Bunker Samples have released Intimate Viola Iremia, a soft solo textures Kontakt library, available at the intro price of $49.00, increasing to $99.00 after the promotion. The offer ends December 1st.
Iremia is a detailed exploration of the most intimate and quiet side of the solo viola, captured in stunning detail with a unique set of microphone positions. The result is an instrument that is incredibly detailed, intimate and above all feels personal and human. The focus is exclusively on very quiet techniques, recorded extremely close, from breathy, static sustains to moving and evolving textures and swells. Iremia is perfect for scoring Scandi Noir dramas or indeed for anyone looking for an instrument that quietly pulls you in and whispers you all its secrets.
The sustains comes in normale (without mute), con sordino (with mute) and super con sordino (with a large rubber practice mute) variations, and each of these comes in three different dynamic intensies. The incredibly soft ppp was performed with just a few bow hairs touching the string, and is about as quiet as you can play on a string instrument. The more robust, but still very soft pp and p variations have progressively more vibrato and slightly more substance in the sound.
Add in the the normale and con sordino high harmonics, the extended dynamics control and Iremia gives you a broad palette of very, very intimate and shapeable sustains.
The textures in Iremia are soft, but always living, breathing and moving, making them perfect for cinematic underscore. Some are frenetic while others are achingly beautiful, and they are all performed in a rhythmically random, improvised manner, so the texture never repeats.
Of course all the textures come in both con sordino and normale variations, and you even have the option of smoothly crossfading between the two, something that would be impossible to do in real life, but is highly expressive.
Spend your time writing music, not trying to figure out what all the knobs and sliders do. The interface of Irema gives you just the controls you need, but advanced controls for dynamics, mic channels and FX is just a click away.
Conventional wisdom teaches us that string instruments should be recorded with a fair bit of distance between the microphone and the instrument. But what happens when you ignore this and put the microphone really, really close…and then play really, really quiet? It turns out you get an incredibly detailed and intimate sound that pulls on the heart strings, full of all those little human imperfections. That’s why Iremia comes with three different close mic positions, including one placed inside the viola, as well as two room perspectives.
Features include:
- 3425 samples
- 13.7 GB uncompressed size
- 8.61 Lossless compressed size (installed size)
- 8.49 GB download size
- 48 total articulations
- 5 patches
- PDF user manual included
- Align sample start – phase aligns all mic perspectives to the inside mic for a darker tone without the need for EQ.
- Extended simulated dynamics.
- Full control over the dynamic range – make the instrumnet react the way you want it to.
- Fully adjustable velocity control.
- Per mic stereo width control.
- Per mic Delay and Reverb sends.
- Route each mic directly to Kontakt’s discrete outputs, so you can process them individually in your DAW.
Intimate Viola Iremia requires a full version of Kontakt 6.7.1 or later.
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