Orchestral Tools have released Grimm, a collaboration between them and Bleeding Fingers Music, available at the intro price of €179.00 + tax, increasing to €249.00 after the promotion. The offer ends May 22nd.
Venture into the sonic heart of a dark, foreboding forest with Grimm. With six ensembles performing textural, melodic, and aleatoric articulations as well as an array of processed pads and impacts, Grimm puts instruments and sounds from distant eras into a new context. It’s a set of cinematic scoring tools with historical associations but a contemporary edge.
Grimm was made together with Bleeding Fingers Music explicitly for screen scoring. Its foundation consists of six three-piece ensembles made from selected traditional European instruments: Tagelharpa, tagelharpa cello, lutes, sackbuts, hurdy-gurdy, baroque flutes, recorders, and strings. Building from these instruments’ characteristic sounds, the articulations and processed patches in Grimm instantly set scenes and manufacture moods.
Grimm contains six ensembles containing a blend of antique, non-orchestral instruments. Reduced to their core, these ensembles represent woodwinds, high strings, mid strings, low strings, plucked strings, and brass. Here’s a closer look at the instruments at the heart of these ensembles:
Baroque recorders and flutes
The baroque recorders and flutes in Grimm are made of wood and known for a clear and sweet sound. Grimm focuses more on their textural capabilities than their stereotypically melodic nature. Unconventional playing techniques were frequently employed for breathy, airy, or otherworldly textures.
Hurdy-gurdy and baroque violins
Our “high strings” ensemble. Hurdy-gurdy is played by cranking a wheel that serves as a bow continuously rubbing against the strings. It produces a sound with rich overtones and a buzzing, thrumming character. We’ve encased it in the mellow soundbed of two baroque violins.
Tagelharpa and baroque violas
The tagelharpa is a bowed lyre from northern Europe dating back at least as far as the 10th century. It’s an instrument with a gritty, earthy sound that blends splendidly with two baroque violas for string textures in the mid range.
Tagelharpa cello and baroque basses
The big brother of the tagelharpa, the tagelharpa cello exhibits the same bite and mournful wail, but is deeper in pitch. Flanked by two gut-string basses, this ensemble provides the hefty low end.
Sackbut ensemble
The sackbut is the baroque and renaissance era precursor to the modern trombone. The bell shape and smaller bore give these instruments a different timbre than their contemporary ancestors.
Lutes
We all know the lute as the instrument of choice for baroque or renaissance bards. In Grimm, we’ve put together a lute ensemble with a selection of different-sized lutes. The plucked string sound fills needs both textural and melodic.
Since the instruments of Grimm are frequently associated with medieval or fantasy worlds, the collection naturally makes an exquisite palette of sounds for these genres. However, it’s capable of much more—from modern horror to crime drama, Grimm adds texture, tension, and emotion to scenes in need of a slightly melancholy tint.
In addition to the six instrument ensembles, Grimm contains an array of processed pads and impacts. With distortion, filters, and numerous other digital and analog effects, our experts sculpted the original samples into new soundworlds. Gritty, dark, eerie, melancholic, or even sweetly dystopian–these patches conjure moods with an immediacy that transcends time.
Features include:
- 6 historically inspired ensembles
- Stylized processed pads and impacts
- Created with Bleeding Fingers Music
- Tagelharpa, hurdy-gurdy, baroque flutes, and lutes
- Mapped for compatibility with contemporary tuning
- Recorded at Teldex Scoring Stage, Berlin
Grimm requires SINE Player, available to PC and Mac users (VST2, VST3, AU and AAX).
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