In a world...in a land...coming to studios near you: Vir2 Instruments' Q, a massive sound design and scoring instruments library designed for the unique needs of television, film, game, and media composers and music producers who want to add a fresh and previously unheard dimension to their sonic palette.
Q (as in, cue, or, if you prefer, as in the master spy's gadget man), contains almost two thousand patches and 16GB of sample material including cinematically thunderous drums, percussion, winds, vocals, ethnic instruments, metallic textures, glass, guitar, toy, ambient atmospheres, synth landscapes, and trailer-ready effects. The library includes both playable melodic pitched instruments and multisampled one-shot percussion and effects. A large collection of epic percussion loops which automatically sync to tempo and are playable both whole and by the slice, are also included.
The collection is divided up into twenty-three main category folders: Ambient Chordal Pads, Cymbals, Gongs, Rolls, and Effects, Drums and Percussion, Granular Orchestra, Guitars, Hong Kong Cinema, Horns and Winds, Impacts and Low Drums, Loops and Construction Kits, Metallic and Glass Melodies, Middle Eastern, Morphstruments, Multilayer Dreamscapes, Multilayer Drones, Mystery, Pedal Steel Ambiences, Pulp Surfer, Sound Effects, Stylistic Phrases, Tempo Textures, Toys and Character Keyboards, Voices, and Western.
Q's easy-to-use interface provides one-click effecting of the library, including the famed EZRoom convolution, delay, chorus, filters, chorusing, flanging, and more. Other advanced functions include a special legato mode for melodic instruments, and crossfade controls for multilayered instruments.
While everything in Q is mapped in Kontakt format ready to play from a MIDI controller, as a bonus many of Q's one-shot effects (such as booms, whooshes, metal scrapes and hits, and special sound effects) are also available on the disc in open 24-bit WAV format, allowing instant drag-and-drop into a film mix.
Q is powered by the industry-leading Kontakt 4 engine. It is compatible with VST, Audio Unit, and RTAS (Pro Tools 7 & 8) plug-in formats allowing it to work seamlessly within any major sequencer, in addition to standalone use on both an Intel Mac and PC.
Minimum System Requirements:
Mac: Intel Core Duo 1.66GHz or faster, 2GB of RAM, a DVD drive, and OS 10.5.x or higher. For optimum performance, Vir2 Instruments recommends a 2.0GHz processor or faster. The library requires 10GB of free hard drive space.
PC: the Windows version requires a processor speed of 1.4gHz or higher (Pentium or Athlon XP), 2GB of RAM, a DVD drive, and Windows XP SP2 (32-bit) or Windows Vista or Windows 7 (32- or 64-bit). For optimum performance, Vir2 Instruments recommends a 2.0GHz processor or faster. The library requires 10GB of free hard drive space.
This product will work in all versions of Kontakt 4.2.2 and up.
