Facts The instruments in Chris Hein Solo Strings contain over 10,000 samples each including 38 articulations with 8 dynamic layers and 4 legato transitions. The string ensemble provides the best possible background for solo instruments. Chris Hein — Ensemble Strings and perfectly play together. Chris Hein — Ensemble Strings delivers outstanding, detailed and primarily musical results. That was just cracking the surface! A unique characteristic of this library is the fact that the ensemble-sounds have not been recorded in a group. There are plenty of other controllers and options that come with almost all Chris Hein libraries, starting with the interesting Hot Keys, that allow you to repeat a note, actually playing fast doubles without sounding artificial, or even to control bow change. Instead, the carefully selected and matched instruments have been recorded separately and edited.
Here, several voices can be layered to create an even huger sound-impression. The interface is very straight forward and easy to get around. But Chris Hein — Ensemble Strings has even more to offer. The same goes for the orchestra. All instruments had been played by professional studio musicians on handpicked instruments and were recorded with great care and detail. We can find the answer in the wise words of David Gilmour explaining his elevator sound from the Wish You Were Here album. In lew of recording the full sections and multiplayer in an ensemble all in the same room, Chris Hein has compiled a Kontakt Player sample library from a sample set of over 120,000 individual recordings of violins, cellos and double basses.
The string ensemble provides the best possible background for solo instruments. The manual just skims over the details that should be more in-depth for newbies. Welcome to SoundBytes Magazine, a free online magazine devoted to the subject of computer sound and music production. With Solo Strings Complete, the latest offering from Chris Hein, the developer employs his mastery of sampling and scripting to deliver solo instruments that just may set the bar on realism for solo strings instruments moving forward! However as much as it definitively shows the extreme power of Chris Heins orchestral libraries this is actually a moot point: I take my hat off to the composer because I sincerely hope he has had the opportunity to record this truly beautiful piece of music with a real orchestra as it is at the very least what it thoroughly deserves. Chris Hein Solo Strings Articulations Panel Digging into the next panel, the Articulations, I started to get a sense of just how much can be achieved with 38 different articulations! It looks like 8 or 9 articulations on the violins.
We have seven different legato articulations, twelve different short articulation and thirteen others, like minor, major trill, tremolo, short and long octaves, up and down runs, clusters and effects. There are three full mix orchestra patches bringing the whole orchestra inside a single preset. The library provides special effect-sounds and extraordinary articulations such as cluster clouds, octaves, repetitions, runs, flautando and ponticello which are ideally suited for sound-designs, game-sound-production and musical experiments. Each recording was carefully adjusted in tuning and timing and mixed with other recordings naturally in 24-bit resolution to build up an ensemble. The samples have been carefully detuned, time shifted, positioned in the stereo field and mixed down to a 24 bit stereo mix.
They say a photographer makes the best shot he can with whatever camera he happens to be carrying that day. I didn't count the rest. Start the Native Access-Software and log in using your Native Instruments credetials to start the setup. Die wahre Stärke dieser Library liegt allerdings im Detail. The same could be said for Ben's astonishingly inspiring piece here but I would hazard a guess that to achieve the same level of expression from any other manufacturers orchestral library would be challenging. Here is one example: I was comparing libraries using one of my older arrangements, but soon realised that dynamics were not set to the mod wheel. This is really amazing — thanks for sharing! Congrats Chris, you did a great job, again! The fourteen instruments, with a total of 100,000 single samples, up to 38 articulations and 4 different legato transitions were treated with unique phase align techniques for perfect X-fade blending between up to 8 dynamic layers.
The string ensemble provides the best possible background for solo instruments. I would be willing to pay for good instructions. Thanks to a straightforward key-switching-system, these can be easily used with highest musicality while playing. Not to mention that you can set the scale for a run, the number of steps and even the root note and target note. Accordingly, the instrument offers perfect, seamless transitions of dynamic layers without sonic degradation.
This License is only valid for the individual who has purchased an unopened, new and lawfully made copy of Chris Hein Ensemble Strings from a dealer or distributor authorized by Big Fish Audio. While all other strings libraries sound a bit lost in space, this one sounds like you are directly in front of the orchestra. Subsequently, these files were mixed with other recordings naturally in 24 bit resolution to build up an ensemble. Another highlight are the 38 Articulations that show just how expressive the playback can be. This is one of the most lovely pieces of music and needless to say by far the best demonstration of any artificial orchestra I have ever heard. Each individual recording was carefully adjusted in tuning, timing and the panorama placement. Nebenbei: Die Solo-Strings von Chris Hein habe ich für eine andere Plattform getestet und kann diese ebenfalls nur empfehlen.
Please understand that Sample Library Review recommends products because they are helpful and useful, not because of the small commissions made if you decide to buy something. Never had an issue with performing the shorts. It all depends how adept a composer is with his tools. Do you happen to know of any tutorials or anything that would help me learn in detail how to operate this intricate program? Thanks for taking the time to comment! Support Sample Library Review at Jump to the Demos of Jump to the Videos of Review: Chris Hein Solo Strings Complete Chris Hein Solo Strings Complete is a collection of 4 Kontakt Player instruments including Solo Violin, Solo Viola, a Solo Cello containing 2 separate sampled instruments and Solo ContraBass. In addition, Chris Hein — Ensemble Strings has even more to offer. A special characteristic of this library is the fact that the ensemble-sounds have not been recorded in a group. Chris Hein — Ensemble Strings delivers outstanding, detailed and primarily musical results.