KVR Audio

scuzzphut · Post by **scuzzphut** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 1:46 pm

DevonB wrote:
Anyway, WOW! Kirk Hunter's stuff is fuckin' AMAZING! I also own his Solo Strings library, and have for almost a year.
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I have the Pro version of the percussion, which is 35 gigs alone. Again, amazing stuff.

Devon

Devsie - is there anywhere we can hear the music that you do with all this stuff?

DevonB · Post by **DevonB** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 1:53 pm

baggio wrote:Is Kirk Hunter US based (the name should be enough to confirm yes ). I am quite interested but the amount of tax to pay on top to import into the UK .

Yes, he's US, out of California if I remember correctly.

Devon

DevonB · Post by **DevonB** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 1:57 pm

scuzzphut wrote:
DevonB wrote:
Anyway, WOW! Kirk Hunter's stuff is fuckin' AMAZING! I also own his Solo Strings library, and have for almost a year.
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I have the Pro version of the percussion, which is 35 gigs alone. Again, amazing stuff.

Devon
Devsie - is there anywhere we can hear the music that you do with all this stuff?

Sure, check out my page.

I wish I've had more time to put more stuff up, or put up some of my other stuff that I can release, but that's going either going towards a full CD release, which I don't particularily care to release to the masses JUST yet, or on other projects.

Listen to A Lonely Night if you'd like to hear the Kirk Hunter Solo Violin in action.

Devon

Ixox · Post by **Ixox** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 2:04 pm

My winning January KVR entry uses extensively the Kirk hunter solo strings:

http://xhosxe.free.fr/zic/04_01_Ixox_19 ... ursuit.mp3

baggio · Post by **baggio** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 2:17 pm

Apparantly the strings come on 20 DVDs on a spindle to save on cost so maybe I could convince customs that they are blank disks

glaucomys · Post by **glaucomys** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 2:23 pm

Look at the credits for this, it's all the same person. I don't like the idea of 1 person playing all the parts (unless it's me on a synth), but really I don't really understand how this can be such a large library? Is it supersized?

This is not recorded in a hall on a stage is it? It seems to be a studio. But all the same person playing the instruments? Sounds odd

Glau

CypherOne · Post by **CypherOne** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 2:24 pm

he's got loads of hands.

whyterabbyt · Post by **whyterabbyt** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 2:39 pm

Look at the credits for this, it's all the same person.

The only credits I see are for recording:

Recording credits:
Violin: Kirk Hunter, Jonathan Rubin (All arpeggios and scales performed by Jonathan Rubin )
Viola: Kirk Hunter
Cello: Kirk Hunter, John Krovoza
Double Bass: Kirk Hunter

That isnt quite the same as being played by 'all the same person'.

René · Post by **René** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 2:50 pm

tomlad21, Vienna has a 240Gb library (6000$ !!!!)....

Actually, only if you don't buy the Horizon packages. Otherwise, it's well above 300Gb.

I still recall those old days when my 560Gb looked impressive

-René

Markleford · Post by **Markleford** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 2:57 pm

glaucomys wrote:Look at the credits for this, it's all the same person. I don't like the idea of 1 person playing all the parts

That doesn't bug me. On the other hand, I don't like the idea of all section (divisi) parts being played on the same physical instrument!

- m

XanaX · Post by **XanaX** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 3:10 pm

Kirk Hunter should hook up with some hardware wholesaler, and sell the whole thing shipped on a couple of hardrives for $1295.

chagzuki · Post by **chagzuki** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 3:22 pm

Here's what I'm not keen on:

'Solo instruments are recorded dry, close mic'ed while the remaining sectional instruments are recorded in close and far mic'ed positions. Hunter explained that the samples carry some ambiance, but not enough to lock the composer into the sound of a specific hall. Thus, outside reverb can be used for final sound shaping.'

Real hall ambience is exactly what I do want. Layering reverb over sampled ambience is just not going to sound that good, I think. Some of the demos for EWQLSO gold are absolutely gorgeous - no convolution reverb can acheive that kind of sound.

Ixox · Post by **Ixox** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 3:32 pm

chagzuki wrote:Here's what I'm not keen on:
'Solo instruments are recorded dry, close mic'ed

I like that very much... That allows using solo instruments to write chamber music !

Or, you want any solo instrument in a song or in a not orchestral track, you don't want it to have it with the hall ambiance...

I agree that make them harder to mix with the sections...

chagzuki · Post by **chagzuki** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 3:52 pm

I took that paragraph to mean that the far-mic samples are not with a large enough ambience to sound symphonic, or have I misunderstood & is it just refering to the close-mic samples?

Ixox · Post by **Ixox** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 3:55 pm

chagzuki wrote:I took that paragraph to mean that the far-mic samples are not with a large enough ambience to sound symphonic, or have I misunderstood & is it just refering to the close-mic samples?

OK i understand what you mean....
Maybe it's marketing to say people that they will be able to apply the ambience they want and are not dependent on the one included in the sample...
Don't know...

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