As an example of a smaller instrument, the contrabassoon takes up 539 MB, less than 20% the size of the solo violin. The other orchestra sections vary in size and in the number of included instrument variations, but all are organized along similar lines. Other than that, the bass doesn’t really get any special treatment. This is why the solo bass includes a Miroslav Vitous pizzicato instrument which is indeed more jazzy – brighter and noisier than the other more classical pizzicato bass instruments. Miroslav Vitous himself is (like me) a double bassist, though a jazz one. There’s also a keyswitchable “master” instrument for the ensemble violins which has a set of commonly used articulation/dynamics combinations.

The sustains get the largest number of variations in dynamics and some of the softer dynamics also have non-vibrato versions. Breaking down the ensemble violins as an example, there are sustain, detache, staccato, spiccato and pizzicato articulations, plus legato, intervals and glisses. The 14-violin ensemble takes up 4.32 GB of hard drive space and the solo violin uses 2.86 GB. The strings get the biggest part of the HDD space “budget”, which makes sense as they are the focus of a lot of orchestral music. For example, fourteen violins playing sustained notes with a certain dynamic setting and looping is one instrument, and the same fourteen violins playing very short staccato is another instrument.īreaking this down, the content is split into strings, brass, woodwinds, chromatic percussion, a grand piano, and the original Miroslav Philharmonik 1 content. The sample content is spread across more than 2,700 instruments, though the word “instrument” as used here does not mean a physical instrument, such as one violin. Miroslav Philharmonik 2 is a complete virtual symphony orchestra with some less traditional instruments added in. It is available for Mac and PC as a 64-bit plugin, as well as a standalone application.

IK Multimedia’s Miroslav Philharmonik 2 is a much bigger (with over 55 GB of content) successor to the classic Miroslav Philharmonik sampler soundset and plugin.

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