much RAM. Thankfully every articulation can be unloaded from the main preset, so in less than a minute I had my staccato, legato (or Arco), marcato, tremolo, half trill and whole trill saved as a separate presets. Same for first violins, second violins, cellos, basses, violas, full orchestra along with light version of full orchestra. All instruments Another nice feature, a very share a similar window where clever solution, is the ability to almost everything can be control the volume of legato unloaded to save more RAM. strings through the mod-wheel. Nothing revolutionary, but with a Various microphone positions, close, room or stage can be bit of practice it proves to be an mixed, loaded and unloaded. instant solution providing excellent results without any need There's also a big knob for blending the hall reverb. for further programming. Also legato strings comes with one nice programmed ability to recognize One click away is an advanced how fast you are playing, adapting window where we can adjust the sustain and release time for the the transitions between notes staccato, staccatissimo and according to that. pizzicato articulations. Neat and Many other string libraries have a very useful for very fast short problem with lazy basses, but not phrases or passages. There are a few more small additional this one. The basses are soft but controllers and fine tuners and at the same time very punchy tweakers, don't want to bore you with strong, almost aggressive attack. Staccato basses share the with all dirty details, but all in all same abilities as staccato strings, everything you need is there. The point is, that you will not need so they sound really vivid and much additional tweaking, as the dynamic. Pizzicato basses are main goal of library creator Alex deep and soft but well defined Wellbank was to make a library with nice attack and a slamming that will allow the end user to sound when you hit the highest make an arrangement that sounds velocity. authentic, without losing too much time on additional A��������� programming. Thankfully Cinematic Strings 2 comes with the free Kontakt I'm the living proof that he Player so you don't need any succeeded. After a few hours additional software to run it. At exploring all the abilities of this first I was a bit surprised when I library (mainly for reviewing saw just a few presets, one for purpose – the library itself is “read every instrument, allowing you to a few sentence and play” – so reach all the articulations on the after a few minute you are ready fly through the keyswitches. Nice to go) I decided to make two if you like it this way, but for my arrangements just with Cinematic taste, this solution consumes too Strings 2. I spent less then half an normal staccato preset. All presets or modes can be changed through the keyswitch function. (For library newcomers: keyswitchs mean that you can change articulations or presets simply by pressing the appropriate low key on your keyboard.)
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hour on each one. All you have to do is to play legato notes with your right hand, tweaking the modulation with the left or in the worst scenario re-recording the modulation wheel separately depends how skilled you are! On the Cinematic Strings site you can find a few tutorial video clips along with midi files representing what you can do with the library along with a few nice tips and tricks. Very useful and very informative. Highly recommended to watch them all before you start your arrangement.
C�������� ������ There were only two things that bothered me. The first one is velocity. I wrote that the velocity range in this library is a bonus, it is true, but the problem is that Alex is one of those piano trained fellows who obviously uses a heavy weighted keyboard, and therefore I had to set velocity compression level on my midi track to get similar results with my keyboard (or to change velocity curve on my keyboard, which is not so simple) as all his staccato notes (according to his midi files) are much more compressed than was the case with my recording. A "Velocity Curve" button in the main Cinematic Strings 2 window could solve this problem. I had similar problem with MOTU's Symphonic Instrument and they solve it with such a button. One click and everything works as it should. I've talked about this with Alex and he said that they will look to solve this issue in a future update. The second thing is the mod-wheel. On my keyboard (Roland PCR 800) the mod-wheel always resets itself back to zero, causing the