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The Epic Harp is... well... it's epic! This harp has a sound as big as its name and plays like a dream. The unique bowed belly of the harp produces the richest, biggest bass we have ever heard on a folk harp. And the laminated neck and pillar come together to make a stunning piece of woodworking.
The Epic Harp has an impressive 38 strings beginning on A1 and extending to C7. This gives you all the notes you need up top along with some extra bass notes to add depth to your arrangements. The string spacing is comfortably in the concert spacing range so you'll feel right at home.
Through some careful and intentional engineering, we have kept the size and weight of this harp very manageable. The Epic Harp stands 5 feet tall and can fit comfortably in just about any car. The weight is just 27 pounds which is amazing for an all-wood harp with 38 strings and a voice as deep and big as a pedal harp.
All our harp soundboards are made of aircraft birch, a 6-layer laminate that can withstand the tension of the harp strings without breaking. As an added visual appeal we can veneer a thin layer of beautiful quilted maple to the soundboard. It has a very slight affect on the tone making making the harp sound slightly warmer.
When I was around 16, I started my first shamisen without any instruction or masters. Besides watching a few tourism videos (which showed a shamisen maker building a shamisen), there was really nothing to learn from, nobody to tell me what to do.
Palette Primary Colors by Red Room Audio is the free version of the larger Palette Orchestral Series. This free Kontakt library features high quality samples of strings, woodwinds and brass ensembles in a whopping 1.3 gig install.
I'm a producer and composer in the ad world, and have landed several national spots for brands like Taco Bell and Apeel, etc. Most of my work is beat-driven in the electronic meets pop meets hip-hop world, but I want to get more into composing with strings to potentially work my way into film or podcasts.
Albion One is a decent all-around starter library, but is at its best with large and "epic" compositions. Unlike BBCSO, where you get each individual section (1st violins, 2nd violins, flutes, horns, etc.), you get pre-orchestrated ensembles. One for all of the strings, a high and low woodwind ensemble, and a high, mid, and low brass ensemble. This can be much easier to work with, but it does limit you should you want to have just the flutes playing a particular passage instead of the piccolos + flutes + clarinets + oboes you get in the high woodwinds patches.
The downsides to Abbey Road One are the lack of legato articulations in the base Orchestral Foundations library. You need to get the expansions in order to have legatos, and not all of the expansions have been released yet. The biggest "hole" is the lack of a high strings expansion, so there are no high strings legatos right now. We are due for another expansion release soon (they have been released fairly consistently, with around 3 months between releases), and it would be extremely surprising if the high strings expansion isn't the next one to be made available.
Typically, I'm a sample-based producer. I work in Splice constantly, and I record guitar often. If I ever need to use strings or anything orchestral, I just look for samples, but it gets tiring. I'd really love the ability to write string parts and use more classical scoring instrumentation when the job calls for it.
There will be a sale beginning Christmas I believe, so definitely wait for that! Also, if you are a student or a teacher you get that nifty 30% off. Either way, even if you aren't currently planning on writing for orchestra, I can't recommend BBCSO Core enough. It comes with the option of using solo lead wind and brass instruments, so you can make "smaller" sounding music quite easily with these patches. On top of that there are loads of articulations in the strings that allow for a more textural sound to blend into your tunes.
Regarding unnatural or MIDI sounding, when working with orchestration you need to put in a little work to make it sound more natural. If you play strings from a keyboard and just hammer CEG it will sound more like a keyboard unless you approach it like a real string section, for instance using BBC SO you would use Violins 1 for the G, Violins 2 for the E and finally the Violas for C. Basically think monophonic lines. There are several tutorial on YouTube on this topic. Here's a good one to start with: =7Vxj4ghJHtY
At the moment, as I peruse all the video walkthroughs, the best-sounding pack is the Abbey Road Strings. But I realize that will only really solve one issue for me with strings, but I'll still be needing something to help out with brass and other orchestral instruments.
For my most immediate use, I can't imagine I would be using much more than what the Abbey Road Strings offers, but as I look to get more into the scoring world and away from producing pop beats from ads, I feel like I'll eventually need more orchestral tools at my disposal. My immediate needs are strings and brass, but I also would love some more piano options, melodic percussive instruments, and even some choral options.
