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Steinberg Iconica Sections and Players Virtual Instrument Library

BH #ST91494 • MFR #91494
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Steinberg Iconica Sections and Players Virtual Instrument Library
Key Features
  • Orchestral Instrument Library
  • 145GB of Individual Sections and Players
  • Strings, Horns, Percussion, Harp & More
  • Several Mic Positions per Preset
Recorded in legendary Funkhause Berlin by Orchestral Tools, Steinberg Iconica Sections and Players is a virtual instrument plug-in that offers a comprehensive 145GB library of beautiful orchestral audio. Featuring a huge collection of individual sections, instruments, and articulations, Iconica Setions and Players brings exceptional orchestral expressivity to the desktops of modern composers.
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Steinberg Iconica Sections Overview

Recorded in legendary Funkhause Berlin by Orchestral Tools, Steinberg Iconica Sections and Players is a virtual instrument plug-in that offers a comprehensive 145GB library of beautiful orchestral audio. Featuring a huge collection of individual sections, instruments, and articulations, Iconica Setions and Players brings exceptional orchestral expressivity to the desktops of modern composers.

Each preset provides several mic positions to explore via the Mixer Page. You can adjust the tuning range to several different scales and can even shift temperament while playing a note. With the Cell Rack, you can experiment with different articulations and compose on the fly. Select your instruments for your custom ensemble, adjust polyphony, velocity, and more. With the innovative Note Expression and Expression Maps functions (VST3 only), you can create unique textures. Iconica Sections and Players is available in VST3, AU, and AAX formats and supports macOS and Windows computers.

Recorded in a Legendary Berlin Studio
Iconica is the only orchestral library recorded entirely at the legendary Funkhaus Berlin, renowned for its recordings of movie soundtracks, TV series, and major classical works. Produced in collaboration with specialist company Orchestral Tools, the samples were recorded by 76 musicians—including 50 players just for the strings—in Studio 2, a 1312 square-foot room with a 34.5' floor-to-ceiling height and a pleasing reverb time of around 1.5 seconds. Recorded over the course of a month, the acoustic separation of Funkhaus Berlin’s studios guarantees crystal-clear samples, which capture the sounds of the orchestra in perfect, intimate detail.
Created with Orchestral Tools
Iconica has been created in collaboration with leading orchestral samples company Orchestral Tools. Well respected for its high-end orchestral libraries, like the Berlin Series and Metropolis Ark, Orchestral Tools worked with Steinberg to record the samples in one of its longest ever sessions. Both companies are extremely proud of Iconica, which delivers a complete solution for orchestral productions and sound design.
Always in Tune with Your Inspiration
The Tuning Scale function allows you to tune Iconica Sections and Players to any of a number of different scales. The default setting is Equal Temperament, but this can be easily changed to a range of alternatives—even while playing a note—either for artistic reasons or to conform to a different tuning standard. For example, this could be when writing/accompanying period pieces.
Different Mic Positions for Each Instrument
All the instruments in Iconica Sections and Players were recorded with a range of different microphone positions. These are accessed via the Mixer Page, which also lets you assign an output to each position. You can also control its volume and load status (which provide different room perspectives). There are several different microphone positions for each instrument, ensuring all instruments enjoy perfectly nuanced sound at all times.
The Key to Creativity
Each cell in the Cell Rack is assigned to a keyswitch, which can be allocated to any note value by double clicking on the note name and entering a value, or clicking on the note name and dragging your mouse up/down. One cell can only be assigned to a single keyswitch, but one keyswitch can be assigned to multiple cells, allowing you to stack articulations.
Impressively Expressive
With many different articulations available for each section, the innovative Cell Rack holds up to 16 loaded articulations in an X/Y grid and offers several ways of moving between them. Showing at a glance both the currently active articulation and the selected articulation (which may not be active), it is a fast and intuitive way to experiment and compose impressive music on the fly.
Advanced Legato
Iconica Sections and Players features Steinberg's state-of-the-art Adaptive True Legato, which makes note progressions sound exceptionally realistic while being very intuitive. The behavior of the transition adapts automatically to the speed of input, the legato sounding shorter when the tempo is faster and longer when it is slower. This gives passages an incredibly natural sound and feel.

Steinberg Iconica Sections Specs

Delivery Format
Download
Sound Type
Orchestral
Library Size
145 GB

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