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Colossal Chorus Like the strings, the choir is divided into high and low patches.

Do You Really Need This? If you write trailer, game or contemporary film music - or any other type of production where very loud bombastic orchestral music is the order of the day, we reckon Metropolis Ark 1 needs serious consideration. The centre display is for drawing controller curves. Buyer's Guide to the Metropolis ArksĬontrollers can be assigned automatically and manually.

It has four pages: a Performance view, which features the most commonly used controls including the Main knob, used for dynamic control…. There are two sets here - the Schwarzdorn Horns, no less than nine of them for soaring emotionally charged lines and for smaller section work, the Rotdorn Horns with just three instruments. No library destined for epic soundtracks would ever be complete without the horns. Epic percussion libraries are not so hard to find these days, but Metropolis Ark 1 has a fine set of ensembles and individual hits built in. Three tubas round out the plentiful supply of very low brass. Originally used in Italian opera, nowadays it occasionally turns up in film soundtracks, which is why three of them are included here. Not so common in orchestral libraries, the cimbasso is a valve contrabass trombone. Lower down, the three bass trombones are no slouches either, producing sounds ranging from low, raspy roars to searing upper-register notes. No need for sissy-sounding flutes and clarinets here. Wind Power And so to the woodwinds, well the lower variety. All the important articulations are present, but remember this is an epic library, the pizzicatos are snap-type and capable of cutting through any wall of sound that the brass may be producing. The lower strings, including 12 basses and six celli are only converting rxjava to coroutine in octaves and produce a truly massive sound - great for dangerous-sounding riffs. Turn on true legato and the transitions are adjusted according to playing speed. Legato articulations are handled automatically, in the background. The high set can be played in unison or in octaves for a more powerful sound.

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Recording the string orchestra as high and low strings as opposed to the traditional four sections - violins, violas, celli and basses is an increasingly common technique in libraries where a full sound and fast results are a key aim.

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It runs in both Kontakt 5 and the free Kontakt Player. Everything sounds loud, with dynamics starting at mf and continuing upwards to fff. With the increasing trend for large epic film scores and trailer music these days, orchestral sample libraries are naturally growing larger as well, to keep up with the demand.Īlthough a good many existing libraries are capable of producing loud grandiose scores, it was only a matter of time before something huge came along designed specifically for epic music production. But does bigger always prove better? In this case yes, reckons Keith Gemmell.

Inspired by the first science-fiction movie, Metropolis Ark 1 is an astonishingly huge orchestral library for composing epic music.

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