Lineage Strings
Experience a world-class collection of premium string recordings that responds to you – the composer. Create fluid lines and natural orchestrations thanks to intelligent musical features such as Adaptive Phrasing and The Arranger. All of this infused with the unmistakable ProjectSAM sound – warm, human, and distinctly European.
A gorgeous 35-player string ensemble, recorded in situ in the beautiful Broadcasting Music Center in Hilversum, The Netherlands.
Smart Lookahead is the foundation of our intelligent performance system. By analyzing your performance just before it sounds, our engine can respond musically instead of mechanically, delivering dramatically improved realism and unlocking powerful performance features. Fluid legato, natural runs, and organic phrasing – all unfolding seamlessly as you play. Thanks to Smart Lookahead.
For Pandora and Lineage Percussion, we developed Adaptive Sync. With Lineage Strings, we’re introducing Adaptive Phrasing, bringing the same time-saving concept to articulations. Adaptive Phrasing turns a single articulation into a flexible performance tool. By tracking your note lengths, speed, and repetition, it automatically selects the most appropriate articulation for each musical moment. The result is phrasing that follows your performance and keeps lines sounding musical and intentional – without constant articulation switching. Need full control? Simply hold a keyswitch to force any articulation at any time, like pizzicato.
The Lineage Strings Arranger automatically orchestrates your performance across Violin I, Violin II, Viola, Cello, and Bass, creating authentic string ensemble voicings with a single performance. You can fully customize how each section behaves – but what truly sets the Arranger apart is its intelligent automatic mode, configurable per instrument. Play a chord, and the engine distributes the notes naturally across the ensemble. If certain sections are locked to specific roles (e.g. the top note), the remaining instruments are automatically arranged around them, just like a real orchestrator would do. Beautifully balanced, realistic ensemble writing without manually splitting parts or juggling MIDI tracks.
Lineage Strings intelligently tracks voices, allowing multiple legato lines to flow at once. Allowing you to focus on the music.
Take direct control over the timing of the string section. Go for a focused, punchy sound or for a looser feel, preserving the natural bloom of the players.
Add subtle, musical motion to your performance by automatically shaping vibrato based on your dynamics and phrasing.
Lineage Strings offers dedicated down and up bow performances. These can alternate automatically, be set explicitly, or be overridden mid-phrase – enabling more natural phrasing.
Lineage Strings supports both NKS1 and NKS2 standards, offering direct access to all essential features and parameters through controllers like Komplete Kontrol.
Recorded in the renowned hall of the Symphobia sessions, Lineage Strings expands the ProjectSAM universe with depth and detail. Since pioneering ambient orchestral sampling in 2001, we’ve refined an approach to capturing instruments in their natural acoustic environment that has become a hallmark of our sound. The close mics offer clarity and punch, the stage mics warmth, and the ambient mics the expansive depth and realism only a great concert hall can provide. Blend them together, use them separately, or choose the premixed set for a ready-made balance.
Navigate instruments, browse presets and control parameters directly from your Native Instruments hardware of choice.
Intelligent, automatic articulation matching based on your phrasing and performance.
Effortlessly realistic, distinctly European