30 Releases from SPiRiT, DELiRiUM, P2P, DiSCOVER, DYNAMiCS, AUDIOSTRiKE: 7 August 2015 …
The Italian Harpsichord library contains a historical harpsichord built in 1579 by Pierluigi in Livorno. Sharing its tonal qualities for almost half a millenium, it is a classic example of how Italian harpsichords were built for about 200 years. Compared to its Dutch and English siblings, the Pierluigi harpsichord stands out due to its light and simple design (one 8′ register) and mostly because of its fundamental, sonorous warm and deep tone. This unique instrument in the collection of Andreas Beurmann still remains in excellent playable condition despite its age. It is now available for the first time for your sampler within the Italian Harpsichord library, presented in its original meantone tuning at 383 Hz (Presets in 440 Hz are included as well).
The worldwide known instrument Kawai KG 2E recorded close mic. In fact, this piano sample set used to be a freebie but can’t be found anymore as far as I know. Still a nice one.
Mix your own personalized drum sound from close up mics,overhead mics and ambient mics! position the drums like in a real studio. create ambience and presence. snare or toms were sampled with up to 10 velocity zones for left and right hand. 5 drumsets; each with 350 MB. create ambience and presence, unlike ever before not only for the complete set, but for each drum separately. – a novelty that exceeds the possibilities of any studio! 2 gigabyte drum sounds on 3 cds.
Orchestral Brass Ensembles (henceforth known as OBE) consists — perhaps unsurprisingly — of orchestral brass ensembles recorded in a 2500-seater concert hall, using players (uncredited, as usual) from an American symphony orchestra. Two mic positions were used, one 30 feet from the players, the second 100 feet back to capture the hall reverb (see diagram, right). This lavish use of space created a collection of big-sounding samples known as the ‘symphonic’ recordings. In order to offer users sonic choice, Kirk also recorded a second set of samples in the same hall, but first made some significant musical and acoustic changes; section sizes were scaled down, and huge baffles were positioned on stage and in the hall’s ceiling, creating a smaller, more focused room sound (the layout for this setup is shown on page 138). The second sample set, less reverberant and more present-sounding than the first, are called the ‘chamber’ recordings.
The Virtuoso Series Solo String Library is designed to be an extremely flexible multi-sample collection containing over 500 instruments! The focus is on single, multi-sample notes rather than “riffs” or “phrases”, though some popular arpeggios and scales are included in the solo violin. Most of the articulations are 8 velocity layers deep, and sometimes, as many as 32. With this approach, it’s easy to avoid the “machine gun” or “robotic” curse of most sample libraries when trying to play fast repeated notes. In addition, to maximize the realistic sound of this type of music, release triggers are also used extensively to enable you to play all kinds of repeated notes in all kinds of tempos.
The Virtuoso Series Solo Flute is designed to be an extremely flexible multi-sample collection. The focus is on single, multi-sample notes rather than “riffs” or “phrases”, though some popular rips (fast sweeping “flurries”) are included.
