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Simeon Amburgey Checks Out Angel Strings by Auddict
2025
Simeon Amburgey Checks Out Angel Strings by Auddict
During Simeon Amburgey’s time with Angel Strings (Affiliate Link), he was impressed at how quickly you can put seemingly complex parts together. The results of recording the entire string section together make for a very pleasant and cohesive experience.
A BATTLE RAGING FOR MILLENNIA
Isaiah 14 illustrates a battle of heavenly proportions, a war that burned even before the commencement of time. It explains Lucifer being cast down from his prominent position after a failed coup attempt to occupy the very throne of Heaven itself. This representation of Lucifer is characterized by his having stringed instruments, or “viols” as part of his appearance. He was like a self-contained orchestra. After his initial defeat, he did not just go down to Georgia, he went much, much, further down, and the war in Heaven continues to this day.
Angel Strings Vol. 1 allows us to experience strings in beautiful and dare I say, disturbing ways as we score our next celestial battle.
ANGEL STRINGS (Affiliate Link) includes textural elements, morphing into/out from atonality, risers/divebombs ideal for building tension (for example in trailer music), different styles of spiccato/staccato, marcato to soft attacks with sustains, fast tempo-locked tremolo for powerful driving string hooks and more.
What makes Angel Strings Vol. 1 particularly easy to use, is their decision to give us all of the string sections laid out across the entire keyboard. The sections respond to keyboard velocity, going from sustained longs to short and tight marcatos.
The upper keys allow you to switch between various playing styles. This makes working on ideas virtually effortless, as the basic articulations are at your fingertips.
So in your battle to conquer the next challenging project, Angel Strings could be the secret weapon you are looking for to overthrow the powers of darkness forever.
Auddict & United Strings of Europe
Angel Strings (Affiliate Link) Vol.1 is another collaboration between Auddict and the fantastic “United Strings of Europe”, a London-based ensemble made up of young professionals from across the European Union and Switzerland with the goal of promoting musical and cultural cooperation at the highest level.
The ensemble is gaining recognition for its exciting performances in Switzerland, France, Lebanon and the UK. With several world premieres of works by Hristic, Marinkovic and Winkler, the ensemble has collaborated with a number of distinguished artists including Hildegarde Fesneau, Marc Benzekri, Mateja Marinkovic, Jack Liebeck, Walter Delahunt and Ljubisa Jovanovic.
This library was recorded at Angel Studios in London, where countless pop/rock stars have recorded (notably Adele’s “21”), and many major film and video game scores have been recorded, including The Lion King, Jackie, Blue Planet, Planet Earth, Horizon: Zero Dawn and many more.
THE POWER AND FASCINATION WITH STRINGS
The concept of having an entire string orchestra under your fingers is very desirable for a keyboard player. Stringed instruments with their wide range of expressions are sometimes hard to capture. Angel Strings provides a convenient way to bridge the gap when it comes to string libraries.
Angel Strings – THE POWER OF 3
Angel Strings Vol. 1 provides three distinct Kontakt NKI patches featuring Longs and Shorts, Bowed Runs and Tremolos, and last but certainly not least, Sound Effects.
SYNCED TREMOLO AND BOWED RUNS
The second NKI gives you a very useful set of tools to generate active parts. The Bowed Runs are a special set of samples that are intended to help things sound more connected while playing certain runs and phrases on the keyboard. There is a slider to fine-tune the tightness of how notes connect to one another.
The Synced Tremolo function inside of Angel Strings (Affiliate Link), provides four slots that work like a step sequencer. You can adjust the number of steps in the pattern, up to eight. Each step can be set to perform a certain dynamic range and can sync to your DAW’s host tempo. Combine this with the ability to switch between the four patterns, you have a great tool to create very dramatic and driving parts right away.
Pricing and Availability
Get 67% Off Angel Strings- for only $59.99 (normally $182.43), get ANGEL STRINGS (Affiliate Link) by AUDDICT (expires June 10th, 2020).
Virtuosic Violin by Auddict Sale
Weighing in at a massive 60 GB, The virtuosic violin by Auddict is a content-rich instrument, with many different articulations, legato modes, and other features, and much like a real violin, takes special care to ensure you get the most out of the instrument.
Everything in VIRTUOSIC VIOLIN (Affiliate Link) has been skilfully programmed to ensure everything is easily and readily accessible, to minimize any “learning time”, and let you get on to writing music with virtuosic violin as soon as possible.
Slurred and bowed legato were specially sampled so you can correctly and realistically phrase passages. You also get a specially sampled “fast legato” set of intervals, which will allow you to play virtuosic runs and scale passages.
Auddict wanted to make VIRTUOSIC VIOLIN (Affiliate Link) even more musical, so they have once again used their idea of the “phrase builder”, which allows you to select the attack, or beginning sound of a phrase, and then switch around the type of legato throughout a musical phrase.
One huge give-away that an instrument is a sampled one and not a real instrument is how the beginning of every musical phrase sounds the same. A great performer will not sound like this. They will vary the phrase beginnings, and perhaps start some quietly, some with an FP, some with a stutter, and so we have included five options for this, to ensure that your compositions sound evolving, musical, and extremely convincing.
