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Chamber
Strings
These intimate yet robust strings have helped set the Vienna
Symphonic Library far apart from other orchestral collections. Now as a Vienna Instrument,
the Chamber Strings are even more lively and expressive than ever, with astounding
real-time control you have to experience to believe. Expanding on the luscious Horizon
Series’ Chamber Strings Edition, this Vienna Instrument contains many new
articulations, such as “Zigane” portamentos, articulations with harsh attacks,
harmonics, marcato performances, new repetitions, and many others, altogether doubling the
sample count of the Horizon Series’ Chamber Strings.
Apple G4 800 MHz (G5
recommended) with Mac OS X 10.4 or higher
PC Intel/AMD 2 GHz (3++ GHz
recommended) with Windows XP |
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Brass 1
Apart from the existing articulations of the Pro Edition, this Vienna Instruments
Collection also provides fast Interval Performances in legato and marcato, Performance
Trills, arpeggios (major, minor, and diminished in legato and staccato) and mordents.
Trumpet and trombone now offer the complete playing techniques, muted not only as solo
instruments, but also in the ensembles. Among the specialties are the trumpet ensemble’s
“out of tune” sustains, as they happen now and then in real orchestral
situations. The three trumpet players don’t hit the note exactly at the beginning
– a beat frequency ensues which is corrected as the tone progresses, eventually
resulting in a clean homophony. Furthermore, the trumpets feature “rips & falls”.
And the trombone ensembles, too, offer a specialty; clusters of three notes with half tone
intervals are available in staccato (two variations), sustained, crescendo und diminuendo
(in two tone lengths), sforzato, and even as Repetition Performances.Apple G4
800 MHz (G5 recommended) with Mac OS X 10.4 or higher
PC Intel/AMD 2 GHz (3++ GHz recommended) with Windows XP |
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Brass 2
This Collection contains the instruments for large-scale orchestral arrangements, i.e.,
the “Wagner orchestral brass”. Oriented toward Wagner’s “Ring”,
there are the bass trumpet, the contrabass trombone, Wagner tuba and contrabass tuba, all
with the standard single note and Performance articulations like Interval Performances,
Repetitions, Performance Trills, etc. As an alternative to the Viennese horn, Brass II
also contains a new solo horn, the triple horn, Yamaha’s master instrument in
F/Bb/high F, recorded down to the lowest register (A1). Further, there are the piccolo
trumpet, the Pro Edition’s cimbasso, and of course the famous “Epic Horns”
from the Horizon Series, an impressive sounding body of eight double horns that not only
fulfills the sonic ideal of the theatrical late Romantic orchestra but also meets the
challenge of “larger than life” scores for modern cinema.Apple G4
800 MHz (G5 recommended) with Mac OS X 10.4 or higher
PC Intel/AMD 2 GHz (3++ GHz recommended) with Windows XP |
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Harps
This Collection owes its two instruments to the use of two harps in orchestral music of
the mid 19th century. Apart from single notes in various playing styles the first harp
offers an enormous wealth of glissandos, which now in Vienna Instruments are particularly
brilliant and easy to use. The controller structure allows for extremely flexible and
quick access – the user can switch between ranges, different tempos, up and down
movements, and different scales in real-time while playing. Now you can access all
Dimensions at the same time! The first harp’s spectrum is rounded out by a wide range
of arpeggios which were not available until now.Apple G4 800 MHz (G5
recommended) with Mac OS X 10.4 or higher
PC Intel/AMD 2 GHz (3++ GHz recommended) with Windows XP
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Orchestral
Strings 1
The string sections of the Vienna Instruments offer an extremely wide range of
articulations. The special qualities of these instruments are the result of a multitude of
Performances. With larger ensembles, the random effect of articulations like Performance
Trills or fast Legatos is especially pronounced, lending those Performance Patches
remarkable authenticity in conjunction with the new Performance algorithms in the Vienna
Instruments. The larger the ensemble, the more intense the random effect, that is, the
natural “inexactitude” among the musicians when changing from one tone to the
next. This effect gets extra attention with the “Repetition Performance Pizzicatos”
