[New Woodwinds] Update: New GUI Teaser

Your original woodwinds are still great. But something that I'd buy - and suggest - is a set of woodwind chords, where the lower part does a small movement (rhythm). So, basically the highest part of the chord is stable, but lower part (could be oboe, bassoon) does movement in notes, G-A-G-F-G-A (or whatever) and also an alternative with movement as staccato. So we add chords but they have movement (need a good set of chords).

Then, of course, nobody did the 1930-40s woodwinds. If you could get your hand on some really old equipment. No bulls-it, but recording tools, say 80 years old, and throw it in anew.

Performance focused patches that cover short notes and marcatos on high velocities as well as legato transitions (lyrical on slow lines and runs on fast lines).

Soundbed said:

Oh I love the contrabass flute!

This was one of my favorite pieces from film in the recent … decade?

EDIT: oh this was “only” a bass flute!! Lol

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Well considering you posted a bass flute, I guess we can reveal that another of the four instruments is in fact a bass flute so we have the bass and the contrabass flute revealed now!

Just make Angel Woodwinds

For woodwinds, in particular: Many dynamic layers

Auddict said:

Well considering you posted a bass flute, I guess we can reveal that another of the four instruments is in fact a bass flute so we have the bass and the contrabass flute revealed now!

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If you nail a good bass flute, you have my wallet.
The most beautiful timbre in the flute family, in my opinion.

rottoy said:

If you nail a good bass flute, you have my wallet.
The most beautiful timbre in the flute family, in my opinion.

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I agree!

rottoy said:

If you nail a good bass flute, you have my wallet.
The most beautiful timbre in the flute family, in my opinion.

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We will absolutely do justice to the fantastic player we worked with!

Gauss said:

Just make Angel Woodwinds

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Very sadly Angel Studios shut down a few years back! We recorded there many many times so were very sad to see it go

The ability to perform ornaments while not breaking a legato phrase would be great. Good examples of this can be found in Eduardo Tarilonte libraries.

Providing natural fade outs and swells as a key selectable overlay on top of playing a legato phrase would be cool. Examples of this can be found in the Emotional Violin and Joshua Bell violin.

I also like round robin velocity controlled short note overlay attack options for the main legato patch like is implemented in Tokyo Scoring Strings.

Put all that together, and it would be the most fabulous woodwind library ever.

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Nice layout!

Auddict said:

Quick teaser:

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pretty, although a little tough on my eyes (personally) ... any chance we could flip to a dark version?

i'm slightly confused on a couple controls, at first glance.

what are the "double" lines for each mic level?

what does the "key" value change?

what's behind the envelope looking drop down between poly and staccato? something like fp (forte > piano) articulations or sfz?

is the drop down between legato and poly for things like crescendo / expressive type longs? or vibrato? or ... ?

what are the syllables?

Soundbed said:

pretty, although a little tough on my eyes (personally) ... any chance we could flip to a dark version?

i'm slightly confused on a couple controls, at first glance.

what are the "double" lines for each mic level?

what does the "key" value change?

what's behind the envelope looking drop down between poly and staccato? something like fp (forte > piano) articulations or sfz?

is the drop down between legato and poly for things like crescendo / expressive type longs? or vibrato? or ... ?

what are the syllables?

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Absolutely - considering we started this our as an open-community project, we thought we'd post the progress of all aspects and get people's views so we are really building what everyone wants. Will trial some more gentle colours...

As for the other questions... will be explained in due course. The screenshot is deliberately a little elusive

It would be really great if there was a color rgb palette tool to change the background color as you wish. Something that I always really like to have in every orchestral library. Every user have a distinctive color on track for every section in a daw as preference. Imagine to freely chose the background color to match your daw track color…

Flyo said:

It would be really great if there was a color rgb palette tool to change the background color as you wish. Something that I always really like to have in every orchestral library. Every user have a distinctive color on track for every section in a daw as preference. Imagine to freely chose the background color to match your daw track color…

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That is an excellent idea!

I do expect everyone to use green for Woodwinds, of course.

gohrev said:

I do expect everyone to use green for Woodwinds, of course.

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I use green for strings and blue for winds.

its nice to see legato in your preview shot ... thinking of the Musio Contrabass Flute sounds great but is missing legato. Brute Flute is good in some contexts but feel like it could be even more musical. I have confidence that you can take this beautiful instrument - which I am sure is difficult to record - and come up with a truly expressive instrument.

d.healey said:

I use green for strings and blue for winds.

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I was just being cheeky

The development of this woodwind collection is looking fantastic, just out of curiosity though will this collection replace the Master Solo Woodwinds collection and if so will owners receive or be entitled to an upgrade or crossgrade at all?