16GB of sample material (requires 9GB of hard drive space thanks to lossless sample compression)
Here is a full list of Q instruments:
Ambient Chordal Pads
ACP 1-13
ACP Chords 9th
ACP Chords Major 7th
ACP Chords Major Add9
ACP Chords Minor 11th
ACP Phrases 1-31
Cymbals, Gongs, Rolls, and Effects
10 Inch Hat Bottom Roll [MW Dyn, Spread]
13 Inch Hat Bottom Roll [MW Dyn, Spread]
16 Inch Crash Roll [MW Dyn, Spread]
17 Inch Crash Roll [MW Dyn, Spread]
22 Inch Ride Roll [MW Dyn Spread]
Amped Cymbal FX [Menu]
Bowed Crashes [Menu]
Breath Cymbal Lead [Spread]
Chimes and Bells [Menu]
China Cymbal 1 [Menu]
China Cymbal 2 [Menu]
Concert Crash [Menu]
Cymbal Drones [Menu]
Cymbal FX [Menu]
Cymbal Low Drones [Spread]
Cymbal Special FX [Menu]
Gongs x3 [Zone]
Harp Effects [Menu]
Reverse Amped Cymbals [Menu]
Reverse Cymbal FX [Menu]
Ride Cymbal FX [Menu]
Small Chinese Gong [Spread]
Stairstep Waves [Spread]
Waterphone Bowed 1 [Menu]
Waterphone Bowed 2 [Menu]
Waterphone FX [Menu]
Granular Orchestra
Cello Cacophony
Cello Quartet
Comfortably Nasal
Granular Cello Section
Granular Clarinet
Granular Flute
Granular Oboe
Granular Trombone
Granular Trumpet
Granular Violin Section
Granular Violin
Robot Cello Action
Upright Bass Ensemble
Guitars
Bit O Crunch Guitar
Bowed Electric Sitar FX [Menu]
Electric Harmonics
Mirrored Acoustic Guitar
Naked Guitar
Reversed Ac Guitar (Half Notes)
Reversed Ac Guitar (Whole Notes)
Rotating Slapback Guitar
The Raw Garage Guitar
Hong Kong Cinema
Armenian Zurna
Chinese Battle Drum [Zone]
Chinese Cymbals [Zone]
Chinese Guqin [Chrom]
Chinese Guqin Harmonics [Chrom]
Chinese Guqin Harmonics Tuned [Chrom]
Chinese Guqin Tuned [Chrom]
Hong Kong Cinema Big Loops [Menu]
Rims [Spread]
Wood Flute Chromatic [Chrom]
Wood Flute Chromatic Tuned [Chrom]
Horns and Winds
Airy Flugelhorn [Chrom]
Airy Flugelhorn Duet [Chrom]
Airy Trumpet [Chrom]
Airy Trumpet Duet [Chrom]
Bamboo Flute [Chrom]
Bamboo Flute Duet [Chrom]
Chinese Bawu [Chrom]
Chinese Hulusi [Chrom]
Chinese Hulusi Drones [Chrom]
Chinese Hulusi One-Shots [Menu]
Chinese Xiao [Chrom]
Native American Flute 1 [Chrom]
Native American Flute 2 [Chrom]
Ocarina FX [Menu]
Persian Ney [Chrom]
Impacts and Low Drums
Bass Drum FX [Menu]
Bass Drum Hits [Spread]
Big Hits [Menu]
Big Metal Slam [Spread]
Big Metallic FX [Menu]
Fireballs [Menu]
Four Low Drums [Zone]
Impacts and Whooshes [Menu]
Massive Hits [Menu]
Massive Tom FX [Menu]
Metal Bangs [Menu]
Metal Hits [Menu] 1
Metal Hits [Menu] 2
Piano Impacts [Menu]
Sculpture Hits and Scrapes [Menu]
Thunder Bass Drums [Spread]
Thunder Bass Drums Muted [Spread]
Loops and Construction Kits
39 construction kits
710 individual loops
Metallic and Glass Melodies
Aluminum Bowls [Chrom]
Aluminum Bowls Gongs [Chrom]
Aluminum Bowls Soft [Chrom]
Cavernous Chimes [Chrom]
Crotales [Chrom]
Dark Glass Pad [Chrom]
Drinking Glasses [Chrom]
Dumpster Scrape Drone [Spread]
Iron Railing [Chrom]
Kitchen Pan Hits [Chrom]
Measuring Cups [Chrom]
Metallic Reflectives [Chrom]
Milltone Tan Drum [Chrom]
Miroirs [Chrom]
Miroirs Aleatoire [Chrom]
Opera Gong [Spread]
Pitched Glass Natural Tuning [Chrom]
Pitched Glass Tuned [Chrom]
Wind Chime Xylo [Chrom]
