Variants range from the dulcimer to the Koto, with countless other flavors unique to each region and culture. Zithers are a broad family of hollow-bodied string instruments common throughout all of Europe and Asia. I will definitely continue using this as a main strings library for most of my projects.This enchanting little instrument is a simple 8-string fretless zither, roughly 12 x 20 inches in size. That being said, I highly recommend CSS as a main strings library because you do get the standard articulations, and it just sounds so beautiful. I’ll use the Classic Legato patches when I’m short on time, they sound beautiful as well. When it comes to the playability, it’s great, and you get incredibly realistic performances, but it’s a bit tricky to get right with the, albeit conscious, slightly higher latency of the legato transitions (it takes quite a few ms before anything actually happens when I play an interval) and the short articulations. It has a bit of a processed, extra powerful sound, but still sounds very realistic and cinematic – a quality that isn’t that easy to find. The realism and beauty of this library is so far unrivaled for commercial strings my opinion, and that is partly due to the scripting, especially with the legato.Ĭinematic Studio Strings is an ensemble strings library that works in the free Kontakt Player, sounds great out of the box and is easy to start using in any project that needs lush, powerful and wide strings. That being said, once you spend some extra time after recording, I absolutely love how Cinematic Strings scripted the legato, as it sounds gorgeous and very fluid. Luckily, Cinematic Strings let us have the Classic Legato patches with one legato transition sample with little to no transition time! I value performance and playability highly and quick/no latency is one of the things I look for in libraries. The legato script under the hood is geniusas you can choose adaptive legato (where it adapts to your playing), but it sometimes feels a little bit too sluggish to play almost like there’s a few ms added latency. This is however a conscious choice from Cinematic Strings as it increases realism under the hood. I am typically a composer who enjoys virtual instruments that just work straight out of the box and are very easy to load up and play to record my musical ideas.Ĭinematic Studio Strings, while it has a fantastic GUI, gorgeous realistic sound and is very easy to load up and start playing right out of the box, lacks a little bit in quickness in both the legato and shorts articulations. I would like a more fluid transition where the violins smoothly fade out like they do in many other libraries, like the Spitfire full ensemble libraries. When I’m playing around the area of the lowest notes of the violins, there is a discrepancy in sound because if you play the F or F# below the lowest G, the entire left sound field disappears because the violins can’t play there. Really nice.Ĭinematic Strings have mapped the Full and Lite Ensemble patches a little bit lazily. It really feels like the string players are digging into their strings when I’m smashing my keys hard, and gently touching the strings when I’m playing softly. You can choose, mix and route the sample sources you want through the different mic positions, which is quite standard these days. In CSS, you can hear the proximity of the bow on the strings through the close mics. Like any good real orchestral recording, the close mics do a lot to add definition. Bravo, you crazy guy, Daniel. Why you so good?!
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