11-28-2020, 02:26 PM
Thanks for your comments everyone!
They're fine I guess, there's all the usual stuff. Sustain (vb/nv), tremolo, staccato (with options for tight/loose or something inbetween), spiccato, pizz, bartok pizz, col legno, plus a plethora of crescendos and decrescendos with different timings that I've decided not to use. I need to conserve RAM here and I see no point in using baked crescendos when the dynamic crossfading sounds as good as it does. Sadly there are no runs or trills or anything like that, but I'm guessing they're saving those for the upcoming Hyperion Symphonic Strings or whatever it's going to be called.
Yes, you're quite right. More on that below.
I would gladly check them out! No sections though?
Yes, well, I've made some edits
New version here.
First of all, I changed the reverb. Originally I used my standard ValhallaRoom custom presets, but as much as I love the lush denseness of the Valhalla verbs, they can sometimes make things a little too muddy. So I switched over to Exponential Audio's PhoenixVerb which is a lot cleaner and more natural sounding. Still might require some tweaking, but so far I like it better.
Secondly, Hyperion Strings has a sort of "stage positioning" feature that it uses in lieu of separate mic positions. Problem is, the feature appears to be using parallel stereo processing, since I noticed that when you pan things to the sides, you gradually lose half the stereo signal. Beyond a certain point, it's just a panned mono signal. So I set everything to the default mid positions and used the regular REAPER stereo panner instead.
Thirdly, I first used the built-in EQ in Hyperion Strings. But since flipping between Kontakt instrument slots and the different panes of the instruments was quickly driving me up the wall, I turned the EQ off and used an external one instead, one for each string instrument family. Still not happy with the sound of the strings, but I'm getting there.
On a related note, I have at long last joined the family of Kontakt users, which has opened up a lot of possibilities, but I'm also feeling a little overwhelmed. Right now I'm mainly trying to incorporate some nice freebies into this template (the Kontakt versions of them that is; previously I used a few SFZ-converted patches).
(11-25-2020, 08:29 PM)Nayrb Wrote: How are the expressive articulations in Hyperion Strings Elements?
They're fine I guess, there's all the usual stuff. Sustain (vb/nv), tremolo, staccato (with options for tight/loose or something inbetween), spiccato, pizz, bartok pizz, col legno, plus a plethora of crescendos and decrescendos with different timings that I've decided not to use. I need to conserve RAM here and I see no point in using baked crescendos when the dynamic crossfading sounds as good as it does. Sadly there are no runs or trills or anything like that, but I'm guessing they're saving those for the upcoming Hyperion Symphonic Strings or whatever it's going to be called.
(11-28-2020, 04:38 AM)Samulis Wrote: Might not need as much reverb with the EW brass; they're fairly wet already.
Yes, you're quite right. More on that below.
(11-28-2020, 04:38 AM)Samulis Wrote: If you're interested, I have some experimental woodwinds that might end up in an eventual hypothetical VSCO 3 and in VCSL in a simplified form; I'd be happy to send over some SFZ's.
I would gladly check them out! No sections though?
(11-28-2020, 06:13 AM)peastman Wrote: it sounds like it's being played in a vast space. Maybe that's what Samulis meant about the amount of reverb? I think that's fine as long as it's the sound you were going for.
Yes, well, I've made some edits
New version here.
First of all, I changed the reverb. Originally I used my standard ValhallaRoom custom presets, but as much as I love the lush denseness of the Valhalla verbs, they can sometimes make things a little too muddy. So I switched over to Exponential Audio's PhoenixVerb which is a lot cleaner and more natural sounding. Still might require some tweaking, but so far I like it better.
Secondly, Hyperion Strings has a sort of "stage positioning" feature that it uses in lieu of separate mic positions. Problem is, the feature appears to be using parallel stereo processing, since I noticed that when you pan things to the sides, you gradually lose half the stereo signal. Beyond a certain point, it's just a panned mono signal. So I set everything to the default mid positions and used the regular REAPER stereo panner instead.
Thirdly, I first used the built-in EQ in Hyperion Strings. But since flipping between Kontakt instrument slots and the different panes of the instruments was quickly driving me up the wall, I turned the EQ off and used an external one instead, one for each string instrument family. Still not happy with the sound of the strings, but I'm getting there.
On a related note, I have at long last joined the family of Kontakt users, which has opened up a lot of possibilities, but I'm also feeling a little overwhelmed. Right now I'm mainly trying to incorporate some nice freebies into this template (the Kontakt versions of them that is; previously I used a few SFZ-converted patches).
