Orchestral sampled instrument for delicate moments and deafening silence.

We have covered a lot of ground in our orchestral series already; there’s the scary Tutti, the uplifting Vivace, the understated Minimal, the driving Grosso and the majestic Capriccio. We’ve always had a yearning to capture something more delicate, and now we’ve done it… presenting “Sotto”.

As a composer there are certain musical rules that you have to obey, and one of them is that there always has to be contrast. A loud passage will not sound really loud unless it’s contrasted by a softer counterpart, and a climax cannot arrive without a journey to get you there.



We have always been fascinated by the sound of a majestic orchestra hitting the brake pedal and laying down soft beds and patterns, and that is what we’ve achieved with this library.

Anyone who has ever attempted to capture a live orchestra will be able to tell you that very quiet playing is a tricky thing to record. The softer you try to go, the closer you get to the breakpoint between sound and no sound. The starts of phrases in brass and woodwinds become increasingly hard to align for the players, resulting in beautiful imperfection. The balance of sound to mechanical noise tips slightly in favour of the mechanical noise, but to us it all sounds very much alive.

Samples:

• 44.1kHZ - 24 Bit and 16 Bit NCW format
• 37,000+ Samples
• 59.5 GB NCW format
• Royalty and copyright free content license

Instrument Patches:

• Strings
• Woodwinds
• Brass
• Strings Lite
• Woodwinds Lite
• Brass Lite
• Time Machine Pro capability
• Custom chord recognition and Harmonic Shift capabilities
• Intelligent Purging system
• Custom designed interface with score display

Sampled Instruments:

• Strings 52 players
• Woodwinds 12 players
• Brass 15 players

Format:

For Native Instruments Kontakt & Kontakt Player 5.1 and up
For Native Instruments Komplete Kontrol NKS 1.5 and up

Sotto is available for €199.90 until November 25th (Regular €249.90)



More INFO: Sonokinetic | Sotto

 

Last edited: Nov 6, 2015

Thanks Dingus!

I´ve tried a few of Sonokinetic orchestral libs and I´ve never really been a fan. Most of them are loop based and some of them has an UI thats really hard to work with (prolly just my problem )

Sonokinetic has imo developed a few really interesting and usefull libraries:

-Project infinity (discontiniued)
-Some vocal libraries from the middle east, Africa etc. (wich a few has also been discontiniued)

Worst they´ve made imo are libs like:

Ney: (no vibrato)..... a ney without vibrato is no ney at all! Mostly loops

Kemence: (no vibrato) ..... hmmm... what can you say? Mostly loops

Shahrazed: not really playble! Mostly loops

and many more ...........

In general Sonokinetic fancy loops more than making a playable library and thats a pity!

 

grosso, capriccio, sotto and tutti vox is a deadly combo - even if they are phrased libs...

 

Ok HS.... I prefer playbly libs, you fansy looped ones.

 

i prefer playable libs too but this one looks and sound nice cool too.

 

I tried to request it on Audioz, but I got just a default notice on post removal from Zeger Wu. Why? It has not been requested yet.