Chris Hein Winds Complete v2.0 [KONTAKT]

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Chris Hein ? Winds is an extensive woodwind library meeting the highest expectations regarding sound, quality, expression and usability. The librarys instruments are based on painstakingly recorded and edited multisamples, with numerous articulations and up to eight dynamic layers. Producer Chris Hein has brought thirty years of sampling experience into this masterpiece, giving the user maximum flexibility and a high level of customization, while maintaining the ease of use.

Version 2 now features the following improvements:

improved tuning of almost all samplesimproved phase-aligned samplesdrastically reduced resource demandimproved legato transitionsoptimised transition speed functionglide mode-slur for more realistic runsoptimised Touch OSC MIDI remote controlminor bug fixes

Chris Hein ? Winds consists of four individual volumes, also being available separately or combined in a bundled complete version. The library contains a total of 13 instruments:

Vol. 1 - Flute
Flute Piccolo
C-Flute 1
C-Flute 2
Alto-Flute

Vol. 2 - Clarinet
Eb-Clarinet
Bb-Clarinet
Bass-Clarinet

Vol. 3 - Oboe
Oboe
Oboe D?Amore
English Horn

Vol. 4 - Bassoon
Basson
Bassoon Barock
Contra Bassoon

Chris Hein ? Winds focuses on orchestral woodwind sounds maximum flexibility, while maintaining the ease of use.

The library is arbitrarily configurable to embrace individual workflow techniques and demands of different producers. The available options and solutions take care of almost every practical application, leaving almost nothing to be desired ? everything has been thought of! The extensive amount of samples is handled by Native Instruments? powerful sample-engine, Kontakt Player. Expect a custom tailored user-interface and extensive scripting to meet the specific requirements of these instruments.

Chris Hein ? Winds lives up to the expectations of both woodwind lovers and specialists demanding outstanding samples, comprehensive details, an elaborate selection of articulations and a versatile adaption to specific workflows.

The instruments can be loaded as full sample-sets, offering all articulations ready to be played on the keyboard. Thanks to the library?s modular concept, you can also call up significantly reduced versions to keep loading-times fast and memory usage low. In clean-start configuration, only a sustain-set is loaded into memory. Whenever needed, you can add further articulations and functions with a single click. This allows fluent and efficient work, even on compact and mobile production systems with less powerful specifications.

Chris Hein ? Winds offers orchestral woodwind sounds tailored to perfection. Both the high quality gear such as selected Neumann microphones and the musicians significant performaces drive the sound aesthetics. Unlike the award-winning Chris Hein ? Horns, this library takes advantage of the renowned WDR Symphonic Orchestra.

For this library, dry close mic?ing was an intentional decision. All instruments were recorded individually avoiding any crosstalk. Despite that CH Winds incorporated the inevitable interaction of an orchestra. Therefore, the participating musicians used headphone monitoring, to complement each other. Consequently, time-dependent articulations such as Dynamic Expression receive an especially coherent tone, allowing you to combine individual instruments to perfectly matched ensembles.

Due to the sample-engines dual convolution reverbs and the intentionally dry sound of Chris Hein - Winds, you can easily adapt the instruments to various situations. The Kontakt Player allows a free instrument-placement in the stereo panorama. Separate convolution engines for the corpus-sound (body) and the ambience (room) allow creating any spatial environment, ranging from close intimacy to large orchestral halls. This makes Chris Hein ? Winds significantly different to many competitors and their fixed spatial characteristics. It makes this library greatly variable and, additionally, combinable with almost any other library available.

Perfect dynamic transitions thanks to phase alignment
Over a research-period of six months, all samples were fully aligned in phase. Accordingly, the instruments offer perfect seamless transitions of dynamic layers without sonic degradation.

Unique combination of short and long notes
The combination of long and short notes is a major problem in sample-libraries, that often fails to deliver detailauthentically sounding results. With real musical instruments, the note length often influences the attack behavior as well as the note end. Chris Hein ? Winds addresses these aspects by its ?Note Head Designer?. For each sustain, you can call up short, adjusted sample variations, so called shorts, via the controllers. These Shorts not only offer the corresponding correct attack-behavior but also a note-end that perfectly matches the note length. These user-defined selections of short-note-variations are available in eight dynamic layers each and can be combined with the corresponding sustained phases, leading to astonis