– an innovation only available with the large string ensembles and recorded in two
different tempos.Apple G4 800 MHz (G5 recommended) with Mac OS X 10.4 or higher
PC Intel/AMD 2 GHz (3++ GHz recommended) with Windows XP |
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Orchestral
Strings 2
The articulations of the cello and double bass ensembles naturally correspond to those of
the Vienna Instruments Orchestral Strings I. Here, too, new playing styles were added
which were not available in the Pro Edition, such as fast Interval Performances in legato,
marcato and spiccato styles, Performance Trills, Repetition Performances “harsh”,
spiccato, and pizzicato, plus artificial harmonics as well as various ponticello
articulations – tones played near the bridge. Both ensembles’ tonal ranges were
extended, the cellos’ staccatos and sustains now extending up to A5, and the double
basses up to G4. The leading voices of the two string sections are Argentinian Rubén
Dubrovsky, founder of the Vienna Bach Consort, and Martin Deuring, an internationally
active solo bassist and founding member of the chamber music ensemble “Ensemble Plus”.Apple G4
800 MHz (G5 recommended) with Mac OS X 10.4 or higher
PC Intel/AMD 2 GHz (3++ GHz recommended) with Windows XP |
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Percussion
Apart from the multitude of percussion instruments already contained in the Pro Edition
and Horizon Series Libraries, Vienna Instruments also offer new instruments, making this
Collection a truly magnificent profusion of percussion! Many instruments are now available
in a second version: Timpani 2 (with up to eight velocities), snare drum 2 (up to 12
velocities, with and without snare), bass drum 2, field drum 2, tambourine 2, triangle 2,
suspended cymbals 2, and a-due cymbals 2. Moreover, there are completely new instruments,
such as concert toms, roto toms and Taiko drums.Apple G4 800 MHz (G5
recommended) with Mac OS X 10.4 or higher
PC Intel/AMD 2 GHz (3++ GHz recommended) with Windows XP
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Solo
Strings
Apart from the entire sample treasury of the Horizon Series’ Solo Strings Edition,
this Vienna Instrument contains many new articulations; “Zigane”, the leisurely
“smeared” portamentos, are particularly impressive as Interval Performances with
the new audio engine’s algorithms. Another new articulation group is the fast
Interval Performances in legato, marcato, and spiccato. Additional “harsh”
articulations are played with an especially raw, almost brutal attack, and now are
available as superbly effective Interval and Repetition Performances. There are also
special Performance Trills, repetitions in spiccato and ricochet articulations, sustains
with fading vibrato, ponticello, sul tasto, and numerous natural and artificial harmonics.Apple G4
800 MHz (G5 recommended) with Mac OS X 10.4 or higher
PC Intel/AMD 2 GHz (3++ GHz recommended) with Windows XP
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Woodwinds 1
This Collection contains the four main wind instruments,
flute, oboe, clarinet, and bassoon, as well as their corresponding ensemble formations.
Since the beginning of the Vienna Symphonic Library, first-rate musicians have been
providing the sound and character of these wind instruments as soloists and ensemble
leaders. Gisela Mashayekhi-Beer was the solo flutist of the Zurich Opera orchestra and
taught at the Bruckner University Linz and at the Vienna Music University. Markus Deuter
was (and is) first oboist of numerous German orchestras; he came to Vienna especially for
the recordings of the French oboe. The clarinetist Daniel Hörth, in spite of his youth,
can look back at an international concert career with the Vienna Philharmonic, the Vienna
Symphonic Orchestra, and others, and Martin Machovits, among other assignments, is solo
bassoon player at the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra.Apple G4 800 MHz (G5
recommended) with Mac OS X 10.4 or higher
PC Intel/AMD 2 GHz (3++ GHz recommended) with Windows XP
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Woodwinds 2
This Collection contains all of the instruments necessary for the realization of large
orchestral instrumentations. Also, you will find two completely new instruments, a small
part of which were already added to the Horizon Series French Oboe: the English horn II
and the small clarinet in Eb.Apple G4 800 MHz (G5 recommended) with
Mac OS X 10.4 or higher
PC Intel/AMD 2 GHz (3++ GHz
recommended) with Windows XP |
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