All sounds are up at once

As soon as you launch 70 DVZ Strings, you’ll find all of the sounds are immediately available — preassigned to MIDI channels and playable. You can get to work right away; you’ll never again have to search through massive gigabytes of files to find the sounds you like.

Where were they recorded?

70 DVZ Strings was recorded at Lansdowne Studios, one of London’s premier recording studios. We specifically selected this recording environment for its neutral, open ambience that allowed the strings to breathe while avoiding the kind of “identifiable” acoustic signature often associated with sample libraries.

Which instruments were used?

70 DVZ Strings’ first violin is a Stradivarius. The second violin is a Guarnerius. One advantage of recording in London is the abundance of Stradivari and Guarneri instruments available. Instruments like this and of similar quality were used throughout.

You Get Precise Control

Open DVZ’s Tuning & Temperament preferences to see the fine details of microtonal tuning afforded by 70 DVZ Strings. There you have a choice of 16 tone (quarter tone tuning) or 32 tone (eighth tone tuning). In the Quarter/Eighth Tone Selection-Eastern Micro Tuning panel (or using a Keyswitch) you can check off any keys that you wish to be played flat on your MIDI keyboard. These settings are especially useful for Bollywood and Middle Eastern textures.

Eastern Micro Tuning can also be useful for providing a degree of random pitch variation when 70 DVZ Strings is played quickly. Live players often play out of tune notes when playing quickly and this is one of the advantages of 70 DVZ Strings as opposed to libraries with fixed, permanently tuned samples.