I found a demo of Eleanor Rigby for both the Kirk Hunter library and LASS First Chair. If anyone's curious:

Eleanor Rigby (Strings only) - Beatles
Eleanor Rigby - Kirk Hunter Pop/Rock Strings / Concert Strings II
Eleanor Rigby - LA Scoring Strings First Chair

Although the Kirk Hunter demo is very good, the LASS FC cello the won me over in the end, so I ended up going with the LASS FC.

Although the sound is quite good, the instruments really are "first chair", so there are a number of places where the it sounds like more than one string is being struck, a note is off pitch, or there's a scrape on the string.

    Edit: I believe the "doubled" note comes from the crossfading between the glissando and the target note, and not the actual sample itself.

I suspect that the Kirk Hunter library would have been a bit simpler to use. LASS places different articulations on different channels instead of using key switches. Common articulations can be triggered by velocity, and volume is controlled by the mod wheel. So there's definitely a learning curve.

Still, LASS FC has some very nice sounds, and that's what matters in the end.

Last edited by dcuny; 09/16/12 09:23 AM.
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Vocal control, you say. Never heard of it. Is that some kind of ProTools thing?