Someone's got to write all those parts, and they you've got to hire a string group to play it, and I suspect that's several scales more difficult than hiring a pro to play over changes.

Still, it would be great to have. They key would be doing something that would really show off the strings, instead of something that you could do with a typical pad or MIDI strings already.

My teenage son is playing some latin-style music in his room, and I can hear the strings clearly. Most of the string parts are linear instead of some pad, or a thickened line. It's very effective with the music, and shows off the strings in a way a simple pad wouldn't.

Now he's switched to Vivaldi, and again... lovely stuff.

NI's Session Strings has some lovely sounds in it. It's got that "disco strings" sound. Again, I think the sort of "linear" rather than "pad" sound that really shows off the strings best.

I'd still love to have some RealString pads to add to my songs, though...

-- David Cuny
My virtual singer development blog

Vocal control, you say. Never heard of it. Is that some kind of ProTools thing?