Re: Cinematic Studio Solo Strings KONTAKT
Jason Ramgel
Having the ability to create realistic-sounding strings mock-ups allows you to be more flexible on low budget projects where hiring an orchestra is a luxury. However, I feel that hiring musicians or recording yourself on your scores is still incredibly important. Recording a soloist, for example, will not only add a human element to your score but lend legitimacy to the samples and help make your strings sound more realistic.
With Cinematic Studio Solo Strings, we've taken the simplicity, workflow and authentic sound of the Studio Series and applied it to solo violins, viola and cello to create an incredibly realistic solo strings sample library, for Kontakt and Kontakt Player. The whispering harmonics and tremolos, emotional legatos and portamentos, and biting staccatos and staccatissimos of Cinematic Studio Solo Strings will give you the tools you need to truly bring your music to life. CSSS is both a perfect "first chair" complement to blend with our hallmark Cinematic Studio Strings library, and an extensive standalone library that brings a classy, vibrant and elegant string quartet section to your productions.
VIRTUOSO SOLO, QUARTET OR FIRST CHAIR
Cinematic Studio Solo Strings brings all the emotional depth and virtuosity of an outstanding quartet to your fingertips, making it the perfect compositional tool for exposed lyrical solo or quartet passages. And because we maintained positional accuracy and recorded the same diverse range of articulations, CSSS provides a vibrant first-chair accompaniment to our full section library Cinematic Studio Strings. This allows you to seamlessly transition between writing for solo strings and full sections.
The instruments are very playable, especially the Classic legato patches. Sustains were sampled with four dynamic layers modulated via a modwheel crossfade and switching between them is controlled by cc1. As with its predecessor, at lower cc1 volumes there tends to be a little more vibrato than I prefer (although generally with solo strings I want more than with sections) and again, this is controllable with cc2 (breath.)
A separate live one-shot drum kit and drum rolls have been included, sampled from two different live drum kits. In addition, you will find kits of live guitar, live bass, keys, strings, and live percussion all expertly recorded with the very best studio equipment. Whether you want to use a big sample or put parts together to create something very unique or add to a track, Sound Mob fits your production style.
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