previously "SYNCHRON-ized Plucked Instruments"
Our Studio Plucked Instruments were specifically created to enrich the tonal palette of your Synchron Instruments with sounds that complement the scope of the symphonic orchestra very well. This document will provide you with the information you need to use the Library with our Vienna Synchron Player.
The Presets of each instrument are subdivided into different Articulation categories, ready for your own creations:
Upright Bass
Short notes
Sustain
Noises & effects
Legato
Repetitions
Upbeats
Within these Articulation categories, you can select different types – e.g., short notes staccato or portato. For some of the types there are additional options available, such as "ringing" or "stopped" sustains with or without vibrato.
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 enabled by default. Disabling a slot means that all the slots dependent on it will be deactivated, too, so if you happen to be short of RAM it is possible to deactivate anything you don't really need (you can always add more stuff later).
By default the mapping of keyswitches for Articulations starts at C1 (for Middle C = C4) for higher instruments – in this case, concert and overdrive guitar –, and C6 for bass instruments – here, the upright bass. Other slot categories, e.g., release type, vibrato, etc., use keyswitches or dimension controllers such as the modwheel or playing speed.
Articulation groups
- short notes
- sustain
- noises & effects
- legato
- repetitions
- upbeats
Range: D1–G4 except where indicated otherwise.
Staccato, portato short and long, damped, and muted.
- Type keyswitch: C7–F7
Sustained notes ringing, stopped hard and normal, without as well as with light and medium vibrato.
- Keyswitches
- Ringing/stopped: A5–B5
- Vibrato: C7–D7
Slides up and down, legato slides, finger stop, body noises, and sustained notes played with a bow.
- Type keyswitch: C7–F7
- Range
- slides up/down C2–F4
- finger stop D#1–G4
Slides up/down mapping
- C2–A#2: fast slides 1–8
- C3–A#3: medium slides 1–8
- C4–F4: slow slides 1–4
Body noises mapping
- C, D: single hits, l/r
- C#, D#: fast repetitions, var. 1/2
- F, G: performance repetitions, medium, var. 1/2
- F#, G#: performance repetitions, slow, var. 1/2
- C1–G#1: body hits, finger
- C2–G#2: body hits, knuckle
- C3–G#3: rib hits
- C4–G#4: fingerboard hits
Legato, ghost notes, glissando, and slow glissando, ringing, stopped hard and normal, without and with slide noise.
Keyswitches
- Ringing/stopped: A5–B5
- Type: C7–D#7
Slide noise switch: Dim.Ctrl/B (CC1, Modwheel)
No Slide
Slide
Use Dim.Ctrl/A (CC3) to adjust the noise amount of the slides.
Repetitions ringing and stopped hard without and with vibrato, and stopped normal.
- Ringing/stopped keyswitch: A5–B5
Ringing, stopped hard
- Vibrato keyswitch: C7/C#7
Stop normal
Slow without and with vibrato, portato slow and fast, and autospeed.
- Type keyswitch: C7–E7
Autospeed
This slot uses Dim.Ctrl/D (playing speed) to switch automatically between slow notes without vibrato, slow portato, and fast portato.
Single, double, and triple upbeats at 80/90/100/120/140 BPM.
- Keyswitches
- Ringing/stopped: A5–B5
- Type: C7–D7
- Tempo: F7–A7
