BBC Symphony Orchestra Discover

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Write music with the world-famous BBC Symphony Orchestra — now including a concert grand piano. Discover 34 instruments, brought to life inside our free, easy-to-use plugin, compatible with any major music creation software – from Garageband to Pro Tools. A whole orchestra at your fingertips, Discover is designed to make orchestral scoring accessible to music creators of every level – from those just starting out, to professional composers. Update your plugin now to access the Discover version of our new BBC Symphony Orchestra Piano! The BBC Symphony Orchestra series has something for everyone, available in three editions: Discover, Core and Professional. Upgrade to Core or Professional to access further signals, controls and sampling depth to enhance your compositions. Learn more

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

A real great collection of orchestral sounds. Well done. Thanks

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

An excellent product...the full bbc symphony Orchestra in vst plugin form... Excellent sound quality... And completely free.. A must have ....

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Wonderful free tool. Like the timbres, different articulations. Of course, somehow limited, but just a miracle for being a free product!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I can feel the orchestra tell the story. Brilliant.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I'm new to keys) synths. But for me the strings, cellos are a great sounding tool for me to work with. An added bonus. 👍

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

No legato patches, useless for anything real

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

Brilliant. Easy to use and excellent sounds.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

Free is good. But comes with a few limitations. Of course. But well worth the money.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

This samples are really good in my opinion. Except for Violin Trill In that case I use samples from Logic itself.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

Sounds good and promising. However, I would have loved it that when the reverb is turned all the way down, there would indeed be no reverb on the instruments, at all. Right now, the "dry" samples are VERY much wet, with a LOT of reverb, even with the reverb knob turned completely down. This makes it far less usable for e.g. pop-songs. Also, I use it in combination with FLStudio 20 and at times, notes in the piano roll do not sound, whereas notes up until that bar DO sound. (It has nothing to do with the range of the chosen instrument, b.t.w.). This seems to happen - at times - when notes overlap. When I make the last audiable note shorter, and then start a new note after that, it suddenly can be audiable, again. After that, I can lengthen the other note again, so that it overlaps, and it works without a problem, again. I have run into this multiple times, already that it does not play notes for a couple of bars, and I am only in the experimental phase of using this plug in. Finally, at times I seem to be able to use the dynamics (volume) controle per note in the pianoroll, and at other times, it does not work...the volume stays the same, no matter the setting in the piano roll in FLStudio (except when turned all the way down...then the note does not sound anymore. All above that, gives the same max volume). This is really irritating, as I then have to try to find a workaround to get the volume of certain notes down, and not the others. (Something like automate the fader of the channel that I assigned that particular instrument to in the FLStudio mixer). This is A LOT more work. I'd appreciate some insight into why those two things are happening, should you be able to offer any. Thanks.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Like this sound, thk u for free

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Awesome! Best freebie of all time!

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I need to install and extra application to be able to install this in Ableton. Why such abstacles for users? To stalk and annoy users with ads and tracking? No, thank you. Very uncool indeed.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Great Plugin! Had a lot of fun with it. There are a lot of instrument and composing pieces gets a lot easier, as you have all orchestra instruments in exceptional quality in one place. Doesn’t only have use in Orchestra Music, I also used it for genres like pop beats and techno. I find it absolutely crazy that this plugin is free! I also have a lot of payed orchestras plugins, and this one exceeds a lot of them. Great plugin!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Amazingly rich and versatile for something free