Studio Contrabass Trombone

The contrabass trombone offers the lowest range within the trombone family, delivering a powerful and resonant sound. With its dark, metallic timbre, it can transition seamlessly from a subdued, melodic piano to massive, thunderous explosions. Recorded dry in its purest form at Vienna’s purpose-built Silent Stage with its tight, controlled ambience, this instrument brings all the brassy depth you could ever need to productions across genres.

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Studio Contrabass Trombone

The Depth of Brass

  • Contrabass trombone with full set of articulations
  • Short and long notes, legato, dynamics, repetitions, flutter tongue, FX
  • Recorded at the Silent Stage
  • Mixer presets for authentic placement at Vienna Synchron Stage 
  • Optional Vienna MIR Pro 3D-derived convolution reverb 
  • Switch off internal reverb for placement in any virtual acoustic environment

Weighty Addition and Flexible Depth

The contrabass trombone’s deep, resonant tones are ideal for adding weight to brass sections or evoking an ominous atmosphere in cinematic scores. While capable of delivering intensity across its entire range, it truly shines in the lower register, often anchoring the four-part trombone group as the 4th trombone. Playing these deepest parts, the instrument produces uniquely rich and profoundly resonant low tones, creating a powerful bass foundation that enhances any brass section.

Versatile and Expressive

The library features a full set of expressive and dynamic articulations, offering various short and long notes, legatos (including fast legatos), crescendos and diminuendos, sfz, sffz, pfp, flutter tongue, and even duophonics. Recording the samples relatively dry at the Silent Stage makes it possible to place them on your virtual stage and in the stereo field wherever you like, but also enables you to integrate the instrument with the Synchron Series by using the internal convolution reverb recreating Vienna’s own scoring stage, Vienna Synchron Stage.

ARTICULATION GROUP ARTICULATIONS
Short notes

Staccato
Portato medium, normal and marcato attack
Portato long

Long notes

Sustained

Performance legato

Legato
Marcato

Dynamics

Sforzato, sforzatissimo, fortepiano
Light dynamics, 3 durations
Medium dynamics, 3 durations
Strong dynamics, 2 durations

Fluttertongue

Flutter tonguing normal and crescendo

Performance repetitions

Portato slow and fast
Staccato
Portato dynamics, 5 repetitions

Upbeats

1–3 upbeats, 80–150 BPM

Glissandos

Performance glissandos, minor 2nd to major 3rd
Pure glissandos, minor 2nd to 4th, up/down
Octave glissandos, down-up, up-down

Duophonics

Duophonic playing, type A and B

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Minimum System Requirements

  • Windows 10 (latest update, 64-bit), Intel Core i5 or AMD Athlon 64 X2
  • macOS 11 Big Sur (latest update), Intel Core i5.
  • SSD (M2, SATA 6 or USB3/3.1, UASP Support - HFS+, APFS or NTFS formatted) for the sample content
  • 16 GB RAM
  • iLok Account and iLok License Manager for license activation on a physical iLok 2/iLok 3 key or in an iLok Cloud Session (the iLok Cloud requires a constant internet connection!)

Recommended

  • Windows 11 (latest update), Intel Core i7/i9/Xeon
  • macOS 13 Ventura (or higher), Intel Core i7/i9/Xeon/M1/M2
  • 32 GB RAM
  • AU/VST/VST3/AAX Native compatible host
  • 88 key master keyboard

Hard Drive Space Requirements

  • GB (download size = installed size due to lossless data compression)

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