Composer Cello v1.2 KONTAKT

Team ViP | 15 December 2024 | 6.01 GB

The Composer Cello is a suite of organic Cello instruments paired with a carefully curated set of inspirational analogue pads for Kontakt. The Composer Cello has been created using the beguiling musicianship of one of the UK’s leading session cellists. At the heart of this instrument are 3762 meticulously crafted samples, recorded at Kinema Audio’s renowned 1600sq foot Studio 1. The instrument also includes 9 complimentary analogue pads crafted to underscore and support your Cello compositions. All patches have 3 controllable mic positions: Center, Stereo and Room. The Analogue Pads are also multi mic’d with Dry, Room and Verb control.

The Intimate Legato Bundle KONTAKT

Team ViP | 20 November 2024 | 11.9 GB

Warm, Intimate, Captivating

Introducing The Intimate Legato Bundle, a professional solo string sample collection featuring a beautifully captured, natural sounding legato performed on violin and cello by virtuoso musicians, Peter Liang and Nicholas Trygstad. With a wonderfully raw and life-like sound, this library makes it easy to create realistic and emotional melodic lines. Built for the free Kontakt Player, The Intimate Legato Bundle was recorded in a small church hall with a variety of microphone positions to capture the detail of the instruments and the room. The library features a host of useful controls such as a “Rebowing” keyswitch, legato intensity and legato volume sliders, multiple microphone positions and a host of reverb presets, filters and distortions.

Cremona Quartet Ensemble KONTAKT

HiDERA | 23 January 2025 | 18 GB

Cremona Quartet Ensemble brings all four of these instruments together in one place, making it simple to craft stunning orchestral arrangements with ease and unparalleled speed. The new Auto Divisi feature seamlessly distributes parts across the ensemble, while real vibrato samples for sustain and marcato articulations infuse each instrument with vivid individuality and character.

Poiesis Cello v2.0.1 KONTAKT

Team ViP | 15 December 2024 | 4.95GB

A new chapter for Poiesis Cello is here…

Since its release in 2021, Poiesis Cello has become a firm favourite amongst composers and sound designers and now we’re very pleased to announce the arrival of Poiesis Cello 2! ‘Poiesis’ describes the act of bringing something new into existence, and that’s certainly true of the unique sounds in this beautifully unconventional instrument. Brimming with rich timbral shifts and delicate shadings, octave harmonics, bow bounces and reiterations, Poiesis Cello can produce dynamic textures which range from tender and reflective to nervily unsettling.

Ripple Cello v1.2.0 KONTAKT

Team ViP | 23 October 2024 | 346 MB

A library of playable two-note slurs for creating expressive string textures. Play overlapping pairs of notes within a perfect 4th of each other to trigger the two-note slurs, or “ripples”. On string instruments, there’s a kind of energy and life you can put into the sound as you travel between two notes, especially if you play them in a single bow stroke. You can lean into the first note expressively, and then let the second note fold into the release of the first note so that they sound like one gesture. If these notes were recorded separately, then stitched together later, it wouldn’t have the same nuance. It’s gratifying to play these two-note slurs across different dynamics. To capture this feeling, the samples are all recorded as swells. At the beginning of the swell, the second note can be played so lightly that the pitch is hardly perceptible. It’s like a ghost note. Then, as the sound grows, the slurs naturally change and adapt to keep it fresh.

Restrung Vol.1 KONTAKT

P2P | 02 August 2024 | 3.62 GB

Explore Restrung Volume 1, the latest addition to our Artist Series, a groundbreaking solo string library featuring violin, viola, and cello. Experience the unparalleled authenticity of raw, close, visceral sound that sets this instrument apart from the rest. Ideal for composers crafting Neo Classical, Tension, or Horror music, this unique sound source promises to ignite creativity. Additionally, it seamlessly enhances orchestral strings, adding punch and grit to your compositions. Elevate your music with Restrung Volume 1 and unlock a world of sonic possibilities. Recorded with the extremely talented Joni Fuller, each string instrument was multi-sampled across 3 octaves with multiple velocity layers, multiple round robins and 8 different articulations. All recordings were made in a very tight room, using the same setup used to record the strings in our popular Unstrung library. The performance of each articulation is very aggressive, played with tension and horror cues in mind and leaving the beautiful imperfections in place to give you a very realistic and raw sound. To add extra grit, we multi sample an extra 3 octave layer of noisy, screechy, beautifully hideous notes for each of the 3 articulations: Spiccatissimo, Spiccato, Staccato. Each of the other articulations can also choose to overly any of these extra aggression layers to give them harder attacks and unique sound combinations.

Shadow Strings KONTAKT

OSHiE | 30 May 2024 | 2.21 GB

Welcome to Shadow Strings, a darker side of the cello that can add suspense, mystery, and a sense of uniqueness to any of your compositions. Created by cello player and professional virtual instrument maker Ben Osterhouse (Osterhouse Sounds), this ground-breaking Kontakt sample library pushes the boundaries of traditional cello sounds to offer a rich tapestry of unconventional textures and effects. When recording sample libraries, you want to capture the best sounds from an instrument. You try to have clean starts and stops, an expressive tone, and balanced dynamics across every sample. With all this in mind, it can be difficult to keep a spontaneous, fresh feel to the samples. It can turn into a chore. The goal during planning and development this library was to avoid as much chore-like recording. Everything is played with abandon, then heavily curated and edited later to highlight the best moments.