Dan Keen's Soft String Textures [Review]

Just a quick one today looking at a brand new string library that I really like. Dan Keen's Soft String Textures brings a very contemporary and human approach to solo strings at an affordable price. Drop them over a synth pad or into a piece of incidental music to lift it out of the ordinary and into a really distinctive and effective sound world. Let's check it out!
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[@MikeSmith-or4il]

I would like to take a moment and wish Guy Michelmore and all the people who follow his programs a very merry Christmas and a happier New Year.

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It's going to be a GOOD Year. I am hoping that for all of us

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

thank you Mike

[@mickimarbhmusic]

Dito 🙌

[@bramanstudios]

Great video guy! But I thought my tinitus was going off 😂

[@MythixMusic1]

You have so fast become my favouirte composer to watch. Love the content and the humour. It's perfect

[@paulhelsby]

Hi Guy, long time subscriber. Would love to see you do a tutorial on making Disco out of the box, or modern disco like 'Nu Disco' and what virtual instruments you would choose to make it and how you'd articulate those. Especially disco strings and virtual bass guitars for funk etc. All the best and have a great Christmas :)

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

Good suggestion! Merry Christmas to you too

[@sandwich-breath]

+ 1 for info on libraries that can cut through a dance track. Thank you both and Merry Christmas!

[@Captain_Cornflakes]

As always, great video! I always envied your little "summer" studio, until now... Must be freezing in there! 😂

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

Actually because its really well insulated it warms up fairly quickly

[@btjd001]

Hi Guy. You are a constant source of inspiration and knowledge. Thanks for all that you do.

[@highdrifter4844]

you have a High frequency Sine Problem in the sound of the video, BTW Thanks you for the discovery!!!

[@claussenmusic]

was going to mention the same thing

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

Oops yup you’re right

[@mikec2660]

dan keen couldn't hold a candle to Ben Osterhouse !

[@i-scoresmusic3928]

Love your reviews, Guy. I suggest you take a look at the new MuseScore 4 release. It comes with a fairly revolutionary instrument library and live playback engine that is... shocking. Open-source and free. A perfect tool for folks that frequent your space here. Take care!

[@QuiemRe]

💀2:20 bruh what was it for? 🦃

[@arc-i]

Hey! Just noticed a 8khz tone playing through your whole video, might wanna check what could have caused that.

[@carstenaltena]

Nice! Reminds me of a couple of Spitfire Audio libraries such as the British Drama Toolkit and Ólafur Arnalds Evolutions.

[@wellens_artist]

It's an interesting sound. But all this random bowing makes it difficult to use within a tempo synced song. It sounds really nice played on its own, freely though.

[@now_im_here3698]

I picked this up two weeks ago. Had to. I love any string Lib with textures. Have all the OA stuff and love it. I also love the quartet in OT time micro/macro. Have some Ben Osterhouse as well. I've been eyeing the felt instruments stuff for a while now too but haven't pulled the trigger yet.

[@delareynienicolas9467]

Superbes textures. J’hésitai à l’acheter, me voilà convaincu.👍🏻 Ce VST est en promo dans le cadre des « Spring Sales », en plus🎉

[@DavidCarterVideos]

Super library to have in the arsenal of those close, intimate and emotive string collections that steer away from the conventional articulations. Very reminiscent and thus complementary to Spitfire's British Drama Toolkit and the lovely Wrongtool's Feathersome Strings.

[@charlesshingles3910]

Has anyone tried out Inspirata Reverb from Inspired Acoustics, and is it worth the cost? Thanks.

[@NigelDThompson]

Nice library for sure! Dan seems like a nice and clever dude going places...deservedly.

[@geoffrose7409]

Hello Guy. Any chance you might do a video showing how to write music for paranormal type videos and shows? Thanks

[@kanwest6134]

How does it record the automation without using latch or write?

[@stevemawyd7888]

"I'm an interesting violin" 🤣🤣🤣

[@echosonicmusic]

I had to go back to the beginning ... I didn't hear "tucked up"! Captions helped me out!

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

Ha! I knew captions would be useful for something

[@hotlineoperator]

Excellent episode. It would be great to hear what you come up with Orchestral Tools: Salu.

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

I’ve got it. It’s lovely stay tuned

[@paulysguitarjournal]

Hmmm… don’t find it interesting, but I do like Spitfires Alternative Solo Strings.

[@Triple070007]

Are you on wind power or unicorn power over there? Why no lights. I’m getting concerned with you guys over there

[@AMB666]

I live in Egypt! So I literally warm as hell lol!!!

