Yes. Very nice sounding and expressive instruments, but honestly, the programming in this demo is far from being exceptional I have to say, especially the timing in the busy part... I'm picky since I've been listening to real world string quartets for over 30 years now so that timing thing here kind of just JUMPED at me 😁 but it didn't prevent me from purchasing the whole quartet! 😍
I just bought the strativari violin and I am in heaven! It's so crazy alive. And to those who think that the vibrato sounds a bit mechanic - if you change the amount of vibrato up and down with midi automation just like a real violin would do, it sounds just perfect!
Thank you for reporting on this. I spent an unholy amount of time just looking to see if you could control the vibrato at all with this. Your feedback is much appreciated.
I really appreciate that you showed us some written examples with the actual plugin and modulation visible. Besides it being good to know what exactly is happening. It also teaches me a thing or 2 about this library and the usage of articulations and modulation for solo strings in general ! Great release, thanks !
I purchased this library months ago when it was on sale. I finally started working with it this week. Holy smoke! For years I've longed to have a realistic library to write intimate string arrangements. For the last year I've been struggling with Spitfire Abby Road 2 (I love the sound but it's a lot of work to use) I've been gob-smacked at how easy it is to setup the articulations and control the performance for the Cremona instruments. And the sound is just amazing. I wish Spitfire Audio would study this interface and overhaul the Abby Road player. These two libraries are distinct and I love them both for different applications.
These are hands down the liveliest solo strings ever recorded. I compared them to Eastwest Hollywood solo stuff. Wow. The difference in quality is night and day - NI taking the prize. This collection is worth 800$. And 1000 can be justified.
This is so amazing. I even play the demos on the website as background music. I'm so excited to learn how to use it and for the music I will create. God bless you all in Jesus name.
Yup. Sounds impressive, but still sounds sampled. And my guess is that it always will, because a computer will never be able to imitate a humans bowing technique.
I really have to acknowledge the wonderful job this guy does on walkthroughs. I recognise his voice from cm magazine from many years ago. This was a very thoughtful presentation which did this wonderful series justice.
@SunTai Possibly the way that it was programmed. Sounds like the programmer got a little too excited with the cool legato function and missed out on the great attack articulations that the library seems to offer. 😎🎻
It'd be REALLY nice to have this MIDI demo come with the quartet pack to get a better understanding for how all the options work and what went into making this masterpiece. Basically to use as a reference.
@@igoryudnikov6198 I have one. When you download the instruments, you get all these options and endless possibilities. Its great, but it's a bit intimidating. I'm just saying, with a demo like the one shown in this video, you can get a better understanding of how to utilize the tool as opposed to tinkering all day. Some softwares come with Midi demos. Similar to when you first open ableton, there's a whole song made with the stock pluggins
Me wants!!!!!!!!! XD. I. Must. HAVE. This! amazing. sounds amazing on my mackie mr824s. Wish I had the money to spend. I need this CREMONA QUARTET. It's so beautiful it feels like i'm there when it was recorded. Perhaps one day ill have the pleasure of owning these beautiful strings in my library.
Cremona Quartet is only available in the collectors edition. Ultimate version only has Stradivari Violin. Even I have bought only the Ultimate Version. And now even I am thinking should I get just the Cremona Quartet for 199USD.
@@GeraldHaniel i first also wanted "just" buy ultimate 13....but i just wantded to have the cremona quartet and also i never had their symphony series...which is great by the way and also in the collectors edition plus the amazing ARKHIS have fun with your new instruments :)
Exceptional expressive capabilities! My question though is the same as on the Stradivari ‘Cello video: *Microtonality* ? Can these instruments be retuned to, say 31TET (31 tone-per-octave equal-temperament), or Syntonic Just Intonation with a changing tonal center, or non-octave equal-temperaments (e.g., Carlos Alpha, 88CET or Bohlen-Pierce)? I’m _really_ glad they have separate, contrasting instruments for first and second. A Guadagnini viola (ALA William Primrose) would be great for Quintets.
