String Ensembles

Composers Dream - The return of a legend!

We are pleased to announce the return of Miroslav Vitous sampling ventures. In the past his library was rated for a period of more than 10 years as the best existing symphonic sounds in the world.
With the brand new library it is now again continuing in the same directions. Uncompromising highest quality focused on the music itself is the key of this song. 100% realistic and sounds as humanly to present in the highest quality and highest inspiration possible. There is no artificial programming of any kind as Miroslav did not want to change the acoustic true reality sound. The focus of this product is on the performance of the instruments needed for the specific composing functions in details. The library contents Full Size Orchestra Ensembles (24 Violins / 14 Violas / 12 Celli / 10 Basses) and Chamber Ensembles (14 Violins / 8 Violas / 6 Cell/ 4 Basses). This concept is rather revolutionary as we present the finished tools needed for the high end composer to simply open and play the part they need to work on instead of unspecific instruments. You will not have to do almost any editing at all. And it plays music and music…highly inspiring…perhaps that is the biggest asset of this library.
This library was made for composers and plays music like magic.

Miroslav Vitous about his project:

"This library is made for composers of the high end and focuses on the performance itself.
Not using any marketing hypes such as midi tools etc. (As I have tested those, they do not work very well). Samples edited by hand did the job much greater and much more realistic as you will hear.
There is no need (Like in my old library and other large size products) to study the contents for long time as you just simply open…. for example the harmony medium fast instrument… and it will accomplish exactly music for that kind of articulation. It is made for harmony played up to medium fast speed. A side from this function it will also play Long notes, quite fast lines etc… but it is at its best to play this specific function.
That goes for all the other instruments as well as they play many other functions but I picked them at their best performance for each specific function. You will not have to do almost any editing at all. Only the music or your keyboard playing if you need to change would be the issue here. No tweaking the midi etc. is necessary! (All of you composers who have experience in this will know what I mean) The beginning attacks are correct as they sound live; no need to fix them in any artificial ways etc…. and they truly sing and express as the live players do. (Without changing that with technology) All of this is included already within the instrument it self, slight detune (actually the violins has even different tunings for different functions), the vibrato not the same everywhere. Different samples by using the Alternate feature in the ENGINE software will make it as realistic and more as live orchestra. And it plays music and music ….. highly inspiring….perhaps that is the biggest asset of this library.

A side from sections instruments large ensembles and Chamber, there will be an update of more Chamber orchestra in completion and Orchestra programs for both sizes which will be specially prepared. Violins/Violas/Cellos/Basses. The sonic spectrum is kept as free as possible in each program. (So you don’t have overlapping sonic problems with too many instruments playing the same note). Those will be magic in full force.
In this library we have done all the instruments in 4 different ways to play them. As I found out testing each of these ways makes you play music differently because of the way they are set up and they feel and they function.
Most of the instruments are in Keyswitches but there is a lot more in Velocity zones as well as in Alternate samples function (because there is not enough Keyswitches to cover all the possibilities and is convenient having the change done automatically), All this allows you to use all the different samples we have used.
For the 4th possibility I have also decide to have those instruments in MF-F and MP –PP levels (as you may need to play music staying in the same volume not to have to worry about the velocity changing). I founded this to be a problem if I wanted to play some intense music in PP inside the velocity zone I kept getting hung up on the keyboard volume getting louder notes than I wanted. Therefore I include these instruments (as they are the same material which is in Velocity Zones and some extras) so it is possible to get into one volume and stay there. It is sometimes better. These instruments have a high dynamic range already MF plays MP velocity anyway already.

This is in comparisment with other products tremendous because the amount of the patches of each articulation is far passed other libraries contents. At least 6-8 different patches on each articulation style. LN/DET/STACC/LEGATO/ That of course makes it even more so highly realistic.
Just for the record each of these patches are the top of the cream level. We did not for example put the best patches in the general Keyswitches because we don’t know what are the best patches. They are all great - slightly different tone, texture, attack etc….
All the patches are playing very well on its own doing legato mostly also as well as expressiveness and quite fast speed. (LN can play faster than medium fast tempos) It is amazing how much you can do with 1 LN patch without even having to go to a specialized patch. There are however specific patches playing faster and slower,legatos,runs, beautiful expressive long notes as well as none expressive etc…..
These samples are no longer to me considered as samples because they each have some kind of a performance in them. Expressiveness or diminuendo or simply crescendo, decrescendo is all within the instruments built in.
The highlight of this product is having instruments programs at your disposal which make it possible to play any specific way you need in your composition. It has been all prepared for all of these musical parts you need to do. You will find detail description in the contents text..

This library was made for composers and plays music like magic.
All the latest technology hype which other producers are busy with using machines to achieve these ways was done here by hand in original sound therefore natural. We have gone as far as not even tuning digitally the samples as we could clearly hear that the sample digitally adjusted has degraded its quality. We believe in healthy balance in between using the technology and human capabilities but always keep the highest sonic quality. Inspiration is another huge issue here which is perhaps largest part of this library which we can not say anything about other than thanks the spirit of music for making this possible.
This one plays music like magic.
It was made for the music, not for the money and not for the marketing hypes etc……"

Miroslav Vitous

 

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Systemrequirements

Best Service ENGINE Sample Player is included in this product!

Latest versions:

Download Engine 1.04 Mac OSX
Download Engine 1.04 Win32bit
Download Engine 1.04 Win64bit
 
 

Mac OS

• Mac OS 10.4, 10.5 or higher
• Min. recommended: G5 or Intel Mac 1.8GHz, 1GB Ram
• Interfaces: Standalone, AU, VST, RTAS (32bit plugin)

Windows

• Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, 32bit & 64bit
• Min. recommended: Pentium/Athlon XP 3.0GHz, 1GB Ram
• Interfaces: Standalone, VST, RTAS (32bit and 64bit plugin)

for all systems

• DVD drive
• Internet connection for product activation required (on any computer)
• Additional hard disc space according to the library size
   

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