Audio Imperia Dolce Review

Audio Imperia Dolce: What’s it?

If there may be one phrase which we’ve liberally implemented to Audio Imperia releases up to now, it’s ‘epic’. Recognized for its superbly-styled cinematic sounds, Audio Imperia has garnered a name for sophisticated orchestral and cinematic sounds, which gravitate to a big canvas. 

In a no much less welcome trade of path, Dolce is a library which has been collaboratively created between Audio Imperia, and Jasper Blunk from Efficiency Samples. Stacking as much as a sizeable 80GB of samples, Dolce endorses a smaller orchestral footprint, concentrating completely on strings. The sampling gathers 21 gamers, with the first Violins comprising seven gamers, down to 3 gamers in every of the cello and double bass sections. 

Audio Imperia Dolce: Efficiency and verdict

The emphasis inside Dolce is centred round expression; that is glaring via a delicate quantity of vibrato, which infiltrates a lot of the library’s sustained parts. That is extra obtrusive in positive puts than others, with the marcato or pizzicato patches displaying a non-existent vibrato quota. There’s a wholesome contingent of articulations across-the-board, encompassing sustained samples (in each open and con sordino iterations), spiccato and marcato, tremolo and trills. There’s on the other hand a loss of keyswitching choices, depending at the person to create more than one articulation circumstances inside Kontakt themselves.

Audio Imperia has at all times completed its utmost to make it simple to search out the orchestral sound that you just require, and that theory continues in Dolce. Switching from the Elementary tab, to Complex, you acquire get entry to to extra parameters. Dynamic timbral keep an eye on is supplied via the standard modulation wheel, whilst expression is to be had on the channel stage. There is not any talent to keep an eye on vibrato, however this by no means feels overbearing. Arguably, the depth of the vibrato will increase with the dynamic quantity, with no less than fuss. 

The opposite keep an eye on part, on the sonic stage, pertains to both a Vintage or a Trendy combine. Throughout the Elementary tab, a easy see-saw fader glides between shut and far away miking, whilst clicking the Complex tab releases get entry to to 4 mic faders, starting from with reference to ambient sign paths. The acoustic captured inside Dolce is fairly dry, in line with the most efficient cinematic studio traditions, however the on-board reverb engine will permit the sign to be sweetened additional via reverb if required. 

Except for the person software articulations, ensemble patching may be incorporated, which is at all times useful when sketching out preliminary concepts. Different Audio Imperia libraries make use of the Pattern Get started pot, which permits the person to dial again the volume of latency when enjoying. This may be provide right here, however most effective to be had on shorter articulations. As a outcome, there may be some latency in legato mode, but it surely’s now not overly vital. With out latency, the legato impact could be underwhelming, so it’s all about stability. 

In use, Dolce rewards around the board, with an intimacy within the sonic make up, which will ramp-up dynamically when required. The facility to modify between fashionable and vintage mixes has at all times been a boon, and that remains to be the case right here. This isn’t about one combine being awesome to the opposite, however firmly about placement inside an current monitor. The fashionable combine lends itself fantastically to business monitoring, whilst the vintage combine is solely that!  

Dolce’s inspiration is drawn from the Golden Age of Hollywood, however components corresponding to the volume of vibrato deployment, were tempered to stay the library usable in a modern surroundings. The samples themselves are excellent, with a number of spherical robins to be had at the shorter articulations the place you want them. It’s a perfect spouse to Audio Imperia’s different applications, broadening its attraction throughout all string sectors.

MusicRadar verdict: Dolce is the very best distinction to the bigger libraries recently to be had. Its purity and expression is exemplary, and extremely interesting for quite a lot of other manufacturing settings.

Audio Imperia Dolce: Fingers-on demos

Audio Imperia

The Sampleist

Christopher Siu

Audio Imperia Dolce: Specs

• Made for the unfastened Kontakt Participant, Model 6.7.1 or upper.
• CONTACT: Audio Imperia