by Ink Audio
Amateur Orchestra – Sometimes when I record an acoustic guitar or piano with a singer songwriter and want to add orchestral elements to it, I want to feel like it’s recorded in the same environment by the same kind of player.
I might want it to sound like someone pulling an old instrument out of the attic and blowing a few notes for a unique texture, or picking up an instrument for the first time and just seeing what happens.
The attacks are inconsistent, the tuning isn’t perfect and the air comes and goes.
That’s what Amateur Orchestra is for. The DIY orchestral sound at your fingertips.
Please note: FULL retail version of Kontakt 6.8.0 or later is required. NOT for Kontakt Player.
$ 180.00
There is a really wide range of tones here and a lot of niche instruments and beginner instruments were sampled for more options.
From plastic brass to contrabassoon to someone trying a cello bow for the first time to someone who hadn’t picked up a trumpet in 20 years.
None of these are perfect recreations of any instrument.
Just a really big collection of colors to choose from that get you to a place where it’s clearly not your big city philharmonic.
Choose from one of four libraries; percussion, brass, strings and woodwinds.
From there, use the arrows or the dropdown menu to browse sounds and use the upper menu to browse character presets to get you started and tweak from there.
Use the ‘loose’ control to randomly delay the start time of samples up to 250 ms.
Use the ‘detune’ control to randomly detune notes up to .3 semitones.
The pitch bend wheel is set for .3 semitones up or down so you can correct for this in real time on long notes if you want the feeling of someone trying to ‘find’ a note.
Other controls are for attack, decay, release, filter, tape sat, and room verb.
