INTRODUCING CINEMATIC STUDIO STRINGS
CSS features a Hollywood-style string section, recorded in position in Australia’s premiere scoring stage – Trackdown. From the soaring colourful vibrato of the high violins to the dark and woody textures of the low cello and bass notes, you’ll be instantly inspired. Our aim was to create an instrument that’s instantly playable, sounds great out-of-the-box and is backed up by speedy customer support.

GROUNDBREAKING INTERFACE
At the heart of CSS is its cutting edge GUI, building on our previous critically-acclaimed library Cinematic Strings 2. This means a short-but-sweet patch list, easily assignable keyswitches and MIDI CCs, and a full mixer with output routing options plus reverb. These features and many others are all accessible via the main GUI page, you’ll have CSS working alongside you on your latest project within minutes.

REALISTIC AND EXPRESSIVE
CSS features a stunningly realistic legato engine. We painstakingly recorded true legato transitions for each note, up and down, including a beautiful portamento. We also recorded ‘re-bow’ samples, meaning you can play repeated legato notes smoothly and with true-legato realism. For more information please check out the Legato Introduction video in the Videos section below.

LIVE SOUND, NO REVERB REQUIRED
With smooth legato, punchy spiccatos, inspiring textural harmonics and con sordino, CSS covers a wide range of the sound palette afforded by a world-class string section. We’ve kept an authentic, human element in the sound, so you’ll feel like you’re at a live session. With this new level of realism, you’ll feel comfortable using CSS without reverb; in fact, we recommend it! All of our demos were created without reverb – all you hear is the natural air captured in the samples.

FULLY MIXED - LOAD AND PLAY
We used a variety of beautiful ribbon and condenser microphones to record CSS at three distances, which you can combine to create your own unique mix either inside Kontakt or via the newly included output-routing option. Alternatively, you can use our pre-mixed combination of all 3 if you want a great sound with fewer resources. Full and Lite Ensemble patches optimise workflow and are perfect for sketching or filling out a track.

Articulations:
- LEGATO, INCLUDING LEGATO REPETITION AND PORTAMENTO
- SPICCATO
- STACCATISSIMO
- STACCATO
- SFORZANDO
- PIZZICATO, INCLUDING BARTÓK SNAPS
- COL LEGNO
- HARMONICS
- TREMOLO
- TRILLS (HALF AND WHOLE TONE)
- MEASURED TREMOLO (TREMOLO SYNC AND FREE SYNC)
- MARCATO/FAST RUNS
- CON SORDINO EMULATION (WHOLE LIBRARY)

What’s new in the version 1.7.1 update?

Improvements:
- Improved smoothness of low latency and expressive legato
- Increased Spiccato overlay volume for 1st Violins Marcato
- Restored ppp / sul tasto dynamic layer for 2nd Violins
- Re-introduced Classic Legato patches

Fixed bugs:
- Resolved various hanging note / unexpected note behaviours
- Reduced note-skipping during timeline scrubbing in DAW
- Fixed 2nd Violins vibrato x-fade phasing issue

Please note that there are some minor changes to the legato, so we recommend waiting until you are finished any current projects before downloading the latest update. If you do download CSS v1.7.1 during a current project, you will need to reload any CSS patches used in any templates or projects saved prior to updating, please make sure you reload all CSS patches (otherwise you'll still be using the previous version).

home page: https://cinematicstudioseries.com/strings/

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