The exquisite collection Cremona Quartet, by Native Instruments, brings the world’s most valuable string instruments to the hands of music producers. It’s a gem of sound that experts have carefully recorded and sampled in a phase-aligned stereo format with an extensive chromatic sampling of 20 articulations. Truly, this sound pack is a piece of valuable art that can now be in your hands. Just to give you a taste, it has cutting edge parameter controls to enhance your creations with historic treasures.
Cremona Quartet: Features
It’s really inspiring to know that now anyone can treasure these instruments. Moreover, that they can make use of them in all creative means. Cremona, Italy, is famous for being the birthplace of strings. Thus, it holds a special and long history for these instruments. In particular, expert built these hundreds of years ago, so they hold their own and unique personality and sound. Dating back to the 1600s, this beautiful plugin holds and cherishes every sounding detail of theses rare and amazing instruments for you to enjoy.
The Strings
Firstly, and probably the star of the show, is the Stradivari Violin Vesuvius. The Vesuvius came into being at the end of Antonio Stradivari’s golden age in 1727. Secondly, the Stradivari Cello Stauffer, built-in 1700, is an Italian national treasure. Its inclusion gives the quartet deep tones and adds weight to the whole ensemble. Thirdly comes the Guarner Violin Prince Doria, built in 1734. For some experts, this is the best violin in the world. Last but not least there’s the Amati Viola Stauffer, which is the oldest instrument in the quarter, built in 1614 by Andrea Amati in the city that gives this plugin its name.
The story behind these three magical and historical sounds is the following. Experts captured these magnificent sounds at the Museo Del Violo, in Carmona, using a bespoke array of mics and preamps with an acoustical designed environment. The combination of these circumstances made the recording of these instruments outstanding.
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