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Over recent years, Sonokinetic has built an increasingly impressive reputation for its ever-growing library of sampled orchestral instruments. The range is vast, with directly playable orchestras, sections and individual instruments, alongside phrase-based collections that employ innovative keyboard triggering that allows you to adapt and modify the phrases in a very intuitive way.

All of Sonokinetic’s libraries are built on the Kontakt platform, so run within Kontakt or Kontakt Player, and one of the secrets to the company’s success has been the clever ways in which it has harnessed the full potential of the platform. Nowhere is this more apparent than with the aforementioned phrase-based collections in which it uses Kontakt’s scripting engine to create phrases on-the-fly based on keyboard note inputs. The results can be impressive, delivering convincing and playable orchestral phrases voiced as they

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