I got the brand new Abbey Road Orchestra Symphonic Strings Professional from  @spitfireaudiollp  this week, and I wrote this little piece to explore how this incredible string library fits into my template. In this video, I break down the score and show you how I use ARO Symphonic Strings in these first explorations of this string orchestra library.

It's not a perfect piece, and I have much to learn about programming this impressive string library, but this video should give you a flavour of how these incredible string players sound out of the box.

There is a score-only video here:    • Score Video: My first orchestral piec...  

00:00 Intro
00:54 Playback of piece
03:54 Score breakdown
05:51 ARO Strings alone
07:29 Keyswitching for realism
10:29 Violas & Celli
11:49 Bass melody
12:56 Loud, long legatos
15:12 Climactic strings
16:16 Solo cello
19:41 Initial Thoughts on ARO Symphonic Strings

'The Embrace of the Stars'
Composed, orchestrated, programmed, mixed & mastered by Tom Harrold

Libraries used to create this piece:
Woodwinds:  @spitfireaudiollp  BBCSO Pro
Brass:  @aaronventure433  Infinite Brass
Percussion: a menagerie of ARO Low Percussion,  @EWQLTutorials  & BBCSO Pro libraries
Strings: @spitfireaudiollp  Abbey Road Orchestra Symphonic Strings Professional

Score produced in  @avid  Sibelius.

Connect with me:
► Instagram: instagram.com/tom.harrold_music  
► Website: https://www.tomharrold.com/
► SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/tom-harrold/

My setup:
► Mac Studio M2 Max
► Audio Interfaces: Presonus 8pre
► Headphones:  @shure  SRH 1840
► Controller  @GhostNoteAudio  Conductor
► Keyboard  @StudiologicMusic  SL73

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