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 in the samples. It can turn into a chore.

The goal during planning and development was to avoid as much chore-like recording. Everything is played with abandon, then heavily curated and edited later to highlight the best moments.

Shadow Strings is not so much about recreating the sound of the instruments realistically and accurately --it’s about finding sounds that work well when time-stretched, layered with synths, and fed through effects.

Limitations breed creativity, and the cellos and piano used to make this library were the limitations.

Manual

Features

• 58 articulations
• 50 presets, available as either snapshots or nki's
• 2.29GB samples, NCW

Note: Shadow Strings requires the FULL version of Kontakt 7.10.6 or higher – it will not work with the free Kontakt Player!