Violin Experiments

A violin library, created for those who crave horror... Like myself.

ByMark (Nowa) Taylor

The story

So, sometime during spring after seeing Aleatory kick off… I was thinking about ways I could expand the musical world I built up with Aleatory and how I could make this next library bigger and albeit more improved.
That’s where Violin Experiments comes in. I asked my friend Arianna Cunningham (Aleatory violinist) if she would like to collaborate with me on creating this new library. She loved the idea.

Here’s the inspiration for each sound:
Slide Ups – basically a cut Aleatory preset.
Aggressive Bows – I have anxiety, and sometimes i have it bad, so the screechy nature of this is
actually an abstract way of communicating what that anxiety feels like.
Microtonal Bends -I just thought this would be fun
Shuddered pont. – We’ve all heard normale to sul pont before… BUT WHAT ABOUT
NORMALE TO SUL PONT TREMOLO??
Pizz. – Someone in the pianobook discord once asked if there as a library
on here that had normal pizzicato, so here you go random user…
it also has fun stuff when you dial the experimental knob for that one.
Jete – I thought it would be fun to include short jete attacks.
Chatter – Like Slide Ups, a cut Aleatory preset.
Trem.Glisses – So, this one is glisses that gliss up, but, rather than
the gliss being clusters, these are like a “Gliss Builder”,
left is fast glisses, right is slower.

Volume and Experimental are mapped to the appropriate MIDI controllers.
Volume (CC11) = Self explanatory
Experimental (CC1) = messes with the sound, no spoilers here ^^

You can check out the overview here:

Other than that, enjoy :p

Interface

Reviews

  • One of the best for experimental music

    As the name of the library is saying - experimental, at its best! Playing in a big improvising ensemble (instant composition) I am always looking for outstanding non-conformal sounds and for this this instrument is one of the best I ever found. If this is what you are looking for, check out also other instruments of this ’master of desaster‘

    Wolfram-Maria Schröckenfuchs on 17 August 2025
  • Absolutely fab

    Can’t believe this expansion pack is free!!! It is astoundingly awesome!!! Gives a sense of a beautifully organic violin that gives such dimension and realism along with other instruments… wishing the developer expand this line into a full strings, á la Henry Mancini, sound. Developer is on to creating one of the greatest expansion packs.

    MimzO on 18 August 2025
  • Just when I thought I didn't need another string library...

    Wow! This was a pleasant surprise in a haunted house kind of way... the sound quality is excellent and just when you thought the presets couldn't get any better the big experimental knob takes it up another notch or two. Also loved Mark's other experimental library "Fridgescapes"... the sounds came in handy in ways I never would have imagined. Looking forward to his future (hopeful) developments. Great work!

    stevioh on 18 August 2025
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