
There are patches with multiple articulations and lot of single articulations, some of which you see in Pic 1. It works inside Orchestral Tools Capsule for Kontakt/Kontakt Player, which has a very advanced articulation management scheme that perhaps merits an article of its own. There are 18 sections/instruments with 160 GB of 24 bit/48k samples, are arranged into “Districts” in keeping with the 1927 epic science fiction film that it is named after.ĭistrict 1- Orchestra- strings, woodwinds, and brass.ĭistrict 4 – Band- electric guitars, electric bass, and drumset. The 24-bit sample database is 160GB in size, which condenses to 70GB.
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It includes high and low strings high and low choirs bassoons and contrabassoons trumpets, trombones, cimbassi, tubas and a smaller and a larger section of french horns percussion and piano a guitar ensemble with left and right separate instruments, electric bass, and a drum kit. Metropolis Ark 1 works with the free Kontakt Player or the full version of Kontakt 5.5.1. It was recorded in Berlin’s Teldex studio, a wonderful sounding venue.

Metropolis Ark 1 a Kontakt based library that is specifically designed to give you HUGE sounds for epic style music.

It is a lovely reverb, but I do not own it, so I had to substitute, which took some time. One caveat – the projects use EW Spaces for reverb. Whats inside Get the fully stocked Orchestral Tools Metropolis Ark 1 template, fully mixed and ready to render. I prefer one track per instrument and using CCs to switch articulations, and one exercise will be to see if I can translate one to the other. I’m even beginning to understand why one would make that choice. Side note – the projects are arranged with a single articulation per track, which is one way to do things.

You know you are starting on the right foot.Īt the moment I am still figuring out how he is using different articulations and controllers – which is key I think. So product specifics – the first thing that strikes you is that when you load the project it sounds a lot like the demo, and at least some of the differences are due to the difference between compressed and non-compressed audio. In fact I am not only picking up ideas for production (which is the goal) but I am also getting a few pointers about harmony and composition. Almost like sitting over the composer’s shoulder. I am not there yet, but I find the two Ark projects to be remarkably revealing. Collection Name MA1 Metropolis Ark 1 Collection 1.1 Capsule 2.5 Kontakt.
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I have no idea what made me think I could learn, but I am – learning. You can download the full Guide that applies to all Orchestral Tools collections. It is a more comfortable setting for me.Īnd yet I absolutely love the sound of Orchestral Tools and Project Sam libraries – so I bought a few, and struggled, and eventually moved them to an off-line drive to make space for other stuff. I just do not think that way, I grew up working with real instruments, and later multi-sampled (for lack of a better term) libraries where I had control over each section (or even each player). I have posted elsewhere that I never really got along with ensemble style libraries. Listen to discovery playlists featuring Born To Protect (official demo for Orchestral Tools Metropolis Ark 1) by bennyoschmann on desktop and mobile.
