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DELETED Zero-G Animato
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DELETED Zero-G Animato - Press Reviews |
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| Reviewed by: Music Tech
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| January 2011 |
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When you hear a cluster of violinists randomly playing pizzicato notes, you can’t help but conjure up images of scuttling creatures swarming across the ground. Such is the amazing power of orchestral effects when traditional instruments are played in unconventional ways.
Animato is a large library of expressive string and flute effects aimed mainly at film, TV and game composers. It contains 139 playable Kontakt instruments and 3,000 WAV files. Copy the files to your hard disk and uncompress them to get the full size of 4.59GB.
Once in Kontakt you essentially have four main sections: live and mutated strings and live and mutated flutes and piccolos. These are divided into atonal atmospheres, pitched pads and rises, with the live versions offering more realistic string and flute effects and the mutated versions something more processed and synthetic.
There is a wide sonic palette available, from tense and chaotic screeches to deeper-sounding emotive and creepy pads. Four world-class instrumentalists were recorded with close, overhead and room mics; these recordings were then layered to build a big ensemble sound comprising 16 violins, eight cellos, six flutes and six piccolos. The live patches enable you to control the mix of each mic, while the ensemble size is mapped to the mod wheel, allowing expressive performance from each patch. In practice this is very effective, with a simple GUI offering a surprising degree of control. You also get a collection of mutated sounds that have been filtered, distorted, reversed and time stretched to go far beyond the sound of a standard orchestra.
The audio quality is outstanding and many of the patches have an instant Hollywood sound, with the patch names giving useful indicators of what mood to expect. This is one of the simplest yet most evocative cinematic tools we’ve come across and would come across and would sit comfortably alongside your main string and flute samples library.
Verdict A unique collection of terrifying, beautiful and tension-inducing orchestral sounds.
Rating 9/10 plus the Music Tech Innovation award |
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| Reviewed by: Future Music
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| March 2011 |
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Zero-G deliver the goods yet again with this outstanding orchestral collection. Recorded over the course of a week at Parr Street Studios with members of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the standards of production and playing are absolutely first-rate. Aimed primarily at soundtrack composers but useful for musicians working in most genres, Animato is a seriously versatile collection.
In addition to 4.5B of Acidized Wav samples, the package also includes 139 Kontakt instruments (player not included), which range from clean and natural string pads and flute/piccolo atmospheres right through to crazy processed sub bass and FX. Excellent.
Rating: 9/10 |
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| Reviewed by: Computer Music
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| December 2010 |
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A library of string, flute and piccolo performances with a tist. It happily provides the dark and moody textures that typically underlie the most chilling of film scenes. You can expect lots of high-pitched whining and sqealing, next to rich-but-soft ambiences that bubble and swell. Some of the effects are so dramatic they enter the realm of the theatrical. The library presents each instrument in live and mutated versions, the latter delving even further into eerie and unnatural territory. While there are WAVs here, you'll definitely want to use the Kontakt instrument to get the most out of this lot.
Rating: 9/10 |
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