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Two acoustically isolated string ensembles performing simultaneously at Synchron Stage Vienna
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Large ensemble recorded on the iconic Stage A
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Smaller ensemble recorded in the smaller, drier Stage B
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Use them in combination or separately
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Available with combined mic options and mixer presets
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Dark and bright Stage B mic setups
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Seamlessly blend the ensembles
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New Flow View for easy, intuitive and effortless playing
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New free articulations: Legato Largo
While the mic setup in Stage A delivers the broad, sought-after string ensemble sound featured in countless movies and TV series, the smaller ensemble in Stage B was recorded with two different sets of microphones, offering bright and dark sounding variants. This unique approach gave Synchron Stage Vienna’s chief engineer, Bernd Mazagg, the ability to create mixer presets with unprecedented flexibility and creative options. It also enables you to customize your own string sound organically and effortlessly within the Synchron Player so you can fine tune your sound between Hollywood lushness and chamber piece intimacy.
Beyond the wholly different ambiences of the two spaces, the ensembles themselves provide useful contrast. Where the larger ensemble has a fuller, more symphonic sound, the smaller ensemble provides a transparent and clear tonality that adds a certain immediacy when blended with the larger group. Both ensembles feature Vienna’s best musicians from the renowned Vienna Synchron Orchestra and performing at the highest levels of musicality.
All articulations were played “senza sordino” (without mutes) and include a wide variety of short notes, long notes, various legato variations (normal, agile, slurred, portamento), espressivo, with various attacks and note releases, plus pizzicato, col legno, tremolo variants, fast repetitions, trills, harmonics, glissandos, legato and détaché runs, and much more.
In addition to the Synchron Player’s usual articulation switching capabilities, there’s now a new category of preconfigured patches that allows you to switch articulations using key velocity, e.g., between spiccato and staccato, between different attacks of détachés and long notes, between up and down movements of glissandos and runs, etc.
Largo means "broad" in Italian. This new and free update provides broad note transitions as an alternative to all normal legato variants. Use it for especially smoothly played passages, and it even works with faster movements.
