Motu Symphonic Instrument

[FRIAS]

Hello,

I need your help. I work with MachFive and DP 4.6. I'm a composer of classical music and use this software to simulate my orchestral compositions. I've seen in Motu web page the plug-in Motu Symphonic Instrument and my question is if it is better than MachFive to manage the orchestral sounds.

Can you help me?

Thank you.

[azusa749a]

my question is if it is better than MachFive to manage the orchestral sounds.

Did you mean if it's better to use Mach5 to control the MSI?
From the look of MSI interface, I'd say yes.
You have more controls in Mach5.

[motumacman]

but one will never know until they can get there hands on a copy....lol

[mhschmieder]

I think it is likely that MSI will be better for "managing" (assuming I know what you mean by this) orchestral sounds than Mach Five itself. For deep editing and/or tweaking of individual sounds, Mach Five is a more advanced environment. I would guess that's not what you're after; that you want the ability to piece together ensembles from individual sample voices, etc. MSI looks to excel at this.

I ordered my copy from Sweetwater yesterday, after being blown away by all the demos that were posted the day before at MOTU's website.

Make sure you check out the individual preset demos as well, as most of them are more organic sounding than the composed pieces which show some signs of MIDI timing issues (such as composed-from-the-computer vs. recorded-as-MIDI-from-a-keyboard).

Based on the demos, I'm fairly convinced that MSI is now the most accurate, realistic, organic, and complete, orchestral library on the market (maybe excepting multi-thousand dollar Vienna libs, etc.). I am also quite happy to see historical instruments included in this library.

I think MSI will be ideal for classical composing and film scoring. That's why I bought it.