Kirk Hunter Studios – Kinetic Strings Plus (KONTAKT)

The world’s most flexible ostinato strings! With Kinetic you get the entire string section in one instrument (violins, violas, cellos and basses). You get a separate timeline for each section. Each timeline contains 64 notes or rest events and can be divided into 4 “regions”. And you can have each timeline play a different pattern, section, or articulation when you hold down a single note or chord!

Choose from 30 fun presets in Kinetic Strings Original or 40 new and different patterns in Kinetic Strings Plus. And if you really want to fool around, you can choose any of the presets for each section separately. This means violins can play one preset, violas another, cellos a third and basses another… ALL AT THE SAME TIME! And, of course, any or all of these templates can be edited.

Kinetic Strings Original – You can also download “perpetual motion” patterns that include very useful accents. These accents can be based on every 2, 3, 4 or 6 events. In addition, you can set whether the accents are subtle, moderate, or dynamic.

Kinetic Strings contains 16 violins, 10 violas, 8 cellos and 4 basses. Spiccato, Marcato and Pizzicato articulations included. Kinetic Strings Plus includes Spiccato, Marcato, Pizzicato, Detache, Col legno and Bartok Pizzicato. And each articulation can be “lengthened or expanded.”

Recorded at First Presbyterian Church in Santa Monica, where leading orchestras from Los Angeles record and perform.

The World’s Most Flexible Ostinato Pattern Strings

• 4 Strings Sections in ONE Instrument
• Create Sophisticated Patterns with No Musical Theory Training Necessary
• Intelligent String Motion Engine
• Bring Motion to Strings With Unparalleled Ease
• Powerful & Intuitive Design
• Dynamic Randomization with Instant Results
• A String Instrument Like No Other
• Epic & Cinematic
• Infinite Results
• Instant String Rhythms

New for Kinetic Strings Plus

• Massive GUI improvements and additions
• Added Col Legno and Bartok Pizzicato articulations
• As much as double the CPU efficiency
• Each of the 64 events in each of the 4 timelines now has velocity (dynamics) control
• Each timeline’s velocities can be scaled globally or independently
• Each timeline can now contain ANY section (violins, violas, cellos or basses)
• Each timeline can now contain ANY articulation (Spiccato, Pizzicato, Marcato, Detache, Col Legno or Bartok Pizzicato)
• 40 new rhythm patters (Legacy patterns not included)
• 16 new built in velocity presets can be applied to any timeline globally or independently
• Compose your own Ostinato Intervals
• Popular built in ostinato intervals, mini scales, mini arpeggios and mini ornamentations added
• Each timeline’s events can now be independently transposed up or down from a half step to a full octave
• Randomize transposition intervals of all 64 events in each timeline
• Scale your transposed edits keeping all intervals and patterns intact
• Limit your intervals to a maximum value
• Expand your intervals to a minimum value
• Constrain your intervals to a certain key (Major/Natural Minor or Harmonic Minor)
• Step-Record any notes into your own ostinato pattern
• Copy any timeline’s intervals and paste to any other timeline
• Each timeline’s events can now be panned
• Randomize panning of all 64 events in each timeline independently
• Ability to mix each timeline’s note levels independently. Note’s levels are saved with the section
• Solo a Timeline with keyswitching
• 3 Exciters added
• Added speed scaling allows you to speed up or slow down the existing tempo
• Easier Accent menus
• Added VU meters for each timeline
• Global and independent reset added for rhythm patterns, and velocity presets
• Removed certain unnecessary, rarely used features to “declutter” the UI
• Most features can now be automated via MIDI controllers

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