Symphonic Orchestra Samples - String Ensembles

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Miroslav Vitous - Symphonic Orchestra Samples - String Ensembles

This huge undertaking contains 11 Violins, 23 Violins, 4 Violas, 4 Violoncellos, 10 Violoncellos, and 9 Contrabasses. Playing styles include: Vibrato, No Vibrato, Mute, Detache, Pizzicato, Staccato, Sul Ponty, Sul Ponty Tremolo, with various speeds and velocities for the ultimate performance in String sampling.

Orchestra Demo - short version (319 kb)
Orchstra Demo - long version (2.91 mb) Demo by Martin Erskine
Orchestra w/ fast violins Demo (204 kb)
Strings in slow movement Demo (276 kb)
Strings pizzDemo (237 kb)

The sounds are the result of an intense and uncompromising process of playing and recording and many, many hours of editing. Each instrument was played in a variety of ways in the studio and the symphonic hall itself to achieve the spatial positioning of a true symphonic experience.