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UVI SoundSource Ircam Solo Instrum
Even if you haven't heard of UVI SoundSource I can assure you that you have. It's the company that made the engine for MOTU's range of instruments and samplers. Match 5, BPM and a few others. They also made UVI Workstation that you can get for free from their site and last, but not least, they have made a lot of high quality sound libraries. Some libraries for MOTU and plenty for their own company. I own some of their libraries and all are well recorded and highly usable. Their "Mayhem Of Loops" is my all time favourite library. You can't find a piece of my music that doesn't contain at least one loop from this library. So, now we have an Ircam Solo Instruments library. Any difference from the other UVI libraries? In the matter of quality, definitely not! Ircam Solo Instruments In most orchestral libraries you can find a bunch of solo patches - or instruments, even the good ones. So, why should you spend extra money for this library? The answer is hidden under the term known as articulations, or if you are new to the orchestral world, different playing techniques. Ircam Solo Instruments library contains an exceeding number of different articulations, common ones along with great number of those that can be heard mainly on solo instrumental parts or on recordings of small chamber orchestras, but almost never in sample library packs. So, if you just need a string, trumpet or oboe sound to enhance your hip hop recording, than this is definitely not the library for you, but if you want to record a short solo part with plenty of character, fake the real 40
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December 2011