Hyperion Strings Ensemble

A Complete Orchestral String & Sound-Design library built for Kontakt

Hyperion Strings Ensemble delivers brilliant sound, performance features and adaptive controls, a massive range of articulations, special FX, sound-design and total flexibility in one sleek, powerful package.

This 30-piece string ensemble has compact divisi sections in a 12-layer slot system to quickly build huge symphonic groupings, with 8 1st Violins, 7 2nd Violins, 6 Violas, 5 Cellos and 4 Double-basses. Each section has fingered and gliss true legato, vibrato, clean and tremolo sustains, a full range of long/short notes, expressions, specialty bowings, and aleatoric effects.

The Shorts include long & dotted 8th-note staccatos, 16th & 32nd-note short staccatos, 32nd & 64th-note spiccatos, loose & tight pizzicato plucks, Bartok pitz and Col Legno taps, all with round-robin, velocity/swell, and auto-switching for realism and precision.

Expressions give a score life, with dynamic release-triggering, tempo-sync and time-stretching. From the delicate to the bombastic, you’ll find dozens of crescendos, decrescendos, sforzandos, and swells to fit any mood. Combine them with our A-B Blend, Offset, Attack & Release to create expressive movements.

Chromatic and aleatoric effects include flautando, ponticello, harmonics, trills, runs, clusters, stabs and more. The 1st Violins also feature a range of Sordino articulations, including true legato and portamento.

The wide streamlined interface has simple menus, easy routing, fast presets, and an adaptive engine. Play effortlessly, with Performance mode, adaptive legato response, short speed-switching, vibrato-clean blending and auto-bowing.

Fly seamlessly between articulations with instant key-switch assignment, A-B grouping, velocity stacking, cross-fading and Niente attenuation. Sequence as you go with the Arpeggio editor and stay in key with Play-Assist. Shape your tone, player positioning and acoustic environment on the Effects and Space tabs.

The Stage mix places the mics on each player for intense presence and transparency, perfect for adding definition and personality to any arrangement. The Close position delivers a modern, bold cinematic tone heard in our Micro and Elements editions. For Ensemble however, we’ve dialed back the processing for a more natural quality to let it breathe freely. The Mid Hall blend is a wide omni array with a velvety character and soft highs that fall easily into place. The Far Hall mix has a lush, vintage quality with a deep, dark sound for classical scoring.

Hyperion Strings Ensemble is a complete string scoring solution at your fingertips. Existing owners of Hyperion Strings Elements and Micro editions are eligible for upgrade discounts to the full Ensemble edition, so contact us for upgrade offer details.

Features

• 72 .nki presets for Ensemble, 1st Violins, 2nd Violins, Violas, Cellos, Basses. 
• Plenty of articulation maps, seating arrangements, arpeggio patterns and FX chains.
• 157,567 Samples 
• 139 GB installed (81 compressed download) 
• 24-bit, 48 kHz Stereo PCM Wav Format for direct sample access. 
• Made for the full retail version of Kontakt (version 6.2.2+), with unlocked, non-compressed wavs and editable presets. 

System Requirements

• The full retail version of Native Instruments Kontakt version 6.2.2+ is required to use the .nki instrument presets and .nkm multi-instrument banks included in this library. The free Kontakt "Player" and "Add Library" import process do not support this standard open-format Kontakt library. 
• Windows 7 or higher is required for PC. OSX 10.12 or higher required for Mac users. Quad Core CPU, 8+ GB System Ram and SATA or SSD hard drive are the minimum required for this library.