Westwood Instruments has released the first entry in a new Trinity series of virtual instruments built around a specific recording brief: three string players performing together in octaves, in the same room, at the same time.
Trinity Strings sits between a soloist library and a full section, aiming for the weight of a section with the character of a single musician, capturing the real bleed between mics and the natural pitch drift that happens when musicians listen and react to each other.
Need width? Add more tracks. Need depth? Layer another patch. It works. But it never sounds like people playing together, because it isn’t. So we stopped layering and recorded the real thing. What we captured can’t be built in a DAW: the bleed between mics, and the tiny drift in pitch and timing that only happens when musicians listen and react to each other. Then we built an entire FX rack for it, so you can transform the sounds into something entirely yours.
Trinity Strings features
- 8 articulations: Movements, Performance, Improvisations (plus Vivid and Serene variants), Shorts, Scattered Shorts, and Swells.
- 3 full mixes (Modern, Studio, Vintage) plus 3 individual instrument spot mics, a Room stereo pair, and a high Gallery position.
- Movements, real recorded performances between root and fifth at 105bpm, loose enough to feel improvised, locked to the session’s key and tempo.
- Foundry, a built-in modular effects rack with 14 custom effects (delay, reverb, two compressors, saturation, multi-circuit distortion, EQ, stereo utility, pitch/formant shifter, tremolo, chorus, flanger, lo-fi, and dual filter), each with its own presets and reassignable MFX macro controls.
- 100+ factory presets, from natural recordings to sound-design textures.
Trinity Strings for Windows and macOS (VST/VST3, AU and AAX) is on sale at an introductory 40% discount, priced $59 USD / €53 EUR / £47 GBP until December 10th, 2026.
More information: Westwood Instruments
