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Spitfire Fractured Strings worth it for £136?

Bit of a niche library. Obviously has to be used with more conventional strings as it's all phrased based but I really like it and use it a fair bit. I'd say it's worth it.
 
It's a beautiful library. The sound is utterly gorgeous, and it's full of gestures that you simply cannot get anywhere near when composing with samples unless you have them recorded like this.

Sonically it blends readily with other AIR libraries, of course.

What it doesn't have is that instant gratification "cat-walking-on-keybard-effect" of more textualual libraries like OACE or Tundra (ie. where an even averagely talented really can, by just walking across write someone perfectly beautiful). It's fun to noodle with, to be sure, but don't expect a work beautiful ambient mush to just fall out of your first fumble about.

Absent this cat-level instant gratification, you have to think about what you're writing. And think about what these gestures might mean and how you might integrate them into your composition.

Another dimension of this is that I don't feel it's a toolkit, in the sense that a lot of fun texture libraries give you everything you need to write compositions. Some of the demos do seem to treat it like a toolkit ... but I find this limited.

Instead, I find this a gesture library that expands my existing palette with a limited - but fabulous - set of gestures.

Again this requires some thought, including as @jbuler notes, though on how to integrate these gestures into what your existing palette does.

So it's not something that's ever meant to replace Tundra or SCS or OACE in my palette. But a very beautiful, thoughtful, welcome addition.

(And honestly, just because you can outsource your composing to your cat with certain libraries, doesn't mean that you should. It's good to sometimes actually think about what you're composing, even with a cat-level library like OACE or Tundra. So perhaps there's a good discipline in the extra thought that fracture takes in any event).
 
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I think it's a great library to give some extra sparkle here and there or to get some figures that are hard create convincingly otherwise.

However, I've never tried to use the figures/gestures of it in direct connection with something performed by a more bread and butter lib. Don't know how hard it will be to get the blend right, even with Spitfire libs recorded in the same hall.

That being said, it's absolutely worth the money, in my opinion.
 
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Same here. I just see people throwing the words out even without context. I know Outriggers sound great but like...what could he do with Phrases in a context of composing MIDI to blend with notes. Unless he takes the IRs out.
 
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