Orchestra Tools and Berklee’s Berlin trip

Top quality sample library specialists Orchestral Tool have teamed up with the Berklee College of Music to produce an allnew orchestral library called Berlin Orchestra by Berklee. The reason the school are involved, according to Orchestral Tools CEO and founder Hendrik Schwarzer, is “to give students a comprehensive foundation of sounds that would serve as a point of entry into professional composition”. As such this is more ‘compositional toolkit’ than standard library and has all the component parts of a full symphony orchestra. You get “complete string section with soloists and ensembles, a brass section with soloists and ensembles, a detailed woodwinds section, and a wide range of percussion instruments”. As ever with OT libraries, it’s recorded with meticulous detail – and we know as we’ve attended a session – at Teldex Studios in Berlin. It ain’t cheap at €849+VAT, but we assume students, at least those at Berklee, will get a discount.

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