Cinematic Studio Series Cinematic Studio Strings v1.7 [KONTAKT]

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Cinematic Studio Strings is a library bursting with character. Featuring Australias finest musicians and meticulously recorded in a world-class scoring stage, CSS boasts a gorgeous sound, stunning true-to-life dynamics and a wide variety of articulations. With an intuitive and efficient GUI, CSS was created to meet the demands of working composers in todays film, TV and video game industries. This outstanding orchestral strings library for Kontakt and Kontakt Player is available now at a very affordable price

CSS features a Hollywood-style string section, recorded in position in Australias premiere scoring stage - Trackdown. From the soaring colourful vibrato of the high violins to the dark and woody textures of the low cello and bass notes, youll be instantly inspired. Our aim was to create an instrument thats instantly playable, sounds great out-of-the-box and is backed up by speedy customer support.

At the heart of CSS is its cutting edge GUI, building on our previous critically-acclaimed library Cinematic Strings 2. This means a short-but-sweet list, easily assignable keyswitches and MIDI CCs, and a full mixer with output routing options plus reverb. These features and many others are all accessible via the main GUI page, youll have CSS working alongside you on your latest project within minutes.

CSS features a stunningly realistic legato engine. We painstakingly recorded true legato transitions for each note, up and down, including a beautiful portamento. We also recorded re-bow samples, meaning you can play repeated legato notes smoothly and with true-legato realism. For more information please check out the Legato Introduction

With smooth legato, punchy spiccatos, inspiring textural harmonics and con sordino, CSS covers a wide range of the sound palette afforded by a world-class string section. Weve kept an authentic, human element in the sound, so youll feel like youre at a live session. With this new level of realism, youll feel comfortable using CSS without reverb, in fact we recommend it! All of our demos were created without reverb - all you hear is the natural air captured in the samples.

We used a variety of beautiful ribbon and condenser microphones to record CSS at three distances, which you can combine to create your own unique mix either inside Kontakt or via the newly included output-routing option. Alternatively, you can use our pre-mixed combination of all 3 if you want a great sound with fewer resources. Full and Lite Ensemble es optimise workflow and are perfect for sketching or filling out a track.

COMPATIBLE WITH FREE KONTAKT PLAYER
Cinematic Studio Strings is fully compatible with the free Kontakt Player, and will work as a standalone product with no need to purchase additional software. Kontakt Player is available as a separate download from Native Instruments and can be downloaded free of charge by clicking here. CSS is also designed for use with the new exciting range of NKS Keyboards.

Articulations
LEGATO, INCLUDING LEGATO REPETITION AND PORTAMENTOSPICCATOSTACCATISSIMOSTACCATOSFORZANDOPIZZICATO, INCLUDING BART?K SNAPSCOL LEGNOHARMONICSTREMOLOTRILLS (HALF AND WHOLE TONE)MEASURED TREMOLO (TREMOLO SYNC AND FREE SYNC)MARCATO/FAST RUNSCON SORDINO EMULATION (WHOLE LIBRARY)

v1.7 Release notes
?show/hide textNew Marcato mode (including runs)
The new improved ?Marcato articulation in CSS v1.7 is quite powerful. Its main purpose is to perform fast, energetic passages, ostinatos and runs. The vibrato is exaggerated, and the attack is accented, which means it excels at bombastic melodies, like the Star Wars theme for example.
However, since the legatos have been improved, it is also quite capable of playing less- accented, more varied phrases too - think of the violin parts early in the ?Journey to the Island? cue from Jurassic Park. This is aided by the fact that you can also now trigger subtle portamento slides, so all in all, the new Marcato is a lot more versatile. I also added a 2 x round robin, which further enhances realism.

To play runs, simply play a fast passage in legato mode - it works especially well for scalic runs. You can add accents to individual notes within a run by triggering a note above a velocity of 75. This effect is subtle, but audible and useful in context, especially when you ?change direction? during a run.
Alternatively, to create a more obvious accent, try leaving a gap between the previous note and the note you wish to accent, effectively starting a ?new? legato phrase with the accented note. In other words, if you play a 10-note run, and would like to accent the 5th note in the phrase, youll need to leave a small gap between the 4th and 5th notes. This would effectively ?end? the legato phrase at the end of the 4th note, and then ?begin? a new legato phrase starting with the 5th note. This means youll hear the attack portion of the Marcato sample, which in the context of a fast passage, essentially functions as a more pronounced accent.

Improved legato / ?Low Latency? mode
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