Solo Strings

Apple G4 800 MHz (G5 recommended) with Mac OS X 10.4 or higher. RTAS, AU or VST host program.
PC Intel/AMD with Windows XP/Vista 32 and 64 bit versions (Core 2 Duo/Xeon recommended). VST host program.
Also available as stand-alone on Apple and PC.

Requires the ViennaKey.

Violin - Viola - Cello - Double bass

Christian Eisenberger, Katharina Traunfellner, Rubén Dubrovski, Martin Deuring. These four soloists have invested their life’s blood and hard-won experience (from many years of international concert work) into the Vienna Instruments. Sensitive and clear, exact and homogeneous, their performances are technically perfect and utterly convincing in their musicality. Not only are they in command of their instruments but, after several years of working for the Vienna Symphonic Library, they also know exactly what is required of them to create ideal samples. Their performances at the Silent Stage come alive again in this Vienna Instrument.

Apart from the entire sample treasury of the Horizon Series’ Solo Strings Edition, this Vienna Instrument contains many new articulations; “Zigane”, the leisurely “smeared” portamentos, are particularly impressive as Interval Performances with the new audio engine’s algorithms. Another new articulation group is the fast Interval Performances in legato, marcato, and spiccato. Additional “harsh” articulations are played with an especially raw, almost brutal attack, and now are available as superbly effective Interval and Repetition Performances. There are also special Performance Trills, repetitions in spiccato and ricochet articulations, sustains with fading vibrato, ponticello, sul tasto, and numerous natural and artificial harmonics.

Articulations - Full Library (Standard + Extended Libraries)

Performances:
• Interval Performances: legato, portamento, zigane (gipsy), détaché, marcato, spiccato
• Fast Interval Performances: legato, marcato, spiccato, harsh
• Performance Trills
• Interval Performance Glissandos on the same string, fast and medium speed, up and down
• Repetition Performances: legato, bow vibrato, portato (slow, medium, fast), staccato, spiccato, harsh
• Fast Repetitions and ricochet repetitions (accelerando, ritardando)
• Runs: legato, spiccato; major, minor, chromatic, whole tone
• Grace notes: normal, slow, zigane
• Glissandos: medium and fast octave glissandos on the same string

Single notes:
• Short notes: staccato, short détaché, long détaché, 4 variations each
• Long notes: sustains without, with medium, with progressive, with fading vibrato, espressivo; marcato
• Dynamics: various crescendos & diminuendos, with and without vibrato, fp, sfz, sffz, pfp
• Tremolos: sustains, crescendo & diminuendo
• Trills: half tone, whole tone, crescendo & diminuendo, constant speed and accelerando
• Pizzicatos: normal, secco, Bartók pizzicatos
• Col legno
• Sul ponticello: staccato, détaché, sustains, crescendos & diminuendos, sfz, sffz, tremolo, repetitions
• Sul tasto: staccato, détaché, sustains, sforzato, tremolo
• Natural harmonics: sustains, repetitions, glissandos
• Artificial harmonics: staccato, sustains, repetitions, glissandos

Zapateado (4.56 MB)
Demo by Pablo de Sarasate

Meditation (7.17 MB)
Demo by Jules Massenet

Violin-Concerto KV216 (2.4 MB)
Demo by W.A. Mozart

Violin-Concerto II (11.6 MB)
Demo by Sergej Prokofiev

Danza Danza (2.9 MB)
Demo by Franceso Durante

Nice Meeting (2.1 MB)
Demo by Beat kaufmann

VI Fast Performances (1.1 MB)
Demo by Christian Kardeis

VI Performance Trills (1.0 MB)
Demo by Christian Kardeis

VI Piano-portamento - zigane (683 KB)
Demo by Christian Kardeis

Heart's Ease - Viola+Piano (683 KB)
Demo by Frank Bridge

VA Fast Performances (633 KB)
Demo by Christian Kardeis

VA Performance Trills (633 KB)
Demo by Christian Kardeis

VA Piano-portamento - ziagane (1.2 MB)
Demo by Christian Kardeis

Prayer (5.4 MB)
Demo by Ernest Bloch

Prelude BWV 541 - 12 Cellos (4.5 MB)
Demo by J.S. Bach

VC Fast Performances (866 KB)
Demo by Christian Kardeis

VC Performance Trills (600 KB)
Demo by Christian Kardeis

VC Piano-portamento - zigane (978 KB)
Demo by Christian Kardeis

Reverie - Bass + Piano (5.1 MB)
Demo by Giovanni Bottesini

DB Performance Trills (1.2 MB)
Demo by Christian Kardeis

String-Trio universal (1.3 MB)
Demo by Christian Kardeis

String-Trio harsh (343 KB)
Demo by Christian Kardeis

String-Trio harmonics (777 KB)
Demo by Christian Kardeis

The Vienna Symphonic Library company was founded in Vienna by Herb Tucmandl, a visionary composer, musician, and filmmaker who helped redefine the modern sample library. By inventing new sampling techniques and tools, Tucmandl and his team have created what has become the most widely used orchestral sample library in the industry. Now, the innovation continues with the release of the mammoth Symphonic Cube, powered by Vienna Instruments. Featuring starkly simple yet flexible user interfaces, Vienna Instruments bring orchestral production to another level of realism and provide unprecedented creative freedom for the user.