Fluffy Audio – Venice Modern Strings (KONTAKT)

Publisher: Fluffy Audio
Website: Fluffy Audio
Format: KONTAKT 5.8.1+
Quality: 24bit 48kHz stereo

Description: If Venice were a violin, the canals would be its strings, the gondolas would be its player, and the sea would be its violin maker.
Venice resembles an age-old tale, or, as Gerolamo Bardi remarked, more than four centuries ago in his On the Famous Things of Venice; an impossible possibility, a grand marvel so far removed from the norm that it cannot even be considered a human creation, but must instead be placed in the realm of God.
Brescia and Cremona in Venice produced some of the most famous violin makers, becoming the benchmark for excellence in violin craftsmanship and sound. Therefore, we decided to try an orchestra from Venice and its surroundings in the city of Crema, striving to achieve a modern sound while maintaining the same traditions and aspirations for excellence. When we started with FluffyAudio, we could only dream of sampling an orchestra. At that time, the idea seemed unthinkable, something like a dream, at least as complex and improbable as building a city on the sea. Well, that day has arrived, and despite some skepticism, sooner than we might have imagined. Matteo Marzaro, Glauco Bertagnin, Leonardo Sapere, Alessandro Pandolfi and Michele Maulucci are just some of the amazing musicians we have had the pleasure of working with. The orchestra is their family, and Venice is their theatre. They have learned to breathe together, and together with the music they form the soul, flesh and blood of one of the most incredible organisms that humanity has ever imagined and achieved: the orchestra. Venice is known to have been built on unstable ground. This foundation is his curse, slowly being eroded by the sea. And yet, at the same time, this is what gives Venice its glory and decadent splendor, allowing the sea to play the great score of Venice.
Venice Modern Strings is a sampled string orchestra for Kontakt 5 featuring 8 first violins, 6 second violins, 5 violas, 5 cellos and 3 double basses. There are three types of legato in the library: portamento, legato with a change of fingers and legato with a change of bow. They can be triggered by either velocity, MIDI CC, or modulation wheel. In addition, there is a control for the amount of vibrato. There is a polyphonic legato engine, mainly Dominus, Staccato and Staccatissimo articulations, short and long arcs and a small selection of sustain articulations. Each articulation has a set of advanced controls: you can change the parameters to get even more jerky legato or control the velocity curve of articulations such as Pizzicato, Staccato and Staccatissimo.
All long articulations can be modulated by the morphing engine: this allows you to create your own articulations by dynamically modulating two different string techniques in different ways. The library also includes single articulation patches, ensembles, and space-saving patches.