Big Fish Audio and Sample Factory present a new library: “Circles: Modern Drama Film Scoring”. This library contains specific sounds for modern cinematic music, movie trailers, sound design, game media, and more.
"Bass, vibrating strings, moody pads, lead synths, pianos, drums and percussion, thanks to a careful creation of sounds, will add character to your production.": so reads the product description.
“This library, with 4,5 GB of original content e 20 massive kits, will surprise you with a vast amount of sophisticated emotional pianos and unique ambient sounds. Each file in this library is also equipped with MIDI. "
So "Circles: Modern Drama Film Scoring”Presents itself to our eyes as an indispensable collection of samples for any composer who needs a rich palette of sounds.
"I have always believed that music played an important role in films and that it was not a simple frame for events. Music reveals everything that the visual story does not render within a film; it's not just about making a story more enjoyable ". Giuseppe Tornatore
And here, watching a film with particular attention to the use of the sound element, it is possible to discover what the functions of cinematic music are.
Il silent cinema in reality it was never silent. Music was immediately an integral part of cinematography, it served to cover the noises produced by the public and by the projector in operation. The main problem concerned the synchronization of sounds ed images. In fact, the visual and soundtrack, recorded on different supports, easily caused the loss of synchronism. Live music was then considered the only solution: a single pianist or even an entire orchestra. The need to more intimately blend images and sounds became even stronger with the feature film. The composers began to write music specially designed for the film and with the following objectives:
- frame the meaning of the images and contextualize them
- underline the emotions of protagonists and spectators
- create a common thread and unify the different scenes
- create and identify prototypes
- preparing spectators for an event, anticipating actions.
With the evolution of technology and the advent of digital, the world of music production has changed radically: from digital libraries to midi orchestras… for any creative need.
The library
Circles is available digitally download on the Big Fish Audio website at a price of 99.95 dollars. This library has been prepared for the most popular formats, so that it can be used in all software and hardware on the market today. Below is the list:
- Multi Format version for Apple Loops, REX and WAV;
- Format for Kontakt (full version): Kontakt Player Free is not compatible instead;
- The library has also been formatted for Kontakt Big Fish Audio KLI 3.0 (Kontakt Loop Interface), which turns this library into a modelable music writing tool. To use the KLI version of the product is required Contact 5.8.0
Each audio file has been meticulously cut and edited for perfect loop execution and recorded at 24-bit to guarantee absolutely superior quality final results.
If the user works mainly with products Apple , be sure to use the extra loop tagging feature in Garageband and Apple Logic, as well as those with Apple time stretching and pitch bending algorithms. If you are working within Protools, Cubase, Fruity Loops, Ableton Live, Sony ACID or any other DAW on the market, Acidized WAV files are the perfect solution to the potential of time stretching and pitch bending. Acidized WAV files can also be used as standard WAV files in almost any music production tool.
Beat Makers and artists who love sampled melodic slices can take advantage of the REX / RMX format which uses all the programming found in Stylus RMX and the Dr. Octo REX player in Propellerheads Reason.
KLI version 3.0
In the KLI 3.0 Series version (information can also be found on the official Big Fish Audio website) you can quickly organize and mix tracks in the Combo Patch Kit and create completely original drum tracks through custom drum patches, which include multi-track drum loops and one -shot samples.
The KLI series libraries also include a custom interface for tweaking loop. Each loop has its own patch and can be edited by manipulating the various slices. The groups of loops, which can be played simultaneously, also have their own patches, which are easy to arrange quickly. Each patch automatically synchronizes with the host tempo of your DAW.
Cinematic music
It is precisely the name that has been assigned to the library to indicate its functionality and which musical genre it is suitable for: film music.
Music is certainly a fundamental part for the success of a film. Today a film or any video file is no longer conceivable in the absence of the musical element. The images and the sound coincide and constitute the same unity.
Today cinematic music is realized thanks to the invention of these libraries that not only reproduce instrumental sounds, but also capture particular and refined effects, synths and voices.
Circles thus allows any composer to create audio files, music and soundtracks of all kinds and for any type of audiovisual: short films, feature films, documentaries, videogames and films.
The library: graphics and sounds
The performance views graphics are very simple and elegant. All the controls are close at hand and proposed schematically. Each selected sound has the same performance view.
In panel above you will find the name of the selected instrument or synth. Using the directional cursors it is possible to scroll the tools without having to select them. Next to it appears the wrench icon: if you select it, the screen for the mapping editor and wave editor.
If in the menu below you select "Mixer & FX"," Buttons "will appear in front of you, useful for activating / deactivating various functions, effects and parameters, which can be adjusted manually with the cursor:
- tone, drive, bass, bright, clean, output
- bass, mid, treble, presence, preamp, master
- cabinet, size, air, treble, size, output
- bits, sample rate, noise, noise color, output
- speed, acc. treble, acc. bass, balance, distance, wet
- spread, pan, output
- HP cutoff, rendered
- time, damping, pan, feedback, output dry, output wet
- pre-delay, size, color, damping, output dry, output wet
- HF freq, HF gain, HF bell, HMF freq, HMF gain, HMF Q
- input, attack, sustain, output
- saturation, output
- threshold, attack, makeup, ratio, release, mix
- in gains, releases, outputs
- delay, reverb, chorus, flanger, phaser, room
- CC (which momentarily cancels what was put on the audio track)
If, on the other hand, in the menu below you select "FX loop", 8 panels will dominate the screen: Volume - Pitch - Pan - Attack - Decay - Mashup - Cutoff - Reso.
The tools that the library offers are various; among them:
- classic instruments: strings, synth arp, piano,
- modern pop instruments: guitars (chords and rythm), bass, drums
- synths: FX, pads, plucks, pulses.
Each of these sounds can be used to create and enrich your own musical composition, and in turn can be made unique by associating the effects and parameters offered by the library and listed above. Also, for faster compositions, you will find both melodic and rhythmic loops. In particular, you will be satisfied with the synths offered, which today characterize modern composition for cinematography. Not least the rhythmic component.
Approaching this library with interest, I could see the wide range of sounds and effects that makes this instrument truly eclectic. I leave you the curiosity to fully experience the world of film music composition, music that you can create with the support of this excellent tool: “Circles: Modern Drama Film Scoring”.
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Official website: www.bigfishaudio.com
Product: www.bigfishaudio.com/CIRCLES-Modern-Drama-Film-Scoring
Price: $ 99.95
Martina Gavezzotti
