Lot’s of audio examples out there for all the products- hopefully they will help you in your search. As I’m just beginning to dip my toes into the orchestral pool, it’s deep enough for me. It’s considered a sketchpad, meaning a great way to put down ideas easily and requires less processing and RAM than the more ‘professional’ packages. Again, very nice strings, less so the brass. Abbey Road (also by spitfire) is a similar package, similarly priced, but with a more cinematic sound to it. But as it sounds like your focus is more with the strings, you might really like albion one. I really like the strings, but for me, none of Spitfire’s offerings have brass with enough oomph. It is a nice, comprehensive package, but not for orchestral work.Īlbion One is very highly regarded as an all-in-one package. First- Kontakt Komplete doesn’t have a full, sampled, orchestral library. Would you kind folks be able to offer your take on which would be best and why? Responses are very much appreciated, thank you. Some suggestions so far have been Spitfire’s “Albion One”, EW’s “Hollywood Orchestra - Opus Edition”, NI’s “Komplete 13 Ultimate”, and Red Room’s “Palette: Symphonic Sketchpad”. Preferably adjustable via MOD / Expression wheels / sliders, but I’m not sure if things like vibrato speed and length can be set for live adjustment like that (I’m new to all this). I would like to have something with deep user control (or options) for things like different Tremolo / Vibrato speeds, etc. I’m willing to spend $500-1000 or so on a quality orchestra, but I would want something as “complete” and “all inclusive” as possible, while not suffering in sound quality because of it. I even spent $100 on Steinberg’s Halion Symphonic Orchestra and of the few Tremolo options I see, they don’t even have any perceptible Tremolo effect at all, it’s still just a normal Legato. I’m very poor, but am finding that the “free” VST options just don’t offer what I need for composing.