Publisher: Best Service
Website: bestservice
Format: KONTAKT | PLAYER 6.2.2+
Quality: 24 bit 44.1 kHz stereo
Description: Never before has a virtual instrument played with such a level of expression!
Emotional Cello from Munich-based developers Harmonic Subtones is a virtual instrument with a powerful and emotional sound that opens up unknown dimensions of expression. Whether it’s film scoring, pop music production, songwriting, classical music or contemporary, avant-garde cello composition, Emotional Cello shines with a variety of built-in articulations, direct and clear sound, and unusual playing techniques and modulations.
Context Sampling – As with other instruments in the Emotional series, the Munich-based developers have chosen to stay true to their concept of context sampling, in which all samples are always recorded in a musical context to capture the natural performance and expressiveness of real instrumentalists. With this approach, recording real vibrato plays an important role, as they are always more inspiring and organic than adding artificial vibrato.
Articulations, patches, real legato – Emotional Cello was created from over 100 articulations and their variants. Through a thoughtful and intelligent script, countless articulations are connected to each other so that they follow the user’s playing style. The library contains three master patches, including “Emotional Cello”, “Sulponticello” and “Harmonic Cello”. The master patch contains most of the recorded articulations, which logically link together and provide an elegantly aligned sound thanks to “real legato”. Three different types of transitions have been captured in multiple sessions and mimic, among other things, realistic changes in the direction of a bow or a passionate portamento during play. The user simply controls the speed – the tempo of the tone transitions automatically adapts to your DAW! In addition to the patch master, Emotional Cello also contains an individual patch, which is a collection of key switch patches with different articulations of the same category, such as sustaines, shorts, trills, and more. The dedicated patch offers some unusual articulations and effects, and the composite patch contains basic articulations with standardized key switching to match the composite patches of the Emotional Violin & Emotional Viola libraries.
Choice of play styles – Spiccimo & frog, Stacc, Fast Spiccato, Frog Madness, Pizzicato, Delicate, Delicate fast, Proud Vibrato
Hero Vibrato, Martele half NV 8RR, Martele half Vib 4RR, Pickup, Fortepiano, Vivid, Paganini Run, Moderate 2, Sustain Non Vib XFDe, Expressive XFDe, Pastorale, Pastorale slow, Tremolo, Trill HAT,
Trill W.T.
Ornament Key Switches – Ornament Key Switches is another great feature. Unlike the articulation key switches, they are transitional and allow you to change an already selected articulation. By pressing one of the Ornament Key switches, the current play style can be changed to a different articulation or variations can be generated. Last but not least, Ornament MKS offers typical effects such as glissando, harmonic and many more.
Effects – To customize the sound of the cello according to your wishes, you can use effects specially designed for the instrument. These include a 3-band EQ, a switchable mute and a tone function. The latter contains 15 convolution-based presets from well-known and experienced sound engineers for simple and distinctive modulation of the main sound.
To use the cello as a 1st row cello in an orchestral environment, there are also timbre equalizers that place the cello in its correct position in the orchestral space. The finishing touch is provided by the “Room” and “Reverb” modules, which use professionally recorded convolutional reverb presets to reproduce the sound of real environments, and can also be adjusted separately.
You are an artist! – The “Attack” function allows you to add an additional opening sample, regardless of the currently selected articulation, to allow short notes to flow while playing legato or to simulate sharp opening notes. There is an option “Micro Tuning”
Recording – Emotional Cello was recorded at Mastermix studios near Munich, in a wood paneled room with high ceilings and as far away from the wall as possible. For the greatest possible flexibility in use, two Neumann microphones, type KM184 and U87, were used for close recording. So the room was pretty “elusive” and you can create the sound you want with your own effects. However, you can also use the built-in convolution reverb.
