Violas are supposed to be warm, friendly and docile. This one isn't. There are noises like bowing the body, screeching unclean harmonics, very bright sul ponticello... And also phat sustains and sul tasto sustain and staccato, to balance things out.
Layering multiple articulations and creating emulated small sections by using unison mode are included, of course.
Walkthrough video below. Please see the Media section to the left for demo tracks.
Over 2200 samples and 0.75 GB.
Articulations list:
- Ordinary sustain (2 round robins, 2 dynamic layers)
- Ordinary staccato (4 round robins, 2 dynamic layers)
- Phat sustain (2 round robins)
- Sustain sul ponticello (2 round robins)
- Staccato sul ponticello (4 round robins)
- Staccatissimo sul ponticello (4 round robins)
- Sustain sul tasto (2 round robins)
- Staccato sul tasto (4 round robins)
- Tremolo
- Tremolo sul ponticello
- Spiccato (4 round robins)
- Tip spiccato (4 round robins)
- Jete (4 round robins)
- Colle (4 round robins)
- Pizzicato (4 round robins)
- Col legno battuto
- Spectral scrubs
- Artificial harmonics
- Natural harmonics
- Unclean harmonics (4 round robins)
- Noises (2 or 4 round robins)
Requires the free Plogue Sforzando sampler, which works on 64-bit Windows and Mac systems, 4 GB RAM, and an SSD.