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Venice Modern Strings by FluffyAudio Released
If Venice were a violin, the canals would be its strings, gondolas would be its player and the sea its luthier.
Everything about Venice resembles an age-old fairy tale, or, as observed by Gerolamo Bardi, more than four centuries ago in his “About the Notable Things of Venice”; an impossible-possibility, a grandiose wonder, standing so far from the norm that it even can’t be considered a human creation but instead has to be placed unswervingly in the realm of God. Venice Modern Strings by has been released now and available for an introductory price for 349$ / € till June, 20th!
Along with Brescia and Cremona, Venice has given rise to some of the most renowned master luthiers, setting the benchmark for perfection in violin craftsmanship and sound. With this in mind, we decided to sample an Orchestra from Venice and its surrounding areas in the city of Crema, aiming to achieve a modern sound whilst maintaining these same traditions and aspirations for perfection.
When FluffyAudio started they could only dream about sampling an Orchestra. At that time the idea seemed inconceivable, something of dreams, at least as hard and improbable as building a city on the sea. Well, that day has now arrived, and, despite some skepticism, sooner than we could have ever imagined.
Matteo Marzaro, Glauco Bertagnin, Leonardo Sapere, Alessandro Pandolfi and Michele Maulucci are just some of the tremendous musicians the FluffyAudio team have had the honor to work with. The Orchestra is their family and Venice their theatre. They have learned to breathe together, and together with music, they form the soul, flesh, and blood of one of the most incredible organisms that humankind has ever envisioned and achieved: The Orchestra.
Venice Modern Strings Features
- Complete String Orchestra (8, 6, 5, 5, 3)
- 4 Stereo Mic Positions
- 3 True Legato Techniques: Portamento, Legato and Bow-Change Legato
- Polyphonic Legato
- Ensembles, Individual Patches and Low Memory Patches
- Morph Controls for custom creation of evolving sustained patches
- No need to manually download the library thanks to Pulse software (manual links available anyway)
- 114000+ Samples
- 55 GB installed (compressed in NCW format)
- The full version of Native Instruments Kontakt 5.8.1 or above is required – NOT COMPATIBLE WITH KONTAKT PLAYER
- 24 bit / 48 kHz stereo
Virtual Instrument Library
It’s Black Friday 2020 at FluffyAudio!
Save up to 80% Storewide
Save up to 80% Storewide till December the 3rd! Fluffy Audio offers the lowest prices on several of their products.
My personal top selections are Dominus Choir Pro, Dominus Choir, Spaghetti Western and Venice Modern Strings.
Virtual Instrument Library
Simple Ukulele by FluffyAudio
Simple Ukulele
Simple Ukulele contains samples of a beautiful tenor ukulele (by FluffyAudio), with a warm and sustained sound.
Simple Ukulele Features
- 1.5 GB .ncw compressed sample pool
- 2 instrument patches, melodic and strumming
- 3 different sustain positions with 3 dynamics and 4 RR
- 2 mic positions (spot and mid-close)
- 2+ octaves note range
- Legato articulation (hammer-on and pull-off)
- Sampled plucking the strings with nails and fingertips (for upstrokes and downstrokes strumming)
- 4 different “chuck” sound positions, for a more realistic strumming
- Colors articulation with lots of percussive sounds (knocking and striking the ukulele’s body and strings)
- Advanced strum engine with upstrokes and downstrokes strumming patterns, chucks, input quantize, strum designer and velocity control
During this somewhat particular 2020, FluffyAudio tried to imagine themselves on a Hawaiian beach. The sound of the ocean, the sea breeze, surfers riding the waves of the ocean, and of course the unmistakable sound of the ukulele! So here it is an instrument that in its simplicity is able to evoke atmospheres full of colors and emotions.
Simple Ukulele features the new Fluffy Audio Strummer 2.5, a new version of the strumming engine developed in Rinascimento and Spaghetti Western.
Pricing and Availability
Simple Ukulele is available now. Intro price available!
FluffyAudio
Cory’s Library Spotlight – Venice Modern Strings
Cory’s Library Spotlight – Venice Modern Strings
Venice Modern Strings is a sampled string orchestra for Kontakt 5 which features 8 first violins, 6 second violins, 5 violas, 5 cellos and 3 doublebasses.
The library features three kinds of legato: portamento, fingered legato and bow change legato. These can be triggered either by velocity, by MIDI CC or by Pitchwheel. Moreover there’s a control for the amount of vibrato.
There’s a polyphonic legato engine, mainly derived by Dominus, Staccato and Staccatissimo articulations, Short and Long Arcs and a small selection of sustain articulations. Every articulation has a set of advanced controls: you can change the parameters to have a more agile legato, dynamically stretch the Arcs to adapt them into your piece or control the velocity curve for articulations like Pizzicato, Staccato and Staccatissimo.
All the long articulations may be modulated by the morph engine: this allows to create custom articulations by dynamically modulating two different string techniques, in many different ways.
The library also includes single articulation patches, ensembles and low memory footprint patches.
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