Percussion Upgrade to Full Library (formerly Extended Library), Vienna Symphonic Library

Requires the ViennaKey.

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.

As a novel feature, this Collection also contains production-ready instruments, processed with sought-after high-end studio equipment, put into the right perspective with multi-sampled convolution reverb from the Vienna Symphonic Library's MIR development. The basic percussion instruments (timpani, snare and bass drum, tambourine, suspended cymbals, a-due cymbals, glockenspiel, triangle, xylophone, tubular bells, tam-tam and concert toms) thus are not only available as samples with minimal reverb of the Silent Stage, but also with the reverb of the world-famous Wiener Konzerthaus in various stage positions. Naturally, these MIR impulses implemented in the samples just scratch the surface of the potential and flexibility of the future MIR engine; nevertheless, they offer a preview of its acoustic possibilities and allow the user to work quickly.

Instruments & Articulations

Timpani 1
Timpani 2

• Single hits (normal, secco, coperto), tremolos (normal, crescendo, diminuendo), tremolo glissandos, single hit glissandos, upbeats;
• Repetition Performances
• Various mallets

Drums

• Snare drum 1
• Snare drum 2
• Snare drum ensemble
• Piccolo drum
• Field drum 1
• Field drum 2
• Bass drum 1
• Bass drum 2
• Concert toms
• Roto toms
• Taiko drums
• Tambourine 1
• Tambourine 2

Cymbals & Gongs

• Piatti (a-due cymbals)
• Chinese cymbals
• Crash cymbal
• Ride cymbal
• Splash cymbal
• Suspended cymbals
• Finger cymbals
• Gongs
• China gongs
• Peking Opera gongs
• Tam-tam 1
• Tam-tam 2

Mallets & Blocks

• Celesta
• Glockenspiel
• Vibraphone
• Xylophone
• Marimba
• Wood blocks
• Temple blocks

Percussion

• Altar-boy bells
• Angklung
• Antique cymbals
• Anvil surrogate (rails)
• Bell tree
• Bells
• Boobams (boa bams)
• Brake disks & springs
• Bull roarer
• Burmese bells
• Car horns
• Castagnets
• Caxixi
• Chimes
• Church bells
• Claves
• Cow bells (cencerros)
• Crotales
• Cuíca
• Finger bells
• Flexatone
• Guiro
• Guns (shots)
• Hammer
• Japanese singing bowls
• Jingle ring
• Lion's roar
• Lithophone (small)
• Log drum
• Ocean drum
• Plate bells
• Rainmaker
• Ratchets
• Rock bells
• Shaker
• Ship's bell
• Siren
• Sleigh bells (jingle bells)
• Small bells
• Spring drum
• Thunder sheet
• Triangle 1
• Triangle 2
• Tubular bells
• Vibratone
• Waldteufel
• Waterphone
• Whip
• Wind machine

System Requirements

PC

• PC Intel/AMD 2 GHz (3++ GHz recommended) with Windows XP
• 1 GB RAM (2 GB recommended)
• VST (PC) or AU (Mac) compatible host (also works stand-alone)
• DVD drive for installation
• Fast separate harddrive
• 88 key master keyboard (highly recommended)
• ViennaKey ( Vienna Symphonic Library USB Protection Device)

Mac

• Apple G4 1 GHz (G5 recommended) with Mac OS X 10.4 or higher
• 1 GB RAM (2 GB recommended)
• VST (PC) or AU (Mac) compatible host (also works stand-alone)
• DVD drive for installation
• Fast separate harddrive
• 88 key master keyboard (highly recommended)
• ViennaKey ( Vienna Symphonic Library USB Protection Device)