I love the demos, and the first track "The Emperor" sounds like the intro to a 70's/80s BBC news programme. Like a good red wine that gets better with age. The overall sound (to my ears) is kind of dated but in a good way. It's the sound of those strings, woodwinds and perhaps also brasses that really got my attention. Total Piano is not a big draw for me, not the Smart Violins and not Orchestral Colours.īut still, there's Complete Classical Collection 2nd Edition and String Essentials 2nd Edition - plus the Classical Choir (but I have Olympus Elements which is amazing). Maybe those who have the libraries can give a hint as to how that balance is, between phrases and actually playable instruments.
Especially the phrases is nothing I'm very interested in.
Having read quickly through the manuals for String Essentials and COC I have the impression they're the original older ones.(?) A burning question for me is how much of the material is phrases and special FX stuff. Maybe the brass in COC is OK? What do you think? Any opinions and experiences with Peter Siedlaczek's libraries? I would love to hear them! Also, the VSL brass has been mentioned as the one section from that company a little bit lacking compared to the other sections. I have already decided on the VSL library, but if COC is as good as my initial impression of it is, it would possibly be very well suited to mix and match with VSL SE. But when it's half that price (150 Euros) this looks like an incredibly tempting deal. Perhaps because the library apparently is getting a bit long in the tooth (although it can still sound amazing of course).
Now, if the price of this collection was around 300 Euros or more I wouldn't think so much about this. That sounds good to me, because I'm getting VSL SE Vol 1 this summer. This new product combines Peter Siedlaczek´s String Essentials 2nd Edition as well as the well known Complete Classical Collection 2nd Edition in one Kontakt Player 5 instrument with over 25 GB of uncompressed sample content."Īpparently it's also recorded relatively dry, and mixes quite well with other string libraries. On Best Service's web page for COC they write that "Complete Orchestral Collection is a brand new compilation of all Peter Siedlaczek libraries ever released by Best Service. I also found some positive reviews through Google. A quick search for Peter Siedlaczek on the forum came up with some nice comments about String Essentials 2. To my ears they sound very lush and warm. Best Service released this yesterday, and after listening to all the demos I have to say I really like the sound of those strings.
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