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72% off SALE “String Flow Collection” by Ben Osterhouse

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4 years ago

Wednesday, 3 June 2020

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72% off SALE “String Flow Collection” by Ben Osterhouse

The “String Flow Collection” by Ben Osterhouse enables a technique string player to perform, in which they quickly roll the bow across the strings to produce a dynamic, chordal texture.

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If you are looking for an inspirational, niche string sound to add splashes of color and realism to your music, these instruments part of “String Flow Collection” (Affiliate Link) are for you!

With “String Flow Collection” (Affiliate Link) you can traverse in-depth a unique and wonderful string texture that cannot be discovered easily in any other library. This bundle features the following instruments:

String Flow Violin
String Flow Viola
String Flow Cello

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These instruments are ideally suited for intimate Film and TV scoring, or any state that requires realistic and private string textures and movement.

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How The String Flow Instruments Work

Every instrument in this collection samples a technique string players use, in which they quickly roll the bow across the strings to create an energetic, chordal texture.

There are 2 ways to play these instruments:

The first way is simple: just choose what type of chord you want, what key to be in, and then play on the white keys. Whatever you play will pick a harmony which will fit into whatever key you’ve chosen. It’s kind of like the “Harmonize” factory scripts in Kontakt, except that in this case, all of the harmonies had to be manually recorded!
The second way to play requires more knowledge of the instrument, and is more flexible. If you play a chord that has been recorded, the instrument will play that chord on violin. The midi clips which come with the instrument demonstrate which chords work.

String Flow Collection Features

The interface reacts to notes played, displaying what the music notation would look like to the player, and also showing which voicing, inversion, and key the chord is in. This could be educational for those looking to write music for live musicians.
Comes with a collection of midi clips to introduce the instrument. These include a collection of short progressions, and examples of all the possible voicings.
Each chord was played for 4 measures (about 9 seconds). Loops are enabled for all samples.
Automatically tempo-syncs to project tempo. The samples were recorded at 100BPM. 85 – 160BPM sounds good, and the optimal tempo is 120BPM, and the optimal tempo is 120BPM.
Chords are organized into 4 different types of voicings – Closed spacing, open spacing, 7th chords, and open 5ths.
The closed spacing chords were recorded in both major and minor, and in all 3 inversions. The 7th chords include a dominant 7th, minor 7th, and major 7th voicing.
Except for the open 5ths voicings, each chord recorded at 2 velocity layers, and each velocity layer has a normal version and a ponticello version, which can be crossfaded between using the mod wheel. This is a good way to add motion to the sound.
The louder velocity layer has rubato which adds contrast and brings out the bassline.

Pricing and Availability

If you are looking for an inspiring, niche string sound to add splashes of color and realism to your music, “String Flow Collection” (Affiliate Link) is for you! 72% off the normal price (normally €102)!

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Loot Audio Awards £20,000 of Prizes in a Competition for Music Producers

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3 years ago

Thursday, 20 May 2021

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Loot Audio Awards

Loot Audio is running an exclusive competition from May 12th, 2021 until the end of May, with over £1,500 worth of prizes, and a free gift for the first 1,500 entrants, totaling over £20,000 in value.

Main Prizes Include

First Prize – Native Instruments S49 Keyboard

Second Prize – Roli Equator 2 Synth

Third Prize – 3 x Soundiron products: Hyperion String Elements, Apocalypse Elements and Glitch Hero

Runner Up Prizes

There will also be a minimum of 18 runner-up prizes, and the first 1,500 entrants will receive their choice of free product (Choose between Pipe Festival 2, Fameboy or Cinemate). There are 500 copies of each to give away. Each entry will be able to choose which gift they want and receive a unique code for use on the website.

Ben Osterhouse
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DJ Swivel
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3 x £50 Gift Vouchers to use on Loot Audio
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Competition

The competition will run from May 12th, 2021, and requires entrants to fill in their email addresses on the dedicated landing page https://www.lootaudio.com/competition. The competition will end on June, 8^th 2021, and the winner will then be picked at random on 9^th June 2021 and the winners will be notified via email on June, 14^th 2021.

