Emotional Violin

The Most Expressive Virtual Violin

Emotional Violin - The Most Expressive Virtual Violin of All Time

If you are looking for the perfect instrument for film soundtrack, pop music, composition, classical or modern avant-garde violin compositions, Emotional Violin is your first choice! A unique virtual instrument that convinces through its variety of articulations, its direct and unaltered sound and works like True Legato and Rebowing. With its impressive sound and at the same time emotional, it allows expressions never before achieved.

Contextual sampling

Our philosophy during recordings is called "Contextual Sampling". To find the perfect sound, several stringed instruments were sampled in various ways over a four-year period. We've come to the conclusion that no technique comes close to the real, natural vibrato of a trained musician. The real legato samples were always much more inspiring and had a more organic feel than the added artificial legato. So our goal was to perfectly capture these musical aspects and combine them into a great sounding and easy-to-play instrument.

The emotional violin consists of over 100 joints and their variations. Through elaborate and intelligent scripts, numerous articulations were useful, so that they follow the user's playing style. This is the secret of the emotional violin that contributes to its extremely realistic and authentic sound.

Master Patches and True LegatoEmotional Violin Joints Screen

The emotional violin contains three main stickers, including the "emotional violin" and the "intimate violin". They contain multiple recorded articulations, which logically intertwine and provide an elegantly aligned sound, thanks to

"True Legato". In total, four different transition types were captured in numerous sessions, which perfectly simulate arc changes or passionate behavior, easily controlled via speed. The speed of the transitions automatically matches the tempo of your DAW.

A special highlight are the ornament key switches. Unlike articulation keys, they are designed for the moment, to bring variations in the chosen articulations. That way you can mix from one current playing style to another (eg trills and tremolos) or generate variations (eg arc changes, to smoothly end a note), just by pressing an ornament key (eg cracks and tremolos). Last but not least, Ornament MKS offers typical violin effects such as glissando (up and down), flageolett and more.

Effective sound shaping

The Emotional Violin offers a small but powerful collection of sound shaping possibilities, specifically tailored to the instrument. In addition to a typical 3-band EQ and a pluggable sordino, you'll find timbre functions.

4 famous and experienced sound engineers created these convolution-based presets (so-called

Impulses of Timbre) that allow an easy and characteristic modulation of the violin sound. To use the violin as the 1st chair violin in an orchestral arrangement, we've added a timbre equalizer that places the violin in the correct seat in the orchestra. The icing on the cake are the "Room" and "Reverb" modules, which provide the sound of real rooms thanks to professionally recorded convolution presets - plus they can be adjusted separately.

You are the artist!

To meet the requirements of your game, Emotional Violin offers additional features. In „Poly Legato“, for example, it automatically recognizes whether a melody line or a chord is played, and via “Legato Trimming“ you can manually set the speed of the legato and portamento transitions. A specialty represents the attack feature, which allows the user to add an initial sample regardless of the selected articulation - for example, adding short or hard opening notes during legato. The correct tuning is also provided: via the "Micro Tuning Option" you can apply established tunings to the violin (eg Pythagorean, Werkmeister III and more) or create entirely new ones.

The result is a library with unparalleled authenticity

The Emotional Violin offers a multitude of articulations - also unusual - that you won't find in no other library. In addition to the 3 great Master Patches, you'll find over 70 articulations structured in categories and available as Multi-Key Patches - from expressive supports to short shorts with up to 9 Round Robins, to exotic trills and effects, to dynamic crossfades within four layers. You can disable playback styles / unused keys at any time via the "Purge" feature, freeing up storage space for other instruments. So if you prefer not to work exclusively with key switches, this method suits you perfectly.

Just select one of the following options

Normal Sustains with and without Vibrato, Progressive Multiple Vibratos, Espressive Multiple, Flute, Sul Ponticello, Morbid Sustains, Harmonics, Multiple Spiccatos, Staccato, Marcato, Tremolo, Tremolo South Ponticello, Multiple Truffles, Pizzicato, Snap, Paganini Pizzicato, Scratches, Piazolla FX, Various Violin Effects, Violin Percussions

The recording

The Emotional Violin was recorded at the Mastermix Studio, near Munich, in a wood-panelled room, with a large ceiling height and as far away from the wall as possible. For maximum flexibility, two Neumann KM184 and U87 microphones were used very closely. Therefore, the room value is quite subtle, so you can use your own effects for further processing. However, you can also use the built-in Convolution Reverb.

Kontakt Player 5.7.3 or higher is required.

The Emotional Violin is the second virtual instrument in this series, produced by Harmonic Subtones, maker of the Emotional Cello.