Tone Comparison: ARO Celli and Basses vs Legendary Low Strings

[@c-c-laurin-lenschow]

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At first glance: - The staccato articulation on the AR Orchestra for both Celli and Double Basses has a wider array of dynamics, and has a more smooth transition between forte and piano. In comparison, the Legendary Low Strings goes straight from forte to piano, without dynamic layers in between (that's a guess as A) I don't have it; B) You can't peek inside the patches to see how they work). It's specially obvious when you play a soft note shortly after a louder note (1:22), when the decay of the louder note deafens the sound of the following softer note. - When using the Performance Legato, the note transitions differ between the celli and the basses, so they aren't perfectly in sync (as is expected considering the sections were recorded separately). When you stack both celli and basses, and they play a melody in octaves, it's a bit distracting. As LLS was recorded in-situ, the transitions, in that aspect, sound more natural.

[@batelgroun]

Well... AROLLS only has 3 dynamic layers in longs and shorts, whereas AROSS has 5.

[@cherrysound]

Super! That’s enough for me to understand, that usability of Basses separated from Celli is more useful for my music using AR Orchestral range of libraries. And also seems like in LLS there’s super wide dynamics in the spiccato 😮

[@dbp_pc3500]

I own LLS and the fact that the bass and cellos are together is totally useless . What a waste of money. Why can’t they separate the damn thing ?

[@c-c-laurin-lenschow]

There are several reasons why it may be useful to have them recorded together, though if you don't have other options (meaning individual ensembles of Cellos and Basses) it's very limiting of course. However, they clearly explain in the marketing material that the library doesn't feature individual recordings of Cellos of Basses, so if this is such a dealkbreaker to you, why did you buy it?

[@dbp_pc3500]

@@c-c-laurin-lenschow Yeah, my theory is that they are making ugly shortcuts to lower the cost of creation of their libraries. So the product feel half finished. I got the bundle from the Abbey One Orchestra pack. Overal great reverb out of the box but most of the patches feel unusable.