Name: Steinberg Iconica Opus Virtual Instrument Library
Brand: Steinberg
SKU: ST91495
Price: 999.99 USD

Recorded in legendary Funkhause Berlin by Orchestral Tools, Steinberg Iconica Opus is a virtual instrument plug-in that offers a comprehensive 190GB library of beautiful orchestral audio. Featuring a huge collection of individual sections, players, ensembles, and articulations, Iconica Opus 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 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 Opus 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.

Always in Tune with Your Inspiration

The Tuning Scale function allows you to tune Iconica Opus to a number of different scales. The default setting is Equal Temperament, but this can be easily set to a range of alternatives—even to change 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 Opus 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 provides different room perspectives). There are several different microphone positions for each instrument, ensuring all instruments enjoy perfectly nuanced sound at all times.

Just Like a Real Orchestra

A key to great orchestral music is getting the positional balance between each section of instruments just right. With correct orchestral layout settings included in every preset, Iconica Opus makes getting this balance correct fast and easy.

All Iconica Ensembles presets were recorded with each section of the orchestra in its correct place. This means that, when you are playing or mixing a piece, it sounds exactly like a real orchestra sitting in front of you.

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. Only one cell can 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. You can view both the currently active articulation and the selected articulation (whether it is active or not), providing a fast and intuitive way to experiment and compose impressive music on the fly.

Note Expression and Expression Maps

The unique Note Expression and Expression Maps allow you to create unique textures and aleatoric effects. Further individuality is possible thanks to the different articulations, which are available via the innovative Cell Rack, a fast and intuitive way to experiment and compose impressive music on the fly.

Advanced Legato

Iconica Opus features Steinberg's state-of-the-art Adaptive True Legato, which makes note progressions sound exceptionally realistic while remaining intuitive to perform. 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.

Delivery Format	Download
Sound Type	Orchestral
Library Size	190 GB

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