Cloud Viola 1

Cloud Viola is a deeply multisampled hybrid Kontakt instrument that takes a humble 17th century classical stringed instrument and lovingly cajoles it into joining the modern world. This isn't an attempt at any kind of authenticity (there are plenty of other Kontakt libraries out there for that already) Cloud Viola is all about creating new tones and textures which can work in a similar way to the original and go way beyond.

Cloud Viola is perfect for adding interesting texture to a "proper" orchestra, using MIDI controllers and an expression pedal she can be played with organic expressiveness and genuine emotion. But unlike more conventional classical instruments she is completely at home with contemporary electronics and sound design elements.

She can easily go from delicate to feisty, sound like a haunted ballroom, a huge busted orchestra, a hundred rusty mandolins, a swarm of angry bees, a dusty Mellotron.

Features:

• 1.72GB of 24-bit samples (uncompressed).
• 3 octave keyrange - G2 to A5.
• 5 deeply sampled articulations through 8 "oscillators".
• Accented bow: short bowed note with conventional bow. 5 x round robin per note. 2 mic positions- valve condensor and contact mic.
• Col Legno: latin for "gently thwacked with the back of the bow". 5 x round robin per note. 2 mic positions- valve condensor and contact mic.
• Twine: bowed with 5 meters of green garden string. 5 x round robin per note, minimum 20 seconds per sample. 2 mic positions- valve condensor and contact mic. Hard-wired to CC11 for expression pedal or MIDI controllers.
• Dark Cloud: Twine recorded 100% wet reverbed through Strymon Big Sky hardware reverb. Playback through Kontakt grain oscillator.
• Pale Cloud: the Dark Cloud recorded 100% wet reverbed through Strymon Big Sky hardware reverb unit, so basically 200% wet .
• Effects per oscillator: tremolo, vibrato, saturation, pitch selection, pan, lowpass filter, reverb and delay.
• Master output effects: low pass filter, highpass filter, rotor effect, delay, cabinet modelling and EQ.
• Velocity to volume amount control.
• Aftertouch to pitchbend amount control.
• Advanced architecture with automatable MIDI control of everything on the interface.
• 74 specially created convolution reverb impulses recorded from real spaces, expensive hardware, and some less obvious sources including a Roland Space Echo, Strymon Big Sky and the stage of Glyndebourne Opera House.
• 37 themed instrument presets (.nki's) each with modwheel patch morphing for gazillions of variation.
• Built in instruction manual in RTFM tab.

FULL version of Kontakt 4 or above needed.