CHRIS STONE: We'll also make it -- will actually follow a particular key. So let's say I want to follow the key of D major and keys [CHRIS STONE DEMONSTRATES EXAMPLE]. Okay. There's other patterns, of course, and then you'll be able to put in your own patterns and manipulate those down the line. And you'll also have, in terms of going back to the sound, here's with the -- you get to have the mutes on your instruments wherever you want [CHRIS STONE DEMONSTRATES MUTES], and you can control how fat the mute is or [CHRIS STONE DEMONSTRATES EXAMPLE]. Ha ha, sorry. [CHRIS STONE DEMONSTRATES EXAMPLE AGAIN]. My mutes seem to be not quite as bright as that. I can [INDISCERNIBLE] [CHRIS STONE DEMONSTRATES BRIGHTER MUTES] or make it little duller [CHRIS STONE DEMONSTRATES DULLER MUTES]. You can also play sul tasto, which means playing up close to the fingerboard with -- on their own so I can say this is the effect of playing the bow quite high up on the fingerboard [CHRIS STONE DEMONSTRATES SUL TASTO]. And to play it down along the bridge, you're going to get this sound [CHRIS STONE DEMONSTRATES SUL PONTICELLO]. You know what, actually you can think of sul tasto as being like the neck pickup, and you can think of sul ponticello as being the bridge pickup, and you can think of normal as only your mid pickup. That's pretty -- basically it's the same technique on the violin, so it's being the equivalent of the bridge pickup, equivalent of a neck pickup. That's what they call a sul tasto [CHRIS STONE DEMONSTRATES SUL TASTO]. This is sul pont. [CHRIS STONE DEMONSTRATES SUL PONTICELLO].

It's really a cool effect commonly known as a tremolando sul pont. which is like the most common [INDISCERNIBLE] [CHRIS STONE DEMONSTRATES TREMOLANDO SUL PONTICELLO]. You hear that sound on "Lost" quite a bit, you know [CHRIS STONE DEMONSTRATES TREMOLANDO SUL PONTICELLO], or make it mellow [CHRIS STONE DEMONSTRATES MELLOWER TREMOLANDO SUL PONTICELLO], or go in between.

Also, you're able to force on here whether you want this to be on a fourth string, which means you can play high up. Think of it like on a guitar where you can play the same notes but higher up on the frets. That's basically what you're getting here by forcing these positions. So now, our string sound [CHRIS STONE DEMONSTRATES PLAYING HIGHER], that's playing higher up the frets because we recorded every sound on the strings all the way up and down. This is -- you're not hearing the same D over and over again. As you play high [CHRIS STONE PLAYS HIGH], it's actually playing the higher position; it's just like a guitar playing a higher up. It's the same principle; a string instrument is a string instrument.

AUDIENCE: What's the CPU requirements?

CHRIS STONE: The CPU requirements are we need a one Core 2 Duo for the technology, which is what I'm showing you; it's the DVZ RT plus space. It takes one computer to reliably do that. Then, half the strings on this one, half the strings on that one. You could theoretically play the strings and then load up the other half to play it on two, if you want to put together two, but it takes a bare minimum of two. I don't recommend doing that because it's a pain in the neck. I'd rather personally buy the third computer player, everything all at once, but hey.

AUDIENCE: Are we looking at only rack-mounted -- I mean what are we actually looking at?

CHRIS STONE: Right here, this is our turnkey system that we're offering. It's around $2,000 a computer, and they're Core 2 Duos right to our spec. That means all the correct hardware in there, and it already comes with all the third-party software, you know, it also comes with Kontakt 2 already installed. This is really the high-end system. It's designed for people who are really, really busy and don't have the time to go down to the different stores and buy components and stick it all together. Those people, which is what really this product is designed for, composers on the go, really have to make a living, have to make it fast, and have to make a lot of money. That's what this is for. You know, it's not for the hobbyist. So, we designed this turnkey system for their convenience. You don't make any money on these to be honest; it's really it's a PR thing; it's really to get that convenience so that we're really trying very hard to save the composer's time, which is money. Also, when you buy the product and you wanted to put together your own do-it-yourself system, you just want to go out and buy your own computers, which is fine, or you might have some computers lying around, as long as they're the Core 2 Duos to our spec that's published on our site, you can use those if you want. What you get in our box, which is very small, trying not to make you buy these air boxes with a whole bunch of DVDs in it and got this much stuff in there and there's got this big air box taking up space in your shelves, as if you didn't have enough of those, so we kept the box tiny and as small a footprint as we could. You open it up and there's one USB drive. It's self-powered, powers off your USB, plug it in and walk away, get something to eat while things are copying over to your hard drive, not a billion little DVDs for you to load in. It costs us money to do that, we don’t recoup it but hey, electronic saves you time; that's the purpose of this product. Overall, it's a timesaver. No loading or unloading of samples, no having to load or unload different effects or any other stuff. Of course, the other big time saver is that when you get the system, especially this one when it's already configured, you don't have to figure out what MIDI channel does this sound go into or, "Where does this thing go? Well, I got some pizz. Well, I got some room over here. Let me try that. Oops, too many sounds, that thing's gonna crash on me." That doesn’t happen with this system. I mean look, any computer could crash but you won't crash this system because you play too many notes; it's not possible. We got 70 strings, you play 70 strings, it doesn't matter how many notes you're playing. You got 70 strings just like a real orchestra. So, this system's balanced for that. So, if you just went like that, you're not going to crash it out because you all suddenly played too many notes. That can happen with the other instruments. And by the way, that's why people think, "Oh that these PCs are not.... You know they...." I've got so many people coming to me, "Oh, never buy a PC because those things crash all the time." Actually, no they don't. You just put too many instruments inside in one computer and expect it to play the earth and the moon. Well it's not going to happen like that. It's going to crash, okay? That's why we do it like this. It makes it reliable. You have a reliable system that you can count on day to day, that can play as many notes as you want and it's not going to crash on you because you overloaded the system. That's the purpose of this.