

In Play Mode, you can select articulations/playstyles by clicking on their name, or with a combination of keyswitches found on the bottom of your keyboard: Block Types Phrases Mode: clicking on the little cog in the bottom right-hand side.Runs Mode: clicking anywhere in the run display - when you switch to runs, it will auto-display the options.Play Mode: clicking the Sonokinetic Logo in the bottom centre of the user interface.You can open the various options menus by: for use in third-party instruments or for instance to add a synth layer for a Hybrid sound! You can then even drag out the midi for entire played passages including any chord changes, added Harmony etc. These patterns are then playable in a fashion very similar to the way our Phrase-Based instruments work, and you can even drag in phrases from the Phrase-Based products you already own and benefit from the huge flexibility boost this Strings instrument offers.

The Phrases engine at its core works as a sketchpad for Patterns, with 12 patterns autosaved with your instrument or DAW session and a potential 12 x 12 x 12 phrases saved away to be shared between your instruments and projects. The Runs engine allows you to play chords and trigger runs that adhere to these chords just by playing a start and an end key. The possibilities are near endless, yet very easily accessible if you just want to scratch the surface. Included in the instrument are some powerful midi engines, with midi import, real-time midi manipulation, a piano roll editor, and midi export.

No corners were cut in making this product, and it will evolve for many years to come - we still have some surprises up our sleeves that will enhance your user experience and provide you with tools that are useful and fun in equal measures. There is Poly-Legato and Auto Divisi to ensure the most realistic sound imaginable. We covered all the most-used articulations in up to four velocities, and we devised a 'shared tail' system for the shorts that provides you with more round robins without increasing the memory load by too much.

It melds together our experience in orchestral phrases with what we've learned about multisampling over the years, and it furthers our quest for complete phrase flexibility.Īt its core, Orchestral Strings is a hugely capable full-divisi full-size Strings Section, recorded with the fantastic Capellen Orchestra in Zlin, Czech Republic, and edited with the utmost care to preserve all the details of the performances. This product is the culmination of all of our efforts to this point. We are very proud to present our take on Orchestral Strings to you.
