Bunker Samples have released Intimate Violin Iremia, available at the intro price of $49.00, increasing to $99.00 after the promotion. The offer ends September 1st.
Intimate Violin is a solo texture library unlike any other. It’s hyper focused on only the softest side of a solo violin, because when you play really, really quiet all the details and imperfections in the sound really come to the foreground. To capture all these minute sonic details, we had to get close – really close, which is why Intimate Violin was recorded no fewer than 10 microphones, one of them positioned inside the violin itself. The result is a solo violin tecxture library that is incredibly beautiful, warm, intimate and detailed – a sound that pulls you in and whispers in your ear. Iremia is perfect for ambient underscore or Scandi Noir scoring or indeed any time you need an instrument that quietly, but persistently tugs on the heart strings.
The Iremia solo strings series is based on the idea that it is the tiny, barely audible details and imperfections in the sound that creates a deep sense of intimacy and humanity in a sound – and the softer you play, the more these imperfections stand out.
The Iremia series also features Intimate Viola and Intimate Cello, which are identical in concept, articulations, microphones and GUI. The whole series is available in an attractively priced bundle, which is perhaps the ultimate toolkit to get that contemporary Scandi Noir string sound.
You get three different dynamic intensities, from a whisper quiet ppp to a more robust p, each in three different flavours: un-muted, muted and the incredibly fragile and soft super-mute. Each has a different emotional intensity, so you can always find a sustain that suits your need.
Despite the focus on quiet sounds, Iremia is highly playable, designed to express your musical ideas with ease, thanks to extended controls of the dynamic response of the instrument.
The textures in Iremia are soft, but always living, breathing and moving, making them perfect for cinematic underscore. Some are frenetic while others are make-me-cry beautiful, and they are all performed in a rhythmically random, improvised manner, so the texture is never static.
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.
Starting from barely audible, crescendoing to a peak, before fading to silence, the swells in Iremia opens up endless creative possibilities. You get three different vsriations: normale, con sordino and con sordino tremolo. All of them come in 4,3,2 and 1 seconds length, and with the Time Machine Pro patch you can even change the length of these.
Features include:
- Align sample start – phase aligns all mic perspectives to the inside mic for a darker tone without the need for EQ.
- Movable key-switches.
- Option to display key switch note names directly on the GUI.
- Purge microphone channels from memory with the mute button.
- 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 and pan controls.
- Per mic Delay and Reverb sends.
- Route each mic directly to Kontakt’s discrete outputs, so you can process them individually in your DAW.
Watch the walkthrough video HERE.
Intimate Violin Iremia requires a full version of Kontak 6.7.1 or later.
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