Vienna Strings Reviews

I am extremely disappointed. While the instrument sounds are pleasant, the library suffers from major flaws that make it almost unusable: dynamics are inconsistent with random bursts across all sections, melodic passages sometimes stop or drop in volume unexpectedly, and tremolos and trills sound unrealistic. These issues make it nearly impossible to perform soft or nuanced music, and the overall experience is far worse than some free alternatives. If these significant bugs are not fixed, I would like to request a refund.

Very dissapointed with the library. Better than musesounds, sure, but also has VERY noticeable swelling and sounds when changing notes. Dynamics between instruments (e.g., cello vs violins 1 at ff) are inconsistent. Will be requesting a refund shortly if this does not get resolved.

Best sampled strings,, better than this, you have to go live

It's totally inappropriate for classical genres... thank you

The dynamics are inconsistent; some instruments, like the cellos, are way louder than the Others. The legato patches also sound quite unnatural

The sound is a night and day difference from Muse strings. I have enjoyed using it for faster moving pieces. I have noticed in slower more sustained sections the notes will swell towards the end of each note. It Is fine for a few measures but it makes the whole entire piece feel like a rollercoaster. I believe it is an attempt to add musical expression but it does not translate well when you want sustained sections throughout the music.

I have just paid for and installed the Vienna sounds and not very impressed. The main issue is with the Violin 1 sound … it is not well balanced … the G4 is way too loud for example when on mf dynamics. Also, the note attack after a rest is too strong … it sounds unnatural and is not smooth. I can out a tenuto on it to fix it, but I should not have to. As there is not try before you buy on these, I'll have to ask for my money back.

This might be the best string library on Musehub. Very balanced sound, and great quality. However the bigest thing (for me) is that you can have accented staccatos! HUGE. the other string smaples available dont handle those well. As mentioned in other reviews there are issues with swelling and dynamics, but the pros outweigh the cons.

Same remark as "Incandescentdivider5". It makes it unusable on slow passages

There are a few minor sound flaws but a huge improvement from the musesounds.

Great sound, and much better balance than Muse Strings. But there is a problem: When playing staccato, crescendo and decrescendo doesn’t really work. The volume changes abruptly after too long, it seems like there are only forte and piano and nothing in between. Please fix this, almost everything else is great.

With slower pieces, when the strings are playing,, there is an annoying swell that they do when changing notes. The good thing with this library is that these string ensembles sound more together when they play as compared to Muse Strings. Although Muse Strings do not have high quality solo sounds, the ensembles sound very sweet when playing sustains in slower pieces. In your next update, you must remove the unnecessary swells from the strings.

First of all, the quality of the recording is incredibly better than Muse, most notably in the Piano-Piano to Mezzo-Piano range. That alone is worth the cost, however, there are a few minor bugs. The strings, particularly the Violincellos and Contrabasses, have weird crescendo swells when entering another note on a sustain. It gets really irritating when there is a unwanted rise in the dynamics. Another thing is that that the Violins have some glitches between notes, sometimes playing much quieter, making a weird sound effect, or just not playing it at all. This does not happen very often though. The legato could be better, but it's good enough. Overall it is a very good library and even with the few bugs would highly recommend.

All in all, the only string library which sounds as good as or better than the Musesounds library, at least for my purposes. Agree with the others that the note repetitions should be fixed asap!

But still a couple of slight bugs, the repetitions do not seem to work for now.

Love these string sounds. They sound rich and realistic. There are a couple of bugs that need to be ironed out. This review is mostly for the developers to know what I’m hearing. Firstly, for repeated notes, the sound will cut out entirely between two notes of the same pitch. I’m sure this is just a bug, but I would recommend correcting this ASAP. Also, there tend to be some unnecessary swells at the end of longer notes which sometimes messes with the shaping of the music. Tone and quality are beautiful, just a couple of things to fix.

These have a very nice tone & excellent clarity. Balance is good although I like to push the 1st Violins slightly up in volume. Having these strings recorded totally dry allows much more flexibility when it comes to using reverb. There are a few minor quirks (somewhat choppy legato on faster string runs) in the initial release but hopefully these will be ironed out soon.