How do you actually go about making this thing sound good? Considering how many people are singing Miroslav Philharmonik’s praise, there should be no shortage of examples, but strangely my searches aren’t turning up anything that doesn’t sound equally screechy and lo-fi.
The strings are the worst offenders by far, but there’s a plethora of other problems as well (such as some section trumpet samples sounding like they’re clipping, and pretty much everything being out of tune with everything else). Yes, that’s right, that first version was EQ’d.įor a “musical” sample library, there is a lot of VERY UNMUSICAL frequency buildup going on there. Now let’s try it WITHOUT all the corrective EQ on the strings. This is just some random thing for trying out the balance between sections, so please disregard the composition. So instead of trying, I’m going to just let you hear it. Still, unlike all the other oldies, the Miroslav samples somehow defy my every attempt at making them work for me. I know perfectly well that you can’t expect super-duper HD sound quality and realism from samples created in the early years of orchestral sampling, and the Miroslav Vitous samples were indeed among the first of its kind (maybe even THE first? I’m not sure). Advanced Orchestra, the Roland libs, Prosonus, some of the libs originally created for E-MU hardware (and now available from DSF). Now, I have worked with a lot of older orchestral libraries. Sounds like a neat setup doesn’t it? Yeah it does, if it weren’t for the fact that making Miroslav Philharmonik sound good is like making a cat take regular baths. Finally sync it with Google Drive so that as soon as I save the project on my lappy, I can then open it up on my stationary machine when I get home for fine tuning and/or listenining to what everything sounds like on studio monitors instead of cans. Even better, its library path is relative so a project can easily be transferred between computers as long as both machines have their Philharmonik library paths pointing at the right place. Yet it has a ton of different stuff to choose from, probably more than I will ever use for on-the-go, roughing-out-ideas type of compositions. My laptop, being what it is (an ASUS X401U), is not really suitable for any heavy music production duties, but lighter stuff it can handle just fine. To be perfectly honest I think it effing blows.Ĭase in point: the latest week or so I’ve been trying to use Philharmonik for setting up a portable orchestral template for use on my laptop. It’s been something like three years since I added Miroslav Philharmonik to my arsenal, and to this day I have yet to find more than one-off uses for what surprisingly many people claim to be a “unique” and “musical” orchestral library.
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