Chris Hein Winds Complete

Orchestral woodwinds for your computer with unprecedented perfection!

Chris Hein - Winds is an extensive woodwind library that meets the highest expectations in terms of sound, quality, expression and usability. The instruments in the library are based on meticulously recorded and edited multisamples, with numerous articulations and up to eight dynamic layers. Producer Chris Hein has brought thirty years of sampling experience to this masterpiece, offering the user maximum flexibility and a high level of customization while maintaining ease of use.

Version 2 now features the following enhancements:

• improved tuning of almost all samples
• improved phase-aligned samples< /li>
• drastically reduced resource demand
• improved legato transitions
• optimized transition speed function
• glide mode-slur for more realistic racing< /li>
• optimized Touch OSC MIDI remote control
• minor bug fixes

Registered users of the first version will find a free download of version 2 in their account Best Service!

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

Vol. 1  - Flute

Piccolo Flute

C 1 Flute

C 2 Flute

Alto-Flute

Vol. 2  - Clarinet

Eb-Clarinet

Bb-Clarinet

Bass Clarinet

Vol. 3  - Oboe

Oboe

Oboe D'Amore

English Horn

Vol. 4  - Bassoon

Basson

Bassoon Barock

Against Bassoon

Chris Hein - Winds focuses on the woodwind sounds of the orchestra, maximum flexibility while maintaining ease of use. FloeteThe library is arbitrarily configurable to adopt individual workflow techniques and demands from different producers. The options and solutions available take care of almost all practical applications, leaving almost nothing to be desired - everything has been thought out! The large amount of samples is handled by Native Instruments' powerful sample engine, Kontakt Player. Expect a custom user interface and comprehensive scripts to meet the specific requirements of these instruments.Clarinet

Chris Hein - Winds meets the expectations of woodwind lovers and experts that demand excellent samples, extensive detail, an elaborate selection of articulations, and versatile adaptation to specific workflows.

Instruments can be loaded as complete sample sets , offering all articulations ready to be played on the keyboard. Thanks to the library's modular concept, you can also access significantly reduced versions to keep load times fast and memory usage low. In the clean boot configuration, only one support set is loaded into memory. Whenever necessary, you can add other articulations and functions with a single click. This allows for fluent and efficient work, even on compact, mobile production systems with less powerful specs.

Chris Hein - Winds delivers custom-made orchestral woodwind sounds under Measure. Both the high-quality equipment, such as selected Neumann microphones, and the musician's significant performances boost the sound aesthetics. Unlike award-winning Chris Hein - Horns, this library takes advantage of the renowned WDR Symphony Orchestra.

For this library, dry closure was a decision intentional. All instruments were recorded individually, avoiding any interference. Despite this, CH Winds incorporated the inevitable interaction of an orchestra. Therefore, participating musicians used headphone monitoring to complement each other. Consequently, time-dependent articulations such as Dynamic Expression are given an especially coherent tone, allowing you to combine individual instruments into perfectly matched ensembles.

Due to double convolution reverbs from the sampling engine and the intentionally dry sound of Chris Hein - Winds, you can easily adapt instruments to various situations. Kontakt Player allows free placement of the instrument in the stereo panorama. Separate convolution mechanisms for the sound-body (body) and the environment (room) allow you to create any spatial environment, ranging from intimate intimacy to large orchestral rooms. This makes Chris Hein - Winds significantly different for many competitors and their fixed spatial characteristics. It makes this library very variable and, moreover, combinable with almost any other library available.

Unique Functions

Perfect dynamic transitions thanks to phase alignment

During a six month research period, all samples were fully phase aligned. Consequently, the instruments offer seamless and seamless transitions from dynamic layers without sonic degradation.

