Finale's synth is pretty crappy for strings
Any recomnedations for Sting Instrument synthesizers

Please list as

Pay:


Free:

I fear the not free ones will be out of your budget.



Pay:


LA Scoring Strings: http://www.audiobro.com/

Hollywood Strings: http://www.soundsonline.com/Hollywood-Strings/

GPO: http://www.garritan.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=154&Itemid=54

Vienna: http://www.vsl.co.at/en/211/442/344/314.vsl

Kirk Hunter: http://www.kirkhunterstudios.com/products.html


(All of them sample based)
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Free:


Look: Free Tools Thread (http://forums.ichigos.com/showthread.php?17464-Free-Tools) (Updated)

String Theory: [http://www.ugoaudio.com/ (Synth)

Krakli Free Synths: http://krakli.com/krakli-free-synths/ (Synth)

Soundfonts: http://www.sf2midi.com/

More Soundfonts: http://www.hammersound.net/



I have seen a few synth strings around the internet, But I do not remember the names or where I saw them. Whenever I see them, I will post them in the Free Tools Thread.

Wat would be the best for paid if i were to get the trial

There are not trials of the ones I mentioned. All of them are huge, expensive and require a good system (with the exception of GPO which is the lighter).

The best is to try any of the free stuffs and to search for other sound fonts. I am sure you will find many sound fonts better than Finale's sound font, lol.

Sf2midi is a good site. I used a lot of the soundfonts found there.

Nevermind, I found out how to use finales included personal orchestra 4 :)