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Good/best overview of the library and template from a familiar face [Iconica Sections & Players and VEPro | Discover Dorico]

[image] arco: Thank you for your comments. Is anyone able to compare it to NotePerformer, in terms of “realism”. Adding to this: can anyone comment/(easily) offer demos comparing Iconica’s strings with NP’s?

Aside: wouldn’t it be great to have Steinberg license the obsolete NP v4 technology into Opus/Dorico (just dreaming!)

Apples and oranges I think. Any sample library is going to sound as good as the work you put into it. NP just sounds as it is and you don’t get any control.

Well I took the plunge when John mentioned he includes a VEP templates, plug and play no setup works for me. I’ll report how it goes

[image] Peadey: Steinberg recommends using Vienna Ensemble Pro 8 (plus the server component). This setup would allow the library to run “outside” of Dorico. While that is certainly a good idea, it does come with an additional cost. In my specific case, the sheer size of the library prevents me f…

The System Requirements section of page linked below indicates that while Iconica Ensembles runs natively on Mac silicon, Iconica Sections and Players runs solely on Rosetta 2 on Apple’s M series processors. I expect this will change before Rosetta becomes a thing of the past but hopefully @dspreadb…

[image] DanMcL: Apples and oranges I think. Any sample library is going to sound as good as the work you put into it. NP just sounds as it is and you don’t get any control. So then my question for those with experience of both is: with (some) work, do the Iconica strings sound better than NP’…

[image] judddanby: do the Iconica strings sound better than NP’s, It’s the inevitable difference between sampled and modelled libraries.

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The Steinberg Download Assistant and Library Manager are both still Intel only at the moment. But the HALion VST and standalone app are Universal Binaries, so once you’ve installed, you’re not using Rosetta anymore.

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