The Orchestra is a revolutionary all-in-one 80 player orchestral library whose heart is our breakthrough Ensemble-Engine that empowers you to convert your ideas into music. Simple and incredibly fast. The Orchestra is a stellar tool for learning about classical music and what it's like to be a classical musician. The features for viewing the performance are stunningly good. The features for viewing the performance are stunningly good.
Customer Reviews
Absolutely Incredible software!!!
Nervous about the purchase because of the price; but took a leap of faith and BOY did I hit a home run!!! Small footprint, small library size (6GB+), and the sound quality is comparable to other instrument software. I actually complete a full 6:20 score in 3 DAYS!!! It also blends well with other VI's and by recording the instruments dry; you can supplement your own reverb to provide the same spacial ambience. Best $... I've spent and I'm just getting started. Highly recommended for the ambitious beginner of the seasoned veteran.
Wow!
Amazing software. Works with either full kontakt player or the free version, i am amazed how great this software sounds and performs.
BIg Sound, Small Footprint
A great orchestral library with all the essential instruments and articulations you expect (and some you don't) with a such a small library size (6.9 gb). That means faster loading times when adding instruments (think the antithesis of EastWest's libraries).
The magic here is in the engine - watch the demo and tutorial videos to get an idea of what it can do. The patches by themselves don't measure up to the industry's elite sampling companies, but playing through the engine's arpeggiator and envelope glues everything together. It just works.
Tweaking the engine is very flexible. Knock off 1/2 star since it currently won't subdivide into triplets (which they are fixing in patch 1.1), no trill articulations, and some sounds (orchestra hits, certain individual instruments) are less convincing than others.
Overall: perfect for a starting library or idea sketching. Good enough for full productions, with only a handful of limitations.The Orchestra
A really nice Kontakt instrument for sketching out arrangements. Runs nicely on laptops too
Awesome Functionality With Questionable Samples
This plugin has some pretty awesome functionality. You really can play an entire orchestra with two hands. It's incredibly inspiring as well. Just loading up some presets and improvising will lead you to some wonderful results. Unfortunately it's not all good though. Some of the samples are not very good quality. I'm not sure if it was the way they were recorded or because of compression (I can certainly appreciate the small memory footprint). When you play some of the individual instruments there's this white noise that's quite loud. When you're playing a large multi with a lot of instruments you don't hear it, but if you wanted to solo a violin for instance, it doesn't sound very good, especially in the higher register.
In short, it's a really innovative product let down by some unfortunate samples. I expected better at this price point.
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Item ID: SSTheOrchestraFull Symphony Orchestra Virtual Instrument for Kontakt Player 5.6.8+ with Ensemble Engine - Mac/PC Standalone, AAX Native, VST, AUMore Info...+Free 2-year WarrantyOr $67/month‡ for 6 months