
DISCOVER UNIQUE STRING TEXTURES
Elastic Sounds presents the Violin and Cello Extended Techniques Bundle. This collection delivers evocative performances utilizing unconventional playing methods.
Enhance your scores with rare techniques like aleatoric effects, ponticello tremolos, and body taps. Featuring Adrian Golay and Ben Ash, these libraries offer 18 distinct articulations including the seagull effect and harmonic glissandos.
Grab these unique libraries today for $26, originally $74.95.
Note: requires the full version of Kontakt 6.8 or higher for Windows and Mac.
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Standard orchestral libraries are excellent for traditional arrangements, but modern thriller scores, dark electronic tracks, and experimental soundscapes demand a completely different sonic palette. When you need to build immediate tension, create shifting background elements, or inject an unpredictable, raw edge into your compositions, conventional legato and staccato patches often fall short.
The Elastic Sounds Violin & Cello Extended Techniques Bundle focuses entirely on the sounds that occur outside traditional playing methods. This curated collection brings together the distinct textures of two separate string libraries into a single, cohesive workflow package. Featuring the meticulously captured cello work of Adrian Golay and violin performances by Ben Ash, this limited-time deal delivers a vast array of unique, evocative textures directly to your studio setup.
Instead of perfectly polished, clinical studio performances, this collection emphasizes the unpredictable, scraping, and percussive capabilities of acoustic stringed instruments. It provides an immediate injection of tension and grit for media composers and music producers alike. Rather than relying on synthetic effects to simulate friction, you gain access to genuine acoustic articulations, including multi-speed ricochets, complex tremolo glissandi, and unstable aleatoric textures. The recordings capture the physical reality of the bow striking, dragging, and bouncing across the strings, giving your tracks an unmistakable sense of space and tangible reality.
Every performance in this bundle was recorded in stereo at pro-grade 24-bit, 48 kHz fidelity, preserving the natural body resonances and crisp transients of the physical instruments. The total 1.5 GB footprint ensures a highly focused, lightweight library that loads quickly during fast-paced scoring sessions without eating up valuable system RAM. Because these sounds are captured without heavy pre-processed effects, they layer perfectly underneath standard symphonic libraries, adding a missing layer of organic complexity, or stand completely on their own as terrifying solo elements.
The bundle features a deep list of specialized techniques designed to cover everything from rapid rhythmic movement to long, evolving background drones:
Short & Rhythmic Modifiers: Spiccato, staccato, Bartók pizzicato, chops, body taps, and artificial harmonic shorts.
Kinetic & Bouncing Gestures: Slow, medium, and fast ricochets alongside rapid glissandi moving up and down.
Evolving & Textural Tension: Aleatoric sounds, the striking seagull effect, instrument creaks, trills, and artificial harmonic fourths.
Sustained Performance Crossfades: Ponticello tremolo, ponticello tremolo crescendos, tremolo glissandi, slow or fast tremolos, harmonic glissandi, and long sul ponticello pulls.
This exclusive Audio Plugin Deals drop puts an archive of avant-garde acoustic textures inside your DAW for a fraction of the standard retail price. Secure the Violin & Cello Extended Techniques Bundle today before the clock runs out and bring a gripping, cinematic edge to your next production.

Combines 2 avant-garde string technique libraries into 1 scoring bundle.
Focuses entirely on raw, unpredictable acoustic string textures.
Features solo performances from 2 distinct professional string players.
Delivers short rhythmic articulations including spiccato and Bartók pizzicato.
Supplies kinetic bouncing gestures containing multi-speed ricochets and glissandi.
Includes evolving background tension textures like unique instrument creaks.
Offers sustained performance crossfades spanning distinct ponticello tremolos.
Captures real organic body resonances in pristine stereo audio.
Provides a focused 1.5 GB footprint for fast loading.
Integrates seamlessly via the efficient Pulse Downloader management system.
Layers perfectly with traditional patches to add complex acoustic friction.
Runs on full versions of Kontakt 6.8 or higher. Out of stock
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