Vienna Symphonic Library Synchron Elite Strings Standard Library is a virtual instrument with a library that accurately captures the sound and expressiveness of multiple smaller-sized string ensembles with the signature ambience of the Synchron Stage A scoring stage. Expertly performed by Vienna's best string players using the finest instruments, the library offers a host of detailed articulations well suited for a myriad of genres and applications, from intimate to powerful expressive possibilities, from classical arrangements to film scores, and from small ensemble settings to the added depth, precision, and vitality of larger string ensembles.
Synchron Elite Strings offers sections of six first violins, five second violins, four violas, four cellos, and three double basses performing separately at their designated positions onstage. The ensembles were recorded with every nuanced detail using four phase-coherent microphone configurations to offer a range of room options.
The included Synchron Player offers production-ready mixer presets that provide a wide variety of tonal characteristics, from intimate to ambient, from lush to sparkling, from contemporary to the Golden Fifties' sound. You can mix your string sounds to create stereo mixes, each with different levels of ambience and stereo panorama.
- Library of smaller-sized string ensembles performed by elite string players and recorded with the signature ambience of the Synchron Stage Vienna scoring stage
- 22 instruments: 6 first violins, 5 second violins, 4 violas, 4 cellos, 3 basses
- 60.9GB library with more than 271,310 samples.
- Employs 4 phase-coherent microphone configurations
- Includes Synchron Player—runs in standalone mode or operates within VST, AU, AAX formats
- The main approach for Synchron Elite Strings was to let the 22 A-list musicians play cleverly devised scores (often for more than half an hour, to capture the musicality and mastery of real-life performances as a coherent source of sampled articulations. The captured variants of expression derived from these authentic performances enable you to seamlessly combine different playing techniques and nuances such as various note beginnings, arcs, and releases of notes, into one coherent piece of expressive music.
- Synchron Elite Strings offers regular and short staccatos as well as spiccatos (very short notes sounded by throwing the bow onto the strings) in both bold and agile variants—the latter being shorter and therefore perfect for quicker passages.
- The small string ensembles offer new variants of one-second détachés—soft attacks leading into expressive vibrato and normal attacks with a slight fade.
- The full potential of these détachés comes to fruition by combining both articulations according to the musical context. Other short playing techniques include pizzicato, snap pizzicato, and hitting the strings with the bow (col legno and battuto).
- All long notes, legatos, and portamentos offer three vibrato variants (regular, molto, sans), four different starts (soft, regular, fast, marcato/sfz), as well as regular and soft releases.
- With legatos and portamentos, the different note-start variants apply only to the first notes of the phrases, while the following notes feature a smooth legato or portamento connection.
- The Performance Détaché articulations: Intervals of up to an octave were recorded, but each target note was played with an extra bow stroke. These separate notes are still connected by the Synchron Player’s algorithms, for very realistic phrases that differ from passages performed with single note détachés. Tremolos, measured tremolos, and trills also offer legato variants for fluid note transitions.
- Due to the small number of players, agile variants of legatos and détachés are especially precise and versatile, while at the same time vibrant and authentic because they were all derived from long performances.
- Solo 1 mic, small condenser (mono)
- Mid mic—tube, front of ensemble (L/R)
- Main/room mic—Decca Tree stereo (L/R)
- Main/room mic—Decca Tree mono (center)
- Staccato regular and short
- Spiccato
- Détaché normal and soft
- Sustained notes without, with regular, and molto (except basses) vibrato, espressivo
- Normal and soft release
- Soft, normal, fast, and marcato/sfz attack
- Legato regular and agile
- Without, with regular, and molto (except basses) vibrato, espressivo
- Normal and soft release
- Soft, normal, fast, and marcato/sfz attack
- Portamento performances without, with regular, and molto (except basses) vibrato, espressivo
- Normal and soft release
- Soft, normal, fast, and marcato/sfz attack
- Sforzato
- Soft swell
- Crescendo short and long (2/4 sec)
- Diminuendo short and long (2/4 sec)
- Tremolo regular and marcato
- Measured tremolo, 120/130/140/160 BPM
- Trills half tone and whole tone
- Trills minor and major third (except basses)
- Pizzicato regular (basses: tight and loose)
- Snap or Bartók pizzicato
- Col legno
- Violins and violas: battuto
- Short notes
- Long notes
- Tremolo
- Détaché performances regular and agile
- Without, with regular, and molto (except basses) vibrato
- Normal and fast attack