(07-14-2016, 04:52 PM)Mattias Westlund Wrote: Well I have no opinion on Philharmonik 2, I've just heard some audio demos, and while it sounds miles better than its predecessor it strikes me as grossly underwhelming considering the €624(!!!) price tag.
As for Philharmonik 1, it was misleadingly advertized as a "natural" and "real" sounding library when in fact it's anything but that. It's a bunch of very dated samples that have a tendency of sounding fake at best, and at worst more like a Mellotron than an orchestra.
I'm also not a fan of IK, but I'm not going to go into that here as it would be in violation of the forum rules
Honestly, in my experience, most of the problems with MiroSlav are the player and forcing SampleTank into doing what you need it to to do. There's no capacity for shared neighbor round robin, only one dynamic level per patch (as far as I can tell, anyway) even though there are alternate patches that seem to have different samples, dynamic control over EQ and filters is difficult at best, etc.
And don't get me started on the French Horn looping.... errrrrgh.
I've only used MS by itself on a few occasions and wasn't terribly overwhelmed. Back in the day, I paid $50 for it (some weird sale at Musician's Friend or something) and figured it was at least worth the price tag for layering, as in this (Notion and Miroslav):
But that being said, I've been working on a "resampling" of the Miroslav stuff and porting it to Kontakt and hooking it up to Big Bob's WIPS script. Once you eliminate the the RR issue, put in some pseudo dynamics with volume control and filtering, and use WIPS to get some decent legato control over it, things get a *lot* better. The woodwinds in particular hold a lot of promise. When I get a little further along with it, I'll post some examples. Maybe one of you geniuses can help me figure out a method whereby I can share my results with legal Miroslave owners without sharing the actual samples (which would completely violate the license)...
-- Kurt