Orchestral Tools has announced the release of a collection of historic instrument ensembles created in collaboration with the Hans Zimmer-led composing collective.
Created in close collaboration with Bleeding Fingers Music composers Adam Lukas and Jacob Shea for an upcoming series, the Grimm collection is a medieval orchestra crafted for modern composers, filled with authentic sounds and timbres but designed specifically for contemporary melodic and textural expression.
The modern approach takes the collection well beyond the stylistic cliches of these instruments making it a compelling toolkit for modern drama and horror scoring as well as historical fiction and fantasy.
Venture into the sonic heart of a dark, foreboding forest with Grimm. With six ensembles performing textural, melodic, and aleatoric articulations as well as an array of processed pads and impacts, Grimm puts instruments and sounds from distant eras into a new context. It’s a set of cinematic scoring tools with historical associations but a contemporary edge.
Grimm was made together with Bleeding Fingers Music explicitly for screen scoring. Its foundation consists of six three-piece ensembles made from selected traditional European instruments: Tagelharpa, tagelharpa cello, lutes, sackbuts, hurdy-gurdy, baroque flutes, recorders, and strings. Building from these instruments’ characteristic sounds, the articulations and processed patches in Grimm instantly set scenes and manufacture moods.
Running in SINE for Windows and Mac (VST/VST3, AU, AAX and standalone), Grimm with Bleeding Fingers is available for an intro price of 179 EUR until May 22nd, 2024 (regular 249 EUR). Prices ex. VAT where applicable.
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