by djnarrative | 24 Dec, 2012 | Reckorder Tutorials, The Reckorder Project
Inspired by the horns section, i decided to use the rest of my savings and a little of my rent, to invest in some strings. My earliest memories of playing the organ at my nan's revolved around a strings button and it's always been something i've wanted to incorporate into my own productions. It's also something i've always thought would cost way too much to replicate realistically with all the various string articulations, but i decided to check and was really pleased to find the ideal solution o/ There's a lot of competition in the market of realistic strings. I started off with Native Instruments, as i'd read on a forum that their strings were really good when looking for info about the aforementioned session horns. On their website i noticed they have a few different strings apps all priced accordingly. The most relevant one to me was action strings, but it was a little too out my price range for what it did, and the others didnt seem to hit the spot, so i decided to look around on more forums, and found there were 3 main contenders. Hollywood strings, Cinematic Strings and La Strings. I whittled it down to Cinematic Strings, which was really playable, but lacked some articulations, and Hollywood strings which was 3 times the cost, 150 times the size, had all the articulations, and on special offer so costed the same. Hollywood strings then surely? Well, no. After more research i realised i'd have to not only buy the instrument but also buy a new hard drive! Hollywood strings comes in at a massive...
