Sweet Acoustic Textures - Viola

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Sweet Acoustic Textures - Viola is both a traditional virtual instrument and a random acoustic textures generator.

It features a selection of 15 classic, less common and unheard playing techniques such as harmonic bisbigliando, flautando sul ponticello...

The 2904 selected samples were recorded on a 1941 Ernest Ledler viola with an italica backplate in short and neutral acoustics.

Technical informations:

• 2904 samples.
• 48kHz / 24-bit.
• 3 microphone positions:
  • close subcardioid large diaphragm tube (Flea 49 Next).
  • close ribbon (Royer R122).
  • semi proximity omnidirectional short diaphragm couple (Sennheiser MKH8020 x2).
• 15 techniques:
  • Pizzicato.
  • Col Legno Battuto.
  • Spiccato.
  • Ricochet.
  • Swell.
  • Long.
  • Fast Détaché.
  • Tremolo.
  • Bisbigliando.
  • Harmonic Bisbigliando.
  • Col Legno Tratto.
  • Flautando.
  • Flautando Sul Ponticello.
  • minor Trill.
  • Major Trill.
• Up to 9 round robin.
• Up to 4 velocity layers
  • dynamics goes from ppp to mf, we did not record f or ff.
• A classic mode allowing to play up to 6 techniques of your choice using keyswitches.
• A random texture generation mode with, for each of the 6 techniques of user's choice, a control of:
  • the event density.
  • their volume.
  • the velocity range.
  • spatialization of events via an XY pad.
• 18 presets.
• The ability to link volume, velocity and density controls.
• The ability of activating, deactivating and reset round robins.
• The control of the attack and the release.
• The ability to automatically route techniques or microphones on separate channels.

Requires the full version of Kontakt 5.8.1 (or Kontakt 6).

Size: from 0.60GB to 1.75GB.

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