Oriental Strings User Reviews

Name: Oriental Strings
Rating: 4.2 (11 reviews)

Oriental Strings

Christian Schoenebeck d/b/a Crudebyte

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I love this

I started out with this App on an iPhone 5 x86 and i still love it on my iPhone 7 pro with iOS 15.8.4… please maintain support as long as you technically can 🤗

TheWraith517

a year ago

Perfekt 👌🏻

Absolut Super Sound

shirinjan

3 years ago

Ok standalone, terrible Auv3

This mediocre app is just one of two in the iSymphonic series. They sound exactly the same as the other. I would have to say this one is sort of worth the price [$7] unlike iSymphonic Orchestra, which is an IAP scheme [$10+ dozens if not hundreds of dollars to get the sounds]. At least with this, what you see is what you get. Even then, the AUv3 sometimes has trouble with loading, and during export. I read the same thing about iSymphonic and I will repeat what was told to me: I ditched iSymphonic for a REAL Symphponic/orchestral AUv3 by GSi called Mini Orchestra, and I am thinking of deleting both Crudebyte apps to save space.

deleteddddd0989

3 years ago

Amazing standalone, terrible Auv3

This app is only amazing in standalone. It doesn’t work as an Auv3 with maqam choice, which without it just makes it a mediocre string Auv3, nothing Arabic about it inside a DAW

deleteddddd0989

3 years ago

Application de qualité,mais

L’application en elle-même est de bonne facture .
Avec un panel de preset assez large ,on peut l’exploiter sans limite.
Mais je rencontre des problèmes lors que j’exporte ,quelques soit le format.
L’application crash ,les violons sonnent 1 fois sur 2.

cosmic strange

3 years ago

Isn’t Tanpura a strung instrument

Please add Tanpura. Make this app even more special just by adding this one instrument.

Lee2230

4 years ago

Excellent quality

Easy to use sounds great

Hip shake

6 years ago

Not so great!

The Erhu in garageband is free and sounds authentic & beautiful. The one in ‘Oriental Strings’ sounds like its a synth version. It’s not 1980’s home organ bad, just not great. The attack on these sounds lets them down but they are not deep or nuanced altogether. They might do ok underneath the blend of a busy instrumental mix but as solo sounds they are cheap and tacky. Some worse than others. Some not so bad. Then again they are actually cheap and so I guess you get what you pay for. Hence the *** rating. I wished I’d heard a demo before buying.

mobley8

6 years ago

Harika

Çok güzel Harika

Nevzat Soydan

6 years ago

great app

its sooooooo great app really , we waiting for new sound packs ,
with classical turkish " kemençe " and arabian " Rababa " , its both a strings , thnx ♥️♥️♥️

il..p3drin0

6 years ago

The strings sounds don’t sound like real instruments. It’s not even close.

I’m sorry guys but these strings don’t sound even close to the real thing. Please try to get some decent sounding string in there. Otherwise this is great. I feel kind of cheated. The garage band strings sound way better than these ones that I just bought.

a00000123

6 years ago

Quality. Amazing.

This little library is bomb. It works great on its own. If you’re using iSymphonic. The attack’s from this library can take the legato patches in iSymphonic and give you a whole new set of patches for iSymphonic. Think of this as another expansion for iSymphonic and you’ll be glad you did. And it completes the thing I feel is missing in iSymphonic: edgier attacks for some of the patches. Found em. And on its own. This library is KILLER. amazing quality. Accurate as heck to the genre it’s nAiling.

theOtherWB

8 years ago

Ekelhaft

Wer am PC oder Mac mit virtuellen Instrumenten arbeitet, der lässt die Finger von diesem Datenmüll. Ich habe ja nicht viel erwartet, aber ehrlich gesagt sind das die wahrscheinlich schlechtesten Strings die ich je spielen "durfte" :(. Keine mono/Legato Funktion, keine Release samples, keine Modwheel Funktion kein gar nichts - bloß seelenlose Sustains. Da hilft nichts, außer sich jetzt doch hinsetzen und meine Instrumente vom Rechner in mühevoller Arbeit in BM3 zu Mappen...

