One of the exemplars of demonstrating the creative scope of MPE for musical expression, Expressive E has just launched a new tranche of meticulously-modelled software instruments.
Dubbed Soliste, this new series of four MPE-ready solo string instruments have been carefully crafted to make your next virtual string take as human-like as possible.
Soliste consists of four physically-modelled instruments, There’s the VLN 356 (Violin), the VLA 419 (Viola), the CLO 759 (Cello) and the DBS 1130 (Double Bass).
Based around a super-slick-looking UI which foregrounds a rendering of whichever instrument the specific plugin is based on, the Solstice range allows users to express natural bow motion via back-and-forth gestures, conjure spontaneous tremolo and add other live, human touches to performances that are often impossible - or an extreme pain - to render with straightforward MIDI keyboard-based tracking.
