Iconica Sections & Players

Description

Iconica Sections & Players

Iconica Sections & Players was recorded in legendary Funkhaus Berlin from Steinberg together with Orchestral Tools and brings exceptional modern orchestral expression to professional composers. Featuring over 150 GB of strings, brass, woodwinds, percussion, and harp samples, with a huge variety of expressions and articulations, the advanced, user-friendly interface makes it very intuitive to use, speeding and inspiring new composition.

Intimately detailed recordings from a legendary Berlin studio

Iconica is the only orchestral library recorded entirely at the legendary Funkhaus Berlin, renowned for its recordings of movie soundtracks, TV series, and major classical works. Produced in collaboration with specialist company Orchestral Tools, the samples were recorded by 76 musicians — including 50 players just for the strings — in Studio 2, a 400m2 room with a 10,5m floor to ceiling height and a pleasing reverb time of around 1.5 seconds. Recorded over the course of a month, the acoustic separation of Funkhaus Berlin’s studios guarantees crystal-clear samples which capture the sounds of the orchestra in perfect, intimate detail.

Different microphone positions

All the instruments in Iconica Sections & Players were recorded with a range of different microphone positions. These are accessed via the Mixer Page, which also lets you assign an output to each position, plus controlling its volume and load status (which provides different room perspectives). There are several different microphone positions for each instrument, ensuring all enjoy perfectly nuanced sound at all times.

The key to creativity

Each cell in the Cell Rack is assigned to a keyswitch, which can be allocated to any note value by double-clicking on the note name and entering a value, or clicking on the note name and dragging your mouse up/down. One cell can only be assigned to a single keyswitch, but one keyswitch can be assigned to multiple cells, allowing you to stack articulations.

Advanced legato created especially for players

Iconica Sections & Players features Steinberg’s state-of-the-art Adaptive True Legato, which makes note progressions sound exceptionally realistic, while being very intuitive. The behavior of the transition adapts automatically to the speed of input, the legato sounding shorter when the tempo is faster and longer when it is slower. This gives passages an incredibly natural sound and feel.

Impressively expressive

With many different articulations available for each section, the innovative Cell Rack holds up to 16 loaded articulations in an X/Y grid and offers several ways of moving between them. Showing at a glance both the currently active articulation and the selected articulation (which may not be active), it is a fast and intuitive way to experiment and compose impressive music on the fly.

Features

• Adaptive True Legato for exceptionally realistic note progressions
• Wide range of articulations for strings, brass, woodwinds, percussion, and harp with round robins
• Several mic positions for each instrument
• Tuning Scale function for different scales |