Sine vibes
Orchestral Tools’ SINE player is a standalone or plugin ‘instrument’ although really a shell like Kontakt that allows you to manage your Orchestral Tools libraries.
Once you purchase a library you can browse all of the instruments within it in their various articulations and room mic positions. You can then choose to download individual parts of an instrument, or the whole thing, which is a neat way of avoiding downloading chunks of content you’ll never use.
Once downloaded, simply head to the Library tab and double click an instrument or articulation to play, which is then accessed via the Performance tab.
As you load in more articulations, they appear in the Articulation List to the right hand side of the UI (see above) which can then be edited according to note position, MIDI cc and so on.
One other neat feature is the Mixer tab which has all of the loaded articulations spread across a virtual mixer. In this way you can set up complete performances, using multiple Orchestra Tools titles all controlled and played within one environment, creating huge walls of sounds, or individual multi-parts all from one instance of SINE either on its own or within your DAW.
SINE focuses on practical rather than flash looks – a winner in our books.