- Ik multimedia miroslav philharmonik 2 review for mac#
- Ik multimedia miroslav philharmonik 2 review plus#
The spiccato cellos sound exactly like I’d expect spiccato cellos to sound, the solo flute sounds like a good flute player playing a typical part etc. In general, the instruments sound very archetypal and many of them have quite a lot of expression “baked into” every note. There are also two more harpsichords – Miroslav Vitous seems to really like the harpsichord! Sound Also included are choirs, less common instruments such as flugelhorn and alto flute, classical guitars. This covers some percussion instruments, including not only tympani and orchestral drums, but also numerous varieties of bells and some non-orchestral percussion such as bongos. There are also quite a few instruments which are only present in old versions. Some are different enough from the new instruments that they can be significantly better in some situations – for example, the solo English horn has more vibrato and a more natural sounding feel to it. They are generally simpler, smaller, less realistic and a little less bright. The original Miroslav sounds are included here. Miroslav Philharmonik was originally a soundset for Akai samplers, later also made available for other samplers and workstations, as well as a plugin for digital audio workstations. The chromatic percussion contains a few surprises such as a concert marimba, which is an occasional modern addition to the orchestra, and a harpsichord which even includes a variation layered with synth pads. 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.
Ik multimedia miroslav philharmonik 2 review plus#
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.
Ik multimedia miroslav philharmonik 2 review for mac#
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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