FOLK FIDDLE 2 is our flagship roots violin library. With a plethora of articulations on offer, and an incredibly powerful script working hard to keep you playing with fluency and ease in use. With a powerful True Legato, overlay and scale mode system, the Folk Fiddle 2 fills the room with human charm and natural playability. Packed full of character and nuance in every note. Perfect for injecting a folk/roots/blues sound into your compositions.
FREE with every purchase of the Folk Fiddle 2 comes: THE SHAMAN'S DRUM. A deceivingly complex frame drum texturally. Built here to be as straightforward to use as possible. With a simple ‘beater position’ control that allows you to move in real time between different striking positions.
THE GUIs
AT A GLANCE
- 25 articulations
- Static Longs (true legato / poly mode, vib/non-vib) [mf]
- Expressive Longs (true legato / poly mode with natural expression) [mf]
- Brushed Staccato (4 round robin repeats) [p,mf,f]
- Staccatissimo(4 round robin repeats) [p,mf,f]
- Spiccato (4 round robin repeats) [p,mf,f]
- Pizzicato (4 round robin repeats) [p,mf,f]
- Crescendo (Short & Long crescendos controlled with dynamics)
- Sforzando (Fortissimo Attack with immediate decrescendo & crescendo)
- Decrescendo (Hard attack that gets quieter very quickly ending with silence)
- Grace - Semitone up (one shots with an adaptive scale mode) [mf]
- Grace - Wholetone up (one shots with an adaptive scale mode) [mf]
- Grace - Semitone down (one shots with an adaptive scale mode) [mf]
- Grace - Wholetone down (one shots with an adaptive scale mode) [mf]
- Slides (up to triggered pitch)
- Falls (away from triggered pitch)
- Wholetone turns (one shots with an adaptive scale mode) [mf]
- Wholetone to Semitone turns (one shots with an adaptive scale mode) [mf]
- Semitone to Wholetone turns (one shots with an adaptive scale mode) [mf]
- Semitone turns (one shots with an adaptive scale mode) [mf]
- Trills - Wholetone (one shots with an adaptive scale mode) [mf]
- Trills - Semitone (one shots with an adaptive scale mode) [mf]
- Tremolo
- Triple Attack (3 quick note starts at a forte dynamic with performance end)
- Gliss FX - full range (fast, slow, up, down, up & down variations on each string. All repeated with Trem.)
- String Brushes & Scrapes (Brushed notes on open strings & mechanical sounds of bow scrapes)
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System Requirements
- i5 or equivalent (i7 recommended)
- 4GB RAM (8-16GB recommended, the more the better!)
- 2GB Free Space (SSD preferable)
- 5,069 samples
- 4 mic positions (Overhead, Room L, Room R, Distant)
Important Note: Folk Fiddle 2 requires the FULL version of Kontakt 5.8.1 or above (also works with the FULL version of Kontakt 6 /7). Do not purchase this if you only have Kontakt Player.
INDEPTH WALKTHROUGHS
FOLK FIDDLE 2
THE SHAMAN'S DRUM
CONTEXTUAL DEMO 1 (FOLK FIDDLE FT. THE SHAMAN'S DRUM)
CONTEXTUAL DEMO 2 (JIG)
LISTEN