Can't help wondering how Stradivari would have felt, knowing his instruments were used to make some lofi trip-hop or trap beats. I'm thinking he would have really loved it! :)
This library sounds great here. Better, I think, than the VSL Synchron-ized -- or what I've been able to get with it. Anyone know how these compare with the Orchestral Tools solo strings? I also have the Joshua Bell solo violin library, but its operation eludes me so far, lol.
Very good, I am very interested in Komplete Ultimate 12,13, I want to buy it in a while, if possible, please put a video of each section of the contact
Had a maschine mk2, it was awesome. Ended up selling it on eBay after my old laptop died. Wish I still had it. I’m saving up for the mk4 and a new laptop, though I still have a long way to go. I watch videos like this and just dream about having sounds like this at my disposal. Someday!
This seems like a brilliant library, with so many options for control over modulation and articulation. How does this level of control compare to other solo strings libraries, like those from spitfire or 8dio, etc?
Hey Andreas, these instruments were recorded and captured as closely and realistically as possible to the true sound of the instrument. However, you can control the reverb and spaciousness of the sound by adjusting the Far mic position 💪
I absolutely love this and I love how the articulations are programmed. However, is there a way to control the vibrato manually? I would love to make the best of this with my roli seaboard.
Faithality Blog - Colin is correct on that aspect. The vibrato is controllable and can be set to any free CC you like. So I guess it shouldn’t be to difficult to map it to one of the dimensions of the Seaboard.
Faithality Blog Seconding. You can manually assign parameters to your roli (in Kontakt, click on the parameters screen to see which parameter is linked to vibrato and then assign it to a certain touch dimension of your seaboard) If you did make a demonstration it’d be awesome if you could upload it to youtube
Hi! I'm struggling right now with changing articulations. Is there a way to isolate a particular note or notes within the GarageBand track and change the dynamics of those only after it's been recorded? Thank you!
I'm loving the sound of this library, but I can´t figure out how to route each mic position to different outputs inside kontak, is this just not possible?
8 slots at a time is a terrible limitation. Why can't we access all 20 articulations in one instance? Now every track-per-instrument user is going to have to cobble together a multi, switching strategy and KSP script.
How can I order Maschine + from the website for my son if the shipping and billing screen is not working... I have a shipping address and the billing address is different, but when I uncheck the billing same as shipping address box, it will not let me put in my billing address... It keeps the shipping address instead... I'm not trying to send it to myself...
Its sad how even the best violins ever samples still sound fake on their own. This shows how techology is miles away far from real performance. But they have certain some warmth and charm on other side captured with samples which can add lots of to your compositions.The most fakey thing are ultra high phrases which sound very shrill and piercing for ears to not notice it and get fooled with. Maybe some post processing can fix it, still its quite a frustration that in 2020 we still are extremely far from real deal. Getting there thou, with mouse steps each decade.
Time may be measured in mouse steps - by man, who after all is mere mortal and shares some frustration with just how slowly time seems to move (until we look back). And yet in the year 2021 it feels a bit more like John Coltrane just added another Giant Step - forward - to his opus. Yes, I know some of us will not likely live to see the art of sampling / sound modeling fully developed and fleshed out, but if one has the time to do it the traditional, old analog way, one can still spend countless more dollars and even countless more years to learn how to play the real thing - thus dispensing with the need for samples / sound modeling, etc. altogether - whether it be a real violin, bassoon, or cow bell ... (well, the more cowbell the better if only cause no one can ever hear enough good old fashioned cowbell). What today's sampling achievements permit the rest of us is to constructively share in the genuine love and dreams that making more music assuredly promises - within the observably limited scope of fleeting mortal time.
What are the specs on that computer? I just can't get mine to work. Each time I load those instruments it overloads right away and gives me a message about different sample rates being recognized. Haven't been able to use this for the past year
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Been waiting for this for 320 years!
vampire!
are you bach?
320….😱😱😱😱😱😱😱
@@nicodemolalli5643 :) wanted to say so!
😂😂😂
Absolutely astounding. What a time to be a home studio musician!
and its not going to get worse
Could not agree more
Indeed.
So true!
Yes. Very nice sounding and expressive instruments, but honestly, the programming in this demo is far from being exceptional I have to say, especially the timing in the busy part...
I'm picky since I've been listening to real world string quartets for over 30 years now so that timing thing here kind of just JUMPED at me 😁 but it didn't prevent me from purchasing the whole quartet! 😍
I just bought the strativari violin and I am in heaven! It's so crazy alive. And to those who think that the vibrato sounds a bit mechanic - if you change the amount of vibrato up and down with midi automation just like a real violin would do, it sounds just perfect!
Thank you for reporting on this. I spent an unholy amount of time just looking to see if you could control the vibrato at all with this. Your feedback is much appreciated.
just cracked it and god it for free :)
Violin runs are unreal :O I mean they are so real, it's unreal))
I like how simple and straightforward the UI is.
This is the best string run I've ever heard!
I really appreciate that you showed us some written examples with the actual plugin and modulation visible. Besides it being good to know what exactly is happening. It also teaches me a thing or 2 about this library and the usage of articulations and modulation for solo strings in general !
Great release, thanks !
Enjoying every minute when working with these fantastic instruments 😃 Thank you NI 🙏
I purchased this library months ago when it was on sale. I finally started working with it this week. Holy smoke! For years I've longed to have a realistic library to write intimate string arrangements. For the last year I've been struggling with Spitfire Abby Road 2 (I love the sound but it's a lot of work to use) I've been gob-smacked at how easy it is to setup the articulations and control the performance for the Cremona instruments. And the sound is just amazing. I wish Spitfire Audio would study this interface and overhaul the Abby Road player. These two libraries are distinct and I love them both for different applications.
These are hands down the liveliest solo strings ever recorded. I compared them to Eastwest Hollywood solo stuff. Wow. The difference in quality is night and day - NI taking the prize. This collection is worth 800$. And 1000 can be justified.
This is so amazing. I even play the demos on the website as background music. I'm so excited to learn how to use it and for the music I will create. God bless you all in Jesus name.
Incredible!!! Best sounding sampled Solo Strings I've ever heard
You are right
Yup.
Sounds impressive, but still sounds sampled.
And my guess is that it always will, because a computer will never be able to imitate a humans bowing technique.
@@Quotenwagnerianer It better stay that way. Otherwise all musicians killed by AI.
Ive heard better.
@@HyperNova137 name of vst?
I really have to acknowledge the wonderful job this guy does on walkthroughs. I recognise his voice from cm magazine from many years ago. This was a very thoughtful presentation which did this wonderful series justice.
I am that guy... and thank you!
@@ReubenCornell hey man. Love your work. Nice music on your channel too!
Sounds absolutely amazing! Even though I have no idea how to arrange this I´m sure gonna buy a copy!
It sounds like the soundtrack of Luca with that Disney touch-up. So beautiful!
The demos of these instruments on NI’s site are astounding. Collectors edition guaranteed. I’ll be upgrading from 12 ultimate.
Absolutely beautiful. It's an amazing time to be a music creator.
Perfectly sampled Strings. Sounds really amazing!
That's a freaking impressive sounding demo project
Sounds like mush to me. (But the instruments do sound clean on their own).
@SunTai Possibly the way that it was programmed. Sounds like the programmer got a little too excited with the cool legato function and missed out on the great attack articulations that the library seems to offer. 😎🎻
It'd be REALLY nice to have this MIDI demo come with the quartet pack to get a better understanding for how all the options work and what went into making this masterpiece. Basically to use as a reference.
yeah to just copy and paste into shitty hip hop minuses)))
@@igoryudnikov6198 I mean you do you, but I'm trying to *develop* music, not follow trends
@@TGMinnieeMee try to play midi controller
@@igoryudnikov6198 I have one. When you download the instruments, you get all these options and endless possibilities. Its great, but it's a bit intimidating. I'm just saying, with a demo like the one shown in this video, you can get a better understanding of how to utilize the tool as opposed to tinkering all day. Some softwares come with Midi demos. Similar to when you first open ableton, there's a whole song made with the stock pluggins
Very true! I always think that it would be a great idea to include some MIDI demo files in all commercial Virtual Instruments libraries.
I am stunned! Wow, what a demo.
These are incredible.
Really impressed by these instruments, great job NI!
Surprised, just like stradivari 🎻
Thank you very much team
Wwaau absolutely outstanding,,I'm in love of this másterpiece 👍
Me wants!!!!!!!!! XD. I. Must. HAVE. This! amazing. sounds amazing on my mackie mr824s. Wish I had the money to spend. I need this CREMONA QUARTET. It's so beautiful it feels like i'm there when it was recorded. Perhaps one day ill have the pleasure of owning these beautiful strings in my library.
wow!!! I have goosebumps
Thank you again for another excellent video.
Ordered Komplete Ultimate 13 upgrade, Cannot wait to use Cremona Quartet.....It sounds awesome!
Cremona Quartet is only available in the collectors edition. Ultimate version only has Stradivari Violin. Even I have bought only the Ultimate Version. And now even I am thinking should I get just the Cremona Quartet for 199USD.
I couldn't resist. I made up my mind and I bought the Cremona Quartet for 199 USD.
@@GeraldHaniel i first also wanted "just" buy ultimate 13....but i just wantded to have the cremona quartet and also i never had their symphony series...which is great by the way and also in the collectors edition plus the amazing ARKHIS
have fun with your new instruments :)
What a great sound! Wow!
These sound amazing, so glad I got them with Komplete 13 Ultimate CE!
That’s for sure the next version of Komplete I’m getting guaranteed.
Delon Lawrence Same can’t wait.
would you say the price is worth it for CE? I am an ultimate user going back to Komplete 11.
@@NikoNoxious depends on what you want, I wanted quite a few things in ultimate and CE especial the quartet and Arkis
@@Markrspooner arhkis does look so dope...
How would anybody know this was virtual? If these sounds don't make you cry, i don't know...
Exactly what I was thinking!
Stunning! 😮
I like the simple interface
A very nice demo of ~ you gussed it- REVERB!!!!!!!
incredible
Wow.. amazing!!
4:56 TIME TO BUY
Awesome 😍
Damn, that sounds good.
Impressive!
Thanks For This Video
Exceptional expressive capabilities!
My question though is the same as on the Stradivari ‘Cello video: *Microtonality* ? Can these instruments be retuned to, say 31TET (31 tone-per-octave equal-temperament), or Syntonic Just Intonation with a changing tonal center, or non-octave equal-temperaments (e.g., Carlos Alpha, 88CET or Bohlen-Pierce)?
I’m _really_ glad they have separate, contrasting instruments for first and second. A Guadagnini viola (ALA William Primrose) would be great for Quintets.
Omg it's awesome!
Is the huge reverb detachable or part of the sample?
The speed variety could be within virtuoso mode linked to velocity also in my opinion when played soft slow when played hard fast,
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Is there any way to control portamento speed?
Lovely.
We need one for Upright Bass! I can't find any Midi single upright bass with at bow
Dammit! You bastards!! NOW I HAVE TO SPEND MORE $$$$$$ !!!!!!
This is fkn fantaastic
Really nice.. Is there a free (at will) rebowing option for the instruments while in performance?
Insaneee
Just waiting for Black Friday :)
They are some promotion on the summer of sound 👍🏻
They are on sale right now for €199, for 3 more days. Thinking of getting it
Cremona ficou top
My god upload a well written quartet. Enough!
