The Diamond orchestra has OK horns while the Virtuoso Ensemble horns are better. Adding reverb to horns can make them sound better. Most of your good orchestra sounds come dry. Also having a couple of duplicate tracks and slightly detuneing them adds realism.

Be care about buying for the freebies. Most come with a less featured program. The Kontakt add on is probably the free Kontakt player.

Amadeus is anther excellent sounding orchestra and it can be played using the free Kontakt Player. The horns and choir are very good. I have this piece of software and use it quite frequently.

https://sonicscores.com/amadeus/

Note that there are many patches available for the Kontakt Player:

https://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/samplers/kontakt-6-player/third-party-sample-libraries/

https://hiphopmakers.com/free-kontakt-library-instruments-patches

https://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/samplers/kontakt-6-player/third-party-sample-libraries/?tx_nisamplelib_nisamplelib[categoryId]=16&tx_nisamplelib_nisamplelib[action]=index&tx_nisamplelib_nisamplelib[controller]=KontaktPlayer&cHash=5ea84ca517e3f1c7cdf4540958de4578

Also google/bing kontakt player sounds. When purchasing Kontakt Player sounds MAKE SURE that the doc indicate that it is for Kontakt Player. Many patches are for the full version only.

As I previously said very good choir is the Symphonic Choirs by East West.

Also note EQing can change the character of a given patch.

I live in New York State so I am a way overtaxed middle class.

Good luck.

PS - also note that I did not purchase all of my sounds in the last couple of years. I have been working with MIDI since the mid 1980s and I have accumulated a lot of sounds over those years and most were on sale when purchased.


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