Studio Piccolo Trumpet
With its brilliant, piercing timbre, the piccolo trumpet is celebrated for its clarity and dazzling range, effortlessly cutting through mixes and soaring above orchestral textures. Captured to perfection in the tight, controlled ambience of the Silent Stage, this instrument brings its unmistakable sparkle straight to your studio, ready to elevate your compositions with its unique, shimmering voice.
Studio Piccolo Trumpet
The High Voice of Brass
- Piccolo trumpet in Bb
- Short and long notes, legato, dynamics, trills, 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
Rich History
The piccolo trumpet’s celebratory and expressive sound exhibits all the typical characteristics of the trumpet, although it is brighter and clearer than the trumpet in C. Today, the piccolo trumpet is used for orchestral playing mainly when the trumpet part is permanently in a very high register, e.g., for the performance of baroque clarino parts in compositions by Bach and Handel.
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. 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 |
| Long notes |
Sustained without, with light, strong, and progressive vibrato |
| Performance Interval |
Legato with and without vibrato |
| Dynamics |
Sforzato, fortepiano |
| Fluttertongue, trills |
Flutter tonguing normal and crescendo |
| Performance repetitions |
Legato slow and fast |
| Fast repetitions |
Static, normal and cut release, 140–180/200 BPM |
| Upbeats, grace |
1–3 upbeats, 80–140/160/180/200 BPM |
| Scale runs |
Octave runs, major, C to B key, up/down |
| Mordents |
Mordents, legato |
Hard Drive Space Requirements
- GB (download size = installed size due to lossless data compression)