VSL Solo Strings I

VSL Solo Strings I

The big Vienna Instruments Collections are the most powerful sample-based orchestral virtual instruments ever created. The collections, organized in the categories of Strings, Winds, Percussion & Keyboards, and Voices, offer the most complete playing techniques and articulations of all instruments, enabling you to create sonic results of the highest caliber and utmost authenticity. You can purchase them as VSL Instruments Bundles for a reduced bundle price.

Based on the Standard Libraries the FULL Libraries include additional instruments and articulations.

The most comprehensive solo string collection ever created

Christian Eisenberger, Katharina Traunfellner, Rubén Dubrovski, Martin Deuring. These four soloists have invested their lifes blood and hard-won experience (from many years of international concert work) into the Vienna Instruments. Sensitive and clear, exact and homogeneous, their performances are technically perfect and utterly convincing in their musicality. Not only are they in command of their instruments but, after several years of working for the Vienna Symphonic Library, they also know exactly what is required of them to create ideal samples. Their performances at the Silent Stage come alive again in this Vienna Instrument.

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 engines 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.

Instruments: Violin, Viola, Cello, Double bass

ARTICULATIONS

Performances:

• • Interval Performances: legato, portamento, zigane (gipsy), détaché, marcato, spiccato
• • Fast Interval Performances: legato, marcato, spiccato, harsh
• • Performance Trills
• • Interval Performance Glissandos on the same string, fast and medium speed, up and down
• • Repetition Performances: legato, bow vibrato, portato (slow, medium, fast), staccato, spiccato, harsh
• • Fast Repetitions and ricochet repetitions (accelerando, ritardando)
• • Runs: legato, spiccato; major, minor, chromatic, whole tone
• • Grace notes: normal, slow, zigane
• • Glissandos: medium and fast octave glissandos on the same string

Single notes:

• • Short notes: staccato, short détaché, long détaché, 4 variations each
• • Long notes: sustains without, with medium, with progressive, with fading vibrato, espressivo; marcato
• • Dynamics: various crescendos & diminuendos, with and without vibrato, fp, sfz, sffz, pfp
• • Tremolos: sustains, crescendo & diminuendo
• • Trills: half tone, whole tone, crescendo & diminuendo, constant speed and accelerando
• • Pizzicatos: normal, secco, Bartók pizzicatos
• • Col legno
• • Sul ponticello: staccato, détaché, sustains, crescendos & diminuendos, sfz, sffz, tremolo, repetitions
• • Sul tasto: staccato, détaché, sustains, sforzato, tremolo
• • Natural harmonics: sustains, repetitions, glissandos
• • Artificial harmonics: staccato, sustains, repetitions, glissandos

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

Requirements
Your purchase of any VSL library entitles you to download the free Vienna Instruments Player software that includes the Vienna Ensemble mixing host.

MINIMUM
• PC Windows 7 (latest Service Pack, 32/64-bit), Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD Athlon 64 X2
• Mac OS X 10.8 (latest update), Intel Core 2 Duo
• 2 GB RAM (4 GB recommended)
• ViennaKey (Vienna Symphonic Library USB protection device) or other USB eLicenser (e.g., from Steinberg or Arturia)
• eLicenser Control Center software (get the latest version from www.eLicenser.net)
• free hard drive space according to This Library Size Chart

Other configurations might work but are not actively supported.

RECOMMENDED
• PC Windows 7 (latest Service Pack, 64-bit), Intel i5/i7/Xeon
• Mac OS X 10.8 (latest update), i5/i7/Xeon
• Fast separate hard drive (7200 rpm or faster)
• AU/VST/AAX Native/RTAS compatible host (also works stand-alone)
• RTAS version requires Pro Tools 7.3 or higher
• 88 key master keyboard

•     Please notice: To use the "Extended Library" you need to have the corresponding "Standard Library" already registred in your account."Standard Library" plus "Extended Library" result in a "Full Version"

Product activation:
Vienna Instruments require the ViennaKey!
This USB protection device by eLicenser (by Steinberg, formerly Syncrosoft) is not included in the box of any collection, it is a separate item you have to get additionally. So you’ll have to order at least one ViennaKey with your first purchase. It will be put inside the shopping basket automatically but can be deleted if not required. Customers who order the complete SYMPHONIC CUBE will get one ViennaKey for free (not shown in the basket). If you already own another eLicenser USB protection device (e.g., from Steinberg or Arturia), you can use it for the VIENNA INSTRUMENTS, too. Each dongle can store up to 100 product licenses.
Additionally an internet connection on any computer is required to authorize a VSL product.

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