Studio Mallets

Enhance your compositions with VSL's Studio Mallets, featuring celesta, glockenspiel, xylophone, vibraphone, marimba, crotales, temple blocks, lithophone, and stir xylophones. With over 16,000 samples across 15 GB, each instrument delivers natural sound and dynamic range. Requires Vienna Synchron Player.

Special Price $62.00 Regular Price $89.00

Studio Mallets

Compared to the instruments of Synchron Mallets that were recorded on Vienna’s own scoring stage, the instruments of the Studio Collection were not only captured in a different acoustic environment, they’re also different makes of the same instruments with their own individual sound characteristics and were played by different musicians, therefore adding more flexibility and a greater variety to your percussion arsenal.

The entire sample database was optimized for the Vienna Synchron Player. The volume levels of all articulations have been meticulously overhauled, balancing the dynamic ranges of all instruments for the most natural performances.

Included instruments:

  • Celesta
  • Glockenspiel A
  • Glockenspiel B
  • Xylophone
  • Vibraphone
  • Marimba
  • Crotales
  • Temple blocks
  • Lithophone
  • 3 Stir xylophones
ARTICULATION GROUP ARTICULATIONS
Celesta

Single notes, regular and with soft attack
Staccato
Glissandos, diatonic and pentatonic, slow and fast, up and down
Loco and transposed mappings

Glockenspiel A

Metal, wood, and plastic beaters, big metal beater. 
Single notes, regular and with vibrato
Crescendo rolls (except wood)
Glissandos, diatonic and chromatic, octave, cross, and full range (except wood)
Loco and transposed mappings

Glockenspiel B

Metal, plastic, and wood beaters
Single notes 
Rolls
Metal beater: glissandos up and down, slow and fast; diatonic and chromatic, octave, cross, and full range
Loco and transposed mappings

Xylophone

Wood beater, hard, medium, soft plastic beaters, yarn beater
Single notes, regular and cluster
Static rolls, regular, chords, and cluster 
Dynamic rolls, 0.5/1/3 sec. (wood beater)
Octave glissandos slow, medium, fast, up and down, diatonic
Medium and fast full range glissandos, diatonic and chromatic
Yarn beater: single strokes and static rolls only

Vibraphone

Medium, soft, hard mallets, bow
Single strokes open without, with slow and fast vibrato, normal and short release
Single strokes secco
Rolls normal and chords
Dynamic rolls, 2/4 sec.
Glissandos slow and fast, diatonic and chromatic, up and down (medium mallets)
Hard mallets: open and secco only
Bow: long and short, motor off and fast

Marimba

Hard and soft mallets
Single strokes open, secco, handle
Rolls normal and chords
Dynamic rolls 1/2/4 sec.
Glissandos slow and fast, diatonic and pentatonic, up, down, cross

Bow
Single notes

Special beaters
Superball, rubber mallets, finger, fingernail
Single strokes

Additional mallets
Very hard, very soft, supersoft
Single strokes
Rolls
Supersoft: single strokes secco

Crotales

Metal mallet, triangle beater, bow
Single notes
Loco and transposed mappings

Temple blocks

Wood, yarn, soft yarn, rubber mallets
Single strokes
Rolls
Dynamic rolls, 1/2/4 sec., accelerando and ritardando
1–3 upbeats
Glissandos, slow and fast, up and down
Soft yarn, rubber: single strokes only

Lithophone

Single strokes
Rolls
Rubbed
1–4 upbeats

Stir xylopohone

Small, medium, large stir xylophone 
Single notes
Glissandos, up and down, various speeds

High mallets processed

Celesta, glockenspiel, xylophone
Single notes, dry and wet
Loco and transposed mappings

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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

  • 14.3 GB

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