The first wave of orchestral releases was dominated by strings, and at first it seemed unlikely that an intensively sampled collection like (say) the Denny Jaeger Master Violin Library would ever have a brass equivalent.

Our comprehensive product guide shines a spotlight on the current contenders.īrass instruments are a vital component of orchestral sample libraries, but it wasn’t always so. The 1.6 Edition of Symphobia 3: Lumina offers over 16 new features, including improved control over articulation locking, legato performance, round robin and mic output routing.With so much choice on offer, picking the right brass library for your music can be tricky.

42 GB library in Kontakt’s compressed sample format (81 GB uncompressed).

Split sections for selected textures (1.1 update).

Real-time mixing of direct, ambient & wide mics.

Guest instruments (including celtic harp & double bass).

Legato instruments (including soprano voice).

Chamber ensembles (including solo strings & soprano choir).

Ensemble recordings (featuring full orchestra & choir).

Designed for film, TV & video game scoring.

The exact sections available differ per texture instrument. In SYMPHOBIA 3: LUMINA 1.1, the majority of orchestral textures now offer the ability to perform the following sections individually: strings, choir, woodwinds, piano/harp/percussion. We booked new recording sessions to record individual sections for the library’s textures, worth 7 GB* of new samples. Because of the many different musical elements and well-thoughout controllers, they work great for live situations too, such as a theater show or songwriter performance. Stories are great sources of inspiration, and useful starting points for a new track or arrangement. Also, the Elements tab allows you to tweak each element separately. In this way, the library’s ensembles, solo instruments and textures all take part in a bigger Story.Įlements within a Story can be individually purged from RAM, or instantly muted using assigned mute keys. Using clever keyboard mapping and controller assignments, Stories give you numerous musical features on one keyboard − all within a single Kontakt track.

Symphobia 3: Lumina builds on this concept by combining ensembles and instruments into thematic ‘Stories’. Multis are a much cherished feature of the Symphobia series.

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