Ivy Audio (the creators of the amazing Piano in 162) have released Scott Drums, Carpenter Trombone and a significantly updated version if the free Clare Solo vocal sample library.
Clare Solo v2 is in a way a remake of the original Clare Solo sample library. Once again, the library features Clare Demer on the vocals, but this time singing a wider range of notes in a better venue and recorded with more advanced equipment. Same as in the original version of the library, all legato samples lead into full sustain notes. This results in natural sounding performances which are extremely hard to achieve with most other vocal sample libraries, even commercial ones. The included custom scripted Kontakt instrument provides hands-on control over the most important parameters like legato, release time and reverb amount. For more info about the library, take a look at our original Clare Solo article.
Scott Drums is Ivy Audio’s first ever percussive sample set. The library features a multi-sampled acoustic drum kit with five round robins and eight velocity layers per sampled drum hit. Each drum kit element was miked individually. Apart from the standard articulations, the library also includes snare rolls, cymbal scrapes and stick hits. The huge 2.9 GB sample library (compressed) is packed in a commercial quality custom scripted NI Kontakt user interface. The user interface features a built-in mixer with volume and mute/solo controls for each of the eleven microphones, along with per-mic EQ, compressor, transient shaper, reverb and stereo width controls. The kit also supports a dry mode for playing the samples without mic bleed.
Carpenter Trombone is a deeply sampled tenor trombone sound library, based on a similar legato to full sustain sampling technique as the one used for Clare Solo. Every single legato transition leads into a full sustain. The trombone was played by Dylan Carpenter and recorded using handmade Cloud JRS-34 ribbon mics, passed through a Millennia Media microphone preamplifier and a high quality Aurora AD converter.
All three libraries are formatted for use with NI Kontakt 5, however they are not Kontakt Player libraries. This means that the full version of NI Kontakt is required in order to use Ivy Audio products without a time limit. The libraries are available for direct free download from the Ivy Audio website, without any form of registration or subscription. All three libraries can be used in commercial projects, however redistribution of the libraries or the included sample content is not allowed. If you find the libraries useful, you can support Ivy Audio by sending them a donation through PayPal.
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All libraries are available for free download via Ivy Audio (no registration required, commercial use allowed, donations accepted via PayPal).
Last Updated on July 8, 2015 by Tomislav Zlatic.
