Introduction

Suonopuro Strings is a virtual string ensemble perfect for electronic wind instruments or other advanced MIDI instruments. Its strength is its ease of use: all the sounds of violins, violas, cellos, and double basses are already mixed into a single set of samples. It allows you to perform complex melodies simply by playing your MIDI instrument. It automatically recognizes legato and staccato and allows you to perform glissandi, bends, falls, crescendos, and diminuendos.

The Suonopuro Strings also has a wide range of effects: low pass filter, chorus, distortion, adjustable bow noise, automatic vibrato, flutter, stereophonic effect, sordina and much more.

The Suonopuro Strings is designed to get the best, in terms of expression and control, from any kind of MIDI instrument:
• Electronic Wind Controllers: Akai EWI, Roland Aerophone, Yamaha YDS, Berglund NuEVI and more;
• MIDI Violins: Cantini MIDI violin, Zeta MIDI violin, etc.;
• MIDI Converters, like the Sonuus i2M;
• MIDI Keyboards: NI Komplete control, M-Audio Oxygen, etc.;
• MIDI Controllers: TEC breath controller, MIDI expression pedal, Yamaha BC3, etc.

Features

• Sordina effect.
• 4890 samples, managed in a fully automated way in real time.
• Transition from piano to forte and vice versa on 4 levels.
• Selectable dynamics controller and editable dynamic range.
• Two monophonic modes with real time automatic recognizing of legato and staccato: by dynamic controller and by keys.
• Play on release mode: when you release a note, the software plays the previous note still pressed.
• Configurable legato mode and real time controlled glissando.
• Playing staccato, each new note is slightly different from the previous one, with multiple and gradual gradients from soft to marcato.
• Two parallel voices: one that doubles at the octave and the other that automatically adapts to the selected key.
• Polyphonic mode for polyphonic instruments and sustain or hold 1st note modes for monophonic instruments.
• Bending technique, which consists in starting a note with an ascending glissando, live controllable in duration.
• Release of notes with a descending glissando (Fall) that can be controlled in duration.
• Automatic vibrato and flutter-tonguing both configurable and controllable live.
• Easy to use Chorus, Compressor, Three-band equalizer, Convolution reverb, Distortion and Delay effects.
• Adjustable and live controllable bow noise.
• Low Pass Filter with adjustable resonance.
• Keyswitches that can be disabled and a live options activator to instantly switch from one configuration to another.
• 5 and a half octaves of range.
• Resonance effect.
• Splitter by Suonopuro, to split and layer many sounds across your keyboard or your MIDI instrument.

Requirements 

• A COMPUTER: Windows or Mac or a Maschine+ by Native Instruments.

• NI KONTAKT 5.8.1 or higher FULL retail version. Fully tested with the latest version of Kontakt (8.5). It is NOT compatible with Kontakt Player. You can open and run the Suonopuro Strings in Kontakt player just for 15 minutes. After that the demo period of the player times out and you have to re-start and reload the library.

• A MIDI CONTROLLER: an Electronic Wind Instrument or a Keyboard, a DAW or any kind of MIDI Instrument.

Here are some examples:

Keyboard players can use a MIDI controller like these:

It is also possible to use a common MIDI keyboard without any special MIDIcc controller.

Download the instruction manual