Vienna Symphonic Library Big Bang Orchestra: Solaris is a virtual instrument with a library consisting of a Low Woodwinds ensemble and a High Woodwinds ensemble playing unison and octave notes with a wide variety of articulations at Synchron Stage Vienna. A perfect addition to the BBO: Orion Woodwind Sections and BBO: Neptune Tutti Woodwinds, it expands the series with ready-to-use phrases—from vivid shimmering arpeggios to suspenseful clusters—ideal for creating beautiful textures out of the box for film and game scoring, trailer music, and sound design.
The Low Woodwinds section consists of three contrabassoons, two bassoons, one contrabass clarinet, and two bass clarinets. Together, they perform the fundamental lows, with articulations such as short notes (both bold and agile), long notes, espressivo, short and long swells, sforzatos, sforzatissimos, and flutter tongues. All these playing techniques are available as notes playing in unison and octaves, as well as in clusters. A crossfade patch allows you to blend seamlessly from unison to clusters and back.
The High Woodwinds section consists of one piccolo, three flutes, two oboes, and four clarinets. Playing techniques include long notes in unison and octaves, and runs and arpeggios in a wide variety of scales and chords. Runs are available in major and minor keys, as well as in diatonic modes, and chromatic and whole tone scales. As a variant, the Perform Octave patch lets you play a starting note of any length and trigger the run as soon as you press the target note an octave above or below.
Arpeggios are performed in various chords, including major, minor, sevenths, diminished and augmented. Using the included Synchron Player's time stretching feature, you can have an entire woodwind section play rhythmically perfect arpeggios by just holding a single key.
All 18 musicians performed together and were recorded with an array of microphones including individual close mics for each instrument, mid mics, Decca tree (left-center-right), surround, and high surround outriggers. This gives you more control and more creative options when mixing your sound using the Synchron Player's internal mixer.
The software is compatible with Mac and Windows and operates in AU, VST, and AAX formats. Solaris integrates perfectly with every module in the BBO series.
- Sustains
- Octave runs, C to B major, plain and perform octave
- Octave runs, plain and perform octave, Ionian (major), Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian (minor), Locrian, chromatic, and whole tone
- Arpeggios up, down, and cross at 80/100/120 BPM, major, minor, dominant 7, major and minor 7, minor with major 7, diminished, and augmented
- All articulations regular and cluster
- Short notes, bold and agile
- Long notes, regular, espressivo, soft swell
- Dynamics, sforzato, sforzatissimo, short and long swell
- Flutter tonguing
- Main (Decca Tree stereo)
- Main (Decca Tree center)
- Main surround stereo
- High stereo
- High surround stereo
- Mid microphones
- Close microphones