The EQ settings and the stage and color options provided by LASS are very good sounding and can be a nice starting point. Those are the only samples I can say that." At one point he said" This is LASS isn't it? If you ever need to make some cues bigger, just keep them, we'll play on top con sordino. I used LASS for mockup purpose on the last feature I did this summer, the orchestration of which is for 16 strings players when the concertmaster and contractor heard the mockups he was blown away. What I like about LASS are the divisi, the ability to tailor the sections the way I want in a fairly logical way i.e. LASS gets the most use in my set-up as I almost never write for large ensemble. That's why Cinematic Strings is so successfull, it is easy of use and sounds wonderfull, if you like the sound of the room. The dryer the sound, the more options to tailor it but also the more work for you. The better the room, the better the sound, like in the real world. For VSL it is mostly dry, almost lifeless. In opposite LASS has a fair amount of the raw and dry sound and just small touch of the room. The sound is extremely pleasant and has a "That's the sound of film music" in it. The Spitfire, 8Dio, EastWest and to some extend Cinematic Strings sound come from the room they were played in. Most of the sound of strings comes from the room it's played in. I have my share of strings recordings - first one in 1990 ouch!! - and honestly the sound of LASS is the closest I've heard to the real thing real strings are noisy and in real life you have to reach the eq's, even if you are doing classical stuff, and especially when dealing with sampled strings. Sadly, for me even with the 2.5 update, it's become a rather expensive (and non-returnable/non-resaleable) boat anchor. But I keep going back to the comment by that composer who did the Barber, "You can get a great sound from LASS, but you *have* to plan on the time needed to tweak it". There are *loads* of other nice features that LASS offers that other libraries can't match. and reverb for you, *if* you like the presets. Some love it, some hate it, most fall in the middle, but most all acknowledge that you won't get a great sound out of LASS without dedicating time to tweak.Īnd then AudioBro introduced the ARC, which *does* handle a lot of the e.q. If you go on to VI-Control and do a search on "the sound of LASS", you'll find a pretty lengthy thread of folks commenting. He offered that he had gotten the sound he had, only after a fair bit of e.q.-ing & tweaking on all sections of LASS. Then I heard a great mock-up of Barber's Adagio on AudioBro's board (without loads of noise) and wrote the creator about it, looking for specifics. Call it rosin noise or bow noise or whatever, but LASS has plenty of it! Wrote a post (with samples included) about it on VI-Control, only to find that there was a bit of a war raging over (a.) "the natural sound of sampling" v.
Contacted AudioBro right away to see if I'd messed up the install, but all was "as it should be". But loved the concept of a divisi string orch.įirst day I had it loaded up, I was hearing what seemed to me to be an inordinate amount of "white noise" behind the samples. Thought it was a (rather expensive) no-brainer. I talked extensively by phone with Sebastian (one of the developers) prior to purchasing, read Craig Anderton's review, etc. * Very smooth legato, but with some "bite" on fast 16th note runs, forīuzz, I'm going to weigh in here as a (paid-up) owner/user of LASS, CinematicStrings2, Albion I, Albion II, SymphonicSphere, VSL.and those are just the strings! (I passed on EW Hollywood strings as I wasn't/aren't a fan of PLAY)įollowing VSL, LASS was my next big string purchase. (Like the old days or with Albion.) I'd rather do the
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* Not particularly interested in full ensemble patches with no control over the individual sections. * Different mic position choices (close, tree, hall, etc.)
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* I don't really need, at least for now, the full blown movie score type sound. It'd be nice to also have a 12 string section a la LA or Nashville option but I know that one size * I'm mainly doing light orchestral and show tunes. (I have heard that some are having issues with the Play engine and slow loading.) This is a copy of a message that I sent to numerous contemporaries. Getting ready to pull the trigger for LASS 2.5.