Once regen gets sorted I see a future where gradually there will be some overlap between what some of the orchestral sample libraries currently offer where instead of single notes being played and recorded by say Berlin Philharmonic and streamed from Kontakt or other plugin - entire PHRASES get recorded and used as special playable instruments.

We see this for example in the Native Instruments KOMPLETE libraries ACTION STRINGS, EMOTIVE STRINGS and the recent SESSION GUITARIST range.

When using these libraries and they DO sound very good and inspiring - one generally uses the keyboard to play the prerecorded phrases and typically they offer the basic variants - Major minor, dominant and diminished - for each phrase.

Then one can record the MIDI data to trigger the phrase into one's DAW and thus have such plugins playing their parts.

BUT REALLY! - much though producer types and reviewers lambast BIAB - how different is all this pattern library stuff really to where BIAB real tracks are getting these days?

These types of "playable" libraries do have the advantage that one triggers the phrase one wants on the fly - but really one is just initially choosing which style one tonal characteristics one desires and the rest follows - not much different to the kinds of workflow one would se with guitar real tracks.

A future BIAB that allows more fine tuning as per these NI session instruments - seems much better. Typing in the whole progression instead of tedious and laborious programming of MIDI to select the right pattern etc in a Kontakt patch?

Rather than for string sections in say EMOTIVE STRINGS being used to play arpeggios and simple lines - and have to painstakingly program this into a DAW track with articulation information etc- it would make much more sense to have the kinds of expensive orchestral phrases recorded into BIAB real tracks.
BOTH use pre-recorded phrases after all!.

But BIAB plugin just is nowhere near the reliability and with the rich library content that currently is available for KONTAKT.

But that could change once a genuine 3rd pty market were able to survive financially - supported by PG like NI does for KONTAKT PLAYER licensees.

Last edited by nonchai; 08/13/21 04:10 AM.
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