Chris Hein Winds Ensemble

Chris Hein Winds Ensemble: The Perfect Orchestral Woodwind Library

The orchestral Winds Ensemble Collection offers you authentic woodwind ensembles that bring your music to life. Whether you're composing for a film, the concert hall, or a virtual ensemble, this library provides you with unparalleled clarity, depth, and expression. Experience the warm, precise, and emotional sound world that only woodwind ensembles can create.

With this extensive collection, you bring the rich timbres of flutes, oboes, clarinets, and bassoons directly into your compositions. The ensembles match perfectly with the CH-Wind solo instruments and seamlessly fit into any musical environment.

Perfectly Tuned Individual Recordings

Instead of recording an ensemble all at once, over 88,000 individual recordings from soloists have been perfectly tuned and combined into ensembles. This gives you full control over the tuning, timing, and character of each player, resulting in an incredibly precise and detailed sound. The performances have been carefully detuned, time-aligned, and placed in a stereo panorama to create a warm and rich orchestral sound. Choose between "small" and "large" ensembles for maximum flexibility.

Included Instruments

• C Flutes
• Full Flutes
• Small Clarinets
• Large Clarinets
• Small Oboes
• Large Oboes
• Small Bassoons
• Large Bassoons
• Deep Flutes
• Deep Fat Wood
• Deep Flutes & Horns
• Piccolo Flutes

Outstanding Sound Quality

The instruments were professionally recorded in a dry environment to capture the full sonic character of each instrument. This gives you complete freedom in post-production - you can use various types of reverb without the room sound of the recording getting in the way. With two built-in convolution reverb effects, you can shape the sound to suit your composition.

Extensive Features

• 12 Orchestral Woodwind Ensembles
• 30 GB of content with 30,000 samples
• 16 articulations
• Up to 8 dynamic levels
• Unique phase-align technique
• Dynamic expression sustains
• Note onset designer
• Intelligent legato and glide mode for realistic runs
• Trill and flutter tongue controls
• 10 built-in DSP effects
• 2 independent convolution reverb effects with 63 impulse responses
• Adjustable attack and release controls
• Key and air noise controls
• Micro-tuning and ensemble maker
• Auto and key vibrato

Easy to Use, Maximum Flexibility

The user interface offers you countless ways to customize the sound to your liking. You can choose from dynamic modes, vibrato settings, and articulation presets. If you don't want to set everything yourself, you can simply use the 26 preconfigured key switch presets and get started right away. The revolutionary articulation presets save not just articulations but entire pages of settings that you can recall with the press of a key.

The orchestral Wind Ensembles Library is the perfect tool for you if you're looking for a realistic, warm, and versatile woodwind sound. With cutting-edge technology and countless features, it provides everything you need for your music production.

This product works with the free Native Instruments Kontakt Player, the latest version can be downloaded through Native Access, Native Instrument’s download manager!

The minimum required Kontakt version for this product is stated in the product description or can be found on the manufacturers wesite.

System Requirements:

Mac:

• macOS 10.14 or higher 
• 64 bit
• Intel Core i5 or Apple M1 (native)
• RAM: 4GB (6GB recommended)

Windows:

• Windows 10 or higher
• 64 bit
• Intel Core i5 or similar CPU
• RAM: 4GB (6GB recommended)

Supported Interfaces:

• Mac (64-bit only): Stand-alone, VST, VST3, AU, AAX
• Windows (64-bit): Stand-alone, VST, VST3, AAX

Legacy Versions:

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