Sonokinetic – Ostinato Woodwinds 1.3.0

There’s nothing quite like a great trilogy, so after the success of our Ostinato Strings and Ostinato Brass libraries , we couldn’t just leave it at that. Ostinato Woodwinds is the next iteration and evolution of sorts, with new playback and arpeggio capabilities while still maintaining the same great sound.

If you’re familiar with the Ostinato sister libraries and our approach to ostinato recording, you’ll feel right at home with the woodwinds. The overall approach is different from our usual phrase-writing tools in that we record individual intervals for the different rhythmic blocks. After careful editing, we combine these intervals using an intelligent script that turns them into chords with 5 different voices and up to 4 inversions (the fourth is for 7th chords only). New arpeggio inversion controls create inversion patterns with a single keystroke… a very quick way to create interesting sequences.

Ostinato Woodwinds recognizes and plays 12 different chord types, handling not only major and minor chords, but also diminished, half-diminished, augmented chords and many more.

The engine not only builds chords based on the inversion you play in the chord area. When you play in the harmonic shift area, it also determines which inversion it plays (based on the chord that came before it), the quality of the chord in the key you’re in, and the position of the chord you’re playing in that key. This ensures that transitions are smooth and harmonically correct, which is especially important for creating dynamic brass motifs.

We returned to the great recording space we’ve used for other Sonokinetic orchestral libraries and brought together some of the greatest (and purest) woodwind players around. With a full woodwind section at our disposal, we were able to tap into their full range, allowing for a wider palette of tones in the Ostinato engine , with up to 8 notes playing simultaneously. While the interface looks similar to the other libraries at first glance, Ostinato Woodwinds has a few new features, including the aforementioned arpeggio controls and 4 individually modifiable sections (instead of 3 for strings and brass), allowing for more flexibility in chord shaping.

Ostinato Woodwinds coexists with our Orchestral Series libraries and is based on phrases recorded in the same room, with identical mic positions and even with some of the same players. Our orchestral libraries work beautifully together.

We at Sonokinetic BV are proud to introduce you to Ostinato Woodwinds and we can’t wait to hear what amazing things you, the musicians, can create with this library.

Instruments 

• 2 flutes;
• 2 oboes;
• 2 clarinets;
• bass clarinet;
• bassoon;
• contrabassoon.

Microphone positions

• close;
• decca tree (system of three omnidirectional microphones);
• surround;
• balcony (far);
• signature tutti stereo mix for Lite instruments.