![]() It’s got a nice usable sound to it, not big and epic, just smooth and vintage. It’s got many popular articulations including pizzicato, falls, tremolo and more. You can even do chords directly in the interface with the harmonize engine. It comes in Kontakt Player format with a straight forward interface ready to play. You know, the type of string sections you’d hear on old soul, funk, and r&b records? ![]() It’s a collection of violin sections recorded in a way to sound like strings from the 60s and 70s. Today I’m checking out Vintage Strings, it’s a library from the same one’s that did Vintage Horns and Vintage Vibe The Multis section has an impressive range of style-based setups, again with the instruments split across MIDI channels for instant playback and recording.Hey what’s good fam, it’s Friday again so it’s time for some Big Fish! There are three categories of instrument presets: jazz, R&B and rock – and within each one, individual instruments that can be loaded such as pianos, organs, Rhodes, drums, basses, guitars and so on. The Vintage Rhythm Section is basically the rest of your band, and very good it sounds too. So you can put distortion and wah on a piano, but it sounds better on a guitar. These are available on every instrument, although they’re better suited to specific ones. The first contains EQ and tape saturation, the second has distortion and delay and the third gives you reverb, a rotator effect and a wah control. The other module houses all the other kinds of sounds and has three switchable effects sections. There are two interfaces: the first is a drum mixer for drum patches, with a nice old-fashioned look and feel. The Vintage Rhythm Section is a little wider in scope and contains different types of instruments, though the Multis are helpfully pre-grouped into racks of stuff that belong together based on style. What’s added here is a Harmonize section, where you can tweak the behaviour of harmonised patches to create chords and intervals. ![]() ![]() There are patches for two, six or 12 violins, and the interface has the same controls as the horns collection. Vintage Strings does the same but for strings, emulating the violin string sections of R&B, soul and funk records of the 60s and 70s.īasing the sampling recordings on session notes from actual Motown recordings, players were recorded in authentic spaces similar to the ones used back in the day, rather than large concert halls. It’s the saturation that probably does the most to add grit to the sound, though the EQ helps too. There’s tape saturation, high EQ and reverb plus a reverb-type control. Every individual horn has its own player with a set of controls, each with on/off controls and an Amount knob. As such, it has some great preset horn sections, such as Memphis Soul, JBs, Detroit and Philly Soul and Oakland, all with specific combinations of horns. This also saves on loading lots of instances of Kontakt.Įxploring the Collections Vintage Horns isn’t supposed to be clean-sounding, but rather captures the essence of 60s and 70s soul and funk horn sections. So if you load up a jazz group ensemble, for example, your drums will be on one channel, bass on the next and so on, and you can click between them to play them, assigning different MIDI tracks for each one for easy recording. For the Multis, where more than one sound is present in a Kontakt patch they have been preset to use different MIDI channels. The Strings and Horns collections are fairly self-explanatory and the Vintage Rhythm Section contains a range of instruments including drums, guitars, basses and keyboards. Thematically, they are linked and make up many of the kinds of instruments you might need if you were producing soul, funk or blues tracks, though they will of course work in other genres as well. The collection consists of three products, and when bought together represents a saving of over £130, so you are effectively getting three for the price of two. Running inside Kontakt Player 5 free or full versions, it can work as a standalone or plug-in product and weighs in at around 16GB, though the library content can be moved to a secondary drive easily. The Vintage Collection combines three of Big Fish Audio’s virtual instruments, and each one fits the retro bill.
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