I received an e-mail from "another company" with the subject line:
New: EMOTIVE STRINGS - ultra-playable legato string phrases
As a string player, I required little more than the title to get me to click to the web page for demo songs. Emotive strings could not be a bigger misnomer. I do realize it is a phrase-based product, but some quotes from the web site for a product at $300 USD I felt the need to express my feelings about the productl
I was going to post a comparison of the packages in regular social media, but it would take pages of quotes and links to comparisons to get my basic point across: No package could have a philosophy farther from VSL's than Emotive Strings.
One quote from the description of this sound package will sum up what you would hear if you choose to click the link below or already have heard the package. From the web site:
After months of analyzing major motion picture hit scores, the essence of what makes them great was extracted. This ‘musical DNA’ was then distilled into the fresh, lively melodic themes and fragments in EMOTIVE STRINGS. Together, they allow you to create original compositions with built-in universal ap-peal... Over five days of tireless recording, this scoring orchestra meticulously played each phrase together for a guaranteed level of precision, realism, and authenticity only a real orchestra can delive
http://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/orchestral-cinematic/emotive-strings/