Blue notes are playable and red notes, further down the keyboard, switch between phrases. As Kontakt users may be familiar with, you see some notes shown in different colors representing which ones have sounds assigned to them.
#Action strings review series#
It's essentially a phrase instrument which means that pressing MIDI keys plays a series of notes rather than a single note. You can get around this if you're brilliant at programming articulations in MIDI, but frankly for most people that's a headache.Įnter Action Strings, which aims to take the hassle out of dramatic, cinematic string arrangements. The faster and more dramatic the desired results, the more difficult it becomes to do it with a MIDI keyboard. The probem with many sampled string libraries is that as good as they sound, playing a keyboard makes it very difficult to replicate the kinds of musical phrases that a real string section would play. The sample library is easy enough to put on an external drive during installation.
It requires a hefty 14 GB of disk space to install, though this is because it is sample based. I was particularly impressed with the Damage rhythmic instrument, and the latest addition to the lineup is Action Strings, a dramatic orchestral phrase instrument retailing at $299. These innovative building blocks can be fused together in countless combinations to deliver the best of both worlds - incredibly natural-sounding string parts combined with a level of freedom and. NI has been steadily increasing its presence in the scoring field with a series of more cinematic instruments powered by its Kontakt multi-sampler. ACTION STRINGS 2 introduces Live Modules - mini-phrases that have been meticulously recorded at different pitches and dynamic intensities, and then combined to create hundreds of phrases and themes.
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