Vienna Symphonic Vienna SYNCHRON-ized Plucked Instruments is a virtual instrument with a library that accurately captures the sound and expressiveness of an upright bass, a concert guitar, and an electric guitar. The library is based on the VI Single Instruments Upright Bass, Concert Guitar and Overdrive, which was updated, reedited, and mapped to improve playability with the included Synchron Player and deliver authentic performances for film and game scoring, trailer music, or sound design.

The upright bass features recordings of a plucked bass with a variety of jazz playing techniques. The articulations are played pizzicato and include staccatos, portatos, 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 rounded off by snaps, noises, and various other effects.

The concert guitar is a unique, hand-made instrument with a balanced, homogeneous sound, ideal for both solo lines and chord accompaniment. The single notes include various short notes (Bartok, Étouffé, and hammer-ons), long notes (flautando, ponticello, Bartok, Étouffé, natural and artificial harmonics), legatos, glissandos, repetitions, tremolos, and trills. There are also bends and effects such as harp, golpe, tambora, scratches, as well as 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.

The overdrive electric guitar 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 a large variety of scale runs. There are also various flavors of chords, especially the mighty power chords for those about to rock. Effects include 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.

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 each of their deep sonic possibilities a breeze to navigate and play on the keyboard.