About Action strings 2
Almost a decade ago, the original ACTION STRINGS – a collaboration between NI and Dynamedion – began a new era of orchestral phrase sampling. Almost overnight, the libraries real recorded performances became the driving string rhythms behind countless cinematic scores and other genre-bending productions.So, when the time came to launch its successor, ACTION STRINGS 2, we reached out to Sonuscore, the latest project from Dynamedion’s founders, including composer Tilman Sillescu. To make the most of KONTAKT 6’s capabilities, the engine had to be entirely rebuilt and all new motifs & single articulations sampled. But that’s just the beginning of the story, as Tilman explains… What inspired you to create Action Strings 2?Action Strings was a great success and over the past few years the Sonuscore team had lots of ideas about how to improve the concept. When Kontakt 6 opened up some new possibilities for complex features we knew the time was right to work with Native Instruments and take the sequel to the next level. Action Strings 2 is basically a complete reinvention of the original approach, with an innovative workflow and lots of exciting new features.You’ve learnt a lot in the last few years?Certainly. We’ve been honing some of these ideas with the scripting of our other instruments: Action Strikes, Emotive Strings, Mallet Flux and The Orchestra. In fact, The Orchestra was developed with a new type of engine that uses highly intelligent interlocking arpeggiators. All of this knowledge has been incorporated into Action Strings 2 in various ways. For example, the completely new Melody Creator where you can assign a precisely defined melody to a sequence of notes. So lots of improvements?There are so many advances over the first version that it’s difficult to know where to start. First and foremost, I’m totally blown away by how
Key features of the Action strings 2 that are enabled through these drivers include:
- Making ACTION STRINGS 2: How Sonuscore
- Action Strings 2 Manual - Native Instruments
- Playing Action Strings 2 - Native Instruments
- Action Strings 2 overview - Native Instruments
- Review: Action Strings 2 by Native Instruments
- Action Strings 2 v KONTAKT - AUDIOTOOLS
- Action Strings 2 Glitches and CPU spikesCommunity
Were popping up in more modern and electronic tracks. The sounds totally fit with modern beats. I can’t really say why, but it just rocks and is a lot of fun to use these string motifs in modern tracks.Users can also share phrases with one another. What was the thinking behind that?I honestly have no clue if that need exists, so it’s more of a fun offer to the community. We just thought the concept was pretty cool and we wanted to make it possible for people to share their musical ideas at the very least. I like the idea that there’s a thriving Action Strings community that can inspire one another.How have you found the reception to Action Strings 2?So far we’re really happy because the composing community (and also the reviewers) have really recognised the strengths of Action Strings 2. We’ve received such a lot of positive feedback so that makes the extreme amount of work behind the scenes totally worthwhile. At the end of the day, we’re just glad that people really seem to love it!Visit our online shop for more audio demos and all the details about the new ACTION STRINGS 2.
