The Monumental Orchestra
The new fortissimo.
A huge orchestra, a choir, percussion, a grand piano, and a metal band with a single vision: Bold, loud, and breathtaking. Metropolis Ark 1 features the loudest imaginable dynamics, ranging from mf up to fff.
All instruments were recorded with first-call musicians at the Teldex Scoring Stage in Berlin. Metropolis Ark 1 offers everything you need to create powerful musical monuments of your own. Inspired by Fritz Lang’s awe-inspiring 1927 movie Metropolis, this is the revolution of epic in a single box.
A complete orchestra specifically designed to deliver truly epic and bombastic sound.
Highlights
18 sections/instruments
Extensive articulation sets
True legato
Specifically designed for epic music
Recorded at the Teldex Scoring Stage
DISTRICT I—Orchestra: Strings, Woodwinds, Brass
DISTRICT II—Choir: Men, Women
DISTRICT III—Epic Percussion
DISTRICT IV—Band: Electric Guitars, Electric Bass, Drumset
Specifically designed for epic music
The orchestra is specially configured to deliver maximum gravitas: Special sections such as 4 contra bassoons playing in unison, a bass trombone ensemble, a cimbasso ensemble or 12 basses + 6 celli playing together in octaves offer finely balanced low end.
Metropolis Ark 1 includes multiple french horn ensembles: A big 9-piece horn section for soaring horn melodies and a smaller 3-piece horn ensemble specifically designed to play chords.
Together with two guitars playing brutal, saturated power chords, and a massive sinister choir singing at the highest dynamics, this collection will give your compositions new depth and dynamic range.
And thanks to SINE, you can now choose to purchase single instruments instead of buying the whole collection.
A flexible working tool
Instead of pre-mixed sections, Metropolis Ark 1 offers pure and unprocessed instrument groups to give you all the flexibility to arrange your own orchestrations.
Extensive Articulation Sets additionally offer swells, crescendos, glissandos, 2 different lengths of marcato, shorts, etc. on more than 75 GB of compressed sample material.
Runs in SINE
Mic merging
Preserve your system resources: Fine-tune your mix using multiple mic positions, then merge into a single channel within the player.
Greater usability
SINE is designed to complement the compositional workflow. Create on the fly with auto keyswitch options, and easy remapping tools.
Download single instruments
Choose only the instruments and mic positions that you currently need—no need to download the entire collection at once.
Metropolis Ark
Metropolis Ark 1
The Monumental Orchestra
Teldex Scoring Stage, Berlin
SINE version
Works with Orchestral Tools’ SINE Player
Size
160 GB of samples (51 GB SINEarc compressed/ 75 GB NCW compressed)
24 bit / 48 KHz patches
SINE system requirements
Mac: macOS 10.13 or higher | Intel Core i5 or similar | Apple M1 chipset supported | At least 8 GB RAM (16 GB+ recommended)
Windows: Windows 10 | Intel Core i5 or similar | At least 8 GB RAM (16 GB+ recommended)
Formats supported: Standalone, VST, VST3, AU, AAX
Kontakt version
Works with the free Kontakt Player or Kontakt 5.8.1 full
Please note: Kontakt versions bought after May 13, 2020 can be upgraded to SINE for a support fee of 10% of the regular price