Middle Eastern
Armenian Zurna Phrases [Menu]
Duduk Phrases [Menu]
Middle Eastern Big Loops [Menu]
Middle Eastern Female Vocal Phrases [Menu]
Persian Ney Phrases [Menu]
Morphstruments
The Bamboo Fluted Flugelhorn
The Flutely Wooded Trumpet
The Glass Shredder
The Glass Trumpet
The Persian Trumpeted Ney
The Pitched Ooze
The Trumpetello
The Vocal Flugelhorn
The Woody Male Ah
Multilayer Dreamscapes
12 Dreamscapes
Multilayer Drones
12 Dark Drones
12 Light Drones
Mystery
Mystery Drum FX [Menu]
Mystery Ghostly Guitar FX [Menu]
Mystery Gu-Zheng FX [Menu]
Mystery Misc Percussive FX [Menu]
Pedal Steel Ambiences
Pedal Steel Ambience [Menu]
Pedal Steel FX [Menu]
PSA 01 Lydian
PSA 02 Minor 2nd
PSA 03 Minor 2nd
PSA 04 Minor Chord
PSA 05 Unison
PSA 06 Major
PSA 07 Minor
PSA 08 Major
PSA 09 Minor
PSA 10 Major Add4
PSA 11 Minor
PSA 12 2nd and 5th
PSA 13 Major
PSA 14 2nd and 5th
PSA 15 Major
PSA 16 Major 6th
PSA 17 Major 6th
PSA 18 Major 7th
PSA 19 Major 7th
PSA 20 Major 6th
PSA 21 Unison
PSA 22 Unison
PSA 23 Unison
PSA 24 Minor 6th
PSA 25 Minor
PSA 26 Minor
PSA 27 Minor
PSA 28 4th
PSA 29 Major, 2nd inv
PSA 30 Major, 2nd inv
PSA 31 2nd and 7th
PSA 32 Minor Steps
PSA 33 Minor Phrase
PSA 34 Major Add 4th
PSA 35 Major 7th
PSA 36 Minor Slide
PSA 37 Minor Slide
PSA 38 Minor Slide
PSA 39 Major, 2nd inv
PSA 40 Cluster
PSA 41 Minor 2nd
Pulp Surfer
Pulp Surfer FX [Menu]
Pulp Surfer Guitar Loops [Menu]
Pulp Surfer Tom Loops [Menu]
Sound Effects
Bridge Scrapes and Hits [Menu]
Cartoon Comedy SFX [Menu]
Metal FX [Spread]
Metal Sweeps [Menu]
Reversed Metal [Menu]
Squeaky Hinge Slams [Menu]
Steel Cable [Menu]
Swooshes [Menu]
Textured Droplets [Spread]
Tunnel Whooshes [Menu]
Wrought Iron Railing [Menu]
Stylistic Phrases
Armenian Zurna Phrases [Menu]
Bamboo Flute Phrases [Menu]
Chinese Bawu Phrases [Menu]
Chinese Xiao Phrases [Menu]
Classical Soprano Phrases [Menu]
Dizi Phrases [Menu]
Dobro Phrases [Menu]
Duduk Phrases [Menu]
Electric Sitar Phrases 80bpm [Menu]
Expressive Trumpet Phrases [Menu]
Flugel Horn Phrases [Menu]
Gu-Zheng Phrases [Menu]
Guqin Phrases [Menu]
Kalimba Texture Loops 75bpm [Menu]
Middle Eastern Female Vocal Phrases [Menu]
Native American Flute Phrases [Menu]
Ocarina FX [Menu]
Persian Ney Phrases [Menu]
Sax Blues Shuffle Phrases [Menu]
Sax Funk Phrases 1 [Menu]
Sax Funk Phrases 2 [Menu]
Sax Noir Phrases 1 [Menu]
Sax Noir Phrases 2 [Menu]
Sax Noir Phrases 3 [Menu]
Sax Out Jazz Phrases [Menu]
Sax R&B Phrases [Menu]
Sax Soul Phrases [Menu]
Slide Guitar Phrases [Menu]
Toy Piano Phrases [Menu]
Trumpet Improvs 1 [Menu]
Trumpet Improvs 2 [Menu]
Trumpet Improvs 3 [Menu]
Trumpet Improvs 4 [Menu]
Trumpet Improvs 5 [Menu]
Wood Flute Phrases [Menu]
Tempo Textures
A Pipe Dream
Celestial Angelic Shards
Circular Reasoning
Clockwork Lemon
Crazy UFOs
Dancing Queens
Deep Vein Thrombosis
Flying Minors
Machine Gunned Flugelhorns
Mysterious Echoes
Overdriven Sweeper
Ravel's Armoires
Reversed Ac Guitar (Half Notes)
Reversed Ac Guitar (Whole Notes)
Reversed Antique Piano (Half Notes)
Reversed Antique Piano (Whole Notes)
Reversed Grand Piano (Half Notes)
Reversed Grand Piano (Whole Notes)
Scattered Thoughts
Stuck in Schumann's Head
