Solo acoustic instruments are notoriously difficult to recreate as playable software emulations, but with Stradivari Violin, NI reckon they’ve come up with one of the most convincing faux string libraries yet.
The violin in question is Antonio Stradivari’s ‘Vesuvius’, built in 1727, recorded by the producers’ e-instruments at Auditorium Giovanni Arvedi in Cremona, Italy. 20 articulations are represented (Sustain, Marcato etc), with up to three legato transitions, and the adaptive Virtuoso articulation “intelligently combines multiple articulations depending on the velocity, note, and pitch bend information you generate through your MIDI controller performance”. Modelled real-time vibrato, smart fingerboard positioning and phase-