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Sometimes you need the full force of a large ensemble, sometimes you need the direct intimacy only a small ensemble can offer. And sometimes you want to add the transparent tonality and immediacy of the closer-mic’d group to the lushness of the large group, at varying levels. This unique collection makes all this and more possible, offering the best of both worlds – a large ambient string ensemble and a dry chamber-sized ensemble with 100% matching performances. Whether you use them together or separately, Synchron Duality Strings delivers a magnificent sound with unprecedented flexibility and countless expressive possibilities, from intimate intensity to passionate power, and everything in between.
Two acoustically isolated string ensembles performing simultaneously at Synchron Stage Vienna
Large ensemble recorded on the iconic Stage A
Smaller ensemble recorded in the smaller, drier Stage B
Use them in combination or separately
Available with combined mic options and mixer presets
Dark and bright Stage B mic setups
Seamlessly blend the ensembles
New Flow View for easy, intuitive and effortless playing
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.
