Insanity Samples – Neo Strings: Solo String Ensemble 4.0.3

Neo Strings is our flagship collection of modern solo strings. A library of 24 articulations for each instrument, featuring simple articulations enhanced with beautiful true legato, as well as extended and experimental performance techniques unique to this collection and never heard before in sample form. All thanks to our innovative thresholding functionality, creating a workflow so smooth and natural, you’ll feel like you’re holding the real thing. Modern sound, packed with character and performance.

• 1 violin, 1 viola, 1 cello, 1 double bass, string ensemble
• 24 articulations per instrument (17 main, 7 additional techniques and effects)
• True legato with 4 powerful modes: Adaptive Speed, Adaptive Velocity, Fixed Fast and Fixed Slow Legato
• Up to 3 dynamic options (depending on articulation)
• Real-time expression and vibrato control
• Up to 4 round robin (depending on articulation)
• 4 microphone positions: close, room (left & right), ambient
• Mic Purging to Save RAM
• Threshold limits for smooth player operation
• “Chord Mode” for ensemble patch with pre-arranged tutti chords
• Scaling mode for ease of use when playing ornaments and trills

Basic articulations

• Static long notes with and without vibrato (with or without adaptive true legato)
• Expressive long notes with vibrato (with a natural arc of sound)
• Expressive long notes without vibrato (with a natural arc of sound)
• Staccato
• Staccatissimo (with “endless mode” option to return to static long notes)
• Spiccato
• Piccicato
• Kol lenyo (bow strokes) (On all instruments except violin)
• Sforzando decrescendo
• Ornaments
• Trellis
• Tremolo (with accented beginning)

Additional techniques and effects

• Harmonics
• Extreme Sul Pont (Bowed on the edge of annihilation at the bridge)
• Pont-Tasto Cycles (A circular bow from bridge to fingerboard, like breathing)
• Extreme Sul Tasto (Bowed over the fingerboard for a woodwind-esque texture)
• Behind the Brige FX (Scratchy, harmonic laden special FX with bowing post bridge)
• Sul Pont Erratic Trems (Slow to fast erratic trems on the edge of the bridge)
• Erratic Vibrato (Ultra wide to narrow vibrato)