The Vienna Symphonic Orchestra Studio Orchestral Strings (Crossgrade from VI Orchestral Strings I Standard Library) features recordings of five string ensembles recorded in the controlled environment of the Vienna Symphonic Silent Stage. Each sampled ensemble can be placed within any acoustic space, allowing you to choose from the close-miked effect to adding the ambience of a reverberant hall. This library includes AU, VST, VST3, and AAX native plug-ins, running on Windows and macOS.
Articulations
Vibrato
- Basses: non vibrato / non-vibrato variants
Short notes
- Staccato short and long
- Spiccato performance
- Détaché short and long
Long notes
- Sustains with and without vibrato, regular and fast attack, normal and soft release
- Flautando with and without vibrato, regular and fast attack, normal and soft release
Legato
- Legato regular and fast, normal and soft release
- Slurred legato regular and fast, normal and soft release
- Portamento, normal and soft release
Dynamics
- Sforzato, sforzatissimo, with and without vibrato
- Fortepiano with and without vibrato
- Crescendo and diminuendo, medium and strong, with and without vibrato, 2–3 lengths
- Piano-forte-piano, medium, 3 lengths
Tremolo
- Sustained, normal and fast attack
- Legato (violins and violas)
- Crescendo and diminuendo
- Piano-forte-piano
- Measured, 150/160/170/180/190 BPM (except basses)
Trills
- Half and whole tone, regular, crescendo, diminuendo, pfp
- Half and whole tone, accelerando regular, crescendo, diminuendo (except basses)
- Minor and major third, regular (violins only)
Repetitions
- Static and dynamic repetitions
- Staccato
- Spiccato normal and harsh
- Portato fast and slow
- Legato fast and slow
- Bowed, fast and slow (violins and violas)
Pizzicato
- Pizzicato, tight and loose (cellos: with and without vibrato)
- Snap pizzicato
- Repetitions, slow and fast
- Col legno, tight and loose
Harmonics
- Staccato
- Sustained regular and with fast attack
- Repetitions
Upbeats and grace notes (except basses)
- 1/2 upbeats, slow and fast, regular, crescendo, diminuendo
- 1/2 grace notes, up and down
Runs
- Octave runs, up and down
- Legato major and minor, chromatic and whole tone
- Spiccato major (except basses)
Glissandos (violins only)
- Glissandos sul G/D/A/E
- Octave glissandos, up and down
Sul ponticello
- Staccato
- Sustained, normal and fast attack
- Sforzato
- Crescendo and diminuendo, 3 durations (basses: 4 sec)
- Tremolo, normal and fast attack
Con sordino (except basses)
- Staccato, détaché
- Sustains, regular and fast attack, normal and soft release
- Legato normal, slurred, portamento, normal and soft release
- Sforzato, fortepiano, crescendo and diminuendo 2/4 sec
- Tremolo, regular and fast attack
- Trills half and whole tone, regular, crescendo, diminuendo
- Static and dynamic repetitions, staccato, portato, legato
- Pizzicato