Studio Special Woodwinds

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Introduction

The single instruments which together make the Studio Special Woodwinds complement those contained in Studio Woodwinds and provide you not only with some instrumental rarities, but also with 3-player ensembles of flutes, oboes, clarinets, and bassoons.

Sound Categories

The Presets of each instrument are subdivided into several Articulation categories (depending on the instrument) plus a “Custom” slot ready for your own creations:

Short notes
Long notes
Legato
Dynamics
Flutter tonguing, trills, fast repetitions
Runs (Flute ensemble only)
Clusters (ensembles)

Within these Articulation categories, you can select a Type (if applicable), e.g., short or medium portato, and for some of the types there are additional options available, such as marcato or vibrato type control.

Mixer Presets

For the Studio Libraries, our software developers added a specifically designed convolution reverb derived from Vienna MIR Pro to the Synchron Player, featuring the outstanding and unique ambience of the 540 m2 (5,813 sq.ft.) main hall of Vienna Synchron Stage. The perfectly engineered reverberation and placement presets combine customized impulse responses with expertly crafted reverb settings for each instrument. By adding the ambience of Vienna Synchron Stage’s Stage A to the dry samples in real-time, Studio instruments blend perfectly with any other product of our Synchron Series.

For each instrument, there are 8 Mixer Presets that depict different recording situations: Close, Classic, Wide, Distant, Ambient, Short/Long Reverb without convolution, and MIR Uncompressed for use with Vienna MIR.

Synchron Player Presets

The instrument Presets comprise all recorded Patches in articulation groups, which again contain types of the respective articulation, with further options if available. The general structure was modeled after our other Synchron Collections, making it easy to switch or combine instruments without major adaptations.

Articulations are disabled by default. Enabling an articulation means that all the types contained will be activated, too, so if you happen to be short of RAM it is advisable only to activate what you really need (you can always add more types later).

By default the keyswitches for articulations are mapped starting from C1 (for Middle C = C4) for higher instruments, and from C6 for bass instruments. For the available types, the keyswitches start from C2 for high instruments, and from C7 for low ones.

Additional options within articulations or types are offered by the Dimension Controllers. The controller function is indicated by the respective caption, as of course it may take on different tasks as needed.

Apart from the regular articulations, every instrument also features one called Custom that does not contain any samples. It provides 6 slots ready for you to configure presets of your own.

Alto flute

Articulation switches: C1–F1
Type switches: starting at C2

Short notes

Staccato, short portato, medium portato with and without vibrato, as well as legato, portato, and staccato repetitions.

Use Dim.Ctrl/B (CC4) to crossfade between medium portato without and with vibrato.

Long notes

Sustained notes, normal and marcato, without, with normal and progressive vibrato.

Use Dim.Ctrl/B (CC4) to switch between vibrato styles and the vibrato crossfade option, and Dim.Ctrl/C (CC20) to control the crossfade amount.

Marcato

If marcato is selected, keystroke velocity on Dim.Ctrl/A determines the marcato amount of the note played.

Legato

Performance legato, normal and fast, grace notes, and marcato.

The Auto-speed option implements a speed controller on Dim.Ctrl/D to switch automatically between normal and fast legato.

Dynamics

Sforzato, fortepiano, sforzatissimo; crescendo and diminuendo 2/3/5 sec., and piano-forte-piano 3/5/8 sec.

Duration switches: G#2–A#2

Flutter tonguing and trills

Flutter tonguing, normal and crescendo; half and whole tone trills.