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Play an untouchable piece of musical history. A digital recreation that will give you an ultra-realistic performance of this breath-taking instrument
The ultimate solo violin from the world’s most renowned instrument maker
The recreation of Antonio Stradivari’s “Vesuvius” violin from 1727. Recorded in the heart of Cremona, the birthplace of Stradivari and the very auditorium designed to hear its sound, the Auditorium Giovanno Arvedi.
The meticulous recreation of this iconic instrument makes playing the sound of Stradivari a reality, in more ways than one. Not only does the high-quality sample content preserve the sound of this one-of-a-kind instrument for future generations, but also packs the mastery of this historic violin into a powerful instrument for modern composers.
The Stradivari
This historical masterpiece was created in c.1727 by the legendary Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari and is considered to be a typical example of his work in the late 1720s. It now stands in the Museo del Violino after it's last owner, violinist and composer Remo Lauricella expressed his will to return the violin to its place of origin in the town of Cremona, Italy.
Human Vibrato
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 in real-time, resulting in full and realistic control for an expressive and natural sound.
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.
True Solo Violin
Every single note of the Stradivarius violin has 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 violin.
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.
Choose Your Timbre
The “Smart” position algorithm will select the fingerboard position that a professional violinist 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 the violin, 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 Stradivari
This historical masterpiece was created in c.1727 by the legendary Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari and is considered to be a typical example of his work in the late 1720s. It now stands in the Museo del Violino after it's last owner, violinist and composer Remo Lauricella expressed his will to return the violin to its place of origin in the town of Cremona, Italy.
Human Vibrato
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 in real-time, resulting in full and realistic control for an expressive and natural sound.
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.
True Solo Violin
Every single note of the Stradivarius violin has 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 violin.
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.
Choose Your Timbre
The “Smart” position algorithm will select the fingerboard position that a professional violinist 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 the violin, 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.
Stradivari Violin Features:
- Solo Violin Instrument
- Smart fingerboard positioning
- Multi-channel, stereo phase-aligned dynamic layers
- Mix between close, mid and far mic positions
- Additional room noise control
- Performance-captured vibrato emulates human vibrato technique
- 20 Professionally played articulations
- Including up to 3 legato transitions per articulation
- Virtuoso articulation combines multiple playing techniques without the need for keyswitching
- Native Instruments NKS compatible
- Size: 23.5 GB / 39 GB (Lossless Sample Compression)
- 24 bit, 48 kHz
- Kontakt instrument – requires free Kontakt 6 Player or Kontakt 6 Version 6.2.2 or higher
- System Requirements:
- Windows 7, 8 or 10 (latest Service Pack, 32/64-bit) Intel Core i5 or equivalent CPU, 6 GB RAM
- Mac OS X 10.12, 10.13, 10.14 or 10.15 (latest update), i5, 6 GB RAM
- An Internet connection and a graphics card that supports OpenGL 2.1 or higher are required to download and activate this product. Once installed and activated, the product can be used offline.
