Sonivox Film Score Companion

[Larry Shelby]

$19 at Best Service

This is an amazingly capable suite comprised of 5 distinct collections:

Orchestral Companion Brass

Orchestral Companion Strings

Orchestral Companion Woodwinds

Eighty Eight Ensemble

Big Bang Cinematic Percussion

https://www.bestservice.com/film_score_companion.html

[Larry Shelby]

Also Velvet 2 for $15

https://www.bestservice.com/velvet_2.html

[Fleer]

Still looooove that Velvet. 

[Starise]

Plug in boutique has this too for a similar rice.  Another Sonivox product that was a no brainer for me-

VOCALIZER PRO

This is now going for under 10.00. It's a vocoder and so much more. 

[TheSteven]

Sound on Sound review:
https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/sonivox-film-score-companion
 

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Summary

If you’re in the business of creating broad brush stroke orchestral mock-ups, Sonivox’s Film Score Companion collection will get you rocking straight out of the box. Recorded in a great concert hall acoustic and focusing on the most useful playing styles, its symphonic strings, brass and woodwinds sound classy and grandiose. A superior Steinway grand recorded in the same space covers all the bases from Rachmaninov to rock, while the Big Bang Cinematic Percussion instrument (which contains a wealth of African drums as well as orchestral percussion) does what it says on the tin.

 

 

[Starise]

TheSteven, do you have this? Dang, I was surprised at it. Best 20 I dropped all year.

[TheSteven]

I bought but haven't had a chance to touch it, too much family drama at the moment... 

[InstrEd]

16 minutes ago, TheSteven said:

too much family drama at the moment... 

The perfect new vst to take out your drama on

[Leizer]

Here is someones demo of the strings that shows  how it sounds out of the box:

I have had it for a long time, but have had EWHO platinum for a longer time, so it always ends up with the later one. These strings has no vln1/vln2, just violins, but if you need it you can use the violins twice with different EQ/panning I guess.

I took some time to "fiddle" around with it, and with expression/modulation you can get a pretty realistic string sound. Favorites: pizz (when you hit hard there is "bartok pizz") and violin espressivo.

A no brainer, if you dont have any of the 400+$ libraries. Quick to use, perfect for mockups.

[Fleer]

Certainly for the $1 they charged for it

[Reid Rosefelt]

The sounds of the string, brass, and woodwind libraries, while old, sound remarkably good, and are a huge bargain for the price.  I'm not at my music computer at the moment, but I remember there being some nice bonus patches in there, like runs.    I particularly like the Woodwinds. 

The big problem is the lack of legato, and this puts them not in the same league of libraries of even Miroslav vintage, and makes them a lot less realistic than all the libraries that have been brought out in the last half a dozen years or more.  

Also, there are no mod wheel dynamics controls, ie  no change in timbre when the sounds get louder.  Some fake this by MIDI mapping volume and a bit of EQ high shelving to the mod wheel. 

But they are great starter libraries, and pros still use them to layer with their other libraries.   And this would be a great way to add strings to the background of a pop song.

The strings sold for $1 in early 2017, and the other two I got for $4.99 each I think.   I think I may have paid more than $19 just for Big Bang, so this is quite a deal to get all this and the 88 too.

I think Big Bang is a good deal, but it crashes DAWs, which SONiVOX knows about, but has never bothered to fix.  The workaround is to press the "Learn" button before playing any notes.