Instruments

String Chamber Ensemble (4,3,3,3,1)

Articulations

Simple

• Tender — lyrical
• Tender — emotive
• Simple — shimmer
• Soft simple — searing
• Gossamer bright waves
• Tender — shudder
• Plainsong — patina
• Bright — lense flare
• Beauty — patina
• Baroque — textured
• Timed — confident
• Uncertain — more certain
• Innocent — grandiose
• Tender — plucked layer
• Searing — lense flare
• Shimmer — grandiose

Scary

• Soft simple — operatic
• Gossamer — floating
• Bold — floating
• Simple — insects
• Beauty — operatic
• Searing — operatic
• Shimmering — upwards
• Bright — diving bright
• Warm — siren song
• Bright — descent/ascent
• Tender — collapse/reform
• Diving birds — en masse
• Plucks — ascending
• Bright — ascent (with pedal)
• Searing — ascent (with pedal)
• Soft simple — ascent (with pedal)
• Warm — descent (with pedal)
• Simple pedal — diving birds (with pedal)
• Tender — ascending plucks (with pedal)
• Searing — ascending plucks (with pedal)

Tense

• Tender — grind
• Simple — plucks
• Bold — lense flair
• Plucks — en masse
• Soft — accelerating siren
• Soft — beautiful siren
• Bright shimmer — choral
• Sticks — en masse
• Still — patina
• Shimmer — building
• Tender pedal — sticks (with pedal)
• Uncertain — sticks patina (with pedal)

Curated presets

Simple

• A rather nice start — bright
• Bent unease — dark
• Close to home — bright
• Scary strings — dark
• Warm wobble — bright
• A good start — bright
• Angular beauty — bright
• Plucked tension — dark
• Reflex pads — bright
• Soft waves — dark
• Subtle dirt — dark / distorted

Intense

• Find the pitch — dark
• Go pluck yourself — dark
• Moderate reflex — dark
• Outer space strings — bright
• Pitch this — dark
• Is it broken — dark / distorted
• Is it more broken — dark / distorted
• Maddening bends — dark
• Obtuse distortion — dark / distorted
• Reversed hits — bright

Mics & mixes

Close

• A tight, dry mix

Tweaked

• A compressed version of Close with occasional glitches

Ambient

• Reverberant and atmospheric

Distorted

• A full-on, gritty signal, useful for adding some dirt into the mix

Stretch X2

• The Close mix stretched to be twice the length, giving the sounds a more ethereal quality

Stretch X8

• The Close mix stretched to eight times the length, to slow down busy evolutions