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Emotional Cello

An instrument with a never-before seen level of expression
Emotional Cello - An instrument with a never-before seen level of expression
Instrument Type:
Orchestral
$199.00
$199.00
INCLUDED FORMATS:
Plug-in, Kontakt Player 5, Kontakt 5
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Native Instruments Kontakt Player 5.5.0 required.

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Emotional Cello is a new kind of virtual instrument, created by Harmonic Subtones, a Munich based developer team, for Native Instrument's Kontakt 5 Player. Because of its powerful and yet exceptionally emotional sound, it unlocks previously unknown dimensions in the realms of sampling.

Emotional Cello is the perfect instrument for film-scoring, pop-production, song-writing, classic and modern avant-garde cello compositions. This unique virtual instrument shines by its impressive number of articulations, its direct and uncolored sound quality, unusual play techniques and innovative rebowing.

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Emotional Cello was always recorded in a musical context to capture the natural bowing and the individual expressions of real instrumentalists. Thanks to intelligent scripting, 16 play-styles and true legato, this library offers immense versatile applications. Emotional Cello offers typical play-styles and articulations and also unusual techniques such as

- sul ponticello legato
- flageolet legato
- morbid sustain
- ricochet
- renaissance sounds


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Harmonic Subtones calls the underlying philosophy of the Emotional Cello project „Contextual Sampling“. In search for perfect tone and highest inspiration, various string instruments were recorded over a period of no less than four years, realising that nothing can match the natural vibrato with its artistic facets performed by skilled musicians. Although any sample that includes recorded vibrato has obvious conceptual drawbacks, the sound of the performance itself will be a lot more inspirational than adding artificial vibrato. Based upon this insight, Harmonic Subtones went to extract the recordings with topmost musicality to forge a brilliantly sounding instrument.
The result is a library of unmatched authenticity.

To achieve conclusive arrangements, Emotional Cello offers a multitude of articulations. This way, the several phrases, turns, variations, pickups and endings can be used as real autonomous phrasings without ever being repetitive. To properly match the various sounds and articulations to your musical context, respective key-switches with appropriate naming, like delicate fast, vivid or moderate were added.

In addition, Emotional Cello offers unusual and unconventional articulations, you will not find in most competitive products. For example:

- Spilegno (a harder edged Spiccato with bow-noise)
- Power 5th Spiccato
- Plectrum Pizz
- Rota Spiccato


Technical refinements were added, such as the rebowing-function which allows controlled directional change of the bow within a note using a key switch – highly useful for long sustains. Likewise, the vibrato-crossfade allows creating rhythmically perfect transitions from non-vibrato to vibrato-patches.

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Recording


Emotional Cello was recorded in the Mastermix Studio, Unterföhring/Germany. The instrument was carefully mic'ed in a wood-paneled room with high ceilings and highest possible wall distance. Microphone recordings were performed intentionally close using two Neumann models KM184 and U47, preserving a discreet portion of the room's excellent acoustics. At the same time, the close mic'ing technique easily allows external processing, e.g. to accomplish an overall ambience for the mix. Use the integrated convolution reverb of the Kontakt 5 Player or the pure unprocessed original sounds as needed.

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Kontakt-Instruments


Emotional offers three true legato master-patches: Normal, Sulponticello and Harmonics. These contain about 80% of all recorded articulations, which are logically interconnected using advanced scripting. For example: A note being played at the beginning will sound perfectly natural because the chosen sample will also be the first note of the source recordings. The same goes for legato- and sustained notes: All samples originate from a corresponding context of the original recordings.
Each of the approximately 50 additional single-patches contains a selected articulation. Choices range from simple sustain-patches to dynamic crossfades between four layers. These patches are useful for producers who prefer to spread articulations on different MIDI tracks instead of toggeling between them via key switches. To achieve highest authenticity and liveliness, the patches offer four round-robin-samples for long notes and up to eight for short notes.
Windows
Windows 7 or Windows 8 (latest Service Pack, 32/64 Bit), Intel Core Duo or AMD Athlon 64, 2 GB RAM (4GB recommended)

Mac
Mac OS X 10.8, 10.9 or 10.10, Intel Core Duo, 2 GB RAM (4GB recommended)

for all

• 1GB free disc space for player installation
• additional hard disc space according to the library size
• internet connection for product activation required (on any computer)

SUPPORTED INTERFACES

• Stand-Alone
• VST
• Audio Units
• ASIO
• CoreAudio
• WASAPI
• AAX Native (Pro Tools 10 or later)






License Agreement


The Following End User License Agreement is included with Emotional Cello. This License is only valid for the individual who has purchased an unopened, new and lawfully made copy of Emotional Cello from a dealer or distributor authorized by Big Fish Audio.

"For software products produced by Best Service the German Copyright Act is effective. All other Software products sold and/or distributed by Best Service are subject to the license agreement which is part of the respective software installer.

The samples and programs contained in any software/library produced by Best Service are licensed to the owner/buyer of the product only. Only the purchaser of this CD is authorized to use the sounds for his music-, multimedia-, film-, radio-, games-, webcast- or similar productions and only as long as no isolated samples, loops or phrases become available for a third party.

It is not allowed to use the samples and programs within a network if this opens the possibility to be used simultaneously by multiple users. Unauthorized copying, reproduction (including conversion and reproduction in other data formats), hire, rental, public performance, broadcasting and distribution is expressly prohibited. Best Service constantly monitors other soundware releases to check for copyright infringements, and will prosecute all piracy and copyright violations to the fullest extent of the law.

Products marked as NFR (Not For Resale) may only be used for demonstration, reviewing or testing, but not for commercial production.

EDU (educational) products – products marked as EDU may only be used by the authorized institution, their teachers, pupils and students for education purposes but not for commercial production. EDU versions are not allowed to be resold or distributed in any way."


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