VI03 Orchestral Strings I

The big Vienna Instruments DVD Collections are the most powerful sample-based orchestral virtual instruments ever created. The collections, organized in instrument-categories offer the most complete playing techniques and articulations of all instruments, enabling you to create sonic results of the highest caliber and utmost authenticity.

Violin ensemble (14 players)
Viola ensemble (10 players)

The largest ensemble recorded at the Silent Stage was the violin section. The 14 violinists are headed by Christian Eisenberger, who in his esteemed international concert work has collaborated with artists and conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Martha Argerich, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Herbert von Karajan, Gidon Kremer, Kent Nagano, Roger Norrington, Murray Perahia, Andras Schiff, Georg Solti, and many others. The ensemble of 10 violas is headed by Anett Homoki who is a member of the Vienna Chamber Philharmony as well as of the Volksoper Vienna.

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.

Many user requests for additional samples were also answered, for example, the short staccatos, the expressive Interval Legatos, espressivo con sordino, as well as extensions of the tonal ranges for sustains and staccatos.

ARTICULATIONS

Performances:

• Interval Performances: legato, portamento, staccato, tremolo
• Fast Interval Performances: legato, marcato, spiccato
• Repetition Performances: legato, portato, staccato, spiccato, harsh/td>
• Performance Trills
• Interval Performances muted (con sordino): normal, portamento
• Violins: Interval Performance Glissandos on the same string
• Repetition Performances: legato, bow vibrato, portato, staccato, spiccato, harsh, upbeats, pizzicato
• Repetition Performances muted: sustains, legato, portato, staccato
• Runs: legato, spiccato; major, minor, chromatic, whole tone

Single notes:

• Short notes: short staccato, staccato, short détaché, long détaché, 4 variations each
• Long notes: sustains with and without vibrato, espressivo, flautando
• Dynamics: various crescendos & diminuendos, with and without vibrato, fp, sfz, sffz, pfp
• Tremolos: sustains, crescendo & diminuendo
• Trills: half tone, whole tone, minor, major 3rd, accelerando
• Pizzicatos and Bartók pizzicatos (loose and tight)
• Col legno
• Artificial harmonics: staccato, sustains, repetitions
• Con sordino: staccato, détaché, sustained, crescendos & diminuendos, fortepiano, sforzato, tremolo, pizzicato, trills
• Artificial harmonics: staccato, sustains

- The Extended Library upgrade requires the registered Standard Library and offers more articulations and a significant enhanced sample content.

More infos

System Requirements

• Please notice: The "Extended Library Upgrade" requires the registered "Standard Library" (Virtual Instrument incl. Player) and offers more articulations and a significant enhanced sample content.
  "Standard Library" plus "Extended Library Upgrade" result in a "Full Version"
   

PC

• Intel/AMD with Windows XP/VISTA/7 32Bit and 64Bit versions (Core 2 Duo/i7/Xeon recommended)
   

Apple

• Intel Core 2 Duo/Xeon with Mac OS X 10.5.7 or higher. (Vienna Instruments 4 also works on PPC Macs, although it is not actively supported.)
   

for all

• 1 GB RAM (2 GB or more recommended)
• Fast separate hard drive with space according to your purchased libraries
• ViennaKey (Vienna Symphonic Library USB protection device or other Syncrosoft eLicenser)
• DVD drive for installation
• Vienna Ensemble host software or other VST (OS X, Windows XP/Vista), AU (OS X) or RTAS (OS X) compatible host - also works stand-alone
• Up-to-Date eLicense Control Center (the latest available version from www.elicenser.net is highly recommended)
• 88 key master keyboard (highly recommended) 

Product activation:
Vienna Instruments require the ViennaKey!
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