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Grosso’s phrases are presented in colour-coded fields which indicate the respective ranges of each section.

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Keyswitches (a big feature in Grosso) can also be used to select or mute presets an ‘info’ button on the GUI opens a diagram showing each keyswitch’s position and function, explained in more detail in the PDF manual. Clicking on a preset opens up its display and mutes the other three.

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Presets & PhrasesĪlthough it’s not immediately apparent, each patch contains four presets arranged in a row across the GUI, only one of which is active and fully visible at any given time.

However, you can’t mix and match different instrument families within a patch: to hear all of Grosso’s sections at once, you have to load five separate patches.

The factory patches contain sets of phrases which work together musically, any of which can be individually muted or soloed. You can load any type of phrase into any field - if you’re doing (say) a cover of Spinal Tap’s ‘Big Bottom’, you can give your woofers a workout by using three low phrases. Other instrument sections have a choice of high or low. In the case of the strings, the three fields correspond to high, middle and low phrases: ‘high’ features first and second violins, ‘mid’ has a mix of violins and violas, and ‘low’ is cellos and double basses. Less striking than Minimal’s primary-colour ‘art attack’, the design is a good aid for at-a-glance instrument identification. These colour-coded bands (known as ‘fields’) radiate the tasteful, attractive hues favoured by Notting Hill property owners to remind you that their house is worth (polite cough) considerably more than yours. The library’s GUI grabs the eye with broad coloured stripes straight out of an upmarket Farrow & Ball paint catalogue. The library contains both 16-bit and 24-bit samples so you can conserve system resources when composing. Each has a main patch containing all available phrases and multiple mic positions, as well as an alternative, CPU-friendly ‘lite’ patch featuring a mix of the various mikings. Grosso contains separately recorded strings, woodwind, brass, percussion and choir sections.

I shudder to think what the session fees added up to, but despite the big wage bill, Sonokinetic have kept the price of this library at a reasonable level - at any rate, it’s unlikely to provoke a surge of phone calls from prospective buyers to rip-off loan companies. In this review we’ll look at Grosso’s musical content and suggest ways you can incorporate it in your arrangements.Īs the name suggests, Grosso goes for the jugular with grandiose orchestrations and a cast of over 100 musicians (see the ‘Instrumentation’ box for details). Since Grosso and Minimal work in basically the same way, you may want to read the review of the earlier library at to familiarise yourself with the operational principles.

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Grosso runs exclusively on Native Instruments Kontakt 5.1 and upwards, and also works with the free Kontakt Player. Titled Grosso, the library is optimised for scoring action, epic, fantasy and chase scenes. Having de-cluttered with Minimal, Sonokinetic pile on the drama in their new 33GB orchestral phrase collection. Sonokinetic go epic with a grandiose 12/8-time orchestral phrase library.īack in December 2013 I had fun reviewing Sonokinetic’s Minimal, an artful collection of tempo-sync’ed orchestral phrases which introduces users to the sound worlds inhabited by composers such as Philip Glass and John Adams.