Beautifully recorded Violins, Violas, Celli and Basses in a variety of playing styles including legato, marcato, staccato, pizzicato, and tremolo for solo, medium and large sized ensembles. Unlike other libraries, these strings were designed for use with your own external processing, like reverbs and other effects, because they were recorded with minimal room ambience, allowing for tremendous flexibility.

You’ll get performance oriented styles with separate or integrated arco attack elements, interactive timbre control and several types of alternate double bowing techniques to enhance the realism of your string parts. Combine solo and duo strings to create trios, quartets, or quintets. Layer these elements with the full string sections for even more texture and nuance.

This new Deluxe version includes more sections, articulations and effects variations and even more detailed programming!

Producer's Notes

When we first started on the Interactive Strings project, we thought of how nice it would be to create a reasonably priced string library with tremendous flexibility. Four years later, after the time-consuming and rather costly work done to bring it to the current version two, we can honestly say that this is a serious bargain for anyone looking to do realistic string sample playing! We added a generous amount of new sample data, more consistent programs for easier use and new performance features. It is now one of the only libraries in its price range that offers both solo and various size string ensembles all in one!

After listening to users' requests for larger sections and quicker ease of use, we decided to combine material from several planned volumes into one killer library, Interactive Strings version 2!

We took a look at the material we had and decided to make a two tier product out of one library instead of separating it into two volumes. The two tiers are the regular version which contains only the first disc, and a deluxe multi-disc set. By itself, the regular version has most of the solo and ensemble string variations that musicians might want, while the deluxe version adds extra samples, more specialized programming and interactive combinations for those that want more!

It is an incredible thing to be able to play the instruments of an orchestra from your keyboard. Even though we go to great lengths to make our samples very realistic, we always appreciate real-live string players and the amazing sound of a live orchestra. These samples are just animated snap shots of what real string players can sound like. There are almost infinite sonic possibilities with a string recording session and this is what makes each string library unique. I sometimes feel like you can never have too many instrument samples when you are creating music. If you don't have a real string orchestra available to you at any time of day or night, you may find that Interactive Strings comes in really handy!