![]() ![]() The Ricochet features the bow bouncing from the string, creating a very interesting and usable colour, while the Power Sustain brings us some hardcore bowing, which would have even Dmitri Shostakovich smiling. Looking at the String Orchestra patch, there are some real gems to be found. In each section, there are similarities to what we saw in the full orchestral patching, but with further articulation options. Moving on from the full orchestral setting and the sections are broken down individually to strings, woodwinds and brass. Sonically, the first Full Orchestral patch out of the box sounds stunningly impressive. Contained within it are five patches which could be regarded as the en masse interpretation of the Ark series.Īll patches here are available in either single or multiple articulation formats, with the latter being open to keyswitching from the bottom of the keyboard, with dynamic control being patch-dependent - which, in the case of the more sustained settings, is achieved from the mod wheel MIDI CC 1. District 1 is described as Elite Orchestral Forces. Now, Metropolis Ark 4 sets out to offer what is arguably an even broader canvas, yet with a tightened sonic focus. Now in its fourth volume, previous incarnations have brought us both loud and quiet extremes and a beating, pulsing orchestra. T he Metropolis Ark series from Orchestral Tools has never been one to disappoint. More articles by this author.Who you gonna call when you need a crack team of orchestral samples? Maybe the fantastic 4 from Orchestral Tools. I have experienced some bugginess with Capsule on my Logic Pro X- VE Pro 5 rig, but nothing horrible and the very nice folks at OT are working with me to get to the bottom of it as it is not being widely reported and therefore may well be system specific. It is all about power, control, and executing epic music quickly and efficiently and once you know it well, it will do all that and sound gorgeous doing so. If you are looking for a complete orchestral collection with a complete set of individual instruments capable of great subtlety, this is not the library for you. As you would expect, it is here where you can set keys and controllers to either auto assign or custom assign them to behave in the manner you like. But as you can see in Pic 4, there are additional controls for legato volume, purging, presets, soloing mics, etc. The Mixer view is where you choose and blend your mic positions, as I already displayed in Pic 2. It is way too deep to go into here and frankly since I am in the beginning stages of learning it, so I will simply link you to the Orchestral Tools tutorials that you will want to watch. It is here that you can take advantage of the unique polyphonic keyswitching feature that allows you to create keyswitches to control blend, morph, or switch articulations. ![]() This is where you can control the things you most commonly control and the Multi Slot view. This page will look different from instrument to instrument, and even more so on multi articulations than single articulations. The main page is the Performance view that you see in Pic 3. Capsule in an acronym for Control And Performance. My personal favorites are the choirs, French horns, and trumpets.īut everything in this library is ballsy. This is something synthetic not synthy about them to my ears, but that is very subjective and you may well disagree. The sounds are uniformly excellent and depending on your mic positions choices, you can hear more or less of the Teldex sound, although even with just the close mic, it is pretty wet compared to some others. When you switch mic positions, it has an auto-gain feature that adjusts the levels to previous levels. It includes five mic positions: close, spot, Decca tree, AB distance and surround, loading the close and Decca tree mics by default. There are patches with multiple articulations and lot of single articulations, some of which you see in Pic 1. It includes high and low strings high and low choirs bassoons and contrabassoons trumpets, trombones, cimbassi, tubas and a smaller and a larger section of french horns percussion and piano a guitar ensemble with left and right separate instruments, electric bass, and a drum kit. ![]() And yet, I tell you this is a terrific sounding library, as you will hear in the demos on the Orchestral Tools website. I am somewhat notorious for writing many times in forum discussions that. You are about to read a positive review from me about a product that in theory I should not like. Jay Asher on Jul 10, in Review 0 comments.
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