The ’90s saw a steady trickle of Akai–format orchestral libraries, but with the advent of the PC–based Gigastudio in 2000, the trickle turned into a torrent. When Miroslav Vitous released his Symphonic Orchestra Samples CDs in 1993, no–one could have predicted the avalanche of similar products that was to follow. I am quite happy tho with the quality of the actual sound tho, very nice but you need to EQ/balance some of the strings to make it fit with say Native Instruments content sometimes.The quality and variety of orchestral string libraries continues to grow. The package was a %50 deal and I really don't feel I would have been happy had I spent a cent more than I did. While I love the sound of their strings and their horn sections I also bought their reverb plugin which I find quite meh. These were not a slight sound either, these were quite loud and noticeable on certain notes. I have also found (and reported back to them) some of their samples in some of their strings (symphonic strings gold I think) have pops/loop brace sounds which I was disappointed to hear since I spent over $1k on a package. The issue is the sheer amount of small samples that need to be loaded into RAM. You really need an SSD which dropped load times by 3/4. I started on my standard 7200rpm HDD and as the other poster mentioned it takes ages to load if you have a few instruments.
One thing to note is this is higher end library stuff so uses HUGE library's. There is no way to "host automate" any parameters in Play from Live and it feels very clunky in terms of loading and setting multi players etc. it is horrid and I WISH they still used Kontakt. I have the EXACT same experience with the Play software. Yeah I have it and like most of their content, sounds great if you need that kind of thing.
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