Orchestral Tools Berlin Free Orchestra

Dorico
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Orchestral Tools have released a free version of their Berlin Orchestra samples, available when you download their SINE Player and create an account.

I’ve made a simple Playback Template for it.

Berlin Free Orchestra.dorico_pt.zip (35.3 KB)

I haven’t done the Drums, Cymbals or Percussion instruments yet. I have done the Timpani, glockenspiels, xylophones, etc.

It doesn’t seem very responsive to dynamics; that might need some work: either changing the curve or reining in the maxima and minima.

Bear in mind there is currently a bug that when you quit Dorico after using the SINE Player, Dorico crashes. (But, as you’re quitting anyway…)

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In the comparison between offerings, the free version has “Up to 2” dynamic layers. Presumably, some (many?) only have 1.

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Hmm… I find it behaves quite well (here on Win10). No crashes so far.

Is there any documentation available?

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That just means it plays the same sound at every dynamic level, rather than having different samples which crossfade in across the range.

Not that I can see, other than the list of instruments and patches shown in the player.

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Well, yes. I thought that’s what you meant by “not responsive”.

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Thank You for sharing this! Musescore doesn’t have the formatting capabilities of Dorico, and its playback engine does need work yet, but the fact that they have so many inexpensive vst libraries from ‘big’ names, and you can also use your existing vst libraries, is a great thing. I have Orchestral Tools’ Berlin Brass and Berlin Soloists for Musescore, and they sound good. I hope this offering by Orchestral Tools opens the door for other companies to offer low-cost but decent-sounding libraries for non-DAW notation playback.
Here is an arrangement of “I Wonder as I Wander” for WW Quintet I did a while back. The sounds are all from the new, free, Orchestral Tools Sine Player Library (with benwiggy’s playback template):

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Very nice! Great arrangement.

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Thanks. This is a nice-sounding library. Im grateful to @benwiggy for his playback template, too. I hope more companies like OT release non-DAW, good sounding libraries for notation apps (like Dorico🙂). When Musescore gets their playback engine tweaked correctly and improves its formatting capabilities, it’ll really be something to consider- especially as it’s free and you can buy Spitfire, OT, Berlin and other scaled- down versions of their libraries for as little as $20.00. Plus, you can also use you full VSR library sounds in Musescore. I’m a happy Dorico diehard, but Id really like to see MuseScore-like inexpensive but good-sounding libraries for Dorico an other notation apps. I’d think it’d be a fairly big market for them. We don’t need all the deep sampling that DAW composers do.
Check out my post of “I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say.” It was done in MuseScore with Spitfire Chamber Strings and Berlin Soloists libraries. They only cost $20.00 each and sound good. That’s what I hope companies will do for Dorico and other notation apps. One can hope, anyway.