Just remember that the Abbey Road Two Iconic Strings are solo strings, not sections like the strings in BBCSO Core. So there's only one of each instrument being played, as opposed to the 16 1st violins, 14 2nd violins, 12 violas, 10 celli, and 8 basses in BBCSO Core. I'm not saying that it wouldn't be a great companion to BBCSO Core (it probably is, but I don't own it). It's just a different approach.
You mentioned wanting more vibrato on the strings. Things work differently when it comes to vibrato on a string section with multiple players versus solo strings. With multiple players, everyone plays vibrato at different speeds and amounts, which all mixes together, so you are not going to get that really intense vibrato like a solo player can do. If that is what you are looking for, then a solo strings library like Abbey Road Two could be right up your alley when it becomes time to get another library.
There's also the option of upgrading to BBCSO Pro in the future. It has strings leader patches with just the first chair of each section. You also get a whole slew of microphones, including closer mics with less room sound (definitely not dry, but not as wet as the single mix mic in Core). They allow you a lot more control with the overall tone of the library. There are also a few additional instruments, mostly low brass and woodwinds (bass clarinet, contrabass clarinet, contrabassoon, English horn, contrabass trombone, contrabass tuba, and cimbasso).
Thank you for the additional insight here! Your explanations of everything have been so helpful, and it all makes total sense. I knew before buying the BBCSO Core that it wouldn't have that super intimate solo string sound I was looking for, but considering everything else it comes with, it was a worthwhile purchase. The brass sounds amazing! I think I'd rather have the massive orchestral possibilities of BBCSO rather than just great sounding solo strings from Abbey Road Two.
I think the next move for me will be finding an excellent solo strings library like Abbey Road Two to use for more intimate writing with more versatility in terms of mix, vibrato, etc. Luckily Abbey Road Two without the introductory pricing is only $299, which isn't horrible compared to the price tag on other string packs. I'll have a look at Intimate Strings. They sound really lovely based on the quick sample I listened to!
Laika's production designer Shannon Tindle pitched the fantasy story stop-motion animated film based on samurais to Knight. By December 2014, Laika announced that Kubo and the Two Strings would be released in August 2016, with Knight to direct and produce the project, as well as the voice casting announcement. He was enthusiastic about the project, owing partly to his affinity towards both the "epic fantasy" genre as well as Japanese culture in general, despite the studio never having ventured into the genre before. The stop-motion animation were inspired by Japanese media such as ink wash painting and origami among others. Assistance came from 3D printing firm Stratasys who allowed Laika to use their newest technologies in exchange for feedback on them. According to Knight, he mentioned that the story for the film was partly inspired by works of Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki. Dario Marianelli, who composed the music for Laika's one prior film, returned to compose the film's musical score for its second.
They go to shore to recover, where Monkey explains that she and her Sisters were ordered by the Moon King to kill Hanzo, but she instead fell in love with him, and the Moon King branded her an enemy. That night, Kubo dreams of meeting a blind elderly man, who points him towards the "Helmet Invulnerable" in Hanzo's abandoned fortress. They travel there the next day but realize too late it is a trap set by the Moon King and Washi, the latter of which reveals that Beetle is Hanzo, whom they cursed for taking their sister away from them, and kills Hanzo. Monkey sacrifices herself, buying Kubo the time to use his shamisen to vanquish Washi, breaking two of the three strings on it. Little Hanzo provides insight to Kubo that the Helmet is actually the bell at the village, and Kubo breaks the last string to quickly travel there.
At the village, Kubo meets the old man from his dream, who is revealed as the Moon King. He offers to take Kubo's other eye to make him immortal, but Kubo refuses. The Moon King transforms into a giant Dunkleosteus-like dragon, the Moon Beast, and pursues Kubo and the remaining villagers into its cemetery. When the armor proves ineffective, Kubo removes it and restrings his shamisen using his mother's hair, his father's bowstring, and his own hair. With the instrument, he summons the spirits of the villagers' loved ones, who show the Moon King that memories are the strongest magic of all and can never be destroyed. Kubo and the spirits' magic protect themselves and the villagers from the Moon King, stripping him of his powers and leaving him a mortal human without any memories. Spurred on by Kubo's stories, the villagers choose compassion and tell him he was a man of many positive traits, accepting him into the village. Kubo is able to speak to his parents' ghosts during the subsequent Bon ceremony, as they watch the deceased villagers' lanterns transform into golden herons and fly to the spirit world.
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