Screams like a guitar. Bows like a cello.
Rampage Electric Cello
Clean to distorted, captured at the source.
“Cannot recommend Auddict’s libraries highly enough.” — Stephen Barton, composer of Call of Duty 4, Titanfall & Titanfall 2
Clean to distorted, captured at the source.
Screams like a guitar. Bows like a cello.
Built for the point in a cue where the strings need to stop behaving like strings. Rampage is a solo electric cello for hybrid scoring, trailers and dark cinematic work — a full instrument, not a texture patch.
- 15 ARTICULATIONS
- 3 LEGATO MODES
- 7 LONG TYPES
- 5 SHORT TYPES
- DI, AMPED CLEAN AND AMPED DRIVEN HARD
- 7 ROUND ROBINS ON SHORTS
- AI-P PROCESSED THROUGHOUT
- LEGATO AID INCLUDED
Listen / Watch
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Tone comparison
Same phrase. Clean, then driven.
The first 25 seconds are Amped Clean. From 25 seconds the same line comes back Amped Driven Hard.
Amped Clean0:00–0:25Amped Driven Hard0:25–0:50
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Feature Deep Dive
What You Can Actually Write With It
The electric cello has spent two decades escaping the concert hall. Apocalyptica made it a metal rhythm section. Jo Quail builds looped, driven architecture from it. Tina Guo put it in front of trailers and game scores. The point holds across all of them: bowed, amplified low end sits in a mix like a guitar and phrases like a string player.
Rampage covers both jobs. Spiccato and col legno drive rhythm parts at tempos where an acoustic cello would smear. Spiccato 5ths give you power-chord weight straight off the keyboard. Then the longs take over — post-rock swells, doom-tempo drones, horror sustains, the last forty seconds of a trailer cue. Push the high register into the dirty channels and it stops reading as a cello altogether: closer to a lead guitar with a bow arm behind it.
Feature Deep Dive
Blendable, Adjustable Tones
Rampage gives you a choice of how hard the instrument is being pushed. There’s a DI so you can amp your own, an Amped Clean tone, and an Amped Driven Hard tone, and you blend them live on the mixer sliders. Dig in and it bites back. Add stereo width, crush, EQ and reverb from the panel, and a single held low C can travel from intimate to catastrophic without ever leaving the instrument.
Feature Deep Dive
Legato Aid
AI-P handles the samples before they reach you. Legato Aid handles what happens after. It works in real time, smoothing the connections between notes as you play them — catching the small gaps and slips the moment they land. Perform a line in messily on a keyboard, or hit play on MIDI you wrote in a hurry, and the phrase holds together instead of snagging. The practical result is less time nudging note ends around in the piano roll and sketches that already sound close to finished takes.
Performer
Caroline Mirkes
Rampage was performed by cellist Caroline Mirkes. Every note in the library — all fifteen articulations, across every tone channel — comes from her playing.
Story
The weight under the mix.
There’s a specific moment in a trailer cue where the acoustic section has done its job and something meaner has to emerge. A low line with weight and menace behind it.
Rampage covers that line — longs and shorts, ostinato-grade spiccato through to harmonics, with DI, Amped Clean and Amped Driven Hard on the mixer. Rampage sits alongside Wireburn Violin in the range: same three-tone mixer, an octave and a half lower. Together they cover a full amplified string section. Apart, each one does the job a single hired player would have done.
What's inside for $200
Core
- Solo electric cello, deeply sampled
- 15 articulations
- 3 mixable tone channels: DI, Amped Clean, Amped Driven Hard
- Mixer sliders for live tone blending
- Performed by Caroline Mirkes
- AI-P processing applied to every sample, every articulation, every round robin, every dynamic layer
Legato
- Legato Slurred Vibrato — 3 dynamic layers
- Legato Bowed Vibrato — 2 dynamic layers
- Legato No Vibrato — 2 dynamic layers
- Legato Aid real-time performance smoothing
Longs & Sustains
- Vibrato — 4 dynamic layers
- Bloomed Vibrato — 4 dynamic layers
- No Vibrato — 3 dynamic layers
- Wide Vibrato — 2 dynamic layers
- Sul Tasto — 2 dynamic layers
- Sul Ponticello — 2 dynamic layers
- Harmonics — 1 dynamic layer
Shorts
- Staccato — 7 round robins
- Spiccato — 7 round robins
- Spiccato 5ths — 7 round robins
- Pizzicato — 7 round robins
- Col Legno — 7 round robins
Onboard FX
- Stereo width
- Bit crush
- EQ
- Reverb
Format
- Kontakt instrument
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The line the acoustic section can’t play, sitting in your template from today.
- 15 articulations · 3 legato modes
- 7 long types · 5 short types
- DI, Amped Clean and Amped Driven Hard
- 7 round robins on shorts
- AI-P processed throughout · Legato Aid included
Technical specifications
Format & Compatibility
Kontakt instrument — requires Kontakt 5 Full Version and above.
Instrument
Solo Electric Cello, 15 articulations.
Legato
Slurred Vibrato (3 dyn), Bowed Vibrato (2 dyn), No Vibrato (2 dyn).
Longs
Vibrato (4 dyn), Bloomed Vibrato (4 dyn), No Vibrato (3 dyn), Wide Vibrato (2 dyn), Sul Tasto (2 dyn), Sul Ponticello (2 dyn), Harmonics (1 dyn).
Shorts
Staccato (7 RR), Spiccato (7 RR), Spiccato 5ths (7 RR), Pizzicato (7 RR), Col Legno (7 RR).
Tone Channels
3 mixable channels — DI (amp your own), Amped Clean, Amped Driven Hard. Blended via mixer sliders, not mic distances.
Onboard FX
Stereo width, crush, EQ, reverb.
Processing
AI-P applied pre-shipping to all samples — phase convergence on transitions, round robin timbre matching, dynamic layer distribution. Auddict internal testing puts resulting legato at roughly 2× the realism of conventional true-legato sampling.
Real-time
Legato Aid.
Performer
Caroline Mirkes.