The music seems like it was made to sell something. Why not show us if the software can be used to create quality music!
This quartet sounds really terrible. The instruments sounds very good, although to me Virharmonic solos are still better
Can't help wondering how Stradivari would have felt, knowing his instruments were used to make some lofi trip-hop or trap beats. I'm thinking he would have really loved it! :)
💯
Don't think you can get any better than this for a virtual instrument. God, I need $400 please haha
Hahahahaha!! So true. I saw this and had to purchase the Komplete Ultimate CE. That deal is a steal like none other.
Wow... That's ridiculous. I hope I can afford to buy this soon!... Maybe do a giveaway ;)
This library sounds great here. Better, I think, than the VSL Synchron-ized -- or what I've been able to get with it. Anyone know how these compare with the Orchestral Tools solo strings? I also have the Joshua Bell solo violin library, but its operation eludes me so far, lol.
0:57 So this is where Ludwig got inspired from? ;)
Oppenheimer music vibes!
Very good, I am very interested in Komplete Ultimate 12,13, I want to buy it in a while, if possible, please put a video of each section of the contact
Had a maschine mk2, it was awesome. Ended up selling it on eBay after my old laptop died. Wish I still had it. I’m saving up for the mk4 and a new laptop, though I still have a long way to go. I watch videos like this and just dream about having sounds like this at my disposal. Someday!
Really good demo. Not too much talking.
This seems like a brilliant library, with so many options for control over modulation and articulation. How does this level of control compare to other solo strings libraries, like those from spitfire or 8dio, etc?
I have Spitfire sound quality slightly better but they dont have rebow opt i think cremona does. If im not mistaken
Ah I noticed they didnt use Maschine for the demo, namely because the automation and piano roll need a serious overhaul
Got them as part of Kontakt complete. What I dislike is the missing clean sound. Always reverb in there.
Hey Andreas, these instruments were recorded and captured as closely and realistically as possible to the true sound of the instrument. However, you can control the reverb and spaciousness of the sound by adjusting the Far mic position 💪
Does the quartet or indeed any of the NI solo instruments feature glissando capability?
Stradivari Violin Multimic patch 4.19GB! I hope there is an option to load "easier" patches.
I absolutely love this and I love how the articulations are programmed. However, is there a way to control the vibrato manually? I would love to make the best of this with my roli seaboard.
I'm pretty sure if you right click on any control in the interface, you have the option to set it to midi learn.
@@colinfrancis I sure hope so, I've been waiting for something like this.
@@faithalityblog I would love to hear any of the four instruments on a roli seaboard. Any chance you might?
Faithality Blog - Colin is correct on that aspect. The vibrato is controllable and can be set to any free CC you like. So I guess it shouldn’t be to difficult to map it to one of the dimensions of the Seaboard.
Faithality Blog Seconding. You can manually assign parameters to your roli (in Kontakt, click on the parameters screen to see which parameter is linked to vibrato and then assign it to a certain touch dimension of your seaboard)
If you did make a demonstration it’d be awesome if you could upload it to youtube
Hi! I'm struggling right now with changing articulations. Is there a way to isolate a particular note or notes within the GarageBand track and change the dynamics of those only after it's been recorded? Thank you!
Tnx a lot for this.. I only have one question, is there an option now to map my seablard rise automatically in NI? TNX
Very impressive. Could I download the midi file of the demo track? Where can I find it? Thank you
How would you do the automations on FL?
I'm loving the sound of this library, but I can´t figure out how to route each mic position to different outputs inside kontak, is this just not possible?
とても素晴らしい音ですが、リバーブをオフ出来ないのが残念です。
Hello, how to control the decay of the pizzicato notes ? They are quite long
Does it have a transpose feature?
Unpopular opinion: Any random violin library + OTT = Stradivari
OK. Waiting for black friday.
