Premium-quality Woodwind Samples
Note: This extended library requires the purchase of the Woodwinds 1 Standard Library. The Extended Library provides a license code for access to additional samples.
Digital orchestrators rejoice: the Vienna Symphonic Library has a major set of upgrades on its hands! The Vienna Instruments series expands on the previous libraries and offers embedded intelligent Performance Algorithms in an easy-to-use VST/AU plug-in to orchestrate an inconceivably vast array of samples. For the first time, hundreds of articulations can be combined in one Preset and on a single MIDI track. Vienna's proprietary Performance Detection analyzes intervals, repeated notes, patterns, and even speed in real time and automatically summons the appropriate articulation or nuance.
The Vienna Instruments Woodwinds 1 Collection contains the four main wind instruments: flute, oboe, clarinet, and bassoon, as well as their corresponding ensemble formations. Since the beginning of the Vienna Symphonic Library, first-rate musicians have been providing the sound and character of these wind instruments as soloists and ensemble leaders. Gisela Mashayekhi-Beer was the solo flutist of the Zurich Opera orchestra and taught at the Bruckner University Linz and at the Vienna Music University. Markus Deuter was (and is) first oboist of numerous German orchestras; he came to Vienna especially for the recordings of the French oboe. The clarinetist Daniel Horth, in spite of his youth, can look back at an international concert career with the Vienna Philharmonic, the Vienna Symphonic Orchestra, and others, and Martin Machovits, among other assignments, is solo bassoon player at the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra.
The oboe is the French Oboe from the Horizon Series Library of the same name, and therefore also offers playing techniques with vibrato. The Woodwinds I volume of the Vienna Instruments contains numerous new articulations when compared with the existing Pro Edition and Horizon Series Libraries. Solo instruments as well as ensembles now offer fast Interval Performances in legato and marcato styles, marcato Interval Performances in "normal" tempo, as well as Performance Trills. From the solo instruments, the flute and clarinet arpeggios (major, minor, and diminished broken chords in legato and staccato styles), the solo flute's mordents, and the French oboe's flutter tonguing particularly stand out. And the slow legato repetitions of the solo flute are especially appealing.
VSL Orchestral Woodwinds 1 Extended Library Includes:
Flute I:
- Short + Long Notes: Portato medium
- Portato long with strong and without vibrato
- Tongue-ram staccato
- Dynamics: Medium crescendo and diminuendo with vibrato 2, 3, and 5 sec.
- Medium crescendo and diminuendo without vibrato 1.5, 2, 3, and 4 sec.
- Strong crescendo and diminuendo without vibrato 4 and 6 sec.
- pfp 9 sec., fpf 6 and 9 sec.
- Fortepiano and sforzato with vibrato, sforzatissimo with and without vibrato
- Flatter + Trills: Trills, minor and major 3rd
- Trills accelerando, minor and major 2nd
- Dynamics for all trills
- Perf Interval: Grace notes, minor 2nd to octave
- Marcato interval performance
- Perf Interval Fast: Marcato
- Perf Trill: Trills, legato, minor 2nd to major 3rd
- Perf Repetition: Legato fast, portato and staccato slow
- Dynamics for all repetitions
- Staccato fast triplets
- Perf Upbeat Repetition: 1 and 2 upbeats, slow and fast, normal and dynamics
- Fast Repetition: Staccato, 9 repetitions, 170 to 210 BPM
- Staccato triplets, 12 repetitions, 140 to 180 BPM
- Grace Notes: Grace notes
- Minor 2nd to octave
- Up and down
- Scale runs: Octave runs
- Legato, major and minor from C to B key
- Chromatic and whole tone
- Up and down
- 2 speeds for all
- Arpeggios: Arpeggios
- Legato and staccato
- Diminished, major and minor from C to B key
- Up and down
- 2 speeds for all
- Mordents: Mordents
- Legato and staccato
- Up and down
- 6 variations each
Oboe II:
- Short + Long Notes: Portato long with vibrato
- Portato long without vibrato, hard and soft attack
- Sustained with progressive vibrato
- Dynamics: Medium crescendo and diminuendo with vibrato, 2, 3, 4 sec.
- Strong crescendo and diminuendo without vibrato, 2, 3, 4 sec.
- pfp with vibrato, 8 sec.
- pfp without vibrato, 3, 5, 8 sec.
- Fortepiano and sforzato without vibrato, sforzatissimo with and without vibrato
- Flatter + Trills: Trills accelerando, minor and major 2nd
- Dynamics for all trills
- Perf Interval: Grace notes
- Marcato interval performance
- Perf Interval Fast: Marcato
- Perf Trill: Trills, legato, minor 2nd to major 3rd
- Perf Repetition: Legato fast, portato slow, staccato slow
- Dynamics for all repetitions
- Grace Notes: Grace notes
- Minor 2nd to octave
- Up and down
- Scale runs: Octave runs
- Major and minor, C to B key
- Chromatic and whole tone
- Up and down
Clarinet-Bb:
- Short + Long Notes: Portato long with normal, hard, and soft attack
- Dynamics: Light crescendo and diminuendo, 1.5, 2, 3, and 4 sec.
