Oktobass KONTAKT

OHSiE | 15 November 2023 | 7.30 GB

The Octobass is the lowest concert string instrument, with a thunderous, room-shaking growl. This 12GB+ library for Kontakt has 30+ articulations, with various sustains, shorts, dynamic expressions, legato, effects, aleatoric phrases, inspiring performance tools, creative options and a huge range of custom spaces. The Oktobass is the deepest concert string instrument, with a thunderous, room-shaking growl. We’ve sampled this bone-rattling beast to build a massive virtual instrument offering 30+ articulations and over 12GB of content. You’ll find a variety of sustains, shorts, dynamic expressions, true legato, creative effects and hundreds of aleatoric melodic phrases. As part of our Hyperion symphonic series, it provides a suite of intuitive options, flexible tools and inspiring performance features, from intelligent arpeggiation and articulation switching, to flexible tempo-synching and sound-shaping DSP effects, all at your fingertips to make it easy to craft brilliantly life-like arrangements.

The first Oktobass (also spelled “Octobass”) was built in 1849 by Jean Baptiste Vuillaume, but it drifted into legend by the end of the 1800s, lost but not forgotten for over a century. Then in 1996, double bass player Nicola Moneta, luthier Pierre Bohr and bow-maker Piero Cavalazzi constructed the first modern Octobass. Moneta has gone on to play it in nearly 150 concerts around the world over the last 25 years, though it still remains one of only a handful in existence today.

This 3.48 meter (11.5 ft) mammoth is played from a raised platform, using a row of mechanical levers to control the fingerboard. The cavernous instrument body produces a surprisingly nuanced character, with intense stereo movement and subtle mechanical ornamentation.

Product Specs:
– Multi-sampled Oktobass articulations and improvised phrases in two microphone positions
– True Legato, Sustains, Shorts, Phrases, Expressions, SFX
– 2 Powerful Kontakt .nki instrument presets made for the full retail Kontakt 6.2.2+
– 5,558 stereo samples in unlocked WAV format
– 24 bit / 48 kHz uncompressed PCM wav samples
– 12.6 GB installed
– A flexible, intuitive user interface with pro features, deep customizability, and simple workflow
– Sound stage positioning in dozens of custom rooms, halls, chambers & FX environments

Requires Kontakt 6.2.2+

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Hyperion Strings: Oktobass KONTAKT
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