Vienna Symphonic Library

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Classical. Jazz. Rock.
Based on the VI Single Instruments Upright Bass, Concert Guitar and Overdrive, this library is customized and enhanced for the Synchron Player. Vienna's editors and engineers updated and re-edited all three instruments to improve ease-of-use and playability. They deliver authentic performances, especially for keyboardists. The team not only improved the sample database by optimizing all release sounds, but also revised and developed the Synchron Player's Velocity Crossfade feature to adapt it to the sonic behavior of plucked instruments.

Making use of the Synchron Player's straightforward preset and patch structure, the wide variety of articulations is clearly laid out and easily accessible, making the instruments and their sonic possibilities a breeze to navigate and play. Expertly crafted mixer presets with the customized impulse responses of Synchron Stage Vienna for solo and orchestral settings make placing these instruments on the scoring stage or in your mix fast and simple.

Upright Bass
Upright Bass features recordings of a plucked bass with a variety of jazz playing techniques, performed by Bernd Konzett, a jazz bassist from the Austrian state of Vorarlberg. The articulations are played pizzicato and include staccatos, potatoes and sustains with various vibrato strengths, legatos, slow and fast glissandos, repetitions, ghost notes as well as single, double and triple upbeats at various tempos. The Upright Bass sample set is completed with snaps, noises and various other effects.

Concert Guitar
The Vienna Concert Guitar is the only one of its kind. This handmade instrument, with its balanced, homogeneous sound, stands its ground as a solo instrument as well as in accompaniment, offering single notes and chords. The single notes include various short notes (including Bartok, étouffé and hammer-ons), long notes (including flautando, ponticello, Bartok, étouffé, natural and artificial harmonics), legatos, glissandos, repetitions, tremolos, trills, bends and effects such as harp, golpe, tambora, scratches and chord mutes. The broad range of chords in all keys and various playing positions are offered in the categories of regular, rasgueado, rasgueado rolls and arpeggios, in ringing, secco and stopped variants. All are easy to access and combine, using key switches to navigate the color-coded structure.

Overdrive - Distorted Electric Guitar
Overdrive features distorted tube sound recordings of a legendary Steve Vai signature seven-string guitar, played through a Brunetti XL II R-EVO amp head and a Marshall 1960TV 4x12" cabinet. Along with various short and sustained notes (with or without vibrato, or whammy bar), you get legatos, slides, hammer-ons, pull-offs, repetitions, tremolos, trills, grace notes, natural and artificial harmonics as well as various scale runs. A special treat are the various flavors of chords, especially the mighty power chords for those about to rock. What's more, you can make some noise with loads of effects such as feedbacks, scratches, and e-bowed notes. All notes start at B0 on the lower end, extending the range of a standard guitar down a 4th.
Vienna Symphonic Library SYNCHRON-ized Plucked Instruments (Crossgrade from VI Plucked Instruments Bundle Standard Library) (Download)
Vienna Symphonic Library SYNCHRON-ized Plucked Instruments (Crossgrade from VI Plucked Instruments Bundle Standard Library) (Download)
Vienna Symphonic Library SYNCHRON-ized Plucked Instruments (Crossgrade from VI Plucked Instruments Bundle Standard Library) (Download)

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