Available as an electronic download, Audio Modeling SWAM Violin V3 is a virtual instrument plug-in developed to deliver expressive and convincingly realistic virtual violin sounds for composers, producers, and performers in multiple genres. By using physical modeling technology instead of samples, it provides immense versatility while imposing a low load on your system resources.

SWAM Violin offers extensive real-time parameters such as bow pressure, bow position, harmonics, and dynamic transitions, which can be adjusted via external MIDI controllers or your DAW. It also features a built-in mixer with reverb and pan controls for enhancing the sound. SWAM Violin is compatible with macOS and Windows systems and supports AAX, Audio Units, VST, NKS, and VST3 plug-in formats. It also works as a standalone application. 

SWAM Violin and SWAM Viola    SWAM Cello and SWAM Double Bass    Realistic for Solo or Layered Parts    Low Load on System Resources    Extensive Real-Time Parameter Controls    AAX, Audio Units, VST, and VST3 Formats    macOS and Windows Compatible

The following features are new in Version 3:

• Standalone version, introduced VST3 plug-in format, and Native Instruments NKS compatibility
• Powerful MIDI Mapping feature that supports CC, Hi-Res CC, After-Touch NRPN, and remapping curves that allow more customization and sensitivity to any controller
• Realistic Legatos
• New Pizzicato Model
• General Sound improvement and behavior of bowed string
• Timbral Correction: You’ll be able to select up to two harmonics to adjust (for emphasis or reduction)
• Real-time bow Sensitivity Control (on Bowing mode), giving you the ability to transform the bow from a short bow with soft strokes to a full-length bow with strong strokes

SWAM Engine digitally handcrafted acoustic instruments are never a simple recording of notes via sample libraries, but rather a set of real virtual instruments based on their traditional counterparts. While a sample library repeats a prerecorded sound, SWAM instruments play for real.

Control the expression of your virtual acoustic instruments, break the limitations of traditional samplers, and benefit from the organic consistency resulting from the endless expressive parameters that are unique to every live performance.

SWAM Violin V3 is a realistic, real-time-controllable, and expressive virtual violin. SWAM technology guarantees the same natural reactions as real instruments, letting you compose orchestral pieces or concertos utilizing powerful instruments with natural, fluid expression.

SWAM Violin V3 is an instrument based on physical modeling, making it possible to control the main mechanical variables in real time. For example, the velocity can control the attack of the sound and the portamento time when playing legato. The modulation wheel can control the vibrato and any foot pedal can be assigned to the expression. There is indeed no limit to the number of possible combinations.

SWAM Technology overcomes the limitations that are typical of traditional samplers through a combination of innovative performance techniques and concepts of physical and behavioral modeling, with no samples required.

Choose SWAM Violin V3 for composing, producing, or performing any musical genre by layering it in sections with no artifacts and simply selecting different timbres for each instance.

Control the following parameters in real time via MIDI controllers or your DAW:

• Expression (dynamic)
• Note transitions (staccato/legato/portamento) with no key switches
• Bow pressure
• Bow position
• Play mode (bowed, pizzicato, or col legno)
• Mono vs double polyphony
• Vibrato depth
• Vibrato rate
• Tremolo on/off
• Tremolo speed
• Harmonics
• Portamento time
• Portamento split point (across strings)
• Attack speed
• Dynamic transitions
• Sordino on/off
• String preferred selection
• Alternate fingering
• Bow lift and bow start (up/down)
• Sustain
• Microtuning
• Main volume
• Pan pot
• Reverb mix

Tired of giga-sized libraries of prerecorded audio and the limitations of traditional samplers? SWAM Violin V3 is the solution. It was developed using Audio Modeling's proprietary SWAM-S engine, a powerful physical-modeling technology derived from the digital waveguides approach.

Real-time controllable via MIDI controllers, SWAM Violin V3 requires only the smallest footprint to create the perfect organic consistency resulting from the endless expressive parameters that are unique to every live performance.

Related Questions and Answers

Q: 1. Can you turn off the led mono light ? Or does it stay on as you turn the light on

A: There's a dedicated button for the led lights, so they can be turned off while the strobe is still functioning. But I don't understand what you mean by the light stays on. The LED lights are the actual lights, there are no other lights except the flash light which fires just like a normal flash does. Also the flash output has 2 intensities.Cheers!

Q: 2. Im looking for a very simple solution for a strobe in a photo booth. Has anyone used this inside a photo booth and if so haw did it perform?

A: I have and I don't like it, it just burned up today. Looking for something better. The alian bee is good but it gets to hot.

Q: 3. What are the specs on the flash tube? I need a replacement.

A: You will need to contact their service Dept and set up a repair as the tube is not field replaceable. It was pretty inexpensive to get fixed, around $20 if I recall.

Q: 4. Does this work with the Impact Umbrella Flash Kit? https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1262483-REG/impact_umbrella_flash_kit.html

A: You can use the stand and umbrella in that kit with the SF-ABRL160.

Q: 5. I am having trouble getting this Impact SF-ABRL-160 to flash with my Canon 4000D. I have the cable and the PC adapter on the hot shoe. I can't get the camera to recognize the external flash. What else do i need?

A: The camera should be set to manual exposure mode and the sync cord/adapter connection should be checked to make sure they are secure.

Q: 6. Does it work with alien bee b800?

A: Yes, it is designed for any edison based strobe, such as the b800.

Q: 7. Does anyone know what the Guide Number for this unit is? It is not listed in the specs on this page.

A: Guide numbers are measurements of light, measuring the intensity of light from a single flash falling on a subject, and is usually used for hot shoe strobes or flashes built into cameras. Watt-seconds is a measurement of energy, measuring the amount of energy stored and released by the strobe. There is no simple conversion from one source to the other, as the units are not measuring the same thing. Also, guide numbers measured from the same strobe can change, depending on the reflector used or the spread of light (which is why the same strobe with a guide number measurement at a wider focal length will be lower than the exact same strobes guide number measured at a longer telephoto focal length). Watt-second measurements (the amount of energy the strobes capacitors can hold) remain consistent, regardless of the reflector used on the strobe. All that being said, with the caveat that there is no real correlation between guide numbers and watt-seconds, a rough conversion would be a 160 watt studio strobe would roughly equal a guide number of 51 in meters and 167 in feet when using a reflector with a 35mm light spread.

Q: 8. Will this fit the Godox Gemini GS300II?

A: Yes, the Westcott Modeling Lamp for Strobelite - 150 Watt/120 Volts is compatible with the Godox Gemini GS300II 300Ws Monolight.

Q: 9. What do the I & II markers mean?

A: The 'I' marker refers to the light being set at full power while the 'II' marker refers to the light being set at half power.

Q: 10. Can this be used with a beauty dish? And if so, what would I need to put the dish on?

A: Unfortunately, this flash cannot accept a beauty dish.