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One particular area of fascination is the Grand Piano section, which has a great number of interesting effects including scratched strings.

Moving on to the other three available Districts, and itвЂ™s fair to say thereвЂ™s a degree of crossover with what weвЂ™ve already seen, but thereвЂ™s generally a sense of a smaller scale with greater degrees of control in operation, which is something we see from the large number of solo patches. There are, however, plenty of rolls and hits to make up anything the user might desire: and as I quickly discovered, it was rather difficult to do anything which sounded poor in this context, which might explain the lack of repetition patches far better to do something more exciting rhythmically. The sound is enormous, but surprisingly, there doesnвЂ™t appear to be any offering in auto-repeated form, which I find curious, given the overall premise of this library.

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To work with the full spectrum of whatвЂ™s available, you have to dive into the Multiple patch named Percussion Mega Menu, which offers large drums aplenty, with a smattering of snares, shakers and a few other things besides. The final area for dissection in District One is the Percussion sectionвЂ¦ and here, we go epic again. Ultimately, they all have a use, but probably arenвЂ™t to be employed too often in compositions, in case they lose their potency through being overplayed. There are occasional moments of minor tuning discrepancy, particularly in the winds, but since every care has been taken to ensure all sample capture is of the highest quality, IвЂ™d imagine these elements have been deliberately left in to ensure the listener knows that the timbres were created by humans вЂ“ and Ark 3вЂ™s all the better for that, in my view.ДЄnother sample denomination found throughout the library is the Cluster, where jarring notes create angst, in a number of forms: some are sustained, some short, with upbeats. There are plenty of single articulations relevant to the instruments themselves a good example being the flutter-tongued articulations found in the Winds and Brass. Time to explore the rest of District One вЂ“ with similar elements available throughout the full String, Brass and Woodwind sections.

Sonically, youвЂ™ll be familiar with the sound if youвЂ™ve used other Orchestral Tools products.ДЄn exceptionally useful feature is that notes are repeated according to their placement within a bar, and not all snapped together as a job lot, which had me playing chords across the placement of a bar to induce some beautiful cross-rhythmic interest. As an example, articulations on offer include upbeats in single and triplet form and various lengths of crescendo and diminuendo. What we do have here are articulations which will both complement and bridge some of the gaps left by the previous Ark libraries. If thatвЂ™s what you want, youвЂ™ll need to look elsewhere вЂ“ most likely towards Metropolis Ark 1. Without wishing to downplay the other sections, the quintet immediately caught my ear, as itвЂ™s superb вЂ“ and very in-keeping with current scoring tendencies.At this stage, we also have to make a point which applies to many aspects of Ark 3 вЂ“ it is not a regular orchestral sample library, in the sense that it doesnвЂ™t cater for the more common sustained and pizzicato-type sampled articulations. Here, all four sections of the orchestra are catered for, but with the inclusion of a String Quintet section.

District One is described as The Beating Orchestra and is available in both Multiple and Single Articulation. The utopian feel is carried over from past libraries with the further use of sub-menus вЂ“ these are described as Districts, and there are four of them here. With Metropolis Ark 3, Orchestral Tools now looks at epic scoring from another angle, adding another vast collection of instruments suitable for rhythmic pulse and accentuation, as both loops and single articulations. Ark 1 gave us huge epic timbre, while Ark 2 took us to the edge of silence.

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Epic is a word which is bandied around quite a bit these days вЂ“ but the Metropolis Ark series of libraries is truly deserving of the description.

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