The Metropolis Ark 1 GUI’s Performance View, showing the characteristic ‘very very loud’ dynamic marking.Ĭonsisting of 14 violins and 10 violas playing together, MA1’s ‘Finckenstein’ high strings are played in octaves with a unison option for their sustains, spiccatos and tremolos. Another articulation of note is the ascending glissandi patch, featuring some fantastic slow ascending atonal slides reminiscent of the noise of a jet plane take-off. held notes are automatically re-sounded when a superimposed note is released, making it easy to play realistic trills and grace notes. For more moderate musical use, the low strings perform dark, atmospheric sustains and excellent true legatos, which employ my preferred VSL-style monophonic legato mode, ie. Its layered ‘snap’ string pluck and woody bow hit creates an aural experience roughly equivalent to being beaten ‘round the head with a piece of stiff cardboard - but in a good way. I have a feeling Lemmy would have approved too.Īfter spending a few hours pounding out fearsome low end riffs with the low strings’ spiccatos, you can create more mayhem using their ‘Bartok pizzicato + Col legno’ patch. Featuring nine round robin alternations, these octave basses and cellos make an astounding, visceral fortissimo racket which one can imagine Zeus, Thor, Jupiter, Wen Zhong, Xolotl, Mulungu and all the rest of the world’s thunder gods lining up to applaud. If you ever felt your string arrangements were lacking a bit of oomph, here’s a ready-made solution: load MA1’s low string section’s ultra-short spiccato articulation, play some loud single bass notes and prepare to have your head blown off. I’m not easily impressed by orchestral samples (or manufacturers’ claims for them), but I have to say that these low strings are phenomenal.
As you’ll have guessed, this idiosyncratic line-up is designed to produce a massive bass sound, with cellos added an octave higher, for enhanced definition and bite rather than extra power. This is certainly unique - I don’t recall seeing that many double bassists gathered together anywhere outside of my local Job Centre. One such section is the so-called Wolfenstein low strings, consisting of 12 double basses seated in a circle with eight cellos positioned in front. In support of the ‘fundamentally huge’ sound the makers strive for, MA1’s orchestra features unusually large sections and line-ups which don’t follow classical tradition. Where Lang’s film was silent, this collection is anything but: it focuses on the upper end of the dynamic range, from mezzo-forte up to a “very, very loud” fortissimo. The library contains large orchestral strings, brass and woodwind sections, male and female choirs, percussion, grand piano, rock drum kit, overdriven electric guitar and a bass guitar, the latter being the only instrument recorded outside the Teldex facility. Like Orchestral Tools’ Berlin Woodwinds and Berlin Strings (reviewed in SOS March 2013 and August 2014 respectively), Metropolis Ark 1 (henceforth called MA1) was recorded from multiple mic positions in Berlin’s historic Teldex Scoring Stage, famed for its classical recordings. I think sonically it fits very well our imagination of how Lang’s Metropolis could sound, although it has nothing to do with its original soundtrack.” In a further combined tribute to the film’s Berlin origins and the library’s recording location, the makers named the sections after the street names around the studio.
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Why ‘Metropolis Ark’? “The ‘Ark’ part symbolizes a kind of vessel in which the spirit and atmosphere of the 1927 movie is preserved in a modern interpretation, in the form of a sample collection.
We had a vision of a monumentally big orchestra that is unique, bold but also highly versatile and flexible for arrangers.” We wanted to capture instrument ensembles which are simply monumental. In the early days Berlin had very big cinema production studios and this movie was one of their biggest, most expansive projects. Company founder and composer Hendrik Schwarzer explains: “Metropolis was the first full-length science fiction movie. Orchestral Tools go up to 11 with a large-scale symphonic library inspired by a sci-fi masterpiece.Ĭonceived as an homage to Fritz Lang’s revolutionary 1927 film, Orchestral Tools’ Metropolis Ark 1 sample library aims for size and massive power.
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