Big Bang Orchestra: Quasar

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.

The instruments in this collection were derived from our Libraries Synchron Percussion I and Synchron Percussion II, which not only feature more instruments, but also offer additional articulations. Owners of BBO Phoenix and/or BBO Quasar will receive discounts on the purchase of these Libraries.

BBO Quasar complements the pitched percussion from BBO Phoenix with a selection of unpitched percussion instruments, including bass and snare drums, concert toms, taikos, tambourine, piatti, suspended cymbals, tamtams, slapsticks, thundersheet, triangle, windmachine, and woodblocks.

Bass drum played with soft and hard beaters: normal and rim hits, 1–4 upbeats, and rolls.

• Soft/hard beater: C1/D1
• Range: C4–C5

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Concert toms ranging between 8" and 16", arranged in octave mappings: normal and and rim hits, stick on stick, rolls, rimshots, and muted.

• Range: C2–G#7

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Snare drum played with sticks, rods, and brushes: single hits offcenter (normal) and rim, 1–4 upbeats, and rolls (sticks only).

• Beater keys: C1–D1
• Range:
  • sticks: C4–C5
  • rods, brushes: C4–B4

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Taikos from 8" to 53" (mapped to two instruments per octave) played with a cudgel and with a tam beater: normal and side hits left/right, and rim hits (cudgel only).

• Cudgel/tam beater: C1/C#1
• Range:
  • cudgel: C3–A7
  • tam beater: C3–G#7

Mapping cudgel:

Mapping tam beater:

Tambourine: center and rim strokes, 1–4 upbeats, and thumb tremolo.

• Range: C4–C5

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Piatti: normal and muted strokes, sizzle stroke.

• Range: C4–G4

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Suspended cymbals played with sticks, mallets, and brushes: edge and top hits, and rolls (according to beater).

• Beater keyswitches: C1/E1
• Range
  • sticks: C4–C#5
  • mallets: C4–C5
  • brushes: C4–D#4

Mapping sticks:

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Large and extra large tam-tams (100 and 120 cm): normal and muted strokes, rolls.

• Tam-tam large/Xlarge: A1/A#1
• Range: C4–C5

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Large, medium, and small slapsticks mapped to octaves: variants 1–4.

• Range: C3–D#5

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Large thundersheet: single hits with hands, sticks, felt, rubber, and gong beaters, chain, and brush; shaken, bowed, and played with a superball; tremolo with gong beaters and brushes.

• Range: C4–D#7

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Steel triangle, 21 cm: open and closed hits, 1–4 upbeats, and rolls.

• Range: C4–C5

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Wind machine: steady loops with quick mutes and slow endings, light and strong crescendo and diminuendo from 2 to 12 seconds.

• Range: C4–A#6

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Five woodblocks (mapped to separate octaves) played with a yarn-wound mallet: center and rim hits, rolls, and 1–4 upbeats.

• Range: C2–B7

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