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"Disco" String sounds (ala BeeGees, Jamiroquai) NE3

Posted: 21 Sep 2011, 21:51
by BeBoP777
Hey everyone,
Just got the Electro 3 in February 2011. Loving it. I play in a wedding/dance band (we play dance hits from the last 40 decades). We're working a lot of new tunes, one of which is "Canned Heat" by Jamiroquai. In this song there are a lot of lazy string lines, and string "hits" in the chorus (I should say it's a string "fall", actually). Are there any good patches out there for this? I'd prefer a patch that could play the lazy string lines (it should seem to have a portamento-type effect when you play a melody) as well as a string fall when the key is hit at maximum velocity. If that's not possible (or if it doesn't yet exist), i just need the string fall sound.

Now that I think about it, it's basically a string version of a brass section patch on the yamaha m08 or motif (can't remember what it's called, but when you hit the key at maximum velocity, it's like a brass hit with a fall).

Thanks!


BTW,
this is the song on youtube for those that don't have it:

[youtube][/youtube]

Re: "Disco" String sounds (ala BeeGees, Jamiroquai) NE3

Posted: 22 Sep 2011, 09:22
by pp3f4577
Hi !

Could you post a mp3 of the sounds you want.
It will be easier to get closer to your need.

pp3f4577

Re: "Disco" String sounds (ala BeeGees, Jamiroquai) NE3

Posted: 23 Sep 2011, 04:19
by BeBoP777
Doh!
sorry, should've done that. thanks Hanon for editing my post. awesome job moderating, fellas.

Re: "Disco" String sounds (ala BeeGees, Jamiroquai) NE3

Posted: 20 Oct 2011, 14:13
by alexp
http://t.co/6pJMGtUE - courtesy of Pete Whitfield at realstrings (not copyright, he posted this link on Twitter)
I will turn them into a NS2 patch but if you don't want to wait for me to get round to that, here you go 8-)

Re: "Disco" String sounds (ala BeeGees, Jamiroquai) NE3

Posted: 10 May 2012, 11:24
by cookie
Any chance I could take an ear at your disco strings ?
Need to play some Jamiroquai songs 1st June, would be happy to see if your RealStrings could match !

Thanks,

Fred

Re: "Disco" String sounds (ala BeeGees, Jamiroquai) NE3

Posted: 02 Apr 2013, 01:47
by Mr_-G-
I see that this thread never saw any samples posted, so let me revive it.
Does anybody have a sample of the superb "disco strings fall" which feature in a quite a few Jamiroquai songs?
I think the sound increases in pitch a tiny bit while attacking and drops in pitch at a slower rate, but it seems quite tricky to do with that pitch stick thing.

Re: "Disco" String sounds (ala BeeGees, Jamiroquai) NE3

Posted: 03 Apr 2013, 22:11
by cookie
Looking for Strings like @03:32 from LittleNerdFS program ?


Free download from Federico Solazzo at :
http://www.federicosolazzo.com/downloads/

Hope that helps,

Fred, the French one

Re: "Disco" String sounds (ala BeeGees, Jamiroquai) NE3

Posted: 03 Apr 2013, 22:26
by Mr_-G-
Yup, that's nice! Thanks for the pointer!

Re: "Disco" String sounds (ala BeeGees, Jamiroquai) NE3

Posted: 08 May 2013, 18:21
by azwel
good stuff. only thing is that the string fall is weird to use as a patch of its own because i like switching back and forth between fall and arco etc. maybe a right hand fall and left hand normal strings would be useful

Re: "Disco" String sounds (ala BeeGees, Jamiroquai) NE3

Posted: 13 Jun 2014, 13:36
by stefpiano
There is "disco strings" with falls for motif and kontakt