Best Service releases Chris Hein Solo Violin for Kontakt Player

Best Service has released the Chris Hein Solo Violin for NI's Kontakt Player. Solo Violin is designed to feature high-grade sound quality and realistic articulations.

Chris Hein – Solo Violin is designed to provide sound-designers, composers of film and game soundtracks, and experimental musicians with special effect-sounds and uncommon articulations with partly exceptional dynamics, such as flautando, flageolets and ponticello.

This library benefits from producer Chris Hein's 30 years spanning experience in the field of sampling and library production, resulting in versatility, configurability and practical use for all relevant genres, ranging from classical music and film scores to gypsy-jazz, folk and pop ballads.

Solo Violin reproduces the sound of internationally renowned violinist Naomi Binder and her excellent instrument - "In numerous solo performances in the Cologne Arena, Dortmund Philharmonic Hall and many other venues in Austria and Japan, she enchants the audience with her virtuosity, empathy and a broad musical range, varying from classical music to pop and jazz."

The pitch range of the virtual instrument has been expanded in comparison to the original violin. The special effect sounds are further supported by the internal tenfold DSP-effects-rack. By using the Ensemble Maker, the solo instrument can be layered to take advantage of all available articulations. A voice division in the stereo image and fine detuning are included to intensify this effect.

There are over 10,000 samples (4 gigabytes of sample data), 38 articulations, four different legato transitions as well as extensive phase-alignment of all samples for smooth inaudible crossfades of up to eight velocity layers. This feature-set allows the creation of authentic violin-arrangements.

Price: $179.