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

We’ll lucky you!

[@unknownfilmmaker777]

5:36 sounds like Raison D’etre, nice dark vibe.

[@soundtreks]

I know not the right place to post this but can you do a video review of the new MuseScore4? It’s amazing!

[@pradeepgupta5712]

you are very interested person

[@nightnoodler812]

Moody horror suspense strings, I really liked it, very cool, Thanks

[@danielgfrost]

great to see you using LOGIC again! :D shoutouts from Australia!

[@unweonmas2405]

I just need to tell you one thing, thanks for making the ultimate avengers soundtrack. It's really been more than 13 years since I heard that soundtrack that I used to make my toys fight hahaha thanks, guy michelmore.

[@nightfrightshow]

"bobily bits" gotta love it eh

[@danilokb]

Mr. Michelmore we are all waiting for the Christmas video.

[@joshuasnyman6655]

PLEASE review the new albion colossus!

[@minorglitch01]

That's a nice sounding library. Reminds me of Westwood's Solo Strings Untamed, but at half the price!

[@koba8686]

Great video I wish you have wonderful holidays

[@wissemmakni2569]

is good when you work whith logic pro x hhhh

[@Baptiste230]

Hello and happy new year 🥳 Love the kind of noire sound. A video on how to write some noire things (writing/theory tips & usefull VSTs) could be really appreciated for me. Just a suggestion for 2023 stuff 🤞 Thanks for all your work, I just finished HTWM Thinkspace course, a must do ! One of the most interesting I watched until now, thanks a lot.

[@Baptiste230]

@Guy_Michelmore do you think I'm such an idiot ? 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@johannborchersfriends]

Hi Guy. I watched your video Music Theory - Chromatic Mediants in 7 Minutes! Unfortunately the video doesn't show how they are used in a composition. Would it be possible for you to make an example video?

[@rjbaldwinscore]

This is a good example of how CM modulation sounds within a piece. kzbin.info/www/bejne/qniZc2WurtOkmsU

[@freddesign4989]

sounds amazing...

[@kaeleb1968]

Kind of reminds me of NI’s Lores.

[@music_creator_capable]

Hello ^^

[@dafingaz]

Nice!

[@AMB666]

Great review Guy! Thank you for the work, effort and fun you put into those videos!

[@mistral-unizion-music]

Yes I got it and it's very nice! Dan did a great job with this!

[@CristinaMarshal]

You have the gestures of a Magician Guy!

[@PeachesChrenko]

I got this right before the BlkFri Sale ended but I haven't had a chance to play it yet. Hearing you play it I'm so glad I got it! Love your channel :)

[@detxz3275]

Excuse me for asking, how much did you pay for this Library on Black Friday?

[@PeachesChrenko]

@@detxz3275 I paid $79

[@desoconnor7445]

Dan is an actual professional . This library does not attempt to achieve everything but rather achieves some specifically designed articulations and evocations thereof. It is a sonically superb library and a card in your hand in the journey of composition . Merry Xmas 🙏🙏🏿👍

[@LBJedi]

I’m REALLY liking this library. I can gear it very easily in a minimalist score for a very stark film. Side question, if Cinematic Rooms is not in the budget right now, which reverb would you recommend? I do have the Lexicon 224 from UAD, but I’m nit sure if that’s any good for orchestral work. I’m only working in stereo if that matters.

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

Valhalla is bloody good

[@MarcusHedenberg]

@@ThinkSpaceEducation If you could *only* pick one Valhalla version in the first instance....which one would you go with, I wonder? Vintage?

[@LBJedi]

@@ThinkSpaceEducation great! Thank you😊

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

@@MarcusHedenberg yup vintage

[@bertraven9815]

Reverberate 3. Endlessly versatile and sounds incredible.

[@baldwyntin608]

It's like the Olafur String Quartet

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

Yes it is

[@YT2024Hayward]

Berlin SFX or Constrictor?

[@ThinkSpaceEducation]

Oooo what’s constrictor?

[@YT2024Hayward]

@@ThinkSpaceEducation audio imperia constrictor is similar to Berlin SFX, time micro/ time macro. Contemporary orchestral strings mostly used by 1950/60’ horror film music composers and Penderecki 😂

[@CristinaMarshal]

Nordic Noir, I might have to take that genre into its own!

[@MustafaYaziciogluMusic]

Really interesting library, sounds like ethnical. I like 1982 section. Love your videos. Merry Christmas Guy Michelmore!