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 Lyra and BBO Musca feature high and low string ensembles, respectively. The layout of articulations is designed to resemble that of other BBO Libraries with similar content (e.g., Hercules with its low brass ensembles), so that you can switch between the articulations of different Libraries without having to adapt any keyswitches.
- Range: B1-F5
- Articulation Keyswitches: C6-G6
- Type Keyswitches: starting at C7
Bold and agile.
- Bold/agile: C2/C#2
Long notes with light and strong vibrato, and espressivo.
- Type keyswitches: C2-D#2
The XF vibrato option combines the light and strong vibrato articulations, so that you can control the vibrato amount using Dim.Ctrl/A (MIDI CC1, modwheel).
Legato with light and strong vibrato, and marcato. There also is an XF vibrato slot with Dim.Ctrl/A (MIDI CC1, modwheel).
- Type keyswitches: C2-D#2
Sforzato, sforzatissimo, swells short and long, soft and very soft swells, and soft diminuendo.
- Type keyswitches: C2-F#2
Tremolo regular and with fast attack, half and whole tone trills.
- Type keyswitches: C2-D#2
Staccato repetitions at 120, 140, and 160 BPM, with the choice of proper note release or cut release. 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: C2-D2
- Note/cut release: A5/B5
Glissandos, minor and major second, up and down.
- Interval keyswitches: C2/C#2
- Up/down keyswitches: A5/B5
Pizzicato, with no further options.
Owners of both BBO Lyra and BBO Musca will find in the Musca Presets an additional combined Preset, where both Libraries are stacked to present the full tone range of high and low strings together. You can select two modes - one where the high and low notes are divided at C4, and one where they overlap. Below you can see an example of what the Preset looks like.
- Range: B1-D7
- High-Low Mode keyswitches: A0/B0
- Articulations: C1-G1
- Type keyswitches: starting at F7
- Glissando up/down: A7/B7
