CON MOTO – BASSES
Expressive Ensemble Strings with Motion
Con Moto – Basses is a string library recorded with motion in the sustains, legato, and attacks/releases. “Active-bow” sustains offer continuously re-expressed vibrato & emotion, via performance & editing approaches. Responsive note attacks and meticulously-timed release samples – derived from units of musical performance – morph with your playing to allow fluent note-length variation, similar to previous Performance Samples libraries. Much in the same vein as Oceania, Con Moto – Basses continues along the path of “energetic release samples” and appreciation of performance-sourced phrase endings as a critical element of the toolkit in release-sample functionality. Bow-change legato transitions wrap it all together, and with the entire library recorded con moto and musically-restless, the result is a breathing ensemble with coherence in phrasing, vibrato, and expression.
- Six basses (primarily soloist and 1st-chair musicians) from the Capellen Orchestra
- Three dynamic layers, from moderately soft to FFF
- Bow-change legato con moto (legato with movement in the bowing and vibrato)
- “Active-bow” sustains (non-static longs that move and evolve while simultaneously maintaining the dynamic/timbre)
- Release samples that respond fluently to note-length variation
- Bonus FX
- Falls (80 sounds)
- Crescendos (26 sounds)
- Shorts (40 sounds)
- Textures (3 sounds)
- Recorded in an ambient hall* with multiple mic positions:
- Close 1st-Chair
- Close Section
- Decca
- Wide
- 48kHz / 24bit
- NCW-compressed, ~1.42 GB total
- Built for Kontakt 5.8.1 and above – full, retail version of Kontakt required
- Download via Continuata
* the same hall as Caspian, Fluid Shorts, Fluid Shorts II, and Pacific
NOTE ON DELAY: this library has a moderately delayed response when playing (140 ms based on the SC mics) to further the musicality of the legatos and releases. The library is heavily optimized for this delay amount. All the elements of the library (legatos, sustains, attacks, releases, etc) are on the same delay, except the FX, which are 80 ms.
This product was re-introduced in July 2022 by popular demand.
Delay
The library is globally delayed at -140 ms (to the SC mic), except the FX, which are 80 ms. Set your MIDI track to this number, quantize, and you will be on-time.
Mic Positions
1C – close 1st-chair
SC – close section
DC – decca
WD – wide
Legato/Non-Legato
There’s a keyswitch block which allows you to move between legato and and non-legato (polyphonic) playing. These can be assigned to any keys via the “KS” area on the GUI.
Patch List
Con Moto – Basses.nki
Con Moto – Basses – FX – Crescendos.nki
Con Moto – Basses – FX – Falls.nki
Con Moto – Basses – FX – Shorts.nki
Con Moto – Basses – FX – Textures.nki
Library Limitations
- There is a small amount of ambience-bleed / “bump” on the attacks if they’re played in standalone isolation or you’re using mostly ambient mics (the wide and, to a lesser extent, the decca). This is a byproduct of pulling samples from connected performances in an ambient room.
- Some of the legato samples are disjointed (not smooth) in their performance, and the bowchange is often very obvious, especially on higher dynamics.
- General “rough” nature.
- The balance controls for compressing the low/high registers don’t work correctly when legato is on because of how the legato mapping matrix is configured.