Recorded by the Hungarian Studio Orchestra in the renowned TOM TOM Studio D, the extraordinary sounds of ACTION STRINGS 2 were captured in fine detail from five mic positions. Chop up, duplicate, and infinitely tweak elements of phrases, to create your own individual flourishes, runs and swells. These innovative building blocks can be fused together in countless combinations to deliver the best of both worlds – incredibly natural-sounding string parts combined with a level of freedom and versatility that simply couldn’t be achieved with a single-note library. This innovative instrument lets you quickly produce original scores with stunning string sounds, creating the perfect workflow for cinematic soundtracks that are rich in dramatic tension.ĪCTION STRINGS 2 introduces Live Modules – mini-phrases that have been meticulously recorded at different pitches and dynamic intensities, and then combined to create hundreds of phrases and themes.
With a huge library of orchestral samples and a cutting-edge approach to sampling, ACTION STRINGS 2 gives you the high-octane sound of a full string ensemble with an extraordinary level of creative control. In this video Reuben Cornell runs through some of the instrument’s key features, showcasing how quickly you can bring stunning action to your cues. Over 30 GB of dynamic phrases that can be tweaked and blended in limitless combinationsĪCTION STRINGS 2 delivers the dramatic sound of a full string orchestra, blending performative realism with creative control in an intuitive KONTAKT instrument that’s tailor made for scoring blockbuster soundtracks.
Play this list loud.Creative control and musicality meet stunningly realistic soundĬompose thrilling string parts with a range of articulations captured from multiple mic positions The last time we did this was in 2014, and to say that the form has produced a number of classics since then would be an understatement. So in honor of Peter Jackson’s Get Back - a new six-episode look back at the Beatles putting together the album Let It Be even as they were beginning to fall apart - we’ve compiled a list of the 70 greatest music documentaries of all time: the concert films, fly-on-the-wall tour chronicles, punk and hip-hop and jazz time capsules, and career assessments of everyone from Amy Winehouse to the Who that have set the standard and stood the test of time. Not all of them, of course, are created equal. It’s never been easier to make a music documentary these days. And thanks to new access to archives and updated technology, a whole generation of filmmakers have come up learning the art of docu-portraits and genre breakdowns that run the gamut from sub-subgenres to broad stem-to-stern histories of rock, jazz and country-and-western.
A number of documentarians saw the advantage of capturing a number of legendary artists and bands in their heyday and/or once-in-a-lifetime performances - partially for posterity, partially for plain old reportage and partially for the second-hand high of it all.
When it comes to historical musical moments, however, there’s nothing like seeing the real thing. The movies have always loved giving actors the chance to play rock star or impersonate an iconic musician/singer, recreating those famous “Eureka!” studio moments and greatest-hits shows for any number of music biopics.