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Orchestral Essentials
Kickstart your composing career
Orchestral Essentials contains every orchestral element you’ll need to take your score to the next level, and the playability to bring the ideas in your head into reality.
Instruments
Unlock the sounds of strings, brass, woodwind and percussion: full sections, individual instruments, all common articulations, plus phrases and effects, and our hugely inspiring Multis.
Tech specs
- Library size16 GB
- Works with free Kontakt PlayerYes
- Recording locationConcert hall
The essential orchestra for aspiring composers
At ProjectSAM, we’ve been creating orchestral instruments for over 24 years, pioneering orchestral sampling, innovating in programming, and making our software as easy and fun to use as we possibly can. For Orchestral Essentials, we’ve distilled our experience into a collection that’s designed to meet the needs of a composer with a growing career.
Cut from the cloth of our mainline products, this collection offers full orchestra, string, brass and woodwind ensembles, as well as classical and world percussion instruments. Our Multi instruments also give you access to playable patches that contain more than one element across the keyboard, bringing more inspiration to the composition process.
Native Kontrol Standard
Navigate instruments, browse presets and control parameters directly from your Native Instruments hardware of choice.
Adaptive Sync
Quickly and effortlessly match sampled crescendos, rolls and risers to your project’s tempo.
What critics are saying
Orchestral Essentials
Command the orchestra with inspiration! Get a compositional toolkit that’s ready to take you to the next level.
7.8 GB
All Instruments
Full Orchestra
Mixed sections performing together
- Action
- Suspense
- Epic
- Dark
- Warm Sustains
- Long Chords
- Short Chords
String Ensemble
Recorded as ensemble spread over the keyboard unless specified
- Arco
- Staccato
- Tremolo
- Pizzicato
- Cinematic effects set
- Legato violins with flutes
- Legato cellos with basses
Brass Ensemble
Recorded as ensemble spread over the keyboard unless specified
- Sustain
- Staccato
- Muted staccato
- Cinematic effects set
- Legato horns with trombones
- Solo trumpet sustain
- Solo horn sustain
- Solo trombone sustain
Woodwind Ensemble
Recorded as ensemble spread over the keyboard unless specified
- Sustain
- Staccato
- Cinematic effects set
- Legato flutes with clarinets
- Ethnic flute phrases set
- Overblown flute staccato
- Flute and piccolo runs
Percussion
- Orchestral percussion kit
- Timpani
- Xylophone
- Glockenspiel
- Celesta
- Japanese percussion kit *
- Djembe ensemble *
- Cinematic percussion effects set
- Tubular bells
- World percussion *
Keyboards & Harp
- Piano mystique *
- Concert harp
- Harpsichord *
- Church organ
Sound Design
- 10 sound design instruments based on the orchestral audio pool
Choir
- Full choir "aah" sustain
Multis
- 41 inspiring Multis covering many cinematic genres *
Orchestral Essentials 2
Expand your orchestral palette.
Power up your virtual orchestra with edgier and more creative instruments and articulations. Add new colours to your soundstage with new additions from the wider ProjectSAM catalogue.
Instruments
Push into new sonic territory with new instruments, orchestral textures, swells, choirs and loads more, including 43 playable Multis, harp and new keyboards, bowed cymbals, and more.
Tech specs
- Library size22 GB
- Works with free Kontakt PlayerYes
- Recording locationConcert hall
Listen deeper
After the ‘bread-and-butter’ tools of Orchestral Essentials 1, Orchestral Essentials 2 was designed to expand your musical horizons, bringing you more colours and textures to apply to more genres and situations. The sounds in this collection were mainly derived from Symphobia 2 and Luminaour Symphobia: Lumina and Pandora libraries, and so have an edge of experimental and fantasy moods.
In OE2, choirs and other mixed patches provide ready-made layers, increasing your textural possibilities for unique results. New keyboards, harps and other instruments boost your tonal range. Meanwhile, 43 Multis and the new Dystopia presets put inspirational orchestral techniques at your fingertips, giving you the inspiration to come up with something truly fresh.
Native Kontrol Standard
Navigate instruments, browse presets and control parameters directly from your Native Instruments hardware of choice.
Adaptive Sync
Quickly and effortlessly match sampled crescendos, rolls and risers to your project's tempo.
What critics are saying
Orchestral Essentials 2
The follow-up to the loved original. A brand-new selection taken from the acclaimed ProjectSAM catalog, greatly expanding your orchestral palette.
9.8 GB
All instruments
Mixed Orchestra
- Orchestra with Choir
- High Violins with Choir
- Low Bassoon with Piano and Harp
- Cartoon Staccato
- Strings with Winds Staccato
- Strings with Brass Swells
- Legato Cellos with Bassoon
- Texture Gracious
- Texture Dreamy
Strings
- String Ensemble Sordino
- Violins Spiccato and Fast Note Down
- Violins Flageolet
- Violas with Cellos Ponticello Tremolo
- String Ensemble Fast Crescendo
- String Ensemble Textures
- String Ensemble Effects
Brass
- Epic French Horns
- Horns with Trombones Octaves
- Tuba Long
- Tuba Staccato
- Legato Trumpet
- Brass Ensemble Effects
Woodwinds
- Legato Flute
- Legato Oboe
- Legato B Clar with C Bassoon
- Flute with Piccolo Octaves
- Recorder
- Woodwind Ensemble Effects
Percussion
- Big Drums & Cymbals
- Timpani Rolls
- Vibraphone
- Bowed Cymbals
- Bell tree
Keyboards & Harp
- Intimate Piano *
- Box Organ *
- Cimbalom *
- Prepared Piano *
- Concert Harp Flageolet *
Choir
- Full Choir Long Ooh
- Full Choir Swells Mmm
- Full Choir Textures
Dystopia Sound Design
- Various Sounds and Presets
Bonus
- Orchestra Tuning & Concert Hall Silence
Multis
- 43 inspiring Multis covering many cinematic genres *
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