It includes high and low strings high and low choirs bassoons and contrabassoons trumpets, trombones, cimbassi, tubas and a smaller and a larger section of french horns percussion and piano a guitar ensemble with left and right separate instruments, electric bass, and a drum kit. It was recorded in Berlin’s Teldex studio, a wonderful sounding venue. Metropolis Ark 1 a Kontakt based library that is specifically designed to give you HUGE sounds for epic style music. I generally prefer libraries that are pretty dry without a dominant venue sound because it is easier to mix and match them.Īnd yet, I tell you this is a terrific sounding library, as you will hear in the demos on the Orchestral Tools website.As a trained composer in the classical tradition, I don’t like or often use libraries with pre-assembled combinations of instruments.I don’t much like, nor do I get hired to write, the style of trailer/library music generally referred to as “epic.”.You are about to read a positive review from me about a product that in theory I should not like. I am somewhat notorious for writing many times in forum discussions that:
