- Product: Space Age Strings
- Developer: Authentic Soundware
- Type: Midcentury studio strings
- Requirements: Kontakt v6.7 or later
This highly-anticipated addition to the Space Age Orchestra line brings the authentic sound of midcentury studio strings to your digital audio workstation. Featuring a small violin section performing stylistically-specific articulations and techniques, Space Age Strings delivers the vintage personality and charm of your favorite recordings from yesteryear.
Create gliding melodies and lush chords with vintage portamento legato and romantic vibrato in the style of iconic arrangers such as Henry Mancini and Nelson Riddle. Then dial in your ideal tone using the selection of vintage and modern mic positions. These sounds will transport your next production to the Space Age!
This library features a small violin section of nine players recorded in a large studio using a selection of vintage and modern microphones, faithfully recreating the sound of classic studio recordings from the 1950s and ’60s.
Features
- Small section size for an intimate studio sound
- 12 of articulations including legato, pizzicato, marcato, spiccato, tremolo, trills, and more
- 5 legato types with user-defined velocity zones, optional speed detection
- Vintage romantic vibrato with dedicated espressivo intensity control
- Retro pizzicato with lively performance repetition samples
- Trills Arranger — play polyphonic trills and chord tremolos on a single MIDI channel, with three modes including diatonic chord trill support
- Runs Arranger — play realistic, performance-sampled runs in any key, any scale type, from any note to any note, with control over duration, dynamics, and resolution
- 5 microphone positions
- Onboard tape, echo, tone, and limiter effects
- Custom retro reverb IR
- Flexible articulation switching via key switch or MIDI CC
