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String Machines

Puremagnetik has gone back to the golden age of string synthesis and recaptured the sounds of 4 legendary instruments. String Machines contains over 250MB of lush sounds recorded directly from the classic stringers of the 1970's. But it doesn't stop with strings! These analog legends had amazing organs, full choirs, pianos and clavichords all of which are reproduced in this latest release!

String Machines includes programs from the Roland VP-330, Roland RS-09, ARP Solina String Ensemble and Crumar Orchestrator. Synth Descriptions Courtesy of Vintage Synth Explorer (www.vintagesynth.com )

Roland RS-09

The RS-09 is an analog strings and organ synthesizer (similar to the Saturn-09 which only produced an organ sound). The string sound and organ sounds are nice, fatty analog sounds. The organ and string sections can be played simultaneously or individually. An ensemble/chorus effect and external sound input are welcome features.

There are three versions of this unit. The one shown above is a V.3. The differences are mainly cosmetic and in the control surface; the V.3 uses touch-switches, the V.1 uses rockers and tends to be more reliable due to that. This instrument could add a nice flavor to any modern analog-electronic keyboard studio. It has been used by Jimi Tenor, UB40, and The Cure.

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ARP Solina String Ensemble

The Solina String Ensemble is often thought of as THE String Machine of the late 1970's disco era. It's a multi-orchestral machine with violin, viola, trumpet, horn, cello and contrabass. Instead of attack and decay there are crescendo and sustain controls (which sound more orchestral but are the same thing).

Completely cased in wood (or wood-like) panels with a clean and discrete layout. It's old, it's vintage, and it's been used by Air, The Eagles, Elton John, Pink Floyd, The Cure, Joy Division, OMD, Josh Wink, STYX, Tangerine Dream, Keane, Japan, and New Order.

Roland VP-330

One of the coolest instruments out there. The vocoder shapes its envelope and filters by any sound source fed into it, your voice or even a drum loop can be used which is then applied to another sound source, typically a synth pad. This creates a very unique and famous robot-like sound.

Aside from the 10-band vocoder, the VP-330 added a string synth section, choir and a human-voice sound, both of which are quite excellent themselves. Its 3 sound sections offer a few different presets that can be slightly edited with de-tuning and vibrato. The VP-330 is one of the best Vocoder synths ever and although there are many other types of Vocoders, none sound as good as this! These synthesizers have been used by William rbit, BT, Styx, Kitaro, Underworld, Meat Beat Manifesto, Uberzone, Air, Royksopp, Tangerine Dream, and many more.

Crumar Orchestrator

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Crumar is an Italian company which manufactured synthesizer keyboards in the 70s and 80s. Its name is taken from that of its founder, Mario Crucianelli. Crumar synthesizers are comparable and contemporaneous to Moog synthesiers and other analog synthesizers.

The Crumar Orchestrator (pictured above) was unique in its ability to split parts across the keyboard (similar to the ARP Solina). With numerous front panel controls the orchestrator was a flexible solution for keyboardists and sound programmers alike. The Orchestrator offered unique dynamic and filter controls for Violin, Cello, Piano and Clavichord sounds. It has been used by Duran Duran and Awaken.

Format: ALP, NKI, EXS Size (uncompressed): ~250 MB System Requirements: Ableton Live 6 with Sampler, Native Instruments Kontakt 2, or EXS Compatible Instrument

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