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EnsembliaModern Chamber Orchestra

Ensemblia was built to easily create beautiful polyphonic chamber arrangements and textures while you are just playing chords or single notes.
Ensemblia can layer up to 7 instruments at the same time and gives you a quick access to a broad range of timbres and tone colors while playing.
A special voicing engine will split your notes and chords automatically into separate voices and lets you individually assign them to each particular instrument.




INSTRUMENTS LIST
Classical Instruments

• Violin
• Viola
• Double Bass
• Cello
• French Horn
• Baritone Trombone
• Tuba

Mallet Instruments

• Marimba (C2-C5)
• Alto Glockenspiel

Additionals

• Upright Piano
• Bowed Psaltery
• Bowed Guitars
• Magnus Organ
• Shruti Box
• EK 470mk II E-Piano
• Saw

LATEST VERSION
The new version 1.5. has been generally improved. It includes, among other topics, more instruments and presets than the previous version. Below you find a detailed list of changes.

Building Ensemblia we aimed to create a modern minimalistic ensemble sound inspired by composers such as Michael Nyman, Philip Glass or Steve Reich. Ensemblia is a really helpful and highly inspiring tool for composers.
LONGS AND SHORTS
Ensemblia comes in two separate patches: „"longs" and "shorts". The instruments can be spread over 7 slots - each of them provides separate mixing and editing options in order to compose the ensemble at your own requirements.
Both patches are delivered with different tabs: a master page where you can choose presets and set several global parameters and a mixer page where you can mix and edit all 7 instruments. Furthermore, the "shorts" patch is containing an additional arranger page that lets you define and built up polyphonic 16 step patterns.




THE VOICING
Both patches are equipped with a voicing engine that lets you easily spread certain voices to particular instruments. While playing notes or chords Ensemblia automatically analyzes your playing and splits all incoming notes into 5 voices which are low – midlow – mid – midhigh – high. You can separately assign these 5 voices to each instrument at your own requirements.




THE ARRANGER
Finally, we added the arranger.
It is a powerful 16 step ostinato engine that sets the velocity, the voicing and the octave for each step and instrument separately. The arranger plays the flexible pattern using only notes and chords that you are holding down.
As a result you get versatile and inspiring musical patterns and riffs playable in all ranges and speed variations.
There are no pre-recorded phrases! Optionally you can play in- or off-sync.
WHAT IS NEW IN VERSION 1.5?

• The Sound - It is overall brighter and more natural.
• 6 new Instruments - Ensemblia 1.5 has now 17 instruments: a new Double Bass, Bowed Guitars, a Tuba, a Bass Trombone, a Magnus Organ, a Sawtooth synth and a EK-470 mkII Electric Piano.
• 33 More Presets - Ensemblia 1.5 has now 83 presets.
• Improved Interface - The master section has now a freely adjustable humanize knob and a 3 band parametric master EQ. The presets are split into categories and are arranged much clearer.
• Free Assignable Slots - Ensemblia is now equipped with freely assignable slots. Simply select what you want to use from the new instrument view.
• Separate Outs - Just assign each instrument to a separate out and create your individual mix inside your DAW.
• Tempo - Ensemblia 1.5 now provides 2 new swing/ shuffle modes.
• Improved Engine - Generally improvement of the arranger script which allows you now to play the arranger more fluently in „synced“ mode.

FILM AND GAME COMPOSERS REVIEW
"I have to say that I love Ensemblia and I love Cinematique Instruments! Ensemblia is THE tool when it comes to intimate organic sounding cues. Ensemblia is not going to cover a whole orchestra – this is simply not the aim! It is inspirational, sounds totally organic, and I am in love with the GUI, the sound, and the idea. The manual is very well written, and the tutorial videos on Youtube help to understand how Ensemblia works within minutes. I personally feel that Cinematique Instruments have given us composers a great tool, and I am sure that I will have lots of fun with it in the future."

Ensemblia 1.5 Video Walkthrough

I watched a bunch of videos and listened to demos last night and, in the right circumstances, I think it can be useful. However, many of the preset patterns start to sound like an organ grinder, where the patterns begin to noticeably repeat. I decided to pass...
 
Regards,
Dan