This is from their new Symphobia Colours series, the product is called “ORCHESTRATOR” True Strike doesn’t just hold up – it’s still a top contender in the orchestral percussion market after so many years… and with many happy users who will jump at the chance to say they still own and use True Strike religiously to this day (just go on any VI forum and ask), it’s hard to call this percussive collection anything less than a masterpiece.Today I’m checking out a new product from ProjectSAM All you need to focus on is your performance.Īs far as usability goes, the question arises – for a more than decade-old library, does it hold up against modern orchestral percussion libraries in performance? Well, the answer to that would be simply – yes, absolutely! Project SAM really put their all into this library when it was first recorded, and all the functionality one would expect from a modern percussion library is there – multiple articulations for drums and cymbals including mod wheel controlled rolls with release samples, crescendos and decrescendos, experimental articulations for the timpani set and other nifty additions that will handle almost anything you throw at it – and all recorded with enough velocity layers and round robins to perform with confidence. Simple controls for attack and release, reverb, limiter and release triggers make the patches a breeze to work with.

A 3 microphone mixer with a handy slider lets you dial in the tone you want quickly. The marimba is punchy and full of body, the xylophone is clear and succinct, and the glockenspiel and Celeste are bright and charming. Likewise, the melodic percussion and auxiliary percussion benefit from the same consistent quality of sound throughout the library. Not every percussion library sports a snare ensemble, and even the ones that do will have a hard time matching the wonderful crispness and presence that True Strike’s snare ensemble has. This is especially true with the timpani set – more than a decade has passed and True Strike’s timpani sound still stands as possibly the most balanced, genuine and robust available in a library to date.īut my personal favorite has to be True Strike’s snare ensemble. The drums are punchy and full of life, with no muddiness or transient sharpness that many other percussion libraries can suffer from. The first thing you’ll notice about True Strike is its bold and rich sound – all of the instruments have been recorded with a clear precision which gives them a natural yet polished sound that drops right into the mix with ease. Installation is a breeze, as the library is downloaded and extracted to your folder of choice via Project SAM’s simple download tool, while licensing is handled via a serial number entered into NI’s Native Access program which can be easily downloaded and installed.

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