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i bought garritan personal orchestra about a month ago and while i am happy with my purchase i and others have noticed that my strings sound "flat". could anyone help me outh with this. thanks.
No string library is going to sound perfect without some tweaking. Once you have a basic arrangement played/programmed in, you then need to add continuous controller messages to alter volume/expression automation, experiment with reverb settings, play around with voicings and combine cellos/bass/violins/violas to create textures. Fortunately, most of the decent orchestral packages don't seem to need much in the way of eq as they are pretty well balanced but you may want to accentuate/attenuate certain frequencies.
Live string players will put very subtle nuances into their playing that you need to try and replicate if you're going for a realistic sound.