Studio Elements
Water. Metal. Glass. Stone.
Even if you’re unfamiliar with these instruments by name, you've likely heard their otherworldly tones in film scores and sound design projects – sometimes taking center stage, other times lurking ominously or even threatening in the background. The Studio Elements collection brings together water (waterphones), metal (singing bowls, steel rails, tam-tams), stone (lithophones), and glass (glass harmonica, verrophone, bottles), offering everything from mellow, ethereal drones to signals of impending danger in suspenseful movie scenes. This rare and unusual collection is incredibly versatile, perfect for adding unique textures to any production.
Overview
Rare and unique instruments
Archaic sounds, from ethereal shimmers to thunderous strikes
Perfect out-of-the-box sound
Expertly crafted mixer presets
Easily place each instrument at different positions in the main hall of Synchron Stage Vienna
Studio Elements
These totally unique instruments have long been a trade secret for composers and sound designers, capturing their imagination with unusual archaic sounds that range from the ethereal to the thunderous. As strange as these instruments are they are also wildly versatile, precisely because there are no real rules or preconceived notions of how to use them. They’re easily blendable with more traditional orchestrations and with a dazzling array of VSL custom created effects presets the already wildly imaginative tones of these instruments have been significantly expanded.
Instruments & Articulations
Glass harmonica
Portato
Sustained normal and marcato
Trills
Mallet normal and secco
Mallet glissando
Verrophone
Staccato
Portato
Sustained normal and marcato
Rolls normal and marcato
Trills normal and marcato
Mallet normal and secco
Mallet trills
Mallet glissando
Musical glasses - A
Staccato
Portato
Sustained normal and marcato
Rolls normal and marcato
Trills normal and marcato
Musical glasses - B
Staccato
Portato
Sustained normal and marcato
Rolls normal and marcato
Trills normal and marcato
Mallet soft, medium, hard
Mallet glissando
Musical glasses - C
Staccato fast and slow
Portato fast and slow
Sustained normal and marcato
Rolls normal and marcato
Bottles
Staccato
Portato
Sustained normal and marcato
Flutter tonguing
Sforzato
NKS Integration
This Library supports Native Instruments’ NKS format and is compatible with Komplete Kontrol keyboards and Maschine. Use the Light Guide to quickly identify key switches and play ranges of your instruments, browse and preview sounds, and quickly adapt them using pre-configured control knobs.
Data Size
System requirements
Minimum:
Windows 10 (latest update, 64-bit), Intel Core i3 or AMD Athlon 64 X2
macOS 10.14 Mojave (latest update), Intel Core i3
7200 rpm hard drive (HFS+, APFS or NTFS formatted)
8 GB RAM
iLok Account and iLok License Manager for license activation on a physical iLok 2/iLok 3 key or in an iLok Cloud Session (the iLok Cloud requires a constant internet connection!)
Free storage space: 12.7 GB
Recommended:
Windows 11 (latest update), Intel Core i5/i7/i9/Xeon
macOS 13 Ventura (or higher), Intel Core i5/i7/i9/Xeon/M1/M2
16 GB RAM
SSD (M2, SATA 6 or USB3/3.1, UASP Support - HFS+, APFS or NTFS formatted)
AU/VST/VST3/AAX Native compatible host
88 key master keyboard