- Medium and strong crescendo and diminuendo, 2, 3, 4, and 6 sec.
- pfp 3, 5, 8, and 10 sec.
- fpf 4 and 6 sec.
- Sforzatissimo
- Flatter + Trills: Trills, minor and major 3rd
- Trills accelerando, minor and major 2nd
- Dynamics for all trills
- Perf Interval: Grace notes, legato, minor 2nd to octave
- Marcato interval performance
- Perf Interval Fast: Marcato
- Perf Trill: Trills, legato, minor 2nd to major 3rd
- Perf Repetition: Legato fast, portato slow, staccato slow
- Dynamics for all repetitions
- Perf Upbeat Repetition: 1 and 2 upbeats
- Slow and fast
- Normal and dynamics
- Fast Repetition: Staccato, 9 repetitions, 140 to 170 BPM
- Normal and dynamics
- Grace Notes: Grace notes
- Minor 2nd to octave
- Up and down
- Glissandi: Performance glissandos, minor 2nd to octave, slow and fast
- Fixed glissandos, minor 2nd to octave, up and down, slow and fast
- Scale runs: Octave runs
- Legato major, C to B key, 2 speeds
- Legato minor, C to B key
- Chromatic and whole tone
- Up and down
- Arpeggios:
- Legato and staccato
- Diminished, major and minor from C to B key
- Diminished, major and minor from C to B key
- 2 speeds for all
Bassoon:
- Short + Long Notes: Portato medium
- Portato long with normal and strong vibrato
- Portato long without vibrato, normal and marcato
- Sustained with normal, progressive, and without vibrato
- Dynamics: Medium crescendo and diminuendo with vibrato, 2, 3, and 5 sec.
- Strong crescendo and diminuendo with vibrato, 3 and 5 sec.
- Medium crescendo and diminuendo without vibrato, 1.5, 2, 3, 4, and 6 sec.
- Strong crescendo and diminuendo without vibrato, 3, 4, and 6 sec.
- pfp with vibrato, 8 sec.
- fpf with vibrato, 5 sec.
- pfp without vibrato, 4, 6, 8, and 10 sec.
- fpf without vibrato, 6 and 8 sec.
- Sforzatissimo without vibrato
- Flatter + Trills: Trills dynamics
- Perf Interval: Grace notes, legato, minor 2nd to octave
- Marcato interval performance
- Perf Interval Fast: Marcato
- Perf Trill: Trills, legato, minor 2nd to major 3rd
- Perf Repetition: Legato fast, portato slow
- Dynamics for all repetitions
- Perf Upbeat Repetition: 1 and 2 upbeats, slow and fast, normal and dynamics
- Fast Repetition: Staccato, 9 repetitions
- 140 to 180 BPM
- Normal and dynamics
- Grace Notes: Grace notes
- Minor 2nd to octave
- Up and down
- Scale runs: Octave runs
- Major and minor, C to B key
- Chromatic and whole tone
- Up and down
Flutes - a3:
- Short + Long Notes: Portato medium
- Dynamics: Strong crescendo and diminuendo with vibrato, 2, 3, and 5 sec.
- Sforzatissimo with vibrato
- Cluster + Trills
- Trills dynamics
- Perf Interval: Marcato
- Perf Interval Fast: Marcato
- Perf Trill: Trills, legato, minor 2nd to major 3rd
- Perf Repetition: Dynamics for all repetitions
- Scale runs: Octave runs
- Chromatic and whole tone
- Up and down
Oboes - a3:
- Short + Long Notes: Portato medium
- Dynamics: Strong crescendo and diminuendo, 2, 3, and 5 sec.
- Sforzatissimo
- Cluster + Trills
- Trills dynamics
- Perf Interval: Marcato
- Perf Interval Fast: Marcato
- Perf Trill: Trills, legato, minor 2nd to major 3rd
- Perf Repetition: Dynamics for all repetitions
Clarinets - a3:
- Short + Long Notes: Portato medium
- Dynamics: Strong crescendo and diminuendo, 2, 3, and 5 sec.
- Sforzatissimo
- Cluster + Trills: Trills dynamics
- Perf Interval: Marcato
- Perf Interval Fast: Marcato
- Perf Trill: Trills, legato, minor 2nd to major 3rd
- Perf Repetition: Dynamics for all repetitions
Bassoons - a3:
- Short + Long Notes: Portato medium
- Dynamics: Strong crescendo and diminuendo, 2, 3, and 5 sec.
- Sforzatissimo
- Cluster + Trills
- Trills dynamics
- Perf Interval: Marcato
- Perf Interval Fast: Marcato
- Perf Trill: Trills, legato, minor 2nd to major 3rd
- Perf Repetition: Dynamics for all repetitions
