GForce Software is best known for their high-quality sampled instruments and virtual Synthesizers. Now the company announced Re-Strings, a complete new vintage string machine for the Reason Rack Extension format. I used quite often the Virtual String Machine plugin which sound extremely nice. If you search old string machine sounds for your next Reason production, than check out this new rack extension.
50% OFF Release Offer! 2 weeks.
The modern, polyphonic string synthesiser was invented in 1970 by Ken Freeman, a British keyboard player and engineer who discovered that if you layered two notes then detuned and slightly modulated one a pleasant ‘chorused’ sound resulted. Over the next 10+ years Ken’s initial discovery spawned an industry that saw the manufacture of more than one hundred ‘string machines’ and multi-keyboards.
Although viewed by some as a one-trick-pony or a poor man’s polysynth, string machines had so much character they’ve graced tracks by artists as diverse as; Lonnie Liston Smith, Air, Pink Floyd, The Cure, Parliament, Herbie Hancock, Camel, Joy Division, Jean-Michel Jarre, Thomas Dolby, Tonto’s Expanding Head Band, Genesis, Toni Tone Tony and countless others.
Product details
Based on our award winning Virtual String Machine (VSM), RE-STRINGS comprises 67 individual sample sets from a plethora of classic analogue string ensembles including the ultra rare (and first) Freeman String Symphonizer, the highly coveted Solina, the eminently desirable Eminent 310, the highly-lauded Logan String Ensemble, plus several other classic (and not so classic) string machines.
Each sample set spans 49 notes (4 octaves), each individually sampled and looped, plus RE-STRINGS contains a 700+ patch library created by respected patch designers including legendary string machine user and keyboard maestro, Billy Currie.
With Dual Layer capabilities – each layer comprising of a Lowpass, Bandpass & Highpass Resonant Filter Section, Two Envelope Generators, Pitch or Filter LFO, Dynamic control including filter aftertouch – if you want to create your own hitherto unrealised hybrid combinations of classic and evocative string ensembles, it’s a cinch. Finally, global vintage style Ensemble & Phaser effects are provided, allowing you to hone your sound to evocative, retro, string ensemble perfection.
RE-STRINGS includes string tones from the following classic instruments
- ARP Quadra (1978)
- Crumar Multiman (1975)
- Elka Rhapsody (1975)
- Eminent 310 (1972)
- Freeman String Symphonizer (1973)
- Godwin Model 749 String Concert (1980)
- Hohner K4 (1977)
- Junost 21 (c 1986)
- Korg Lambda (1979)
- Korg PE2000 (1976)
- Logan String Melody II (1977)
- Mellotron (1963)
- Moog Opus III (1980)
- Roland VP330 (1979)
- Solina String Ensemble (1974)
- Technics KN200 (1982)
- Yamaha CE-25 (1983)
- Yamaha SS30 (1977)
GForce Software Re-Strings is now available for 39€ in the Reason Extension store with a limited time 50% OFF discount (normally 79€)
Available here: Re-Strings for Reason RE
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