Ben Osterhouse

Library Spotlight – Pattern Strings & Oscillation Strings by Ben Osterhouse

Published

4 years ago

Friday, 12 February 2021

Thorsten Meyer

Library Spotlight – Pattern Strings & Oscillation Strings

Ben Osterhouse’s Pattern Strings offers a unique approach to ostinatos by providing a collection of tempo-synced rhythmic fragments.

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60% off “Pattern Strings” by Ben Osterhouse

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4 years ago

Wednesday, 10 February 2021

Thorsten Meyer

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Sale on “Pattern Strings” by Ben Osterhouse

“Pattern Strings” offers innovative access to ostinatos by providing a collection of tempo-synced rhythmic fragments. These 19 rhythms have been recorded at two dynamic layers on violin, viola, cello, and bass, with 4 round robins.

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“Pattern Strings” (Affiliate Link) by Ben Osterhouse is a library for creating ostinato string patterns. It can achieve a wide range of moods, from lightly pulsating string beds to pounding, energetic textures.

This unique library is ideally suited to:

Intimate Film Scoring
TV Music
Chamber Music

If you are looking for an inspiring, realistic string ostinato sound, this instrument is for you!

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Pattern Strings Features

8.5GB (compressed)
Dynamic loading script makes the instrument easy on memory, and provides the user a wide array of sounds from a single nki
Endlessly customizable ostinato string patterns
Assignable keyswitches
Two pattern lanes with crossfade function
Panning for individual instruments
Panning for each sequencer lane
Randomise patterns
Remove individual pattern parts using a backspace function (instead of having to clear the entire pattern)
Voice limit halves if only one pattern has rhythms in it. This saves memory.
All the combinations of instruments have been rendered down, both single and with stereo doubling. This makes it possible to layer instruments together without so much memory and cpu.

How Does Pattern Strings Work?

19 rhythms have been recorded at two dynamic layers on violin, viola, cello, and bass, and each rhythm was recorded as a 4 bar loop. The interface allows you to seamlessly piece together sections of these loops in order to create endlessly customizable ostinato string patterns.

Because the samples are so long, the interface was designed with a dynamic loading system which only loads whichever samples are needed for the current pattern and chosen instrumentation.

This interface is great for experimenting and learning how strings can blend together.

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Drag and Drop – You can drag rhythms in the center to either of the pattern strips. If you want to change the order of the rhythms you can do that too, by dragging them around.
Legato – With legato turned on, new notes start synced with previous held notes. This way it’s possible to create convincing lines by changing notes according to the rhythms, as seen in the demos.
Automatic Bow direction – Pattern Strings plays downbow samples on downbeats and upbow samples on upbeats to create a natural ebb and flow between beats.
Tempo Sync – The tempo syncing can be set to half speed or double speed. Some of the samples were recorded at 90bpm, and others at 80bpm. So, let’s say you’re working at 160bpm. This would mean that the 90bpm samples would be time stretched to twice their original speed! To make up for this, you could use the Tempo Sync option to set the speed to be half as fast.
Dynamic Loading – Because there are so many samples, the interface was designed with a dynamic loading system so that it only loads what you need. In order to make it more efficient, combinations of instruments have been rendered together, saving on voice count and memory. This way if all instruments are enabled, it will use the same amount of memory and CPU as if only one instrument was enabled.
Double – Beef up the sound of an instrument by turning on doubling. Stereo-doubled samples have been rendered down, so turning this on won’t increase the number of voices or memory needed.
Custom keyswitches – Say you’re using Pattern Strings on a track, and you have a couple of different variations you want to use at different parts of the track. Rather than opening up multiple instances, you could save variations into keyswitches. Just click “Map”, then click on one of the colored keys at the very bottom of the keyboard, and Voilà, the current pattern can now be recalled by that key!
Random – Generate a random sequence of rhythms, and perhaps you will find something useful.

The interface utilizes an intuitive drag and drop mechanic which allows you to arrange the rhythms into sequences in which all the rhythms flow together with natural phrasing and musicality.

With “Pattern Strings” (Affiliate Link) you can explore in-depth unique beautiful string ostinato textures that cannot be found in any other library. It features the following instruments in one intuitively designed Kontakt interface:

Violin
Viola
Cello
Bass

“Pattern Strings” (Affiliate Link) is ideally suited to intimate Film Scoring, TV Music, Chamber Music, or any situation that requires realistic ostinato string textures.