Publisher: Cinematic Studio
Website: cinematicstudioseries
Format: KONTAKT FULL & K’ed 6.6.0+
Quality: 24bit 48kHz stereo
Description: Powerful library of string samples.
Cinematic Studio Strings is a library with character. Featuring top Australian musicians and meticulously recorded on a world class stage, CSS boasts great sound, stunning realistic dynamics and a wide variety of articulation. With an intuitive and efficient GUI, CSS was created to meet the demands of composers working in today’s film, television and video game industries.
The CSS includes a Hollywood-style string section recorded in Australia on Trackdown. From the soaring colorful vibrato of the high violins to the dark and woody textures of the low notes of the cello and bass, you’ll be instantly inspired. Our goal was to create an instrument that was immediately playable and sounded great.
At the heart of CSS is its cutting-edge GUI, based on our previous critically acclaimed Cinematic Strings 2 library. This means a short but enjoyable patch list, easily assignable key switches and MIDI CC, and a mixer with output routing options, as well as reverb. . These and many more features are available through the main GUI page.
CSS has a stunningly realistic legato engine. We have painstakingly recorded true legato transitions for each note, up and down, including a beautiful portamento. We’ve also recorded “re-bow” samples, which means you can play repeated legato notes smoothly and with true legato realism.
With smooth legato, punchy spiccato, inspiring textural harmonics and con sordino, CSS covers the wide range of sonic palette provided by the world-class string section. We’ve kept the authentic, human element in the sound, so you’ll feel like you’re at a concert. With this new level of realism, you’ll feel comfortable using CSS without reverb; in fact, we recommend it!
We have used a variety of excellent ribbon and condenser mics to record CSS at three distances, which you can combine to create your own unique mix, either inside Kontakt or with the newly included output routing option. Alternatively, you can use our pre-mixed combination of all three if you want great sound with less resources. The Full and Lite Ensemble patches streamline your workflow and are ideal for sketching or filling a track.
If you already have a previous version of the library, you can only DOWNLOAD the update on the manufacturer’s website.
New in version 1.5 :
updates
1. All new Classic Legato patches, which allow very responsive and fluid legato playing.
2. Legato and Con Sordino keyswitch assignments are now remembered when saving / reloading a patch.
3. Fixed an issue with the updater that could affect file/folder visibilty on some systems (Mac only).
Articulations :
Legato, including legato repetition and portamento
Spiccato
Staccatissimo
Staccato
Sforzando
Pizzicato, including Bartok snaps
Col legno
Harmonics
Tremolo
Trills (half and whole tone)
Measured tremolo (tremolo sync and free sync)
Marcato/fast runs
Con sordino emulation (whole library)
how do you get the activation key for this? do you have instructions?