Your Avant Garde Scoring Software
UVI IRCAM 2 Solo Instruments fortifies your composer’s palette with the nuanced, sophisticated orchestral textures you need for today’s avant garde film scoring. From subtle to dramatic, this must-have virtual instrument software provides 16 instruments and over 550 unique playing styles performed by first-call musicians. The samples are meticulously recorded with state-of-the-art fidelity in the flawless acoustics of the world-renowned IRCAM Institute. Composers who rely on samples know that the magic (or lack thereof) is in the articulation sets, and this is where IRCAM Solo Instruments 2 really shines, giving you a mix of standard, advanced, and even experimental articulations. It all adds up to a sophisticated creative toolbox for modern composers and producers who need natural-sounding, highly varied, and unique instrumental sounds for their compositions.
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Includes 16 solo instruments
UVI IRCAM Solo Instruments 2 comprises sixteen solo instruments in five categories: Woodwinds (Flute in C, Oboe, Clarinet in B-flat, Bassoon); Brass (Trumpet in C, Alto Saxophone in E-flat, French Horn in F, tenor-bass Trombone, Bass Tuba); Strings (Violin, Viola, Cello, Double Bass); Plucked Strings (Guitar and Harp); and Free Reed (Accordion).
Old-world instruments, Modern sounds
IRCAM Solo Instruments 2 takes your compositions beyond the basic playing styles contained in typical sample libraries, adding breathtaking realism, detail, and depth to your music. Over 400 presets give you instant access to a massive variety of instrumental variation. As you dive deeper into this amazing library, you’ll discover the unique voice of each instrument, made manifest through playing techniques like multi-phonic, aeolian, hit-on-body, buzz, and crushed. Furthermore, transitions between articulations such as ordinario to sul tasto and ordinario to sul ponticello are all covered. Easily switch between classical and modern techniques to find what works best for a particular cue. Sweetwater tip: Italian names most often represent traditional styles while English titles indicate contemporary techniques.
What’s new
With IRCAM Solo Instruments 2, UVI modernized this powerful library with hot new features and enhancements, including improvements to core scripting, the sample library, playability from your keyboard, expression and performance controls, and workflow — thanks to the program’s new, streamlined user interface. The new GUI enhances both aesthetics and usability, putting everything you need in an intuitive, clean, and neatly organized modern panel. From the new Keyswitch HUD to hot-rodded performance and FX sections, the new design streamlines and supercharges your workflow use across all the instruments.
Decades of research and development
Building on their decades of expertise and research in acoustics and sound recording, UVI and IRCAM recruited the finest musicians, artistic directors, and engineers to produce IRCAM Solo Instruments 2. A massive undertaking years in the making, this seamless blend of classical and experimental techniques presents old-world instruments in a fresh, modern context that explores the broadest spectrum of sounds possible from these traditional instruments.
Compatible with any DAW via free UVI Workstation or Falcon
You can use the premier sounds in UVI’s IRCAM Solo Instruments 2 within any popular DAW. In fact, you can get UVI Workstation as a free download. It’s compatible with AU, VST, and AAX plug-in formats. It also works as a standalone applications. UVI Workstation offers a Smart Browser, tempo syncing, easy previewing, MIDI-mapping, unlimited effects and disk streaming, intelligent use of CPU resources, and more. It even comes with a host of built-in effects, including excellent convolution reverb. UVI Workstation is compatible with both Macs and PCs. Alternatively, you can also use all the sounds from UVI’s IRCAM Solo Instruments with UVI Falcon.
UVI IRCAM 2 Solo Instruments Virtual Instrument Software Features:
- Improved scripting engine allows multiple play and expression modes
- New modwheel-controllable articulations include legato, portamento, poly legato, and poly portamento
- New Play mode for stringed instruments lets you play with virtual hand positioning for natural expression
- New UI design, improves aesthetics and usability
- New MPE and Poly Aftertouch support
- Improved sample library delivers cleaner sustains
- Improved presets and key switch groups
- Improved dynamics section
- Improved envelopes with more natural response
- Improved FX section
- Free iLok.com account required; iLok hardware dongle optional
- Runs in UVI Workstation version 3.0.12+ and Falcon version 2.0.8+
