The follow-up to the much loved original... Orchestral Essentials 2!

The Orchestral Essentials series captures the essence of the ProjectSAM experience: an inspiring collection of sounds taken from our extensive, cinematic product catalog. This volume expands your Orchestral Essentials template with brand-new selections from the ProjectSAM catalog, including the Symphobia series, the True Strike series and our other libraries, all re-designed and streamlined to fit the Orchestral Essentials concept.

The Mixed Orchestra section in Orchestral Essentials 2 offers you beautiful, live recordings of different orchestral sections playing together, such as full orchestra recorded with choir and strings recorded with brass.

The individual Strings, Brass, Woodwinds and Percussion sections deliver new articulations and sounds including lush string sordinos and flageolets, a massive, 8-player French Horn section, new, powerful drum sounds and chilling bowed cymbal scrapes. The Keyboards include a soft, delicate grand piano, box organ and cimbalom.

Orchestral Essentials 2 adds 5 beautiful legato instruments: solo trumpet, solo flute, solo oboe, cellos performing with bassoon and bass clarinet performing with contra bassoon. For these instruments legato transitions were recorded for all note intervals up to an octave up and down.

All instruments have been re-designed to fit the Orchestral Essentials concept, providing out-of-the-box playability and a cinematic sound that is impossible to beat at this price point. Orchestral Essentials 2 is a must-have addition for owners of the first volume, but is a powerful stand-alone volume too, especially for composers who already have their orchestral basics covered.

If you don't own Orchestral Essentials 1 yet, go for the Orchestral Essentials Pack and get up to scoring speed with the killer cinematic orchestral package.

Orchestral Essentials 2 has now been updated to version 1.2, adding new samples, Multis and features, as well as Native Kontrol Support. Scroll down for more details!

KEY LIBRARY FEATURES

Brand-new selection taken from the acclaimed ProjectSAM catalog

Beautifully orchestrated full orchestra articulations

New strings, brass and wind ensemble articulations

5 New legato instruments featuring real note-to-note transitions

Full choir articulations

New epic drum sounds and other percussion

Intimate concert piano

New Dystopia sound design

Inspiring and thematic Multis

Does not include Orchestral Essentials 1 content: all-new sounds

Orchestral Essentials 1 license is not required: works stand-alone

Available as Direct Download and on boxed USB stick

COMPARING WITH ORCHESTRAL ESSENTIALS 1

Orchestral Essentials 1 and Orchestral Essentials 2 are two unique libraries. One does not replace the other, they complement each other. If you own Orchestral Essentials 1, then Orchestral Essentials 2 will offer you 100% new sounds. It will expand your template by adding additional articulations to existing instruments as well as new instruments and ensembles altogether.

COMPARING WITH SYMPHOBIA SERIES

The sounds in Orchestral Essentials 2 were selected from other libraries in our catalog, including the Symphobia series. This document shows you the origin of each program found in Orchestral Essentials 2. Each program was streamlined and tweaked to fit into the Orchestral Essentials series concept. If you already own a Symphobia volume, please take a look at this document to see what Orchestral Essentials 2 will add to your template. All instruments in Orchestral Essentials 2 are available in 1 microphone set (close or stage, depending on the instrument). In the original libraries, these instruments are available in multiple microphone sets, a more in-depth interface and, in most cases, more articulations.

► SUMMARIZED PROGRAM LIST

Mixed Orchestra

Orchestra with Choir

High Violins with Choir

Low Bassoon with Piano and Harp

Cartoon Staccato

Strings with Winds Staccato

Strings with Brass Swells

Legato Cellos with Bassoon

Texture Gracious

Texture Dreamy

Strings

String Ensemble Sordino

Violins Spiccato and Fast Note Down

Violins Flageolet

Violas with Cellos Ponticello Tremolo

String Ensemble Fast Crescendo

String Ensemble Textures

String Ensemble Effects

Brass

Epic French Horns

Horns with Trombones Octaves

Tuba Long

Tuba Staccato

Legato Trumpet

Brass Ensemble Effects

Woodwinds

Legato Flute

Legato Oboe

Legato B Clar with C Bassoon

Flute with Piccolo Octaves

Recorder

Woodwind Ensemble Effects

Percussion

Big Drums & Cymbals

Timpani Rolls

Vibraphone

Bowed Cymbals

Bell tree

Keyboards & Harp

Intimate Piano

Box Organ

Cimbalom Let Ring

Cimbalom Short

Prepared Piano

Concert Harp Flageolet

Choir

Full Choir Long Ooh

Full Choir Swells Mmm

Full Choir Textures

Dystopia Sound Design

Various Sounds and Presets

Bonus

Orchestra Tuning & Concert Hall Silence

All Mixed Orchestra patches are actual recordings of the listed sections performing together in the concert hall. No post-recording layering was used.

All sounds are offered in 1 microphone set.

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