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 Hercules and BBO Izar feature low brass and low brass clusters, respectively.
BBO Hercules furnishes you with the raw power of low brass instruments. The Preset's basic articulations can be changed with keyswitches from C5 to F#5, and the keyswitches for these articulations' types start at C6. For some Types, there are variants with and without contrabass tuba.
- Range: G1–E4 (glissandos less according to interval)
- Articulation Keyswitches: C5–F#5
Bold and agile, without and with contrabass tuba (one octave lower).
- Bold/agile: C6/C#6
- Without/with contrabass tuba: C1/D1
Long notes with and without fff layer, soft, marcato, and espressivo. Except espressivo, all types are available as variants without and with contrabass tuba (one octave lower).
- Type keyswitches: C6–E6
- Sustain without/with fff layer: A0/B0
- Without/with contrabass tuba: C1/D1
Marcato attack can be added gradually to the basic articulation with the help of Dim.Ctrl/A (MIDI CC1, modwheel).
Legato regular with and without fff layer, and soft.
- Type keyswitches: C6–D6
- Regular without/with fff layer: A0/B0
Sforzato, sforzatissimo, swells short and long, soft and very soft swells, and soft diminuendo. Without and with contrabass tuba (one octave lower) except the "soft" articulations.
- Type keyswitches: C6–F#6
- Without/with contrabass tuba: C1/D1
Flutter tonguing, half and whole tone trills.
- Type keyswitches: C6–D6
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: C6–D6
Glissandos, minor and major second, and fourth, up and down. Please note that the actual playing range is diminished by the glissando interval – for instance, minor 2nd upward glissandos can only be played up to D#4 where E4 is the target note, downward ones down to G#1 where G1 is the target note.
- Interval keyswitches: C6–D6
- Up/down keyswitches: A0/B0
