It's rare for an artist to return for a second Tiny Desk Concert at NPR's office, but Alt-J made sure the follow-up to their 2012 performance was special: They brought along a string section. ...

Monteverdi’s opera L'Orfeo, which premiered in 1607, is one of the earliest examples of a composer specifying the desired instrumentation. ... who would be drowned out by a full string section.

The interface on this software port mirrors the hardware’s pretty closely. Designed to emulate the classic string machines of the ‘70s and ‘80s, Streichfett offers a dual sound engine comprising a ...