According to them, recordings are also completed for Adagio Cellos, Violas and Double Basses: Volume 1 of each library will be released this year, with second volumes to follow in 2013. AV is the first release from Folmann and O'Malley's new outfit, 8Dio. If the first name sounds familiar, it may be because Mr Folmann was a partner in the now-defunct Tonehammer company, creator of the impressive Requiem and Liberis choir libraries. What has raised eyebrows, however, is that it boasts as a major selling point no less than 10 different legato styles!Īdagio Violins Vol 1 (henceforth known as AV) is the brainchild of Academy Award-winning composer Troels Folmann and Emmy-nominated composer and orchestrator Colin O'Malley. It therefore comes as no surprise to find that 8Dio Productions' Adagio Violins Vol 1 library places a strong emphasis on its legato samples.
The incorporation of multiple dynamics and replacement of the old, clunky 'performance tools' by unobtrusive MIDI scripts built into sample players has further expanded the usability and popularity of legato instruments. VSL's interval-based approach has subsequently been adopted as an industry standard, and is now implemented in many strings, wind, brass and even choir sample libraries. For the first time, legato melodies in sampled arrangements sounded truly connected, convincing and musical. A year or so later, Vienna Symphonic Library cracked the problem by sampling every interval up to an octave from each note in the instrument's range, and providing an intelligent 'performance tool' application which selected the appropriate interval sample for each note you played. We had to wait till 2002 for the first serious attempt to tackle the issue, courtesy of Gary Garritan's idea of overlaying 'masking attack samples' to smooth over note transitions in his then-groundbreaking Garritan Orchestral Strings library. A large new violin library for Kontakt turns legato sampling into an art form.Īdagio Violins' 30 core patches contain many keyswitchable options, displayed in the Instrument Browser window.Ī historic difficulty for anyone working with string samples was the business of making legato melodies sound properly joined-up.
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