Audio Impressions, Inc. has officially released their 70 DVZ Strings orchestral sample library.
Film and TV score composer Christopher L. Stone was tired of interrupting his creative workflow to search through deep file menus, find the sounds he needed, then wait an eternity for them to load. He decided to start working on Audio Impressions' technology in 2002. He brought in his friend, Gary D. Davis, and together they developed DVZ and SPACE revolutionnary concepts.
70 DVZ Strings is a library designed for ultimate speed and versatility. As Chris Stone puts it, "I designed 70 DVZ Strings to be the sports car of string libraries, to respond instantly to subtle input and go from 0 to 70 players in under six seconds. 70 DVZ Strings sounds superbly realistic. Seventy independently selectable strings: 18 Violins I, 16 Violins II, 14 Violas, 12 Celli, and 10 Basses were recorded with vintage tube mics at Lansdowne Studios with Stradivari and Guarneri instruments all played by London's finest musicians. The library was originally recorded at 192 kHz and is shipped at 48 kHz, 24-bit depth, making it perfect for film work. Each desk was recorded using unique instruments with unique mic placements.
• You can change sound on-the-fly by controlling the GUI as you play. Instead of being limited to whatever samples you've preloaded, 70 DVZ Strings allows you to modify the sound as you play and get infinitely different sounds through any combination of touch screen, keyswitch, MIDI CCs, and key velocity control as well as player placement in our SPACE mic-bleed simulator.
• 70 DVZ Strings provides true, real-time divisi - splitting up notes and allocating notes between sections and among players in each section as more notes are added instead of doubling up the same samples as has been done for the last 30 years. 70 DVZ Strings gives you 70 players divided into 5 sections and 32 desks. The library sounds realistic because our patented DVZ software automatically allocates the notes to the proper players in real time exactly as it would occur with a real string orchestra.
• SPACE gives you infinite control over player placement in the virtual room. You have continuous control over spot-to-room mic balances rather than having a handful of fixed mic positions. This is ideal for matching 70 DVZ Strings to live recordings.
• Go from a large scoring stage to an intimate room continuously.
• SPACE eliminates complex panning and bussing in your mixer or DAW.
• SPACE eliminates that overdubbed sound.
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