Spitfire Studio Strings Professional LiTE - YDL
Kontakt Lite Library | 37 GB (on disk)
I tried the minified version about 2 or 3 years ago and didn't like the sound, so I never used the library.
Recently, I heard a demo using it and it sounded pretty good so I decided to get the full version.
It can deliver a very good sound for small strings sections needs, and the Close 2 microphone (first chair) even allow to get a nice "chamber" sound when carefully mixed with Close 1 and Tree. I love the sound we can get by combining these 3 mics.
So I decided to make this lite version, it took time, a lot of time...
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Based on Spitfire Studio Strings Professional 1.0 (196 GB)
- All samples converted from 24 to 16 bits (with dither) except some legato samples for violins 1 (16) and violins 2 **
- All articulations from original libs are present, removed economic and CPU friendly patches as after conversion they may be useless
- Close 1, Close 2 and Tree 1 microphones only (removed Tree 2, Ambient and Out mics, and the 2 stereo mix as well) still allowing flexible mixes.
- 37 GB size on disk
** NOTE : after 16 bits conversion, some crackling occured with legato Violins 1 (16) and several Violins 2 patches.
Curiously, samples play well manually. In fact, it might be a programming issue as the workaround is to disable the "fp hall trigger" setting on the patch properties.
The issue affected previously released minified version as well.
I decided to keep 24 bits samples for these instruments, allowing full functionality at the cost of an increased size by 2-3 GB.
Nevertheless, the 37 GB size is a lot lighter than the original library, offering a 81% size reduction while preserving a full featured library.
I hope you will appreciate the effort, this reduction took a lot of hours of hard work.
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Kontakt 6.6.1 or higher is required to use this library.