Sorry Crudebyte für das „crude review" (no pun intended)

CAPSDAN

8 years ago

Response from developer

Es tut uns Leid, dass die Sounds nicht Ihren Geschmack treffen. Die Klänge von Oriental Strings sind ganz speziell auf das orientalische Genre gerichtet, sind also keineswegs für den Einsatz als klassische westliche Orchesterklänge entworfen. Das die Sounds von Oriental Strings daher für den ein oder anderen sehr speziell klingen, ist uns bewusst. Für klassische, westliche Orchester Sounds ist unsere App iSymphonic Orchestra passender. Und bitte haben Sie Verständnis, dass wir für den Preis von nur 6,99 € nicht alle erdenklichen Spielweisen anbieten können, wie Sie sie von Produkten her kennen die mehrere hundert Euro oder gar mehrere tausend Euro kosten. Die hohe Klangqualität von Oriental Strings und dessen sehr gutes Preis-Leistungsverhältnis steht aber unserer Meinung nach außer Frage.

Sound probs

Several of the instruments are the exact same sample. Exactly the same. I believe there is a bug switching the sounds in the app perhaps?

BK Holiday

8 years ago

Response from developer

That is definitely not the case. Please read about the so called "multi-part" feature of this app. The following is a link to the iSymphonic manual, but it behaves the same with Oriental Strings: http://doc.crudebyte.com/iSymphonic/Getting_Started/#parts From your description it sounds like you were triggering notes on another part then the one you were switching sounds on. For more questions please contact us: https://crudebyte.com/contact/

Fantastic App!

It's not just limited to exotic tonalities. It is also great for solid "English strings" (George Martin, Glyn Johns, Paul Buckmaster, etc...)

Incredibly versatile and worth every penny.
Recommended!

Ben Efitofadoubt

9 years ago

Realistic Timbre

Very surprising quality of sound. Probably the best ethnic instrument sounds in an app. Very impressive. TG

gazzamazda5

9 years ago

Great app - Great support

I bought this app when it first came out, and I've used it on many tunes. The sounds are very rich and exotic, and they add drama and excitement to any production.
Recently, I had occasion to contact them because of an issue in a song I was arranging.
It was nearly 5:00 in the afternoon EST and I thought I'd probably hear from them after the weekend. 15 minutes later I received a reply that led to me solving the problem. The problem that I had created.
I consider that to be exemplary customer service!
An absolutely 5 star company.

strata189

9 years ago

The King of its own niche

Superb quality sounds and a reasonable price combine to make this a great, if not essential addition, to any Sonic Dabbler's collection. It is very much a niche product, doing one thing only but doing it better than any other app I've come across.

Nic

TheWightGuy

10 years ago

Superb for many genres of music

These string sounds have real character and quality. There is a great range of timbres. The subtle Middle-Eastern flavour sits very well in rock music, at times simply as a refreshing non-vanilla tonality to organic-sounding strings. That said, if you want to evoke Kashmir by Led Zeppelin, you can dial it in in moments ;-)

RobHDean

10 years ago

Ach, schade...

Da sind viele Klänge sehr schön: Könnte wirklich Spaß machen, besonders das Mirco-Tuning und der Hall sind gut gelungen. Aber:
1. Zu viele Klänge sind nicht sauber programmiert (= "Stör-Tasten" , die plötzlich in anderer Oktav-Lage spielen),
2. keine Möglichkeit, das Anspielen zu verzögern,
3. keine Einstellungen speicherbar,
4. Modulationsrad ohne Funktion (z.B. um Vibrato zu erhöhen etc.)
So kommt keine richtige Freude auf = besser Sampler-Tank light mit Miroslav in-App zulegen.

Nachtrag:
Kritikpunkt 1. entfällt, da ist jetzt nachgebessert worden.
= bleibt also schade, könnte soooo toll sein...

JanHS

10 years ago

Response from developer

Es gab keine Korrekturen an den Sounds. Das Problem das Sie hatten, war kein Problem mit den Sounds; Sie haben Noten auf anderen "Parts" ausgelöst. Oriental Strings bietet 16 so genannte "Parts". Das heisst Sie können bis zu 16 verschiedene Instrumente der App simultan spielen. Das folgende ist vom iSymphonic Handbuch, verhält sich aber identisch mit Oriental Strings: https://doc.crudebyte.com/iSymphonic/Getting_Started/#parts