SNAMM06: Ultimate String Library

US Top notch samples give you 60 players at all times through the RT technology 18/07/06

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We first saw Chris Stone at Winter NAMM last year when he showed us the Concert Organ Workstation, a 192kHz sample library. In fact, the DVZ instuments are all 192kHz 24-bit for really the maxest of the max. You need massive computing power and storage to get the best out of these libraries and Audio Impressions are unashamedly aiming high to fill the Synclavier gap as they put it. The DVZ String Library is a 60-string library and the first to fully unleash Audio Impressionsâ€™ DVZâ„¢ RT technology package, and constitutes a revolutionary advancement beyond all available sample libraries. Conventional libraries record all musicians within a section at once. When playing chords, these samples force instrument voices to multiply, as if an army of musicians suddenly rushed into the recording. With Audio Impressions' DVZâ„¢ Realtime Orchestrator technology, the notes of the chords are divided among the sections and their players, preserving the proper orchestral balance at all times. Stradivarius and other prized instruments were sampled at 192 kHz / 24-bit resolution at Londonâ€™s CTS Lansdowne Recording Studios. The signal path included rare vintage Telefunken and Neumann condenser microphones, (CEO Chris Stone is reputed to have a million dollar mic collection) silver-plated cable, Martech preamps, Apogee A/D converters, and bypassed the console and any patch points. Articulations Include:
Legato, Crescendo/Decrescendo (with volume and timbre change), Staccato, Pizzicato, BartÃ³k (Snap) Pizzicato, Col Legno, Tremolando, Measured Tremolando (quarter note, eighth note, eighth note triplets, sixteenth notes), Harmonics, Ricochet, Martellato, Flautando, Glissando, Portamento, Clusters (continuously variable), Marcato, Vibrato/non-vibrato (continuously variable), Spiccato, Jete, Trills (user definable intervals). (Con Sordino, Sul Tasto, Sul Ponticello optional with all articulations/effects.) We saw Chris Stone demonstrate DVZ Strings Library which is to be released in January 2007. The library is the first product to take advantage of Audio Impressions RT technology which comprises of several components: DVZâ„¢ Realtime Orchestrator which properly divides sections of like instruments and properly voices chords among the different sections, for example across violins I & II, violas, celli and basses. DVZâ„¢ also addresses the fact that the strings of any given stringed instrument vary in timbre not only from each other, but depending upon the register as well. With DVZâ„¢, stringed instruments are â€œfingeredâ€� just as a real player would.

Finally eliminate the â€œOrgan-Likeâ€� timbre of sampled string recordings
Choose in real time precisely your desired number of instruments
Control fully realistic section slur, legato, runs and glissandi
Automatically have balanced, natural orchestrations â€“ no more â€œFix it in the Mixâ€�
Easily generate accurate scores and parts for notation printing

SPACEâ„¢ emulates natural microphone â€œbleedâ€� which occurs when multiple mics are used in a single recording space. Bleed is a fact of life when recording a group of instruments, be it a drum kit or a symphony. Psychoacoustically, itâ€™s the interaction of mic bleed and early reflections which tells the listener everything about the ensemble and the room. Without these audio clues, the ear must assume the players were tracked separately in different rooms, yet cannot determine where the players were in the room, or in relation to each other. Conventional pan and reverb application attempts to artificially create the stereo image, at a great expense of time and effort. In the best cases, the results are pleasing, if never truly accurate. With SPACEâ„¢ itâ€™s all built in. ReMAPâ„¢ is the third core technology of DVZâ„¢ RT, turning the sounds in any library, even external hardware, into parts in DVZâ„¢ Realtime Orchestrator. You can orchestrate the instruments as they are, or you can completely change their mapping, velocity layers, pitches, tunings, and more, without ever having to go down to the individual sampler level. Create custom instruments such as monster drum kits using your other libraries, hardware samplers, and drum modules in the time it took to map a few notes before. Add synth parts into your ensemble with SPACEâ„¢, and let DVZâ„¢ orchestrate them for you. You can also overlap sounds from different modules and trigger them together as hybrid sounds, or create custom velocity stacks, such as putting a pistol shot from an FX library as the top layer on a snare. Using the MIDI Mastering Tools, you can add MIDI volume compressor/limiter/expanders, velocity compressor/limiter/expanders, and draw velocity and volume curves to â€œEQâ€� the keyboard, creating a better balance and playing feel. Add MIDI Modulation to create tremolo and vibrato effects, or just add a random element to humanize the performance. If the source sample engine can support it, you can even change the pitches of individual samples, or apply one of our five historical tuning temperament presets, such as Bachâ€™s famous Werckmeister III. After that, just send your custom instruments through SPACEâ„¢, for complete sonic integration. ReMAPâ„¢ supports both general MIDI and newer ethernet connectivity, such as MIDI-Over-LAN, to access multiple types of devices including other sampler computers, and provides a much easier way of using existing sounds, wherever they are. So, there you have it â€“ details are still a bit sketchy, platform, prices etc but if your going to buy the Ferrari of sample libraries, if you need to ask about the price, you probably cant afford it.