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Add a French Oboe to Your Orchestral Palette!

The Horizon Series French Oboe is the first instrument featured by the Vienna Symphonic Library whose roots are not to be found in Viennese orchestras. Its particular sound and playing characteristics differ noticeably from the Viennese oboe. Plus, the French Oboe collection adds additional orchestral woodwind performances to round out your full orchestra!

VSL Horizon Series French Oboe at a Glance:

• Expressive French oboe samples and performances for tonal variety in your orchestrations
  
• Includes English horn, Eb clarinet and piccolo run samples
  
• Thousands of samples with hundreds of articulations

Expressive French oboe samples and performances
The Horizon Series French Oboe edition offers a colorful enhancement to the VSL's range of orchestral expressive possibilities, as well as additional variations for the diversity of the over-all sound. The recordings focused attention on capturing the lyrical and expressive vibrato that are a part of the charm of this beautiful instrument. You'll find extensive use of VSL's famous Performance Elements that contribute to your ability to make the French Oboe collection a vital part of your orchestral sounds.

Includes English horn, Eb clarinet and piccolo samples
But the Horizon Series French Oboe edition not only features the French oboe, equaling the quality of instruments from the Pro Edition in scope and detail, but it also includes bonus instruments: an English horn, which is close in character and makes a wonderful complement to the French oboe, a small clarinet in Eb, and piccolo runs.

Thousands of samples with hundreds of articulations
As with all Vienna Symphonic Library editions, the Horizon Series French Oboe collection contains a massive selection of samples and articulations. More than 13,000 samples make up the French Oboe edition, encompassing 7GB of material covering solo French oboe, English horn, small Eb clarinet and piccolo.


VSL Horizon Series French Oboe samples and articulations:
French oboe

• SINGLE NOTES: Staccato, 0.3 and 0.5 sec. portato (each in two variations), 2 sec. tones without vibrato (soft, normal, and hard attack) and with vibrato (normal attack), and sustained with medium and progressive vibrato
  
• DYNAMICS: Dynamics without vibrato: 2, 3, and 4 sec. strong crescendo and diminuendo, 3, 5, and 8 sec. crescendo-diminuendo, fortepiano, sforzato, and sforzatissimo
  
• DYNAMICS WITH VIBRATO: Dynamics with vibrato: 2, 3, and 4 sec. medium crescendo and diminuendo, 2, 4, and 8 sec. crescendo-diminuendo, fortepiano, sforzato, and sforzatissimo
  
• TRILLS: Half and whole tone trills with crescendo and diminuendo variations, at constant speed as well as accelerando
  
• PERFORMANCE ELEMENTS — LEGATO: Piano and forte legato, and piano and forte marcato, all with vibrato
  
• PERFORMANCE ELEMENTS — REPETITIONS: Legato repetitions with 5 repetition layers, 4ths at 60 BPM, piano, forte, crescendo and diminuendo
  
• PERFORMANCE ELEMENTS — 8th NOTE REPETITIONS: Legato repetitions with 9 repetition layers, 8ths at 122 BPM, piano; 117 BPM, forte; and 120 BPM, crescendo and diminuendo
  
• PERFORMANCE ELEMENTS — PORTATO REPETITIONS: Portato repetitions with 5 repetition layers, 4ths at 60 BPM, piano, forte, crescendo and diminuendo
  
• PERFORMANCE ELEMENTS — 8th NOTE PORTATO REPETITIONS: Portato repetitions with 9 repetition layers, 8ths at 85 BPM, piano and forte; and 88 BPM, crescendo and diminuendo
  
• PERFORMANCE ELEMENTS — STACCATO: Staccato repetitions with 9 repetition layers, 16ths at 93 BPM, piano and forte; and 90 BPM, crescendo and diminuendo
  
• PERFORMANCE ELEMENTS — STACCATO: Staccato repetitions with 9 repetition layers, 16ths at 124 BPM, piano, forte, crescendo and diminuendo
  
• RUNS — LEGATO: Major and minor scale octave runs, up and down, for every key note on the chromatic scale, as well as chromatic and whole tone runs
  
• GRACE NOTES: Grace notes, mezzoforte, from minor second to octave intervals, up and down
  
• PERFORMANCE ELEMENTS — GRACE NOTES LEGATO: Piano and forte grace notes, up and down from minor 2nd to octave

Piccolo

• RUNS — LEGATO — MAJOR: Major scale octave runs, mezzoforte, up and down, for every key note on the chromatic scale, beginning with C
  
• RUNS — LEGATO — MINOR: Minor harmonic scale octave runs, mezzoforte, up and down, for every key note on the chromatic scale, beginning with C
  
• RUNS — LEGATO — SPECIAL: Chromatic and whole tone octave runs at 200 BPM, up and down, mapped chromatically

English horn

• SINGLE NOTES: Staccato (two variations), sustained with medium and progressive vibrato, and crescendo-diminuendo with vibrato, 4 and 8 sec. tone length
  
• PERFORMANCE ELEMENTS — LEGATO: Piano and forte performance legato with vibrato

Small clarinet in Eb

• SINGLE NOTES: Staccato, portato 0.3 sec., each with two variations, and sustained notes
  
• PERFORMANCE ELEMENTS — LEGATO: Piano and forte performance legatos

Specification Detail Manufacturer Part Number VSLHF1

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