With its soft, ethereal tones and timeless beauty, the harp opens the gates to new, enchanting soundscapes. Crossing genre boundaries, this instrument brings a special atmosphere and rich tonal color to any recording. Its many strings release a magical world of sound, captivating listeners with tones that seem to emerge from a fairytale. Now, you can explore all of these possibilities with this harmonically versatile library that features two different harps with a wealth of meticulously captured, delicate playing techniques. Recorded in the relatively dry, controlled environment of our Silent Stage, this library allows you to shape and expand your custom harp tones – whether you prefer them pure and dry or enhanced with the otherworldly quality of our convolution reverb, powered by Vienna MIR technology.
Two harps, recorded at the Silent Stage
Expressive playing techniques
Single notes in a variety of styles
Glissandos and arpeggios in all scales and tempos
Copious amount of dry and reverberated options
Mixer presets for authentic placement at Synchron Stage Vienna
These two distinct harps, each with vastly different playing techniques, showcase the incredible range of creative expression and nuanced sound these instruments can deliver. Apart from single notes in various playing styles, the first harp offers a copious amount of mesmerizingly beautiful glissandos and arpeggios in numerous scales and tempos, all perfectly organized and easily accessible in the Synchron Player’s color-coded articulation structure. The second harp offers an even larger number of single notes that were additionally played with fingernails, damped, près de la table, as well as harmonics, bisbigliandos, and pedal glissandos.
Single Notes
Single notes regular, faded or muted after release
Short notes
Près-de-la-table
Harmonics
Multiple notes
Bisbigliando ('whispering')
Glissandos major and minor, dominant 7 and minor 7, diminished, whole tone, and pentatonic; up and down over 1, 3, and 5 octaves, as well as single and multiple cross glissandos. All at slow, medium, fast, and very fast speeds
3- and 4-note arpeggios, major and minor, diminished and augmented upward arpeggios, slow, fast, and straight (as chords)
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: 15 GB
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