EW is excellent but it's fairly costly IIRC. I picked up a free version many years back and it has some really sweet sounds in it for sure. I also think it uses dongles which.....depending on how you feel, may be OK or not.

Other options would be the following:

Native Instruments Session Strings and Kontakt. SS is obviously focused on strings but Kontakt has the complete orchestral sample set included and there are a ton of 3rd party samples for sale for every conceivable instrument.


Garritan Personal Orchestra is a middle of the bunch option..... medium price and good sounds. Look around as you can sometimes find this bundled on the Sonar site with DimPro at a really killer price. Currently, they are in the cakewalk store for $50 bundled

GARRITAN

And another option is Miroslav Philharmonic, also a medium priced orchestra....

I have, and use all the things I mentioned above depending on my musical needs at the time. They all sound good. Much much better than the TTS and Coyote GM sounds. I would advise you to look into the lower cost ones first....Miroslav and GPO.... also check out NI's Session strings since it also falls into the middle price range. Kontakt is slightly more costly than MSP & GPO.... but like I said, it is comprehensive and has many more sounds available.

There are quite a few good options available.... do your research and see what works and sounds the best for you.


And yes... to the question.... these can be used in BB & RB as VST's

Last edited by Guitarhacker; 04/19/14 06:12 AM.
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