Nashville Scoring Strings
Nashville Scoring Strings is a new benchmark in orchestral strings libraries. Conceptualized around musically sourced sampling techniques, the performative aspects are life like, expressive and dramatic in ways that are unparalleled.
Walkthrough
Technical Walkthrough
Nashville Scoring Strings was recorded at Oceanway Studio A, one of the World’s finest acoustic environments and home to Nashville’s top orchestral musicians. Together, the sound is both large and dramatic, making an ideal pairing for film score & TV.
Musicians
Nashville is home to some of the finest musicians in the world. Top players from all over the country have come to be a part of Nashville’s music scene, including the orchestras. Nashville Scoring Strings features half section sized of 8 vlns, 6 vla , 5 celli, 4 basses.
Studio
Ocean Way Studio A has become lauded for its unique sound. Established in an old church, the room has a well defined early reflection and highly controlled ambiance. Its flexible, yet large 3-D sound makes it an ideal venue for string sampling.
Performance
We approached sampling Nashville Strings through actual performance-based phrases. All of the short articulations were sourced from real repetitions, and the legatos were captured from actual melodies. The result is a stellar level of fluidity and musical expressiveness.
Create drama
All of the major articulations are included in Nashville Scoring Strings and were painstakingly recorded. Featuring legato, spiccato, pizzicato, marcato, trills, tremolo, col legno, all with an extreme level of detail and precision.
Every articulation was sampled from a musical performance. The spiccato, pizzicato, and col legnos were sourced from true repetitions and have an unmatched fluidity.
“The performative quality of this library shines through the polished surface, at times making it feel as though you are actually in the studio working with the musicians.”
Ramin Djawadi
The user interface features a 4 mic mixer and dynamic adjustment controls allowing you to exaggerate or compress the natural dynamic range of the instrument. Additionally, you can change the offset time for use in live performance.
Technical Specs
Kontakt Full
This product requires Kontakt 5.8 Full or above. The instruments need to be loaded in manually or by using Kontakt’s quick-load feature. It will not appear in the libraries tab. Kontakt Full can be purchased at nativeinstruments.com/kontakt.
Pulse Downloader
All product downloads use the Pulse Downloader App. Upon completion of your purchase you will receive an email from Pulse with download instructions and a redemption key. You will need to have a Pulse account to access your products.
CPU / HD
Nashville Scoring Strings requires 80GB of HD space to install. We recommend storing your samples on a fast SSD for optimal performance. While this product will run on a relatively low amount of ram, we suggest a minimum of 6gb.