Known as the birthplace of strings, the Italian city of Cremona has a long and special history. Built hundreds of years ago with wood from surrounding forests, each instrument has its own unique personality, and together their sound represents the heart, soul and magic of the region. Until now, these historic instruments have been guarded under lock and key and played only by a handful of trusted professionals. Today, they are yours. The Cremona Quartet 2.0 Update adds even more emotional depth to your music. With the new true vibrato samples it refines the expressive range of the Stradivari Violin, Guarneri Violin, Amati Viola and the Stradivari Cello.

History

Making Of Stradivari Violin

Making Of Stradivari Violin
Walkthrough

Cremona Quartet Walkthrough

Overview Of

Audio Demos

A series of cellos in a row
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Human Vibrato - The Best of Both Worlds

The e-instruments innovation of performance captured vibrato takes the recording of a professional violinist’s vibrato technique, then reapplies the behavior of the vibrato parameters to the sample, allowing you to automate or control the vibrato in real-time. This gives you full control over the depth and speed of the vibrato, resulting in a musical, expressive performance.

The Cremona Quartet offers the best of both worlds with the addition of authentic vibrato recordings performed by professional musicians at the Auditorium Arvedi Concert Hall. Whether you prefer full control or real recorded vibrato, simply select your preferred option.

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Articulations

The numerous articulations recorded include long, short, expressive, dynamic, and special articulations, all with up to three legato transitions. The adaptive Virtuoso articulation intelligently combines multiple articulations in real-time using the velocity, note, and pitch bend information sent from your MIDI controller performance.

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True Solo Strings

Every single note of the instruments have been painstakingly sampled at different dynamics and phase-aligned in stereo across multiple microphones. This ensures that all dynamic transitions are free from any phasing artifacts and dynamic changes over long legato transitions, from the softest pianissimo to the most forceful fortissimo, are indistinguishable from that of a real player.

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Shape Your Sound

Two Kontakt instruments provide a choice between Multi-Mic and Stereo. The Multi-Mic option provides a mixer within the UI offering control over the “close”, “mid” and “far” audio fields. The Stereo offers a stereo mixdown of all three. This gives the player flexibility and customization over the sound when mixing, or a more CPU and RAM efficient instrument for maximizing workflow when composing.

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Choose Your Timbre

The “Smart” position algorithm will select the fingerboard position that a professional player would most likely choose to play a musical phrase. The “Low String” and “High String” options allow you to determine the timbre you wish to get from each instrument, forcing a lower or higher string to be played. The lower string will result in a more mellow timbre, whereas forcing a high string will create a brighter, clearer timbre.

The Quartet

The Cremona Quartet consists of four famous and sought-after instruments; The Stradivari Violin “Vesuvius”, Stradivari Cello “Stauffer”, Guarneri Violin, and Amati Viola. All four instruments were meticulously recorded in the very auditorium designed to hear their sound. Until now, these historic artifacts have been guarded under lock and key and played by only a handful of trusted professionals. Today, they are yours to use in your productions.

The Instruments

Antonio Stradivari is the most famous luthier in the history of violin making. His ‘Vesuvius’ violin was built in 1727

The second violin in the quartet is Guarneri’s ‘Prince Doria’, built in 1734.

Stradivari also made other stringed instruments. His ‘Stauffer’ cello, built in 1700, is listed as an Italian national treasure.

The quartet’s oldest instrument, the ‘Stauffer’ viola, built by Gerolamo Amati in 1614.

Feature Summary

Instruments

Four Solo Instruments; Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, Cello.

Finger Position

Select the fingerboard position to determine the timbre you wish to get from each instrument

Phase-Alignment

Multi-channel, stereo phase-aligned dynamic layers

Multi-Mic Option

Mix between close, mid and far mic positions

Ambience

Additional room noise control

Vibrato

Performance-captured vibrato emulates human vibrato technique and provides total control and flexibility. True vibrato samples provide authentic vibrato performed by professional musicians.

Articulations

20 Professionally played articulations

Legato

Including up to 4 legato transitions per articulation

Virtuoso Articulation

The Virtuoso articulation combines multiple playing techniques without the need for key switching

NKS Compatible

Seamless integration with Native Instruments hardware controllers for browsing, tagging, sound previews, pre-mapped parameters, and more

Technical Specifications

  • Native Instruments NKS compatible
  • Download Sizes:
    • Stradivari Violin 29.90 GB
    • Guarneri Violin 30.85 GB
    • Amati Viola 29.52 GB
    • Stradivari Cello 30.82 GB
  • 24-bit, 48 kHz
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