Projectsam Symphobia Review

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Project Sam Symphobia Symphonic Ensembles & Effects is everything you have been missing in your orchestral palette - immersive ensemble multi-samples attained by true ensemble recordings and intense cinematic effects, all available in a rich selection of combinations and articulations. With Symphobia, you have at your disposal an extremely inspiring orchestral tool for scoring film, games and television.

Project Sam Symphobia Symphonic Ensembles & Effects Key Features:
-Live recordings of orchestral full-ensemble multi-samples captured in a beautiful concert hall environment
-Vast library of orchestral clusters, rips and other instantly inspiring cinematic effects
-Covering strings, all-new brass, woodwinds and much more
-Lots of additional cinematic content including Dystopia II and ethnic flute phrases
-Two mic sets available: Concert Stage and Close mic
-Orchestral sections recorded as full-range ensembles, pre-seated on the stage
-Custom Kontakt scripting and interface offering repetition, simulated legato, octaver and more
-Approx. 18 GB library pool in 44.1 kHz 24-bit
-NI Kontakt Player 2 included
-Mapping/programming unlocked, audio/scripting locked
-As a bonus, also included is the Gran Cassa II: an orchestral bass drum previously only available to True Strike users.
Symphobia introduces a brand new concept and instrument group for ProjectSAM: a full-string ensemble recorded in a warm concert hall. An extensive Ensemble bank and unique Effects bank are available. The Ensemble bank includes numerous full-string articulations, including tremolo, staccato, pizzicato and con sordino. Other highlights in the collection feature beautiful chord performances, violin section-only articulations and low strings playing in octaves with the contrabasses playing one octave below the celli. The Effects bank includes a wide range of upward and downward glissandi, shrieky clusters, stabs and wild arco/pizzicato textures -- priceless material for film and TV composers, impossible to achieve using standard multi-samples.

Continuing SAM's orchestral brass tradition, the Brass Section in Symphobia offers an all-new full-brass ensemble in a number of articulations, including sustain, marcato, staccato and mutes. Also available are major & minor chord performances, different orchestrations of mixed brass instruments and, similar to the strings, low brass in octaves, with the tuba playing an octave below the trombones. All this is recorded live, without any post-production layering. The Effects range from several types of horrific clusters to note bendings, horn rips and wild repetitions. Some effects are performed by the entire brass ensemble, others by one section at a time.


One of Symphobia 's highlights are the articulations and effects performed by strings and brass together. Nothing beats the live, natural blending of sections in a real concert hall. Symphobia offers powerful sustains, staccatos and other articulations played by violins, violas, celli, contrabasses, horns, trumpets, trombones and tuba playing together, plus different orchestrated combinations of these instruments. Again, the low range has been sampled in octaves. Over 10 types of clusters are available, combining different playing techniques and dynamic arcs like arco, tremolo, flageolet for strings and open, muted and flatter-tongue for brass. Last but not least, the Effects bank houses the Glissandi Rips, played by the same powerful combination of sections.

In addition to the large symphonic sections, Symphobia also offers a solo string quintet, consisting of 2 violins, 1 viola, 1 cello and 1 contrabass. As with the other ensembles, the solo strings are spread out over one full keyboard. Articulations available: arco accented, arco espressivo, marcato, staccato and pizzicato.


Symphobia contains instruments that go beyond the traditional symphonic range. Over 120 beautifully performed ethnic flute phrases are included, covering duduk, shakuhachi and Native American flute. Some phrases are atonal or effect-like, others are performed in a specific key.

Project Sam Symphobia Symphonic Ensembles & Effects System Requirements:
-Requires 18 GB of free disk space for complete installation
-Windows
-XP or Windows Vista 32-bit on
-Pentium or Athlon XP 1.4 GHz,
-1 GB RAM
-Mac
-OS X 10.4 or later on G4
-1.4 GHz or Intel Core Duo 1.66 GHz,
-1 GB RAM