The Crow Hill Company is proud to announce availability of TINA GUO-STORM CELLO — closely collaborating with virtuoso cellist, multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, composer, and entrepreneur Tina Guo, one of the most recorded solo cellists of all time in film, TV, and game soundtracks, who teamed up with multi-talented composer and producer Steve Mazarro to create her first sample instrument supervised entirely by herself according to the needs of ‘AAA-list’ composers with whom she has worked during the last decade, before turning to the music-making community tools-maker to help them storm over the finish line with what brings to the musical masses the seriously sought-after and undeniably unique sonic capabilities of her electric cello that has graced so many iconic scores in recent times — as of January 29…
As a GRAMMY and BRIT Female Artist of the Year nominee, Tina Guo herself hardly needs much more in the way of introduction. It would perhaps be remiss not to mention recent projects (both on and off the big screen) that include Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora (2023), Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 (2024), Dragon Age: The Veilguard (2024), Dune: Part One (2021), Dune: Part Two (2024), Gran Turismo (2023), and Top Gun: Maverick (2022) — not forgetting, of course, that she co-composed ‘Wonder Woman Main Theme’ with long-time friend and collaborator Hans Zimmer. Duly dedicating his life to creating music and soundscapes using synthesisers together with orchestral sounds, the so-called godfather of orchestral sampling has over 150 big screen credits to his notable name, including a sizeable slice of the biggest blockbusters witnessed worldwide, as well as associated sellout arena tours on the grandest of scales — with none other than Tina Guo joining him onstage.
TIME TO REWRITE THE CELLO PLAYBOOK is how The Crow Hill Company chooses to best support the TINA GUO-STORM CELLO sample instrument with well-chosen words that could conceivably change musical lives. By bringing Tina Guo’s approach to blockbuster recordings into anyone’s work with TINA GUO-STORM CELLO, the resultant meeting of minds collaboratively combines traditional electric cello multi-samples with articulations that will make users of the sample instrument in question feel like Tina Guo is interpreting their music live while they are composing. It is an electrifying cello library that offers an ability to produce and process the raw performances, switch on Tina Guo’s custom pedal board, and access a host of new sound-shaping functionality — dreamt up by the virtuoso cellist herself, co-producer Steve Mazarro, and the award-winning developers, producers, and composers at The Crow Hill Company’s Scottish sound HQ — housed in a new and unique working environment worthy of carrying the music-making community tools-maker’s mark of excellence and innovation in the process of doing so.
It is worth highlighting here some notable features found on TINA GUO-STORM CELLO’s gorgeous GUI (Graphical User Interface): FORM — blends the original ‘captured’ signal with a secondary layer of global processing of all sounds with six fixed ‘styles’ to choose from; SIGNAL — offers control over the blend between the DI (Direct Input) and an acoustically captured signal; SPACE — controls the mix of the virtual space (as selected and tweaked in the effects pane); TECHNIQUES — opens and closes the technique selection browser to access different styles of playing, from simple short and long articulations all the way to stylistic choices that are unique to Tina Guo; and TEXTURES — opens and closes the textures selection browser to access unique soundscapes and fragments of performances, with an additional nine layers of custom and controllable sound design created by Steve Mazarro.
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