...Yep...seems legit
Don't know if it's true or not - never had the pleasure to make that comparison myself - but a few people've mentioned in occasional conversations about that ****, that what Faradon suggested (Miroslav) is the second best option when it comes to VSTi's, musical libraries or whatever you want to call it.
Still can't wrap my head around the price difference...Even with all the expenses of creating it. That's just...No...
Anyhow...
There's also Edirol Orchestral...Kind of old, and not as good as Mirolsav (...in my opinion), and somewhat pricey for what it is, but I've used it before and it gets the job done. Lots of tweaking with it too though - more or less the same amount as with Miroslav.
But as I said - it gets the job done for the average amateur such as myself, to make them sound decent.
First track I ever made using it
Kinda sloppy here and there, but it's as an example as much as the next thing, I guess. Also, it's 7 years old
Point being, I might've missed an update or twenty that improved it at some point.
There's always free stuff on sites such as
this one (at least I think those were free...they were...once...not quite sure about now), but those'd require even more tweaking with the software than I ever cared to do myself.
I know Rejenorst used those quite often in the past and he got decent results out of them...somehow.
Not really sure if he still lurks around, but you could ask for his two cents on those, I suppose. Or you could just try them out yourself.