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One is a percussion ensemble, which sounds like it contains taiko drums. The choirs are sampled singing loudly and sound very powerful, even on the highest notes.Дistrict III is percussion and it contains three instruments.

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The low choir is a male choir, and the high choir is women plus one countertenor. District II is choirs вЂ“ high and low choirs with вЂњaahвЂќ legato and sustains, staccato and marcato with various Latin syllables used as round robins, and some downright creepy glissandi and FX. The orchestra instruments are organized in вЂњDistrict IвЂќ of Ark 1, and they definitely feel like the most important part thatвЂ™s recorded in the most detail. In another nod to sanity, the French horns are included as both an epic 9-member section and a smaller 3-member one, which is nice because you can play chords without ending up with the sound of several dozen horns. In this case, the col legno is recorded at fff dynamics, which seriously had me thinking вЂњhow did they get the players to agree to that?вЂќ As it turns out, trouble was avoided by asking all the string players to bring their cheapest spare bow that day. ThereвЂ™s a sound thatвЂ™s rarely heard вЂ“ string players hate col legno because of the risk of damaging our bows, and thatвЂ™s for quiet parts. Instead of regular pizzicato, the strings get a combination of Bartok pizzicato (plucking the strings so they snap hard against the fingerboard) and col legno (playing the strings with the wood rather than the hair of the bow). Some also get special articulations which are not common in classical music, but used more often in soundtracks and trailers, such as blurred spiccato for the high strings, rips for the French horns, and clusters for the trumpets. Delving deeper, each of the instrument ensembles includes several articulations, from the typical ones such as staccato and sustains to thoseВ especially useful for epic music such as crescendos and swells. While there are only two woodwind and two string ensembles, brass is a big focus вЂ“ trumpets, trombones, bass trombones, cimbassi (contrabass trombones with a bent shape and trumpet-like valves) and tubas. So, everything that is present here is all about sounding bigger than big. The highest part of many instrumentsвЂ™ range also gets left out. Instead, there is an ensemble of high strings, and one of low strings. Another very interesting missing element is that the strings are not divided into first and second violins, violas, celli and basses. Even the contrabassoons and tubas are recorded as ensembles of four вЂ“ thatвЂ™s very unusual, as a standard orchestra only has one contrabassoon and one or occasionally two tubas. The third thing thatвЂ™s missing is solo instruments вЂ“ except for the piano and band instruments everything is an ensemble (and there is even a guitar ensemble instrument). Again, this library is all about big and loud, and those instruments are more about warmth and subtlety. So, no flutes, clarinets, oboes or English horns, and certainly no piccolos. The second most obvious thing thatвЂ™s not there is high woodwinds вЂ“ only bassoons and contrabassoons are representing the woodwind section. Big and loud is what this library is all about. For those not familiar with classical dynamics markings, mf is mezzoforte or вЂњpretty loudвЂќ and fff is fortisissimo or вЂњvery very loudвЂќ. Everything sampled here is between mf and fff, and some things are only sampled at fff.

Nothing was sampled playing quietly (well, almost nothing вЂ“ the drum kit is the only instrument that does include soft velocity layers). The most standard thingВ youвЂ™d expect to find in an orchestral library and which isnвЂ™t here is quiet dynamics. Perhaps the most interesting thing about this library is that it leaves out anything that isnвЂ™t epic.

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It runs in Kontakt and the free Kontakt Player. It includes strings, brass and orchestral percussion, as well as a piano, male and female choirs, and a band of two guitars, one bass guitar and drums. And second, itвЂ™s dedicated to huge epic sounds. First, even compressed it takes 70 GB of space. Orchestral Tools Metropolis Ark 1 is a huge orchestral library in two senses of the word.

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