The width of the stereo mic perspective can be changed by dragging the bottom pair of microphones in the interface, and dynamics can be brought up and down by either the mod wheel or expression Midi CC – depending on whether you have MOD or EXP selected in the bottom right hand corner of the instrument GUI, and the shorts’ dynamics are controlled by velocity.
Pricing and Availability
This is a limited-time offer you should not miss, hurry and save! For only $47.99 (normally $120), get VIRTUOSIC VIOLIN (Affiliate Link), The most living, breathing solo violin virtual instrument by Auddict!
Angel Strings Vol. 2 (FLURRIES) by Auddict
For only $54.99 (normally $150), get ANGEL STRINGS VOL. 2 (Affiliate Link) by AUDDICT!
Weighing in at a massive 10GB, ANGEL STRINGS VOL. 2 (Affiliate Link) explores even more specialized string articulations and various orchestral textures. which includes completely unique, never before sampled articulations and an entire string orchestra range playable via keyboard-wide sample maps.
This library was recorded at Angel Studios in London, where countless pop/rock stars have recorded (notably Adele’s “21”), and many major film and video game scores have been recorded, including The Lion King, Jackie, Blue Planet, Planet Earth, Horizon: Zero Dawn and many more.
ANGEL STRINGS: VOL.2 BEGINS
With this Vol.2 of ANGEL STRINGS (Affiliate Link) exploring even more specialized string articulations and various orchestral textures, the Auddict team decided that it will be released as a series of slightly smaller, expansion-pack style libraries. The advantage of this is that you can now choose exactly which articulations and techniques you’d like to purchase and add to your composing palette. These libraries will run separately and do not require Angel Strings Vol.1 to run.
FLURRIES
The “flurries” refer to specially orchestrated sequences of notes played in quick succession by each player, creating a beautiful and lush string sound, which – due to the subtle spontaneity of the individual players – can really create the feeling of a real orchestra playing. We recommend watching the videos and listening to the demos as this is best demonstrated with music rather than words!
The flurries were orchestrated, recorded and programmed/mapped very carefully so that they can be performed, layered in different combinations and blend with other instruments smoothly. The techniques heard in this library are regularly written into orchestral music, whether it be modern film scores or romantic symphonies; however they are not sounds you can simulate even remotely with per-note sample libraries; they require specific orchestration and recording dedicated specially to these techniques, and we have done just that.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
This instrument is organised into five main articulations, each one having an almost keyboard-wide palette of sounds to choose from. The five articulations are named:
- Ionian Flurries 3/5’s
- Aeolian Flurries 3/5’s
- Ionian Flurries + Bar
- Aeolian Flurries + Bar
- Fifths and Unis
The different articulation names refer simply to major and minor tonalities, as well as the notes used/techniques included. “Bar” stands for bariolage, which is a string technique where players quickly sweep the bow up and down the different strings to create quick arpeggios. Ionian can simply be thought of as “major” and Aeolian as “minor”, so depending on whether your music/chord is major or minor, you’d know which articulations to use. Fifths and unis are just that, and can be used in any tonality!.
There is a lot to be explored in this library. Different articulations and flurries can even be used to add interesting harmonic content to your music, beyond the standard root-position chords, but we will leave this up to you; the composer!
Kontakt VST / AU / AAX (full version only – Player/Free version will run for 10 minutes at a time before plugin needs to be re-loaded)
Pricing and Availability
This is a limited time offer you should not miss! ANGEL STRINGS VOL. 2 (Affiliate Link) is available now for just $54.99 from January 11th until January 24th, 2021.
Checking Out Celestial Voices – Calypso
Celestial Voices – Calypso by Auddict is a beautiful and versatile female vocal sample library for Kontakt (FULL version required). The library includes true legato and multiple vowels (Mm, Ah, Eh, Ee, Oh) and even multiple consonants sounds for a unique, true-to-life performance every time. The expressive and emotional performances captured in the Celestial Voices – Calypso library are perfect for adding a human touch to any musical composition. With the inclusion of the phrase ‘neuzeit orbit part 01‘, users can explore new and innovative ways to incorporate these stunning vocal sounds into their music. The combination of the versatile vocal samples and the phrase ‘neuzeit orbit part 01’ creates a truly captivating and otherworldly experience for listeners.
The voice we have is perfect for nuanced. ethereal cinematic music, as well as bold, epic lines and even, can cover more operatic and ethnic territory as well. There’s a really nice resonance in the upper range that can be very powerful depending on the articulation selected (for instance, Mm is almost always intimate and subdued, where Oh and Ah can be quite powerful and bold!)
There are 5 true legato modes, and in a nice touch, you are also able to select from multiple consonant sounds (sah, lah, rah, reh, leh, meh, fee, ree, tee, soh, roh, doh).
This selection will apply to the first word of the legato sequence only, and you can use the included keyswitches to create/morph your own phrases on the fly, all while retaining the super smooth and fluid legato transitions in between each note.
In addition to these features, they’ve recorded multiple mic positions, so you can totally sculpt the sound to be as dry, wet, up close, or as distant as possible. The stage mics allow you to dial in a magical, ethereal sound, while the spot mics offer more detail and power for something bold and epic.
Pricing and Availability
For only $39.99 (normally $106.18), get Celestial Voices – Calypso by AUDDICT!
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