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Legion Series: 66 Tubas by 8Dio Review
Legion Series: 66 Tubas by 8Dio Review
With 66 Tubas 8Dio continues their Legion Series – a range of instruments dedicated to addressing distinct requirements when you are producing epic cinematic music.
66 Tubas Session image
8Dio has been very successful in the film score industry. Professional composers and producer use 8Dio libraries for their trailer, advertisement underscore, and film score.
The new brass virtual instrument 66 Tubas which is part of 8Dio’s Legion Series is for you when you need to reach for monumental brass and a substantial element added to their music. 8DIO send a review copy with no strings attached.
Installation
After the purchase, you receive the required codes from 8DIO to download the library to your hard drive. 8DIO offers a tool to transfer all needed files from the cloud to your local hard drive. After you downloaded the library, you do a batch resave in Kontakt. This library requires the full version of Kontakt 5.7 or later. This library is not compatible with free Kontakt Player. 66 Tubas need 9.1GB of Hard Drive Space
Sound
66 Tubas include standard articulations: Sustains, Short Notes, Arcs, Effects, Note-Bends and a large set of new articulations like Dynamic Waves, Tuning Clusters, BPM-based Ostinatos, Bridge FX.
This is the second instance of their legion series. I liked 66 Basses which is an original loud bottom end bass library for epic cinematic scoring. 66 Basses sound enormous, the sound of many of the included patches is big and grand. You can instantly write a big sounding piece (example below) or enhance your score.
Beside the conventual microphone positions, 8Dio included recordings from a binaural stereo microphone allows you to be in a spot where the conductor was located. The idea behind the binaural mic is moving the listener into the scene of the original performance. While using it, I did rarely hear a sound that reminded me of a synthetic sound, which was not expected. Other Microphone Positions are: Mix, Decca, Wide, Far, Trailer Mix, Spot 1 Independent Position, Spot 2 Independent Position, Spot 3, Independent Position, Spot 4 Independent Position, and Spot 5 Independent Position
I do prefer libraries like this one where you can dial in the room through additional mics that captured the sound generated in that location. Keep in mind playing this massive amount of Tubas is supposed to sound epic big and blow the audience away.
The included arc shine and not only since the release of Chamber Evolutions (by Ólafur Arnalds and published by SpitFire Audio). I am a big fan of libraries that support waves and moving sound. This library includes excellent sounding tuba waves.
User interface & Usability
Since the Century Brass and Strings libraries, 8Dio has found a new interface which works for me. The UI allows you to switch articulations fast, the simplified sequencer, effects and mixer pages are well designed. I am thrilled with the changes 8Dio made to the UI overall.
Legion Series- 66 Tubas by 8Dio Review UI
66 Tubas Session
https://soundcloud.com/8dawn/sets/8dio-66-tuba
Rating: Four out of five stars
66 Tubas is notably unusual and unprecedented when it comes to brass libraries. Overall you can produce big sounding tubas timbres lines that are just monstrous, the included ARCs shine and make this library a special one. The library is for composers who are in need of some particular sounding brass sounds and works well with the existing 66 Basses also from 8Dio library.
Virtual Instrument Library
Solo Clarinet – Warm Studio Woodwinds – The Next Evolution of 8Dio’s Woodwind Ensembles
Warm Studio Woodwinds: Solo Clarinet
Warm Studio Woodwinds is the latest creation in 8Dio’s range of contemporary studio ensembles. It is derived from 8Dio’s Intimate Studio Woodwinds library. With over 160 hours of session material recorded at Scotland’s Premiere Recording Studio – Gorbals Sound, and countless more in post-production, Warm Studio Woodwinds continues 8Dio’s notion of a fully modular ensemble.
Unprecedented control over your sound
The sound of the Warm Studio Woodwinds Solo Clarinet is easily customizable with the wealth of options in the advanced user interface. You’ll have extreme control over the stereo image with individual volume, panning, output routing, and the new distance control, enabling you to freely blend between a direct signal and a more spacious and ambient microphone position.
Every articulation needed for your next composition
Warm Studio Woodwinds Solo Clarinet contains a vast collection of 26 articulations covering everything you need to create authentic-sounding woodwind melodies. Each articulation is sorted into four main categories making them all quickly and easily accessible from the inbuilt browser. Choose from articulations such as a Staccato, Staccatissimo, Sustains, Trills and Legato from the Traditional Category. Or choose more nuanced techniques such as Measured Tremolo and Tempo Sync’d phrase such as Tuplets and Triplets from 8Dio’s Performance category. Finally, the Arcs and Effects categories contain Dynamically layered Arcs of varying lengths and a range of effects such as directional Runs, Scoops, and Flutter Tonguing. The User interface allows you to load and unload the articulations of your choosing, so you only have to have to load the sounds you need for your project.
