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Berlin Woodwinds Expansion B: Soloists

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I recently had the great pleasure of creating a demo for Orchestral Tool’s newest sample library, “Berlin Woodwinds Expansion B: Soloists.” The title is actually a little bit deceptive–though “Expansion” may make it sound like you need to own BWW for these instruments to work, that is not the case… and it’s not just a couple measly add-on patches, either.

Included are Legato, Sustain, Staccato, Portato, and Grace note patches for Flute, Alto Flute, Oboe, English Horn, and Clarinet, making this almost more like an entire “lite” woodwind section than an expansion. All the patches are good, but the real draw here is the legatos, which are butter smooth and insanely expressive. My wife can testify as to how giddy I was acting as I played around with them for the first time–especially with the Oboe and English Horn, which are made of win(d). To create more robust legato patches and to eliminate phasing issues, Orchestral Tools recorded this entirely new set of samples in a drier setting, which proved to be a very good call. But just to guarantee that these drier sample would match the acoustic space of BWW, they sampled and included a Teldex Hall IR which you can toggle on or off in the Kontakt GUI (speaking of which, the full version of Kontakt 5 is required to play this library).

CONCLUSION: This library is superb, holds up incredibly well as a stand-alone library, and contains the most beautiful and musical sampled solo woodwinds I’ve ever heard, which I’ll be using for years to come.


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