Clicking on any sheet line inside this Basic Rhythms theme you get a list of all themes. Four simple phrases and End note as the fifth one. By loading this preset you will find a note sheet like window, with the Basic theme opened. A Closer LookĪction Strings comes as a single preset Kontakt player instrument. You can build your melodies by playing the whole notes, for the whole length of the phrase, or even just using shorter notes, taking just a few starting notes from the phrase, building your own fast passage filled with so many notes, that will take you enormously more time than by playing or programming all those double notes or fast triplets. If those 62 themes are not enough for you, you can always combine yours by taking elements from any theme building your own unique one. Hats off for this one, my dear Native Instruments. This is especially important if you use more complex rhythms combined from few rhythmical elements allowing you to preserve the flow of the whole musical passage. The most interesting and best part of these overlapped notes is that the next note will not start at the beginning of the phrase but it will continue where last note ends. Notes which are not overlapped with previous one will have a strong attack at the start of the phrase, just as real players have. The whole library is very well programmed and if your next note overlaps with the previous one, the phrase changes key very smoothly, as it would with a real orchestra. Transitions between phrases sounds very natural. By combining Action Strings phrases in chords or melodies you can come really close to the sound of a real orchestra recording, as after all, these phrases are recorded with a real orchestra. The reason is quite simple: at the end he always records his works with a real orchestra, using samples just in the starting phase. With all other great string libraries you can spend ages making various action orchestra arrangements, but still they wouldn’t sound like they’re on the same level as some of the Hanz Zimmer well-known works. The second, even more significant, advantage of Action Strings is authenticity of results (before mentioning transition between notes inside a single phrase). So it is a big time saver, saving you plenty of time that you would otherwise spend playing and programming different takes. All phrases are recorded with a big, 60-member string orchestra offering natural transitions between notes that can’t be reproduced with any staccato programming, no matter how skilled a programmer or keyboard player you are.īy playing different notes, changing key-switches on the fly, it is quite easy to achieve stunning results in a very short time. The lowest, fifth one is reserved for an ending note, containing single string notes distributed over the whole keyboard range. Every theme contains four different rhythmical phrases that are accessible through five key-switches at the lowest end of the keyboard. In this 9 GB collection we get 62 different themes. What Is It?Īction Strings is a sound library of instrument that brings a wide range of prerecorded short rhythmical string phrases, or rather, passages recorded as single pitch rhythms in all pitches and at different tempos. We are starting with Action Strings from Native Instruments, a string instrument library with a very unique and innovative approach. This column will be dedicated to those that impressed us the most. Almost every month we get a few new cinematic tools. Cinematic tools are no longer intended just for media, film composers, as the whole range of big stock music sites open their doors to all musicians that want to try their luck in that specific field. We are starting a new column dedicated to the best and most innovative cinematic tools that money can buy.
Use your creativity and make some great action music – the sky is the limit. Native Instruments Action Strings is one of the most unique and innovative cinematic tools that has come along lately.
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