Sonuscore Announces Strings of Winter library for The Orchestra, plus upgrade to The Orchestra Complete

[Reid Rosefelt]

The Orchestra upgrade is a new instrument called Strings of Winter. It has MIDI Export!   It costs $149.

The Orchestra owners can upgrade to The Orchestra Complete for $119.  (Full price is $399) This includes Strings of Winter, plus many new features, including 108 new presets, and the addition of MIDI export to the everything you had before. The Orchestra, Strings of Winter, and Tuned Percussion are now in the Ensemble engine. Minimum requirement is Kontakt Player version 6.0.4.

The Ensembles

The Orchestra

The Complete Library features the revolutionary all-in-one 80 player orchestra - Strings, Brass, Woodwinds, Percussion, Tuned Percussion & Harp, as well as a lush sounding choir.

European String Orchestra

A 41-piece string orchestra split into 5 sections performed a number of detailed and extended techniques for Strings Of Winter (e.g. Trills, Sul Ponticello, Harmonics, Col Legno, Bartók Pizzicato). The resonance and raw complexity of these new articulations was captured in the classic room of Studio 22 in Budapest. All sections were recorded in their traditional seating position.

Mongolian State Morin Khuur Ensemble

The Morin Khuur is the national instrument in Mongolia, also called „horse head fiddle“. The traditional instrument has two strings made of horse hair and is played with a bow also strung with horse hair. This gives the instrument a delicate and airy timbre. The Morin Khuur Ensemble was recorded at White Arch Studios in Ulan Bator with an orchestra of 15 players split into high and low ensemble.

The articulations

The Orchestra features a complete set of up to 6 articulations per instrument, including True Legato.
The complete library drastically expands the strings with 60 unique articulations spread over 7 different sections and additionally 4 different instruments with String Ensemble FX.

Independent arpeggiators and velocity envelopes create vivid and powerful orchestral colors.

Load up to 5 different instruments in independent slots and play them together.

Every slot can be assigned one of five different modules

Take full control over the ensemble

On the Engine page you can access all individual controls for each of the five instrument modules.

Short notes can be arranged with the arpeggiators, while sustained notes can be shaped with the velocity envelope. Create the orchestral colors as you need them and let the magic happen.

Arpeggiator 
The arpeggiator creates fascinating melodic patterns to give your project a rich and lively orchestral feeling. Change the pattern of the arpeggiator with the rhythm stepper. If needed, you can modify almost every parameter to stay in full control of your orchestral color.

Velocity envelope - shape your sustain sounds

The Velocity Envelope adds a recurring dynamic movement to a sustaining note. The centerpiece is the envelope shape, which can be drawn freely.

Export your custom performance

Once you have been inspired by a preset, drag and drop the arrangement of your performance to your DAW. Unleash the power of the ensemble engine onto your personal template, change notes, reinforce the unique sound with other instruments and make the music your own.

Play the instruments freely

Play your ideas and melodies freely with the individual instrument patches. In addition to the ensemble instrument, individual instrument patches and articulations are also available.

Unleash the full orchestral power with multi-track patches

Multis take the Ensemble Engine even further toward instant playability and sound as they load and layer multiple instances of TO - Strings Of Winter. Aside from the Ensemble Instrument, Strings Of Winter also contains 64 single instrument patches from the separate sections and as a bonus full ensemble risers, crescendos, falls and hits.

The samples: rough & edgy - no polished sound:

"The Orchestra" was recorded and processed with the intention to sound a bit rougher and more “honest” than the common orchestral Hollywood sound. It offers an alternative and promises straight and powerful sounds, punch and a vivid musical experience.

The instruments for "The Orchestra" were recorded in Budapest at the renowned Studio 22 in their traditional seating position and mixed and edited with great attention to detail. This way the different sections blend together perfectly in the same room. All essential articulations are available, including playable true legato samples and multiple round robins for short articulations.

Edited June 19, 2019 by Tiger The Frog

[Michael A.D.]

Grabbed this last night.  The timing was right as I had just done the NI Komplete Ultimate upgrade a week earlier so I had Kontakt 6.  (This new version of The Orchestra  might be the program that makes everyone need to have Kontakt 6.)

I did the upgrade to the Orchestra Complete and was surprised to find that it is actually a distinct install to the original Orchestra - it does not affect your original Orchestra.  So, you'll have still have your original and this new 'Complete' version.

I only had time to give it a quick run-through, but I can assure fans of the original that they will be quite happy with all the new presets - there's lots of good fresh stuff.   The Strings of Winter are aptly named - crisp and clear - they're a nice contrast to the original Orchestra strings.   And I gave the Midi export a quick try and it was very easy to use.   

[artturner]

Learn from my mistake and buy it direct from Best Service, unless your euro exchange rate is better than mine. Best Service has it for $119. Sonuscore charged me 111.22 euros which converted to around $129. 

[Reid Rosefelt]

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Edited June 20, 2019 by Tiger The Frog