreMIDI when you're running the app in an IAA environment. Worked fine with my Akai MPK25
OK thanks.
@CalCutta, interesting, so it doesn't have a virtual midi port for playing via other apps while it is in the background? Eg, if you wanted to play it with an app (like ThumbJam) as the controller, etc...
Their documentation only states CoreMIDI or IAA. I've only tried it via-an IAA host (which worked fine), or hardware MIDI controller (which also worked fine). Have not yet tried it with ThumbJam, but I will give it a whirl here in about 2 hours (when I'm off work) and let ya know!
btw this seems to have similar MIDI implementation as their other musical app, CMP Grand Piano, except iSymphonic will play 16 independent channels simultaneously (like bs-16i)
I haven't followed this too closely because I know I won't be buying it. But to me, even if the sound quality is pretty good (which seems up for debate), this isn't what iOS music does best. There's a "never-ending valley" effect that happens when you try to create lifelike orchestra sounds. Huge dedicated programs with libraries that measure half of a gigabyte on RAM-limited mobile devices just seem out of place to me. They become more out of place when you charge $50+ for them without allowing people to demo the product first.
The size of the app itself bears very little on the amount of RAM used. The size of this app is mostly due to the size of the sound files included, and it's unlikely that someone would be using all of those at the same time.
Also, I haven't seen anyone who purchased the app say anything bad about the sound quality, if anything they've stated the opposite...
@Trueyorky said:
I'm gonna wait a while before using Sampletank again. 'Cause I do know what might happen. I'm just gonna try and stay out of this thread from now on.