Angel Strings Vol.2: Flurries

TESTIMONIAL

Jacob Shea

"It really is a tremendous time to be a composer with libraries like Flurries. It was near impossible with conventional samples to create the frenetic texture a string section can achieve. You could spend an hour by randomizing the rate at which any section plays the first five notes of a scale with traditional long and short samples and the result would be underwhelming. This library gives the composer access to that once elusive texture and the ability to customize it to their pieces."

Jacob Shea, (Composer: Gears of War: Judgement, Planet Earth II, Through the Wormhole)

WRITING AND ARRANGING WITH FLURRIES

How Does it Work?

This instrument is organised into five main articulations, each one having an almost keyboard-wide palette of sounds to choose from. The five articulations are named:

- Ionian Flurries 3/5's - Aeolian Flurries 3/5's - Ionian Flurries + Bar - Aeolian Flurries + Bar - Fifths and Unis

The different articulation names refer simply to major and minor tonalities, as well as the notes used/techniques included. "Bar" stands for bariolage, which is a string technique where players quickly sweep the bow up and down the different strings to create quick arpeggios. Ionian can simply be thought of as "major" and Aeolian as "minor", so depending on whether your music/chord is major or minor, you'd know which articulations to use. Fifths and unis are just that, and can be used in any tonality!.

There is a lot to be explored in this library. Different articulations and flurries can even be used to add interesting harmonic content to your music, beyond the standard root-position chords, but we will leave this up to you; the composer!