The Solo Clarinet soulfully blends into any mix
The Legato articulation is incredibly agile and can play almost anything you throw at it. We recorded each player in this series simultaneously so that each musician would be working with one another and adapt their playing styles and coloration to match the overall sound of the ensemble. Recording each player this way means that no matter your combination of instruments, the Warm Studio Woodwind instruments will fit with any ensemble and beautifully blend together. So whether you compose for an ensemble setting or virtuoso Solo Clarinet lines, Warm Studio Woodwinds Solo Clarinet will sound excellent in any setting.
Pricing and Availability
Warm Studio Woodwinds: Solo Clarinet is available now.
Virtual Instrument Library
8Dio Hybrid Tools Terminus
8Dio Hybrid Tools Terminus
8Dio Terminus is the latest in their Hybrid Tools series and has quickly made it into a wealth of blockbuster movies, games, and TV-shows. Terminus contains 1,200 custom cinematic instruments and FX. The sound is undeniably big, modern and studio clean with everything polished to perfection.
- Pro-Grade Cinematic Instruments
- Kontakt VST / AU / AAX
- 4 Core Instrument Classes (Drums, Hybrids, Orchs, Synths)
- 4 x 100’s of Cinematic Hits, Blockbuster Slams & Cres Slams
- 4 x 100’s of Subwoofer Hits, Short and Long Falls
- 4 x 100’s of Short and Long Risers
- 4 Epic Beautiful Instrument banks: Ear Candy
- 2 Transitional Banks of Tonal Strum Effects
- Built-In Chaos Effects & Embedded Meta-Data
- 4K Master Class w/ Troels (The Captain w/ MIDI + Stems)
- Full Retail Version of Kontakt 5.6 (or later) Required
Terminus is the result of over 18 months of deep production and contains four different types of core instrument groups, Percussive/Drums, Epic/Hybrid, Neo-Orchestral and Synth-Based. All four core groups each contain seven banks, Hits, Slams, Sub Hits, Short and Long Falls, and Short and Long Risers.
In addition, Terminus contains an array of new instrument categories, including 4 banks of Ear Candy. Ear Candy is designed to enhance your existing compositions with big, beautiful, ethereal, and angelic textural elements. We also created two additional banks of Strums. Strums are tonal and a-tonal transitional elements – creating a transparent, colorful movement of cinematic textures.
Terminus also comes fully ready for integration into the sound file management system of your choice with industry-standard embedded Meta-Data.
Pricing and Availability
Terminus is available now during the Eternal Summer Sale: $198 (goes $348 on September,23rd 2020)
Virtual Instrument Library
8Dio’s Solo Violin & Solo Cello Designer $38 each (normally $198)
8Dio’s Solo Violin & Solo Cello Designer SALE
The Solo Designer instruments are a massive collection of thousands of real cello & violin phrases. The intention of the library was to sample completely realistic solo violin & solo cello by creating an incredible collection of musical phrases.
8Dio programmed the library in a way that gives you maximum control over the phrases and literally allows you to sculpt 100% realistic solo violin & solo cello performances. It was deliberately designed to support, augment, and in some cases replace existing solo violin libraries. Essentially this library takes over where normal multi-samples (ex. legato, sustains) can’t perform.
Solo Violin Designer
SOLO VIOLIN DESIGNER Virtual Instrument VST is a massive collection of over 4.000 phrases performed by renowned concert violinist: Thomas Yee. The intention of the library was to sample completely realistic solo violin by creating an incredible collection of musical phrases. We programmed the library in a way that gives you maximum control over the phrases and literally allows you to sculpt 100% realistic solo violin performances. It was deliberately designed to support, augment and in some cases replace existing solo violin libraries. Essentially this library takes over where normal multi-samples (ex. legato, sustains) can’t perform.
SOLO VIOLIN DESIGNER comes with a variety of phrase sculpting tools, including pitch-control, time-stretching / time-compression, sample offset (which allows you to “scroll” into any phrase and trigger any part of it, FX and convolution reverbs. The pitch-control is not affected by tempo, so by controlling pitch, time-stretching/compression and sample offset you can essentially adapt the phrase to match the pitch and tempo of your composition.
Solo Cello Designer
SOLO CELLO DESIGNER Virtual Instrument VST is a massive collection of over 1.800 phrases. The intention of the library was to sample completely realistic Solo Cello by creating an incredible collection of musical phrases. We programmed the library in a way that gives you maximum control over the phrases and literally allows you to sculpt 100% realistic solo cello performances. It was deliberately designed to support, augment and in some cases replace existing solo cello libraries. Essentially this library takes over where normal multi-samples (ex. legato, sustains) can’t perform. We call this concept, deep phrase-sampling.
SOLO CELLO DESIGNER comes with a variety of phrase sculpting tools, including pitch-control, time-stretching / time-compression, sample offset (which allows you to “scroll” into any phrase and trigger any part of it, FX and convolution reverbs. The pitch-control is not affected by tempo, so by controlling pitch, time-stretching/compression and sample offset you can essentially adapt the phrase to match the pitch and tempo of your composition.
Pricing and Availability
Solo Violin & Solo Cello Designer $38 Each. Plus, receive Requiem Pro FREE with any purchase of $298 or more.
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