Unique combination of short and long notes

The combination of Long and short notes are a big problem in sample libraries, which generally don't provide detail and authentic results. With real musical instruments, note size often influences attack behavior and note ending. Chris Hein - Winds addresses these aspects through his „Note Head Designer“. For each sustain, it is possible to access short and adjusted variations of the sample, called shorts, through the controllers. These shorts not only offer the corresponding correct attacking behavior, but also a note ending that perfectly matches the note size. These user-defined selections of short note variations are available in eight dynamic layers each and can be combined with the corresponding sustained phases, leading to surprisingly realistic results that cannot be achieved using random selections based on rotation. Of course, these shorts are also available as individual joints.

True Legato

Chris Hein's instruments - Winds offer true legato in up to four dynamic layers. For example, when playing French horn, the sampling engine selects the perfect note transition from over 2,200 samples, resulting in unprecedented legato-realism. At the same time, it is possible to combine these realistic combinations with additional artificially inserted legatos.

Library Extension

The library's performance data directly reflects the huge investment of writes and configuration possibilities. Each instrument is based on nearly 10,000 unique samples, 14 articulations and up to eight dynamic layers. This makes Chris Hein - Winds the deepest library of orchestral woodwinds currently available. Kontakt Player's personalized user interface not only offers numerous functions to adapt the sound character and articulations of the library, but also offers a lot of configuration options to meet specific demands and workflows. At the same time, you can effectively replay the library without deep edits. 26 pre-programmed key presets at the bottom of the keyboard (A-1 through A #1) allow for quick tests of all available types.

Thanks to four "Dynamic Modes", "Note-Head Designer", "Key-Vibrato", "Hot-Keys" and the revolutionary concept of articulation presets, the user interface will give you the impression of actually playing these instruments live.

Main features

13 Orchestra wind instruments, 50 GB content, 130,000 samples, 13 articulations

Up to 8 dynamic layers

Unique phase alignment technique, 4 dynamic modes, sustained dynamic expressions

Remarkable designer, keys of shortcut, smart Legato, slider mode to play realistic racing

10 built-in DSP effects, 2 independent convolution reverbs, 63 high-class impulse responses

Controls attack and release controls, special noise controls

 Kit maker, micro-tuner, adjustable fader settings in UI

Smart LFO-Vibrato including EQ, customizable Auto-Vibrato, Key-Vibrato

Free Kontakt Player included (version 5.5.0 or higher)

 Requirements:

The latest NI Kontakt Player is included in this product!

Please check the product description for the required version of Kontakt.

Download the latest and free Windows Kontakt Player (~450 MB)

Download of the latest Kontakt Player Mac INTEL free (~600MB)

Do you want more?

This library qualifies for full KONTAKT reduced Crossgrade in Native Instruments.

The following list shows whether the respective version of Kontakt is compatible with your operating system:

Mac

Kontakt 4:

OS X 10.6 and 10.7 = up to 4.2.4

OS X 10.8 and higher = no longer supported

Appendix 5:

OS X 10.6 = up to 5.0.3

OS X 10.7 = up to 5.3.1

OS X 10.8 = 5.0.3 - 5.5.1

OS X 10.9 = 5.3.0 - 5.6.6

OS X 10.10 = 5.3.0 - 5.7.3

OS X 10.11 = 5.5.1 - latest

Mac OS 10.12 = 5.6.1 - latest

Mac OS 10.13 = latest

Mac OS 10.14 = latest

Mac OS 10.15 = latest

Kontakt 6:

Mac OS 10.12 - 10.15 (latest update)

windows

Kontakt 4:

XP = up to 4.2.4

Vista = up to 4.2.4

Windows 7 = up to 4.2.4

Windows 8 and 10 = no longer supported

Appendix 5:

XP = up to 5.2.0

Vista = up to 5.2.0

Windows 7 = newer

Windows 8 and 10 = latest

Kontakt 6:

Windows 7, Windows 8 or Windows 10 (Latest Service Pack)

FOR ALL SYSTEMS:

1 GB free disk space

Space the additional on the hard disk according to the size of the library