Chris Hein Ensemble Strings

Chris Hein – Ensemble Strings is an incredibly detailed, flexible and musical string-ensemble-library. A special characteristic of this library is the fact that the ensemble-sounds have not been recorded in a group. Instead, the carefully selected and matched instruments have been recorded separately and edited. Consequently, each instrument is perfectly in tune, offers excellence in timing and still (or thereby) seamlessly fits the ensemble’s sonic character. You won’t find a wrong note that ruins the whole ensemble.

Recorded with greatest care, precisely edited and combined into ten useful Kontakt Player instruments with a custom made user interface and comprehensive scripting, Chris Hein – Ensemble Strings offers highest sound-quality, lots of articulations and incredibly realistic results.

Library Content

Chris Hein – Ensemble Strings have been compiled out of a pool of over 120,000 samples of violins, cellos and double basses being combined to harmonic ensembles. Each individual recording was carefully adjusted in tuning and timing as well as placed in the stereo panorama. Subsequently, these files were mixed with other recordings (naturally in 24 bit resolution) to build up an ensemble. Because of this procedure, articulations such as pizzicato or col legno can be played in „loose“ and „tight“ versions.

2 Ensemble sizes "Full" & "Small"

Available are two ensemble-sizes for different applications:

• "Full" offers a big and wide sound experience
• "Small" provides a tinier, more delicate character

The Articualtions

Chris Hein – Ensemble Strings offers no less than 32 different articulations and play-styles for its instruments. Thanks to a straightforward key-switching-system, these can be easily used with highest musicality while playing. The articulation tempo, especially for repetitions and runs, can easily be adapted to the host-tempo of your DAW.

• Sustain
• Sustain Vibrato
• Dynamic Expression Long
• Dynamic Expression Short
• Accent Vibrato
• Flautando
• Ponticello
• Trill 1 Minor
• Trill 2 Major
• Tremolo
• Repetition

• Pizzicato Tight
• Pizzicato Loose
• Col Legno Tight
• Col Legno Loose
• Effects
• Short 1
• Short 3
• Short 5
• Short 6
• Spiccato 1
• Spiccato 3

• Spiccato 5
• Spiccato 6
• Run Up
• Run Sown
• Octave Long
• Octave Short
• 1 Octave Up
• 2 Octave Up
• Cluster Cloud 1
• Cluster Cloud 2