SYNCHRON-ized Orchestral Percussion

This Percussion Pack is mostly based on the VI Series library Exotic Percussion and includes the updated sample database of instruments that were recorded in the tight and controlled ambience of Vienna’s second studio, the Silent Stage. They can therefore be placed in any acoustic environment and anywhere in a room. Each instrument comes with customized impulse responses that make placing them in their perfect sounding spot on the virtual Synchron Stage Vienna a breeze.

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SYNCHRON-ized Orchestral Percussion

Compared to the instruments of Synchron Orchestral Percussion that were recorded on Vienna’s own scoring stage, the instruments of the SYNCHRON-ized 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:

  • Triangles
  • Woodblocks
  • Castanets
  • Log drum
  • Railway rails
  • Brake disks
  • Springs
  • Slap sticks
  • Hammer
  • Bongos
  • Cowbells
  • Guiros
  • Claves
  • Chimes
  • Shakers
  • Caxixis
  • Rainmakers
  • Cuícas
  • Wind machine
  • Thundersheets
  • Ocean drums
  • Gun shots
  • Waterphone
  • Jingle rings
  • Ratchets
  • Sirens
  • Bull roarer
  • Spring drum
  • Vibratones
  • Flexatones
  • Angklung
  • Waldteufel
  • Lion’s roar
  • Car horn
  • Bicycle horn

06a Orchestral Percussion

ARTICULATION GROUP ARTICULATIONS
Triangles

Triangles
Triangle A, B
Single strokes
Static rolls
Dynamic rolls
1–3 upbeats

Triangle C, D
Thick and thin metal, plastic, wood beaters
Single strokes
Thick metal only:
Static rolls
Dynamic rolls
1–4 upbeats

Woodblocks

Woodblock 1–5
Yarn, wood, rubber, soft yarn mallets
Single strokes
Rolls normal and dynamics
1–4 upbeats

Castanets

Single hits 
Rolls short and long
Repetitions right/left, regular and with accent
1–4 upbeats

Log drum

Soft, medium, hard, wood beaters
Single strokes
Rolls

Steel

Rails 1–6, brakes 1–8, springs 1–2
Rails: single strokes, rolls normal and crescendo, 1–3 upbeats
Brake disks: single hits
Spring: single hits, glissandos slow and fast

Slapsticks (Whips)

2 slapsticks
2 variants

Hammer

Wood blocks, boards, crates
Single strokes

Percussion processed

Triangle, rails 1–4, slapsticks, hammer
Single strokes, dry and wet 
Rolls, dry and wet

06b Latin Percussion

ARTICULATION GROUP ARTICULATIONS
Bongos

Low and high bongos
Single strokes, open and muffled
Static rolls, loose and tight
Dynamic rolls, loose and tight

Cowbells

Cowbell sets 1 and 2 (5 each)
Wool, triangle, wood beaters, rasping stick, bow (set 1 only) 
Single notes, top and edge
Rasping stick: slow and fast
Bow: normal and overtones

Guiros

Wood and gourd guiros
Single strokes, slow and fast, short and long 
Hits + crescendo
Repetitions slow and fast, var. 1–4

Claves

Fiber and wood claves, low and high
Single hits
1–3 upbeats

Wind chimes

Glass, metal, bamboo chimes
Single strokes, slow and fast
Double strokes
Tinkling
Damped strokes

Shaker

Bamboo, chrome, and kiwi-shaped shakers
Single shake
Upbeats shakes, slow and fast
Static roll
Dynamic rolls, regular, accelerando and ritardando
Repetitions, slow and fast

Caxixis

Low, high, double caxixi
Single shakes
Upbeat shakes, slow and fast
Repetitions, slow and fast, piano and forte

Rainmaker

Rainmaker 1–3
Very slow, slow, fast sounds
Rainmaker 3: slow, medium, fast patterns

Cuicas Cuica 1–3
Short, medium, and long tones, piano and forte
Effects
Cuica 3: free performance

06c Effect Percussion

ARTICULATION GROUP ARTICULATIONS
Wind machine

Sound variations 1–7

Thundersheets

Thundersheet A, B, C, D, E
Single hits, various beaters
Shaken
Bowed
Hand rub
Thundersheet E: free performance 

Ocean drums

Ocean drum A, B
Short and long
Motion sounds
Performances, full and excerpts

Gunshots

6 mm pistol, 6/9 mm revolver
Single and double shots, wet and dry

Waterphone

Sustained, bow, straight and modulated
3-note arpeggios
Effects: glissando slow and fast, spherical, multiphonics
Pizzicato
Repetitions, long and short release

Jingle rings

Jingle rings A, B, C
Single hits with and without attack
Rolls normal and dynamics 
Spins
Repetitions slow, medium, fast

Ratchets

Ratchets 1–5
Staccato
Short, medium, long tones

Sirens

Sirens 1–3 
Duration 13 to 56 sec. 
Siren 1: dry and wet

Bull roarer

6 performances, 14 to 73 sec.
Full samples with 3 to 8 excerpts each

Spring drum

2 spring drums
Pizzicato p–ff
Finger slides and snips
Rotation
Pulses

Vibratones

Vibratone 1, 2
Single strokes, constant pitch
Modulation up, down, up/down, down/up
Multiple modulations
Tremolo regular, accelerando and ritardando

Flexatones

Large and small flexatone 
Large: steady tones, 2/4 sec.
Small and octave (large only) glissandos up and down, 2 and 4 sec.
Performances 1/2, full samples with 4 and 5 excerpts

Anklung

Single notes, 0.5/1/2 sec.

Waldteufel

Large and small waldteufel
Short, medium, long, and extra-long sounds with variations

Lion’s roar

Short, medium, and long variations
Tremolos

Honks

Car honks
Single notes open and muted

Bicycle honks

Single notes low and high, open and muted
Changing notes, open

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Minimum System Requirements

  • Windows 10 (latest update, 64-bit), Intel Core i5 or AMD Athlon 64 X2
  • macOS 10.14 Mojave (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

  • 3.5 GB