Following on from our extremely popular Animato and Spiritoso titles, the addition of Luminoso forms a trilogy of titles dedicated to introducing more realism to sampled instruments.
Performed by Martin and Kate Richardson, two world-class violinists from the Liverpool Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and recorded in Liverpool's famous Parr Street studios, Luminoso: Live Violin Phrases is a 15GB collection of thousands of live recorded 6-bar looped phrases compressed down to 7GB using Native Instruments Kontakt's lossless compression technology.
Despite recording only two players, the instrument cleverly layers up to 6 different bars in real-time for the effective sound of a 12-piece string section, or if you wish, you can dial it down to the sound of a solo violin.. Luminoso bridges the gap between premium string libraries which have excellent control, but can sound artificial on certain passages (such as runs, arpeggios, fast rhythms), and 'pre-recorded melodic phrases' libraries, which can sound dazzling on first listen but have little useful control and can grow tired quickly.