

Drama from up northĪnyone familiar with the kinds of soundtracks that have been dominating everything from games like The Last of Us to Scandinavian ‘noir’ crime dramas will love Amber. Then simply load up and play articulations – which are automapped to certain keys – via the virtual keyboard or your own controller. You get different mic positions and other variations to download and you can do this by instrument (titled more directly as Violin or Cello, or more descriptively as things like Sci-Fi Drive) or by type. You first download the SINE player which runs standalone or in your DAW and then choose which presets from categories within the pack to download which, with Amber, can be up to a total of 8GB. It is the most expensive of the three packs at €149, the others being Arbos (for natural world percussion at just €49) and Babel (“soft vowels, elegant textures, and unexpected vocal patterns” for €79). We’re focussing on Amber which provides “a left-of-centre sound a compelling string quartet that gives your music an unconventional and vibrant quality”. Yet importantly for many of us – and in particular those who might have been put of by the knowledge bar to entry required for some orchestral libraries – you don’t need to know much (indeed anything) about an orchestra to get the best from them.Īnyone familiar with the kinds of soundtracks that have been dominating everything from games like The Last of Us to Scandinavian ‘noir’ crime dramas will love Amber
