String Central

Virtual String Instrument

String Central is a stack of 13 beautiful layers, sampled over the entire fretboard of incredible classical instruments. A virtuoso cellist brings the depth and richness of the cello in 13 textures including Staccato, Forte, Tremolo, Legato, Pizzicato, and a few vintage synth strings, all tracked meticulously to preserve the sonic integrity of the wood and string.

Tech Specs

• 13 individual voices comprised of 10 Sampled Organic Cello Textures and 2 Vintage Strings Synths

• 923 samples - disk space required about 1.1GB

• Onboard Mixing faders for all Instruments

The cello is one of the favorite instruments at Nightfox Audio. With ribbon mics, tube preamps, and large diaphragm condenser mics, they meticulously sampled the entire fretboard, at 3-5 unique velocities. Nightfox Audio did that with pizzicato, tremolo, long sweeping tones, unpredictable arpeggios, and short staccato hits. Each note is unique, each velocity is unique. They also love the synth string tones of the 70’s so they sampled two of their favorites from that era.

Use all 13 of these textures as solo instruments or blend them in infinite configurations to create brand new hybrid tones.

Additional Tech Specs

• 5 Per-Instrument Effects: (Pan, Width, Input Delay, EQ, Compression)

• Global Pitch and Pan

• Attack, Hold, Decay, Sustain, Release controls and visualizer

• Customizable Filter (10 filter types) with Resonance and visualizer

• Fully customizable Arpeggiator with Hold, Latch, and Midi Thru modes

• Adjustable parameters include: Step Number, Rate, Number of octaves, Swing amount, Step Size, Keyboard split range Hi / Lo, 6 Arp patterns (up, down, up-down, down-up, random, chord), Velocity map, Note Length map, Pitch offset map

• 5 Additional Onboard Effects: (Drive (with 8 types), Phaser, Chorus, Delay, Reverb)

• 3 LFO’s (Gain LFO, Pitch LFO, and Filter LFO) with 6 shape options

• 5 Portamento controls

• All important parameters are fully automation-capable in major DAW’s

• All important parameters are fully CC mappable

• Over 70 presets included (user presets can be created, saved, and favorited)