Cinematic Studio – Strings 1.5 (KONTAKT)

Powerful library of string samples. Cinematic Studio Strings is a library with character. Featuring top Australian musicians and meticulously recorded on a world-class stage, CSS boasts great sound, stunning realistic dynamics and a wide variety of articulations.

With an intuitive and efficient graphical interface, CSS was created to meet the demands of composers working in today’s film, television and video game industries.

If you already have a previous version of the library, you can DOWNLOAD only the update on the manufacturer’s website.

The CSS includes a Hollywood style string section recorded in Australia at Trackdown. From soaring colorful vibrato of high violins to dark and woody textures of low notes of cello and bass, you will be instantly inspired. Our goal was to create an instrument that you can play right away and sound great.

At the heart of the CSS is its state-of-the-art graphical interface, based on our previous critically acclaimed Cinematic Strings 2 library. That means a short but nice patch list, easily assignable key switches and MIDI CCs, and a mixer with output routing options and reverb. … These and many more features are available through the main GUI page.

CSS has a stunningly realistic legato engine. We painstakingly recorded real legato transitions for each note, up and down, including a beautiful portamento. We also recorded “re-bow” samples, which means you can play repetitive legato notes smoothly and with true legato realism.

With flowing legato, punching spiccato, inspirational textural harmonics and con sordino, CSS covers the wide range of sonic palette provided by the world-class stringed section. We have preserved the authentic, human element in the sound, so you will feel as if you are at a concert. With this new level of realism, you will feel comfortable using CSS without reverb; in fact, we recommend it!

We’ve used a variety of great ribbon and condenser mics to record CSS at three distances, which you can combine to create your own unique mix, either inside Kontakt or using the newly enabled output routing option. Alternatively, you can use our pre-mixed combination of all three if you want great sound with less resources. Full and Lite Ensemble patches streamline your workflow and are ideal for sketching or filling a track.

Articulations

• Legato, including legato repetition and portamento
• Spiccato
• Staccatissimo
• Staccato
• Sforzando
• Pizzicato, including Bartok snaps
• Col legno
• Harmonics
• Tremolo
• Trills (half and whole tone)
• Measured tremolo (tremolo sync and free sync)
• Marcato / fast runs
• Con sordino emulation (whole library)