Cello Textures Evolved is a revamped version of the original Cello Textures. It consists of complementary articulations designed to be layered together to create unique gestures and add splashes of color to your music. 

The original interface made it so you could easily mix and match textures together, playing them forwards, backwards, and looped. The new interface provides more playback controls and effects.

The new playback controls make it possible to change sample start times and set loop ranges for each texture. Like the original, you can also do this kind of forward-backwards looping, and reverse textures.

The new effects make it possible for each texture to have its own volume, pan, velocity sensitivity, transposition, tuning, envelope settings, filtering, saturation, and delay and reverb sends. Besides that, each texture has its own envelope and lfo, which can be applied to these new effects.

The original interface included a randomization button. The new interface takes this much further, providing randomizing dice buttons all around the interface. With a few clicks you can take the original samples far beyond the sound of a solo cello.

Features

• Interface and engine re-built from scratch
• 50 Presets: these can be loaded either as nki’s from the Presets folder, or
  snapshots from the Kontakt header. Each nki in the Presets folder is accompanied by a MIDI clip , labelled with the intended BPM. 
• 12 articulations: each recorded with 1 dynamic layer, 1 round robin
• 221MB samples, NCW
  Note: Cello Textures Evolved requires the FULL version of Kontakt 7.10.7 or higher – it will not work with the free Kontakt Player!
  

The Samples

Cello Textures Evolved uses the same recordings, but they were edited. Here's how:

• Starts, ends and fades re-done. (Some samples were cropped too tightly)
  
• De-noised to get rid of hiss
  
• De-clicked since there were some slight audio glitches
• Re-tuned to fix pitch drift and some errant corrections from before
• Eq (notches to remove some ringing and boom-iness, and some gentle highpassing)
• Re-mixed volumes. In 2019 each sample was normalized separately, eliminating any natural variations in volume. It sounds more natural if the samples are normalized as a whole instead.