Urban Viola is a Classical acoustic viola recorded by Latvian National Symphony Orchestra violist. The backbone
sound of symphonic orchestra.

TRUE VIOLA:

Urban Viola - virtual instrument of acoustic viola provided in Kontakt, Soundfont and ThaLoops Player ® formats.
Valuable addition to every serious music producer’s library. The viola was sampled in a high-class studio using
a pair of Neumann U-87, Brauner Valvet and Schoeps CMC641 mics ran through a-class preamps. The instrument is built
with 851 24bit samples of various acoustic viola articulations covering 5 velocity layers per note and real trigger
release sounds. Play presets of:



Detache / Legato / Staccato / Pizzicato / Glissandos / Trills


PERFECT ENVIRONMENT:

We have recorded a professional violist in a perfect environment of sonically favourable studio. Years of experience
playing in the symphony orchestra are represented in beautifully recorded viola samples. ThaLoops Viola will always
sound great in your productions, recommended both for accompaniment and solo purposes.

PRESETS:

3 1/2 octaves are mapped across keyboard range beginning at C0 and up for Detache, Staccato, Pizzicato and Trills
presets. Legato and solo switch button is provided in Kontakt sampler’s interface, the switch is also available by
using midi key C4. Ascending and descending glissandos were recorded covering each viola’s string (A,C,D and G)
starting with the first position and continuing up semitone by semitone. For experiment’s sake multi-presets
including all glissando samples (ascending/descending) are also provided - listen to the demo beat 2 at 0:36 min.
for glissando preset usage example.

http://soundcloud.com/thaloops/urban-viola-demo

SUMMARY:

KONTAKT (FULL RETAIL VERSION 4.3 +) All samples are provided in 24-bit .wav format. Kontakt presets were programmed using
custom and SIPS2 scripts for real articulations e.g legato and AHDSR controls in GUI. SIPS - Solo Instrument Performance Suite
Kontakt scripts by Robert Villwock. aka Big Bob (http://www.bigbobsmusicworld.com)

THALOOPS PLAYER Available in MAC VST/AU and WIN VST formats. All samples are in 24-bit .wav format.

SOUNDFONT Presets programmed with 16-bit wav samples in soundfont (.SF2) format. Uses less CPU and RAM resources.

Kontakt (496mb .zip), ThaLoops Player (641mb .zip), Soundfont(337mb .zip)

GUI designed by One Reason

Urban Viola is available for $24.99

More INFO: ThaLoops | Urban Viola

 

actually sounds pretty good dingus, (besides the beats, the spicatto etc.... the staccato iterations sound a little thin, but there seems some life in this, and who doesn't need a little viola in their life? thanks for the heads up again!