Spitfire BBC Symphonic Orchestra Discover

[Paul Battersby]

(05-21-2020, 08:55 PM)Mattias Westlund Wrote: Anyway, just got the library

Downloaded mine today too. One of the reasons I wanted it was so that I could compare the sounds of Virtual Playing Orchestra to a professional library.

(05-21-2020, 08:55 PM)Mattias Westlund Wrote: As a freebie, it's okay. It's basically SSO with better samples.

I agree it's like SSO. I tested the Spitfire BBC Discover orchestra against each Virtual Playing Orchestra instrument and it sounds to me like the sounds are similar in quality. Perhaps I just don't have a good enough ear to hear the difference but if my ear isn't so bad, then that says good things about the quality of Sonatina Symphonic Orchestra, VSCO2-CE, No Budget Orchestra and the other sounds that found their way into Virtual Playing Orchestra (or it says bad things about the BBC Discover orchestra .)

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(05-21-2020, 09:27 PM)Mattias Westlund Wrote: ...aaaand, there's no keyswitches.

Actually there are. They don't seem to show up in the interface but the key switches start at C-1.

EDIT: Found it. You can display the key switches. Just to the left of the keyboard where it shows the expression and pitch bend wheels, there is also an area with a number in it and an up and down arrow. Click the down arrow until you see a -2. The key switches show up in green on the keyboard.