ARO cellos vs Legendary Low Strings??
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bfreepro
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We don’t know for sure because the ARO cellos aren’t even released yet!
I can say with certainty though, legendary low strings is not even remotely close to being as deeply sampled, nor offering as many articulations, as ARO cellos, even just the core version.
You get one legato type in LLS, and it’s not very convincing. You get a grand total of four articulations, and it’s cellos and basses together, there’s no separating them. It’s $50 and 7.5 gb.
ARO Cellos has way more articulations, and it’s just cellos, not cellos and basses together. Very different libraries for different purposes.
I can say with certainty though, legendary low strings is not even remotely close to being as deeply sampled, nor offering as many articulations, as ARO cellos, even just the core version.
You get one legato type in LLS, and it’s not very convincing. You get a grand total of four articulations, and it’s cellos and basses together, there’s no separating them. It’s $50 and 7.5 gb.
ARO Cellos has way more articulations, and it’s just cellos, not cellos and basses together. Very different libraries for different purposes.
Thank you! You see even without it being out yet, you helped a lot with good points about how it’s pretty much guaranteed to be better than LLS. I didn’t realize that the one legato isn’t very convincing
bfreepro
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Generally the legato in Spitfire’s ensemble based stuff like the Albions, Abbey Road One, Bernard Hermann Toolkit or Heirloom is never as good as their dedicated section libraries. I view it as sort of an afterthought sometimes - though they are still really good libraries and it’s totally useable, just not very convincing on the transitions usually!
jbuhler
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I’m going to disagree and say the LLS legato is very good for the sorts of things you’d typically assign to bass and cellos in octaves, namely slow brooding stuff. The similar Albion One low strings octave legato is also quite good on such passages, so you might make a case that LLS isn’t really much of an improvement in that respect and I’d agree with that. But I don’t think they are afterthoughts. They are just designed to do a particular thing (and not designed to cover other things).
lukevaljean
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I own Albion one, HZ strings and LLS and Bernard Herman and can say the low strings in Aro foundations LLS is great lovely tone and mean character, most classical orchestrations have bass and cello in octaves so it is really useful to have them recorded together as programming separate lines will sound different.
For 50 bones I think it’s worth it
For 50 bones I think it’s worth it
bfreepro
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Yep I never said it’s not good, it works, but it’s obviously very limited. As far as the other collections, I mean the legato articulation itself in those libraries is an afterthought, like Albion and Bernard Toolkit offer a very broad-ranging set of tools, as opposed to just a dedicated string section library, etc, so I certainly wouldn’t expect them to offer groundbreaking legato for strings when they have to cover so much more material. I also said they’re great libraries and of course LLO is worth 50 bucks, but comparing one library with 8 legato types vs one with one legato type is what the OP asked about.
I certainly stand by my original statement that the cellos will have significantly more realistic and plentiful legato options, hands down.
I certainly stand by my original statement that the cellos will have significantly more realistic and plentiful legato options, hands down.
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ScarletJerry
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LLS is definitely a one or two trick pony, but I disagree that the legato isn’t convincing. The legato is actually very realistic, in my opinion, and there is a reason that Spitfire released that library firsts. They wanted to generate buzz for the rest of the series. People can listen to the YouTube videos and hear it for themselves.
