A virtual tribute to the viola. 

What it is: 
An expressive, virtual viola from Chris Hein and Best Service. 

How we use it: 
From solo parts to lush layers, Solo Viola meets the needs of the most demanding string enthusiast. 

Why it's cool: 
Like all Chris Hein productions, Solo Viola was close mic'd and recorded dry - ensuring the instrument will fit perfectly in a variety of contexts. Chris Hein - Solo Viola EXtended outshines all previous Viola libraries. Never before, a sample library of this extent has been dedicated towards a single string instrument: Three violas recorded with greatest care and endless details, Viola Instrumentprecisely edited and merged into a practical and musical instrument for NI's Kontakt Player offering an elaborated custom-tailored user-interface with comprehensive scripting. Chris Hein - Solo Viola EXtended features high-grade sound quality and incredible realistic articulations. This library offers everything you have been missing with previous virtual string instruments.

You receive over 20,000 samples, up to 38 articulations, four different legato transitions as well as extensive phase-alignment of all samples to guarantee smooth inaudible crossfades of up to eight velocity layers. This feature-set allows the creation of authentic viola-arrangements unprecedented on a computer.

Chris Hein
This library benefits from producer Chris Hein's 30 years spanning experience in the field of sampling and library production, resulting in a product offering highest versatility, configurability and practical use.

Chris Hein - Solo Viola EXtended is a bundle of three fantastic sounding Solo Viola Instruments, all with a unique sound and played by professional studio musicians. All instruments have been recorded with great care and detail. Their virtual counterparts have been further optimized for playability and performance (EX instruments), thus saving your computer resources and still granting you access to all required articulations for authentic performances.

The following instruments are included:
  • VLA1 Solo Viola
  • VLA2 Canadian Viola as EX-instrument
  • VLA3 French Viola as EX-instrument
Chris Hein - Solo Viola EXtended delivers outstanding, detailed and highly expressive results as a solo instrument or as part of an ensemble – in all relevant genres ranging from classical music and film scores to gypsy-jazz, folk and pop ballads.

And there is even more: Chris Hein - Solo Viola EXtended provides sound-designers, composers of film- and game soundtracks and experimental musicians with special effect-sounds and uncommon articulations with partly exceptional dynamics, such as flautando, flageolets and ponticello. Therefore, the pitch range of the virtual instrument has been expanded in comparison to the original violin. The special effect sounds are further supported by the internal tenfold DSP-effects-rack. Feel free to create complex sound clusters, dense atmospheres and surreal sound worlds out of a single violin for incredible moments of suspense.

Compatibility

Windows

  • Windows 7, 8.1 or 10 (latest Service Pack, 32/64-bit)
  • Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD Athlon 64 X2, 4 GB RAM (6 GB recommended)
Mac
  • Mac OS X 10.10, 10.11 oder 10.12 (latest update)
  • Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB RAM (6 GB recommended)
General
  • 1GB free disc space for player installation
  • additional hard disc space according to the library size
  • internet connection for product activation required
Support Interfaces
  • Stand-Alone NKS support
  • VST
  • Audio Units
  • ASIO
  • CoreAudio
  • WASAPI
  • AAX Native (Pro Tools 10 or later)


Installation Instructions
  1. Please visit www.bestservice.de/registration and log into your user account (register a new user account if necessary).
  2. In your user account click on "My products", now on “Register”, enter the Product Registration Code (VSN-XYZ…..) you received from Reverb and click “Submit”
  3. In your product list you will now find permanent download links and the serial number / activation code for the registered product (also included in a confirmation email).
  4. Detailed instruction for unpacking, installing, and activating the product is included in the download files (usually file 1/2)

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