Lux Violin by David Forner

Unleash the soulful beauty of a solo violin with Lux Violin, David Forner's latest masterpiece. Building upon the success of the acclaimed Barbarian Cello, this Kontakt instrument is meticulously crafted to deliver a natural, lifelike, and highly expressive performance for composers and producers across all genres. It's described as a bold and streamlined scoring tool that's a workhorse for all-around use.

Key Features that Set Lux Violin Apart:

• Groundbreaking Rebowing Engine: Say goodbye to the "machine gun effect"! Lux Violin employs a one-of-a-kind rebowing engine designed to allow you to repeat notes on long articulations naturally. It achieves this by incorporating up to 5 variations per note, effectively eliminating the artificial repetition sound. The repetitions are extracted from performed phrases, ensuring a natural and authentic performance. This feature is available for nearly every articulation, including Legato and Longs.
• Expressive Legato Engine: Experience seamless and emotive legato lines with three distinct types: Lyric, Medium, and Soft. Each Legato type has two transition speeds that respond to your playing, making the instrument especially good for fast passages. Regular transitions are recorded up to an octave, while fast transitions are recorded up to a perfect fourth, enabling seamless shifts for nimble runs and fast arpeggios. The Lyric Legato is noted for being the most expressive, with louder dynamics, a more languid attack, slower transitions, and plenty of vibrato. The Legato sounds are very playable and emotive, making it inspiring under the fingers.
• Comprehensive Articulation Suite: Explore a rich tapestry of 20 articulations covering a wide range of dynamics. The full articulation list includes:
  • Legato types: Lyric legato, Medium legato, Soft legato.
  • Longs: Sustains, Sustains without vibrato, Flautando, Sul Tasto, Harmonics, Overpressure Sul Pont sustains, Tremolo, Sul Tasto to Sul Pont tremolo, Long Marcato.
  • Swells: Long Swells, Short Swells, Short Swells (slow attack). Swells are always a welcome addition, and Lux Violin's swells are described as "sublime". They also share the Rebow functionality.
  • Shorts: Short Marcato, Spiccato, Staccatissimo, Staccato, Pizzicato. These are extracted from performance phrases, exhibiting a very lively feel. The Spiccato is highlighted for its energetic feel and warm, woody tone.
  • These articulations feature up to 5 dynamic layers and 12 round robins depending on the articulation.
• Intuitive User Interface & Creative Modes: The simple, one-page Kontakt interface provides three powerful modes to expand your sonic possibilities:
  • Keyswitch Mode: Allows you to change articulations using red keys in the highest register of the keyboard.
  • Split Mode: Divides the keyboard into two parts, enabling you to play two articulations simultaneously (e.g., legato on the right, sustains on the left).
  • Morph Mode: Layers two articulations to play simultaneously, allowing you to create unusual combinations, with CC2 by default phasing between them.
• Unparalleled Realism & Versatility: Lux Violin captures the authentic timbre and nuances of a real violin, delivering a lifelike performance. It functions as a lively and fully featured scoring tool. While it excels as a solo violin in the traditional sense, it's designed to work equally well outside of a classical orchestral context, making it perfect for cinematic orchestrations, ambient music, and underscore.

Optimized for Your Workflow: Lux Violin features a close-miked room sound that is fairly dry, but includes a short, neutral ambient tail, making it highly adaptable to your chosen reverb. Its bold, streamlined design, with a single uniform mic signal, helps keep hard drive space and RAM load down. The interface includes an offset control to reduce inherent latency for live playing and an info bar with precise delay values to help you compensate for latency in your DAW for perfectly timed MIDI. Individual articulation patches are also available to save resources.

Technical Specifications:

• Download Size: 7.5 GB via Pulse Downloader.
• Compatibility: Requires the full version of Native Instruments Kontakt 5.8.1 or above. It is not compatible with the free Kontakt Player.
• Articulations: 20 distinct articulations included.
• Dynamic Layers: Up to 5 dynamic layers, depending on articulation.
• Round Robins: Up to 12 round robins, depending on articulation.
• Mic Signal: One uniform mic signal.
• System Requirements (Recommended): 8 GB of RAM.

From the Creator of Barbarian Cello: David Forner, an enigmatic but talented indie developer known for his Barbarian Cello and impressive guitar libraries, has once again delivered a world-class instrument. Lux Violin replicates the deep sampling and intuitive interface of Barbarian Cello, and Barbarian Cello now comes with a matched key switch patch, making it easy to use both libraries together.

Elevate your compositions. If you're seeking a comprehensive, playable, and emotive solo violin library that stands out from the crowd, Lux Violin needs to be right there near the top of your shopping list.