I know there are too many good orchestral libraries out there of huge size like 20GB plus for strings only.

I need suggestions about :-

1. Horns (Less than 10GB)
2. Strings (Less than 10GB)
3. Piano (Less than 10GB)

Thanks.

 

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2.Strings - Spitfire Solo Strings
3.Piano - Best Service Galaxy II Steinway or Galaxy Vintage D

 

Try Sonic Implants Symphonic Collection, one of the best I've ever heard!
Brass: about 10GB
Strings: about 12GB
Woods: about 10GB
Piano: Spitfire Audio Orchestral Grand Piano (6.6 GB UNCOMPRESSED WAV)

Otherwise use Garritan orchestral samples: Personal Orchestra 4 (1,97GB), Jazz and Big Band 3 (2,76GB), Harps (3,29GB), World Instruments (2,40GB), Instant Orchestra (1,88GB), Concert and Marching Band 2 (1,20GB) and Classic Pipe Organs (1,36) installed on disk, quite useful, despite the small size, especially if you apply extra equalization and reverb in your DAW.

 

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Thanks for suggestions. I will check them.
How good is sampletank's brass?

 

Horns and strings are such huge families that it is difficult finding something under 10 GB. My suggestions would be:

1. Samplemodeling stuff or the brass in Kontakt library.
2. Session Strings or again the strings in Kontakt library.
3.Pianoteq, the Grandeur, Galaxy Steinway or the Hammersmith.

 

Sorry to tell you this, but if we're going to talk Kontakt Libraries, there is no small and big, there is Good & bad despite of the volume...

that being said, it doesn't mean that good "small" libraries dosen't exist :

few of my favorites :

ProjectSam Orchestral Essential
Piano in Bleu
Rise & Hit By Native Instruments
Studio Drummer also by Native Instruments (Great Drums)

and you may wanna Check Kontakt Factory Library, with layering ? you can get a huge huge sounds!

so it may worth the bandwidth & place on your drive...

 

Thanks for great reply.

 

Strings:

Strezov Sampling - Cornucopia Strings (6 gb)
Fluffy audio - Solo Viola (4.4 gb[FONT=Lato, sans-serif])[/FONT]
Fluffy audio - Solo Cello (5.56 gb)
Fluffy audio - Solo Violin (6.5 gb)
Ice Samples - Love Violin (333 mb)
Spitfire Audio - LLP Solo Strings (5.86 gb)
Embertone - Blakus Cello (3gb/16 bit, 5gb/24 bit)
Embertone - Friendlander Violin (3.5 gb)
Embertone - Fischer Viola (1.38 gb/16 bit, 2.1 gb/24 bit)

Winds:

Embertone - Chapman Trumpet (893 mb)
Sample Modeling - French Horn & Tuba (269 mb)
Sample Modeling - The Trombone (699 mb)
Spitfire Audio BML Horn Section Vol.1 (9.33 gb)
Wavesfactory - Muted Trumpet (399 mb)

All in one:

Sonokinetic - Da Capo (5.08 gb)

Piano:

Spitfire Audio - Orchestral Grand Piano (3.06 gb)

 

I can't give an authorized opinion. But I can tell you some of the most consistently recommended libraries I've heard and read in many threads like this.

Piano: Galaxy D
Full Orchestra: Sonokinetic Da Capo or ProjectSam Essentials (a cinematic one, less control but easier to get fast results)

 

Going with embertone and sample modeling.
Can you compare their brasses with cinebrass core.