Hyperion Strings Ensemble

Strings Ensemble for Kontakt

Hyperion Strings Ensemble is an orchestral string scoring library with brilliant sound, expressive control, and adaptive performance features. It’s loaded with a massive array of dynamic long and short articulations, fingered true legato and portamento, emotive dynamic expressions, tremolo, runs, trills, flautando, ponticello, harmonics, chromatic and aleatoric effects, and creative sound-design elements. It's a complete string scoring solution right at your fingertips, with everything you'll need to shape your own sound, from the intimate to the astral.

Whether you want human realism and detail or vast ambient textures, Hyperion Strings Ensemble offers total flexibility to fit any style and arrangement, wrapped in a wide, intuitive interface that lets you dive right in. This 30-piece string ensemble has compact sections with 8 1st Violins, 7 2nd Violins, 6 Violas, 5 Cellos and 4 Double Basses to produce natural divisi arrangements, with a 12-layer slot system that lets you quickly build huge symphonic groupings. Create your own mix with 4 distinctive microphone distances. The ultra-close Stage mix has intense character and clarity. The newly remastered Close position delivers modern tone with relaxed processing. The wide Mid Hall blend offers velvety warmth with a rounded top end. The lush Far Hall has a classic atmospheric sound.

Product Specs

• Multi-dynamic sustains, with smooth real-time control over natural vibrato/clean and dynamic transitions.

• An extensive collection of specialized sustains, including expressive bowing, tremolo, flautando, ponticello, harmonics, bridge bow, fast trills, slow trills w/ tempo sync, and more.

• A wide variety of Short strokes in a variety of dynamics and styles, with up to 8x round-robin per dynamic/key, including staccatos, spiccatos, pizzicatos, Bartoks, Col Legno, trills, tremolo, ponticello, flautando, harmonic, bridge, runs, etc.

• A comprehensive suite of Expressions in a variety of lengths, timings and dynamics, including crescendos, decrescendos, sforzandos and swells, with time-stretching, tempo-synching and automatic release.

• 1st Violin Sordino with dynamic sustains, finger & gliss legato, multiple staccato and spiccato types, expressions & effects.

• Sound-designed atmospheres, pads and ambient textures for underscoring and soundscape creation.

• Flexible and intuitive wide-format user interface with pro features, deep customizability and simple workflow.

• Free soundstage positioning for each section within dozens of custom rooms, halls, chambers and FX environments, including both convolution and algorythmic reverb modes.

• Full Ensemble presets to allow instant unison scoring.

• Optimized Multi-instrument banks (.nkm) for efficient DAW templating.

• Multi-microphone position presets to allow custom mixing and convenient output routing.

• Adaptive Play Assist and Arpeggio panels for instant inspiration.

Technical Specs

• 72 .nki presets for Ensemble, 1st Violins, 2nd Violins, Violas, Cellos, Basses
• Plenty of articulation maps, seating arrangements, arpeggio patterns and FX chains to choose from
• 157,567 Samples
• 139 GB installed (81 compressed download)
• 24-bit, 48 kHz Stereo PCM Wav Format for direct sample access

This library is designed for the full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt 6.2.2 or later.