Product details
Not just another strings library
Overview
Sunset Strings allows you to seamlessly blend between an extensive selection of standard and extended articulations to create organic, evolving textures – adding life and musicality to your productions. This library breathes! Check out the video to see what we mean.
Awarded “Best Orchestral String Virtual Instrument”
“Approaching strings from a completely new and creative angle… Top notch session players in a sublime recording space, coupled with unique functionality makes this one a standout.”
– Sample Library Review’s Best of 2021 Awards
What’s the big deal?
UNIQUE Features
Our unique 2-Layer approach gives you control to “bring in the emotion” by crossfading between articulations, as well as giving you a range of attacks and releases including slow bends, quick slides, natural crescendos, decrescendos, and more. Seriously, it’s unlike any strings library you’ve played before.
2-Layer Blend
Create unique effects
Attack
Breathe in…
Release
…breathe out
Choose how to start each note ..
… and how to end it
Lush YET Defined
The Ensemble
Articulations were recorded as an ensemble (5 violins, 3 violas, 3 celli), with Basses (3) recorded separately to offer greater control.
Some articulations such as the “repetitions” were recorded as soloists in their seating position within the ensemble, achieving a gorgeously detailed natural stereo image.
What’s Included
ARTICULATIONS
Sustains
Sul Tasto (vib/non vib)
Normale (vib/non vib)
Flautando
Harmonics
Tremolo
Extremely Slow Tremolo
Random Bow Change
Wide Vibrato
Overpressed
Overpressed Bursts
Raindrop Sustains (No Basses)
“Kitchen Sink” (player’s choice!)
Pizz Tremolo (No Basses)
Waves
Fingered Trills (min2, Maj2, min3, Maj3) (No Basses)
Expanding Trills
Harmonic Trills
Natural Swells (Short, Medium, Long)
Repetitions (Performance Loops)
Ricochets
Short Crescendos
Sul Pont. Tremolo Bursts
Random Harmonics
Bartok Pizz
Col Legno Drops
Shorts
Sforzando
Staccato
Pizzicato
Ricochets
Short Crescendos
Sul Pont. Tremolo Bursts
Random Harmonics
Bartok Pizz
Col Legno Drops
Attacks
Slow Bends (minor 2nd/Major 2nd, short/long, Up/Dn)
Quick Slides (Up/Dn, 2nd/4th/5th)
Natural crescendos (short/medium/long)
Converge (short/long)
Sforzando
Releases
Slow Bends (minor 2nd/Major 2nd, short/long, Up/Dn)
Quick Slides (Up/Dn, 2nd/4th/5th)
Natural decrescendos (short/medium/long)
Scatter (short/long)
Crescendos
Natural off
Effects
Harmonic Glissandi (Soloists & Ensemble)
Spread Rise (Long Riser)
Spread Descend (Long Downer)
Seagulls
Jitter
Clockwork (No Basses)
Audio Demos
Listen
All strings used in these demos are from Sunset Strings (including the ones you might not expect!)
Static Drift by Vincent Carlo
The Mad Queen by David Kudell
