Big Bang Orchestra: Neptune

Welcome to the Vienna Symphonic Library's series of Synchron Instruments! As the name says, Big Bang Orchestra furnishes you with a selection of full-orchestra articulations, at the same time allowing you (if you haven't done so already) to explore our powerful Synchron Player software. If you're looking for that extra dramatic effect or want to highlight a passage in your composition, this bonus library could be the solution, or at least point you in the right direction.

BBO Neptune offers a woodwinds tutti ensemble with 13 musicians - 1 piccolo, 3 flutes, 2 oboes and 1 english horn, 2 clarinets in Bb and 1 bass clarinet, 2 bassoons and 1 contrabassoon. Its layout is modeled after other BBO Libraries with similar content (e.g., the trumpet ensemble of Kopernikus), so that you can switch between the articulations of different Libraries without having to adapt any keyswitches.
All articulations can be played with or without the piccolo flute.

• Range: A#2-D6
• Articulation Keyswitches: C1-F1
• Type Keyswitches: starting at C7
• Senza / con piccolo: A0/B0

Bold and agile.

• Bold/agile: C7/C#7

Sustained, marcato, and espressivo notes. For the sake of consistency, the next slot contains a copy of this one where the individual ensembles of BBO Orion feature legato articulations.

• Type keyswitches: C7-D7

The marcato slot allows you to control the marcato amount of the tone using Dim.Ctrl/A (MIDI CC1, modwheel).

Sforzato, sforzatissimo, swells short and long, and soft swells.

• Type keyswitches: C7-E7

Flutter tonguing, half and whole tone trills.

• Type keyswitches: C7-D7

Staccato repetitions at 120, 140, and 160 BPM. These are already prepared for timestretching, i.e., all Patches have the original tempo they were recorded with entered as their source tempo. This allows you to adapt your repetitions automatically to the tempo of your project with only two mouse clicks.

• Tempo keyswitches: C7-D7