Are you adding the dynamic yourself or does the plug-in take car of that?
Any information about the Bows ?
06:38
This is a gemechanger, I want to start writing string quartets now. Puts any Spitfire string library to shame. Shame on you spitfire!
well spitfire is good but the cremona bundle is really impressive plus spitfire is way to expensive compared to others
@Rashad Harris Overpirced eyecandy.
8Dio's new Deep Solo strings sound better than Cremona, have more articulation slots, and are cheaper. Only one violin though.
00:01 to 00:04 Dan Worralls way of pronunciation? God damn biter!
Wish there was bass/contrabass
8 slots at a time is a terrible limitation. Why can't we access all 20 articulations in one instance? Now every track-per-instrument user is going to have to cobble together a multi, switching strategy and KSP script.
It makes no sense.
@@mannmusica how much RAM do you have installed?
Mr. Gumbarfy 192 gig
@@mannmusica the vast majority of users have 16 or less. That’s why.
@@mr.gumbarfy9820 They are idiots, that's why. They could make gui to let you unload unnecessary articulation from memory and resave patch, but no.
Would certainly buy - but the downloads well excede my monthly GB allowance ! Make it available on usb drive/s ?
It is availble on a hard drive, that’s how I usually buy it
Any chance a bass is coming?
Not immediately but we'll share your feedback 🙌
What’s the intro piece? I can’t find it anywhere
Interested too
You needed Leonidas Kavakos to play the violin part.
is it possbile to choose strings section? like it is many playing together. if yes, where do I do it?
Sound awesome, what's the name of the piece?
I'm far from convinced the demo writer is a string writer and I hear intonation issues, however it's worth an upgrade sale price
How can I order Maschine + from the website for my son if the shipping and billing screen is not working... I have a shipping address and the billing address is different, but when I uncheck the billing same as shipping address box, it will not let me put in my billing address... It keeps the shipping address instead... I'm not trying to send it to myself...
is there a lot of lag time?
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Me: Okay so this exists now. Literally last year I was looking up "Why does synth strings sound so bad?" in google.
We were thinking the same so we decided to put this out 🤷♂️
Its sad how even the best violins ever samples still sound fake on their own.
This shows how techology is miles away far from real performance. But they have certain some warmth and charm on other side captured with samples which can add lots of to your compositions.The most fakey thing are ultra high phrases which sound very shrill and piercing for ears to not notice it and get fooled with. Maybe some post processing can fix it, still its quite a frustration that in 2020 we still are extremely far from real deal.
Getting there thou, with mouse steps each decade.
Time may be measured in mouse steps - by man, who after all is mere mortal and shares some frustration with just how slowly time seems to move (until we look back).
And yet in the year 2021 it feels a bit more like John Coltrane just added another Giant Step - forward - to his opus.
Yes, I know some of us will not likely live to see the art of sampling / sound modeling fully developed and fleshed out, but if one has the time to do it the traditional, old analog way, one can still spend countless more dollars and even countless more years to learn how to play the real thing - thus dispensing with the need for samples / sound modeling, etc. altogether - whether it be a real violin, bassoon, or cow bell ... (well, the more cowbell the better if only cause no one can ever hear enough good old fashioned cowbell).
What today's sampling achievements permit the rest of us is to constructively share in the genuine love and dreams that making more music assuredly promises - within the observably limited scope of fleeting mortal time.
@@gumshoeless5949 Well obvious. :)
Buddy you are out of your mind if you think the avg listener can distinguish between this and real musicians if used correctly.
@@artgod2890 Well of course not, if its mixed well furtherly, in just playing it, oh yes on instance .
What are the specs on that computer? I just can't get mine to work. Each time I load those instruments it overloads right away and gives me a message about different sample rates being recognized. Haven't been able to use this for the past year
That's curious. Feel free to reach to our support with your computer specs, our team will look into that: bit.ly/n1konta