Description
What's Included:
• Violins (18), Violas (16), Cellos (14), Bass (12)
• Adventure, Staccato, Spiccato, Marcatos & Sustains patches
• All Strings Ensemble Patches
• Cluster FX and Bartok Snap for Cellos & Basses
Features:
• Companion library to Trailer Brass
• Recorded in a large concert hall
• Sections recorded separately in centered/wide-seating format
• True FFF sampling
• Morph Stacking programming allows any note length to sound natural
• Adjustable Humanization control
• To Silence feature for ‘niente’ dynamic capabilities
• Three microphone positions: Close, Room, Mixed
Specifications:
• Requires full retail version of Kontakt 5.5.1 or higher
• Free Kontakt Player NOT supported
• Recorded in 48khz / 24bit
• 5.3 GB compressed NCW format
• Receive watermarked product by Continuata Connect downloader
60-string ensemble: 18 violins, 16 violas, 14 cellos and 12 double basses recorded separately in the same concert hall as Trailer Brass. We’ve also incorporated our wide/centered seating arrangement to help achieve the modern, oversized aesthetic we were going for.
What you get is a useful array of short and long articulations, but with the size and clarity that’s specifically geared towards huge, over-the-top productions. As with the brass, we really pushed the players to give us everything they had with the triple-forte dynamic.
We’ve also included our “Adventure” patch programming for all four sections, a cool asset for on-the-fly, pompous string lines without any keyswitching.
Also included in the basses and cellos are three cluster effects patches. “Snap and Grunt” provides an arsenal of atonal snap pizzicatos, spiccatos/staccato chugs and behind-the-bridge scrapes. “The Brooding” includes subtle, low-range aleatoric meanderings (good for: “alligator sneaking up on prey”). “Behind the Bridge!” is exactly that, tremelo’d (good for: “alligator eats prey”).
Our favorite part? The “All Strings” patch, which includes all the respective articulations, spread out over the keyboard. Be prepared to waste a lot of time playing with this patch.
ARTICULATIONS
18 Violins
Adventure
Spiccato / Staccato
Marcato
Sustains Full
Sustains Soft
16 Violas
Adventure
Spiccato / Staccato
Marcato
Sustains Full
Sustains Soft
14 Cellos
Adventure
Spiccato / Staccato
Marcato
Sustains Full
Sustains Soft
Bartok Snap
FX-Behind the Bridge!
FX-The Brooding
FX-Snap and Grunt
12 Basses
Adventure
Spiccato / Staccato
Marcato
Sustains Full
Sustains Soft
Bartok Snap
FX-Behind the Bridge!
FX-The Brooding
FX-Snap and Grunt
60 All Strings
Spiccato / Staccato
Marcato
Sustains Full
Sustains Soft