LUMINOSO

LUMINOSOWelcome to Luminoso Live Violin Phrases. Following on from the extremely popular Animato: String & Flute FX for Cinema, and Spiritoso: Live Cello Phrases titles, plus Perpetuo: Live Flute Phrases, the addition of Luminoso forms a quartet of titles dedicated to introducing more realism to sampled instruments. Performed by Martin and Kate Richardson, two world class violinists from the Liverpool Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and recorded in Liverpool's

Welcome to Luminoso Live Violin Phrases. 

Following on from the extremely popular Animato: String & Flute FX for Cinema, and Spiritoso: Live Cello Phrases titles, plus Perpetuo: Live Flute Phrases, the addition of Luminoso forms a quartet of titles dedicated to introducing more realism to sampled instruments.

Performed by Martin and Kate Richardson, two world-class violinists from the Liverpool Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and recorded in Liverpool's famous Parr Street studios, Luminoso: Live Violin Phrases is a 15 GB collection of thousands of live recorded 6-bar looped phrases compressed down to 7 GB using Native Instruments Kontakt's lossless compression technology.

Despite recording only two players, the instrument cleverly layers up to 6 different bars in real-time for the effective sound of a 12-piece string section, or if you wish, you can dial it down to the sound of a solo violin.

Luminoso bridges the gap between premium string libraries which have excellent control, but can sound artificial on certain passages (such as runs, arpeggios, fast rhythms), and 'pre-recorded melodic phrases' libraries, which can sound dazzling on first listen but have little useful control and can grow tired quickly.

Luminoso remains highly controllable, despite being made from pre-recorded phrases. This has been achieved by recording the same patterns across a wide pitch and dynamic range with many scale variations, by choosing patterns that blend in particularly well to a wide variety of musical styles, and then by allowing you to automatically sync to the tempo of your projects with a wide variety of chord, rhythm and scale types all controlled with key-switches.

Dynamic levels pp to ff can be smoothly cross-faded by mod wheel, the ensemble size can be zoomed from solo to 12 players, and two mic positions (close and room) can be chosen or blended.

Want to know more about the intricate making of Zero-G's Luminoso? Producer Dan Graham has spoken to our UK Distributor Time+Space about creating it and how he aimed for making it sound more real than triggered samples could ever be...read the full inerview here!