Orchestral Woodwinds Library

US Best Service releases Chris Hein – Winds 12/05/14

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Best Service tells us that Chris Hein – Winds is an extensive woodwind library meeting the highest expectations in regard to sound, quality, expression and usability. They say that the library's instruments are based on painstakingly recorded and edited multisamples, with numerous articulations and up to eight dynamic layers. Here's the full details in their own words...

Producer Chris Hein has brought thirty years of sampling experience into this masterpiece, giving the user maximum flexibility and a high level of customization, while maintaining the ease of use.

Chris Hein – Winds consists of four individual volumes, also being available separately or combined in a bundled complete version. The library contains a total of 13 instruments: four transverse flutes, three clarinets, three oboes and three bassoons.

Chris Hein – Winds focuses on orchestral woodwind sounds maximum flexibility, while maintaining the ease of use.The library is arbitrarily configurable to embrace individual workflow techniques and demands of different producers. The available options and solutions take care of almost every practical application, leaving almost nothing left to be wished for – everything has been thought of! Naturally, the extensive amount of samples is handled by a powerful sample-engine, in this case Native Instruments´ Kontakt Player. Expect a custom tailored user-interface and extensive scripting to respect the specific requirements of the instruments presented.

Chris Hein – Winds lives up to the expectations of woodwind lovers as well as specialists in demand of outstanding samples, comprehensive details, a complete choice of articulations and a versatile adaption to specific workflows.

The instruments can be loaded as elaborated full sample-sets, offering all articulations ready to be played on the keyboard. On the other hand, thanks to the library´s modular concept, significantly reduced versions can be called up to keep load-times fast and memory requirements low. In clean-start configuration, only a sustain-set is loaded into memory. All other articulations and functions demanding additional memory and CPU-load can be loaded with a single click whenever needed. This allows fluent and efficient work, even on compact and mobile production systems with less powerful specifications.

Chris Hein – Winds brings you orchestral woodwind sounds tailored to perfection. Besides careful recordings with high quality gear such as Neumann microphones, the musicians significantly influence the sound aesthetic. Unlike the award-winning Chris Hein – Horns, this library takes advantage of orchestra musicians being part of the renowned WDR Symphonic Orchestra.

For this library, dry close mic´ing was an intentional decision. All instruments have been recorded individually avoiding any crosstalk. However, Chris Hein – Winds factors in the inevitable interaction of orchestra musicians when creating their musical tone. Therefore, the corresponding musicians where given headphone monitoring, allowing them to play along to the other musicians. Therefore, time-dependent articulations such as Dynamic Expression receive an especial coherent tone, allowing you to combine individual instruments to perfectly matched ensembles.

The intentionally dry sound of Chris Hein – Winds allows efficient combination with the sample-engine´s dual convolution reverbs to adapt the instruments to various situations. The Kontakt Player allows a free instrument-placement in the stereo panorama. Separate convolution engines for the corpus-sound (body) and the ambience (room) allow creation of any spatial environment, ranging from close intimacy to large orchestral halls. Here, Chris Hein – Winds differs significantly from the fixed spatial characteristics of many competitors. It makes this library greatly variable and, additionally, combinable with almost any other library available.

Features:

13 Orchestral Woodwind Instruments
50 GB Content
130.000 Samples
13 Articulations
Up tTo 8 Dynamic Layers
Unique Phase-Align Technique
4 Dynamic Modes
Dynamic Expression Sustains
Note-Head Designer
Hot-Keys
Intelligent Legato
Glide-Mode to play realistic runs
10 built in DSP-Effects
2 independent Convolution Reverbs
63 high class impulse responses
Attack- & Release controls
Special Noise Controls
Ensemble Maker
Micro-Tuner
Adjustable Fader Settings in the UI
Intelligent LFO-Vibrato including EQ
Customizable Auto-Vibrato
Key-Vibrato

Pricing and Availability:

Chris Hein Winds Complete: MSRP    €649 / £519 / $749
Chris Hein Winds Vol. 1 Flutes: MSRP    €199 / £169 / $229
Chris Hein Winds Vol. 2 Clarinets: MSRP    €199 / £169 / $229
Chris Hein Winds Vol. 3 Oboes: MSRP   €199 / £169 / $229
Chris Hein Winds Vol. 4 Bassoons: MSRP    €199 / £169 / $229

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