Xiaopulse
Toys and Character Keyboards
Cheesy Electric Organ
Dinky Electric Piano
Mirrored Antique Piano
Mirrored Grand Piano
Piano Scrapes [Menu]
Prepared Piano FX 1 [Menu]
Prepared Piano FX 2 [Menu]
Reversed Antique Piano (Half Notes)
Reversed Antique Piano (Whole Notes)
Reversed Grand Piano (Half Notes)
Reversed Grand Piano (Whole Notes)
Space Synth Vibrato
Space Synth
Spinet
Toy Organ
Toy Piano
Vanilla Synth
Xylo Piano
Voices
Classical Soprano Ah Solo
Classical Soprano Ah Trio
Classical Soprano Ooh-Ah [MW Morph]
Ethereal Female Aah
Ethereal Male Ooh-Ah [MW XFade]
Middle Eastern Female Vocal Phrases [Menu]
vChoir with Granular Violins
vChoir with Horns
vChoir with Pedal Steel Ambience
vChoir
Western
Buffalo Drum Large [Spread]
Frame Drum [Spread]
Frame Drum Large [Zone]
Metal Frame Drum [Spread]
Metal Frame Drum Randomized Arena [Menu]
Native American Buffalo Drums [Spread]
Native American Flute 1 [Chrom]
Native American Flute 2 [Chrom]
Native American Jingles [Menu]
Spaghetti Western Field Snare [Zone]
Spaghetti Western FX [Menu]
Wooden Frame Drum [Spread]
Download Sizes
Version
Compressed Download Size
Kontakt Player/Kontakt/Plug-in Download includes
Installation Instructions:
Q Library Part 1: 2.15 GB
Q Library Part 2: 2.15 GB
Q Library Part 3: 2.15 GB
Q Library Part 4: 2.15 GB
Q Library Part 5: 1.23 GB
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License Agreement
The Following End User License Agreement is included with Q. This License is only valid for the individual who has purchased an unopened, new and lawfully made copy of Q from a dealer or distributor authorized by Big Fish Audio.
"The samples contained herein are licensed, not sold to you, the individual end user, by Vir2 Instruments. This non-exclusive, non-transferable license is granted only to the individual end user who has purchased an unopened, new, and lawfully made copy of this product from a dealer or distributor authorized by Vir2 Instruments. All samples remain the property of Vir2 Instruments and are licensed only for use in the creation of a live or recorded performance that includes the licensed samples as part of a derivative musical work created by the licensed end user. This license expressly forbids resale, rental, loan, gift, or transfer of these samples in any format or via any medium, except as part of a derivative musical work. The samples may not be included, whether unmodified or as part of a derivative work, in any sample library product. Any unlicensed usage will be prosecuted to the maximum extent possible under the law."
Comments from the producer of Q
What is Q?
The idea behind Q was to create a virtual instrument that composers, producers, sound designers, and music editors could use to quickly generate film, television, trailer, and advertising cues in a wide range of musical styles. Unlike many other virtual...
So what is Q? The concept behind Q is to provide a toolkit that covers the needs of film composers, video game producers, trailer and movie producers, etc. But of course as you know, I feel these types of sounds are useful in many different contexts.
It comes as a...