Noir Tutorial - Overview

Sound of Shadows We’ve always loved the sound of jazz-influenced film scores. The orchestral approach to jazz harmony has a romantic flair that is irresistible and has easily stood the test of time. We just can’t get enough of sweeping string passages, the sound of a trumpet’s harmon mute, a big band sax section, flugelhorn and trombones with french horns. For many years we’ve felt the urge to create a product encompassing this style of music and now we have: Noir is our first foray into what hopefully will turn out to be a new line in the Sonokinetic range. As always we have added some twists to our existing engine, but in this case it was more of a rewrite. For those familiar with our other orchestral libraries, Noir is different! Because of the nature of the musical content we decided to deviate from our usual four high-mid-low presets and go more in the vein of the atonal Espressivo, with 12 preset keys that each hold a single performance. This makes