IK Multimedia's Miroslav Philharmonik 2 virtual instrument delivers strings that soar, woodwinds that dance, brass that commands, and a full symphony orchestra of sounds at your fingertips -- all expertly performed with musical articulations for real music played by real musicians. From flowing legatos to animated pizzicatos, from aggressive spiccatos to elegant staccatos, from the most subtle pianissimo to the most triumphant fortissimo and more, Miroslav Philharmonik 2 is a sweeping vision from a master artist embodied in a virtual instrument that brings the orchestra to life.

It's not enough to just have good recordings of classical instruments. For a true symphonic experience, you need instruments performed by the absolute best musicians articulated in just the right way directed by a producer and conductor who knows the fine art of making living, breathing samples. Miroslav Vitous pioneered the concept of a complete symphonic sample library for real composers, and now he has taken it to the next level.

Miroslav Philharmonik 2 is feeling. And it's feeling that you can't get with other orchestral collections. Musicians familiar with Miroslav Vitous' groundbreaking original library know. But if you've never used Miroslav Philharmonik before, let's paint a picture in your mind of the particular kind of feeling that its instruments can conjure: It's the tension and mystery filling your love story set in the French Riviera with delicate tragedy. It's the punctuation and swelling… read more background of passion in your next tear-jerking R&B ballad. It's that added dash of symphonic brilliance that turns your goth-metal anthem into the kind of cathartic experience that tops charts.

Miroslav Philharmonik 2 is all of these things and more.

And it's only possible because of its truly unique sound set. Unlike other libraries, its samples and sounds don't just recreate dry instruments. Instead, Miroslav Philharmonik 2 turns you into a master conductor in control of a full symphony orchestra staffed by living, breathing human beings. So when you call on an instrument to play, you won't just hear a note -- you'll hear all the passion, pain, joy, suffering, and excitement of the musician playing that note. And you'll get it immediately (no processing required).

And that's why Miroslav Philharmonik 2 is such a revolutionary orchestral collection. It's a sweeping vision -- in the form of an elegant and easy-to-use software workstation -- from a master musician that gives you immediate access to a cathartic depth and fluidity of human musical expression that's never before been heard in a software sample collection.

Masterfully recorded by a Master

Made in collaboration with legendary jazz bassist and sampling visionary, Miroslav Vitous, Miroslav Philharmonik 2 gives you a over 58GB sound library with over 2,700instruments sampled in glorious high-definition audio. Every instrument fits -- they are made to play together and made to stand alone. There are delicate strings, colorful woodwinds and majestic brass as well as newly added concert grand piano, harpsichord, orchestral chimes, marimba, vibraphone and glockenspiel sounds plus enhanced versions of the instruments in the original library.

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