Spitfire announce.. SOLO STRINGS! -- NV-Vib Quicktime Demo Added

[Synesthesia]

Friends,

We chaps at Spitfire are delighted to announce SOLO STRINGS - our forthcoming library of three extraordinary soloists recorded in the wonderful Air Studios in London.

The library will release on Nov 14th. You will need the full version of Kontakt 4 to use the library, which will be watermarked to protect your investment.

The ethos of this library is to provide a tool for sketching out Soloist lines, for adding detail to your existing libs, and with an absolute minimum of fuss, to get a superb sound out of the box.

To that end, we have carefully selected the most useful articulations, and recorded them in two ways, the legato patches have a single mixed mic balance, with a control to allow you to vary the size of the Hall reverb tails. The reason for this is that solo strings legato with multiple mics in our experience, is not with our current technology controllable enough for us to guarantee a perfect sound whatever mix you choose.

However, outside of legato, we have multimic patches with three user controllable mic positions, so that you can still have a lot of control over the sound you want.

In short, a very useful addition to any composer's toolkit, with the sound and passion of world class players in a great studio.

The price is £179 RRP discounted for the preorder period to £139 (plus VAT if you are in Europe.)

Demos will come over the next few weeks, for now we are still busy refining and making things perfect, but we wanted to give plenty of time for our clients to plan their preorder purchase.

Go to our website http://www.spitfireaudio.com/spitfire-solo-strings.html (here) and scroll down to preorder.

Here are some more details about the articulations. We have enough material to construct separate Violin 2 patches as well, which we will be working on prior to release.


Violin: (Andrew Haveron)

3x True legato: Slurred, Bowed & Portamento
Longs MV
Longs V
Longs NV
Spiccato RR x4
Staccato RR x4
Pizzicato RRx4
Harmonics long
Harmonics short RR x4

Viola: (Bruce White)

2x True legato: Slurred & Portamento
Longs MV
Longs NV
Spiccato RR x4
Staccato RR x4


'Cello: (Caroline Dale)

3x True legato: Slurred, Bowed & Portamento
Longs MV
Longs V
Longs NV
Spiccato RR x4
Pizzicato RRx4
Harmonics long
Harmonics short RR x4

Click to read more...

 

[noiseboyuk]

Wow, fantastic!!!!

And cue the barrage of questions!

Will there be a away of integrating the legatos (bowed, portamento and slurred) on a single patch based on key velocity a la LASS? If so, then I'm definitely in (as opposed to merely very probably in).

 

[Andy B]

Wow, fantastic!!!!

And cue the barrage of questions!

Will there be a away of integrating the legatos (bowed, portamento and slurred) on a single patch based on key velocity a la LASS? If so, then I'm definitely in (as opposed to merely very probably in).

Hi Guy,

Yes that's already implemented and velocity controlled.

Thanks,

Andy.

 

[Synesthesia]

Hi Guy,

Yes - that is how they work: lowest vel is portamento, medium range is fingered and highest range is bowed.

Thanks!

Paul

edit: whoops! Andy beat me to it,

 

[noiseboyuk]

Hi Guy,

Yes - that is how they work: lowest vel is portamento, medium range is fingered and highest range is bowed.

Thanks!

Paul

edit: whoops! Andy beat me to it,

....and pre-ordered. Thanks guys!

 

[noiseboyuk]

Oh, the next question... from the same patch is it possible to cross from NV through to V?

 

[Synesthesia]

We are testing three different ways of switching/fading between nv and v: all I can say is watch this space, we'll announce the best solution in due course!

 

[Stephen Baysted]

Re: Spitfire announce.. SOLO STRINGS! -- preorder now!

Pre-ordered.

 

[dedersen]

Re: Spitfire announce.. SOLO STRINGS! -- preorder now!

Judging by the short demo you posted a while back, I think I will find it very difficult not to pick this one up on pre-order, especially since the price is so relatively low.

 

[noiseboyuk]

We are testing three different ways of switching/fading between nv and v: all I can say is watch this space, we'll announce the best solution in due course!

Good stuff, really looking forward to this one. Playable solo strings are the biggest orchestral black hole for me - LASS FC does as good a job as it can, but really solo parts are out of its remit, and other solutions involving 39 keyswitches are unappealing. A very timely release.

 

[Ed]

This sounds great!! Whats the dynamics like ?

 

[Simon Ravn]

Re: Spitfire announce.. SOLO STRINGS! -- preorder now!

Awesome news, guys! And I might need this for my current project, to do more convincing solo strings mockups. What's the ETA, if there is one?

 

[zvenx]

"
The library will release on Nov 14th. ....."

rsp

 

[Synesthesia]

It varies.. most of the longs have two, some have three.

We found that with careful and intelligent programming you can reduce the system overhead while maintaining a very wide dynamic range.

As we all know - crossover points in solo strings are particularly problematic and need careful attention in programming.

The patches have a wide dynamic range and can go from whisper to full tilt.

 

[zvenx]

curious is their controllable vibrato? Have always been curious how come developers don't map aftertouch to vibrato or something like that (there may libraries that do it that I dont' know about)
rsp

 

[Pzy-Clone]

Great news!

Altho i don`t grasp the logic that dicates that Violas don`t have Pizzicato and the Celli has no Staccato?

Anyway, it all looks very good, ...are the longs the same as the sustained part of the legato patches, or entirely different samples?

 

[Ed]

ooh Ill no doubt get this but would love to hear how soft and intimate it can go when you guys do demos!

 

[zacnelson]

Can we use a spitfire voucher towards this purchase? I have one from my last spitfire purchase. I'm so pleased that the portamento/legato is velocity controlled, that was my first question but others got in before me! Also, I'd love to know about the vibrato question raised by someone a few posts above.

 

[jamwerks]

Re: Spitfire announce.. SOLO STRINGS! -- preorder now!

Hi Paul, Hope to preorder.

Sorry for my mumbling, but why no pizz for the Violas? I just don't get it why 80% complete libraries exist. :shock:

You're working on a piece, creatively moving forward, the ideas are coming together, only to realize, oops I can't do that, my violas can't pizz >8o

True your price is reasonable. Maybe you will do a "Pro" expansion once the money if flowing in? I'd love to buy into the Spitfire line even on a long term basis, and I don't mind spending money. But the articulations need to be there.

Seems like VSL are the only one's who do fairly complete articulation set (but they forgot the complete mic positions!). :mrgreen:

 

[Maximvs]

Re: Spitfire announce.. SOLO STRINGS! -- preorder now!

This is a great news, finally my wishes to see a solo string library after a long time have been heard

Unfortunately this solo library treat the Viola like a second class citizen... in other words, why don't you include the pizzicato and harmonics samples for this instrument?

Please, please, please make this library a complete one this time and add this important articulations so we don't need to wait for a future update.

Sorry Spitfire but unless you add these much needed viola articulations I am not going to pre-order this time...