Babylonwaves releases Art Conductor 8 - support for 86 additional sample libraries (Spitfire, Orchestral Tools, 8DIO, VLS and many others)

Babylonwaves has released Art Conductor 8, a collection of over 9000 professionally built articulation switching templates available for Logic, Cubase, Digital Performer, Studio One and Cakewalk. The new release adds support for 86 additional sample libraries bringing the total to 600.

Here's what they say:

Art Conductor set out to make articulation switching a truthfully enjoyable experience. The way the templates are laid out is designed to get the best out of commercial sample libraries by instilling life and additional realism. Because, in layman's terms, real orchestral instrument players switch their articulation all the time.

So how does it work? With Art Conductor, the most important articulations share the same key switches, use the same naming convention and articulation color across the board. Depending on the DAW, regions can be moved from one orchestra instrument to another and the most important articulations will transfer over.

Users claim that Art Conductor takes away the technicalities when using sample libraries and let them focus more on the creative side. They use up to 90% less tracks in their arrangements, get a superior overview and their sampled instrument sound so much more realistic and alive.

Unified key switches
A Staccato note gets always activated using the note F, whereas, for instance, you dial up Legato with the trigger note C#. The default key switches of the libraries are all setup differently and Art Conductor solves that for you. For those who prefer a menu, the first entry in the list of articulations is always a Sustain/Long and all the rest is sorted alphabetically.

Unified colors
Short notes are red, Long notes are blue, anything with movement like Trills show in green. Why's that important? Because you can look at the edit window and you instantly see which type of articulation is playing, even without reading any name. And again, that's true for every library supported by Art Conductor*.

Unified articulation control
Under normal circumstances, moving a musical motive to a different instrument will render the articulation you've assigned before useless. Art Conductor uses a clever matrices technology to carry the most important articulations over in context*.

Additional content in Art Conductor 8:

• 8Dio Aura Exotic Studio Percussion 1.

• 8Dio Majestica 2 Snapshot.

• 8Dio Misfit Harmonica.

• 8Dio Quanun Snapshots.

• 8Dio Sample Aid Studio Series Fire Trumpet.

• 8Dio Studio Saxophones Snapshot.

• 8Dio Studio Solo Cello Snapshot.

• 8Dio Studio Sopranos.

• 8Dio The Forgotten Voices Cait.

• Ample Sound Ample Bass Acoustic.

• Ample Sound Ample Bass J.

• Ample Sound Ample Bass P.

• Ample Sound Ample Bass Y.

• Ample Sound Ample Bass JF.

• Ample Sound Ample Bass Metal R.

• Ample Sound Ample Bass Upgright.

• Ample Sound China Dongxiao.

• Ample Sound China Pipa.

• Ample Sound China Qudi.

• Ample Sound China Zheng.

• Ample Sound Ample Guitar Ethno Banjo.

• Ample Sound Ample Guitar Ethno Ukulele.

• Ample Sound Slide Lapsteel.

• Ample Sound Ample Guitar LP.

• Ample Sound Ample Guitar Metal Eclipse.

• Ample Sound Ample Guitar Metal Hellrazer.

• Ample Sound Ample Guitar PF.

• Ample Sound Ample Guitar SC.

• Ample Sound Ample Guitar SH Semi Hollow.

• Ample Sound Ample Guitar SJ.

• Ample Sound Ample Guitar TC.

• Ample Sound Ample Guitar L.

• Ample Sound Ample Guitar M.

• Ample Sound Ample Guitar T.

• Ample Sound Ample Guitar Twelve.

• Ample Sound Ample Guitar VC.

• Audio Imperia Areia Lite Edition.

• Audio Imperia Nucleus Lite Edition.

• Audio Imperia Solo.

• Audiobro LASS3 Snapshot.

• Best Service Celtic Era.

• Best Service Dark Era.

• Best Service Medieval Legends.

• Cinesamples Tina Guo Legato.

• Embertone Arnold Series Shan Bawu.

• Heavyocity Forzo Essentials.

• Ilya Efimov Bawu.

• Ilya Efimov Duduk.

• Ilya Evimov Rock Bass.

• Impact Soundworks Django.

• Impact Soundworks Straight Ahead Jazz Horns.

• Impact Soundworks Tokyo Scoring Strings Snapshots.

• Impact Soundworks Ventus Native American Flutes.

• Impact Soundworks Ventus Tin Whistle Snapshots.

• Impact Soundworks Ventus Winds Duduk.

• Orangetree Evolution Vintage Gent.

• Orchestraltools Andea SineSnapshots.

• Orchestraltools Berlin Brass Sine Snapshots.

• Orchestraltools Berlin Percussion Sine Snapshots.

• Orchestraltools Berlin Strings Sine Snapshots.

• Orchestraltools Berlin Woodwinds Sine Snapshots.

• Orchestraltools Metropolis Ark 3 Sine Snapshots.

• Orchestraltools Metropolis Ark 4 Sine Snapshots.

• Orchestraltools Metropolis Ark 5 Sine Snapshots.

• Project Sam Symphobia 1 2.0.

• Project Sam True Strike 1 2.0.

• Prominy Hummingbird.

• Sonica Koto 13.

• Sonica Shakuhashi.

• Sonica Sho.

• Sonica Tsugaru Shamisen.

• Sonivox Sonic Implants Symphonic Strings.

• Sonokinetics Orchestral Strings.

• Sonokinetics Orchestral Strings Sordino.

• Sonokinetics Oud.

• Sonokinetics Woodwind Ensembles.

• Sonuscore The Orchestra 2.

• Spitfire Abbey Road 2 Core.

• Spitfire Abbey Road 2 Professional.

• Spitfire Abbey Road Selections Grand Brass.

• Spitfire Abbey Road Selections Vibrant Reeds.

• Spitfire Aperture.

• Spitfire Clarvis Scraped Percussion.

• Spitfire Hammers.

• Spitfire Ricotti Mallets.

• VSL Synchron Woodwinds.

A full list of compatible libraries is available on the the babylonwaves website.

Availability

Art Conductor is available for Cubase/Nuendo (as Expression Maps), Logic (as Articulation sets), Digital Performer (as Articulation Map), Studio One (as Sound Variation) and Cakewalk (as Articulation Maps). The templates are made for every platform with their specific features set in mind. They're not just converted.

Intro Price: 85.50 Euro (Reg. 118.90 Euro).

*Unified Colors are only available in Cubase, Nuendo, Digital Performer, Studio and Cakewalk. Unified Articulation Control is only available in Logic, Digital Performer, Studio One, Cakewalk.

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