Recording the string orchestra as high and low strings (as opposed to the traditional four sections – violins, violas, celli and basses) is an increasingly common technique in libraries where a full sound and fast results are a key aim.

It runs in both Kontakt 5 and the free Kontakt Player. As you would expect, at 160GB it’s a hefty download (75GB compressed), but if you pay extra it can be supplied on an SSD. Everything sounds loud, with dynamics starting at mf and continuing upwards to fff. Well, now it’s here in the form of Metropolis Ark 1 – The Monumental Orchestra.ĭeveloped and produced by Berlin-based Orchestral Tools, it contains a huge orchestra, choir, electric guitars, percussion, a grand piano and a drum set. Although a good many existing libraries are capable of producing loud grandiose scores, it was only a matter of time before something huge came along designed specifically for epic music production. You will also be required to manually load patches into the 20 instances of Kontakt used for the template.With the increasing trend for large epic film scores and trailer music these days, orchestral sample libraries are naturally growing larger as well, to keep up with the demand. No sample content or products by Orchestral Tools are included with, or as part of, PoundSound templates.įor the template to work you must own the following library from Orchestral Tools and have it installed on your machine. Simply choose a visiblity configuration from the dropdown and work sections independently.

Visibility configurations have been created for the Mixer & Main Project Window making navigation a breeze when working with the template.

HP & LP filters have been applied to each instrument, removing unwanted rumble and hiss from the recordings to help improve balance and increase headroom. Expression Maps have been created for the entire library and pre-applied to keyswitch instruments in the template, saving time and frustration.

This unloaded template comes pre-routed, named, tagged, colour coded and organised with folders, groups and icons. Want to get up and runnign with the Kontakt edition of Metropolis ARK 1 and save a stack of time?

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