Studio Contrabass Tuba

The contrabass tuba delivers an incredibly deep and profoundly resonant tone that provides a rich bass foundation for any composition. Its heavy, majestic sound is earthy, dazzling in all registers with a unique timbre that is rounder and darker than that of the bass tuba, and less metallic than the bass or contrabass trombone. All these tonal qualities were meticulously captured at Vienna’s purpose-built Silent Stage, with its tight and controlled ambience, ensuring unparalleled clarity and authenticity.

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Studio Contrabass Tuba

The Brass Foundation

  • Contrabass tuba, regular and muted
  • Short and long notes, legato, dynamics, repetitions, flutter tongue
  • 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

Thunderous B(r)ass

Providing a resonance unmatched by other brass instruments, the contrabass tuba delivers the deepest and richest tones in this category – perfect for musical situations where you need massive brass parts to give the musical mood you want to create for your listeners the necessary foundation and weight.

Majestic Depth

With its massive range, the contrabass tuba is a cornerstone of orchestral music. It can provide rhythmic depth while also shining brilliantly in a solo context. Frequently used in film music, the contrabass tuba is beloved for its powerful low end, making it an indispensable part of your scoring arsenal.

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 half and whole tone trills. The basic playing techniques are also available as muted performances. 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 with normal, soft, and hard attack
Portato long, soft and hard attack

Long notes

Sustained

Performance legato

Legato
Legato fast and trills
Marcato

Dynamics

Sforzato, sforzatissimo, fortepiano
Medium dynamics, 6 durations
Strong dynamics, 3 durations

Fluttertongue, trills

Flutter tonguing
Trills, minor and major 2nd

Performance repetitions

Portato slow and fast
Staccato slow and fast

Upbeats, grace

1–3 upbeats, 80–150 BPM
Grace notes, minor and major 2nd, up/down

Mute Basic

Portato medium and long
Sustained
Dynamics, 3 and 4 sec.
Sforzato
Flutter tonguing, crescendo

Grace Notes

Grace notes
Minor and major 2nd
Up and down

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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

  • 1GB (download size = installed size due to lossless data compression)

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