Compose Without Boundaries or Predefined Phrases
Ostinatos are dynamic, repeating patterns that drive momentum, heighten tension, and propel your music forward. Offering what’s arguably the most flexible ostinato library ever, the Vienna Symphonic Library Synchron Duality Strings (Ostinato) enables you to enhance your compositions with phrases and motifs that repeat but never sound repetitive. This industry-leading orchestral string library provides you with unrivaled flexibility, equipping you with staccato, détaché, and legato articulations crafted specifically for ostinatos. As with all of VSL’s Synchron Duality Strings, this library contains two acoustically isolated ensembles performing simultaneously, giving you the option to blend seamlessly between them to suit your particular arrangement. Moreover, this library includes a thoughtful Flow View, providing you with effortless, intuitive playing. With Synchron Duality Strings (Ostinato) in your composition toolbox, you’ll be able to fashion fluid, captivating string patterns, shaped entirely by your own musical imagination, all without feeling confined to pre-recorded phrases. One thing’s for sure: creating living, breathing compositions has never been easier, more fun, or more satisfying than with VSL’s Synchron Duality Strings (Ostinato).
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Incredible dual-stage sampling
Synchron Duality Strings presents you with incredibly versatile VI orchestral palettes, and the proof is in the name! Now, with two separate ensembles at your disposal, there are twice as many opportunities for your musical creativity to reach new heights. Vienna Symphonic Library simultaneously recorded two individual string ensembles of Vienna’s most esteemed string players for Synchron Duality Strings: a large ensemble on Stage A in the main hall and a small ensemble on Stage B. The dichotomous results laid the foundation for a new dimensionality in VI orchestration.
Stage A’s result presented a larger, more grandiose symphonic effect, while the smaller and drier Stage B is accompanied by a more transparent and intimate sound courtesy of dual microphone sets used for recording. Both ensembles, however, were captured in perfectly synchronized volume, timbre, note length, and so forth, allowing for a mesmerizingly characterful stereo response. With Synchron Duality Strings, you can balance the two ensembles to your liking by way of completely organic mixing presets or work singularly with the ensemble that best suits the needs of your project.
Compose with freedom, not fixed patterns
Aptly named, Vienna Symphonic Library Synchron Duality Strings (Ostinato) was crafted specifically to deliver truly captivating string ostinatos. For this library, both ensembles — the larger section in Stage A and the more focused group in Stage B — were captured performing extensive ostinato passages in perfect synchrony. From these recordings, individual notes were meticulously extracted and are now reassembled in real time by the Vienna Synchron Player, ensuring seamless transitions, natural variation, and a realism that feels performed rather than programmed. Moreover, because you’re working with single notes instead of rigid patterns or locked tempos, every rhythm, tempo, and contour is entirely under your control. With short notes, long notes, and expressive legatos at your fingertips, Synchron Duality Strings (Ostinato) allows you to go far beyond ostinatos, creating everything from driving rhythmic engines to soaring, lyrical string lines. Simply put, Sweetwater studiophiles have scarcely seen an orchestral VI with as much creative freedom as Synchron Duality Strings!
Endless performance customization
There are so many explorable performance intricacies within Synchron Duality Strings (Ostinato) that we couldn’t possibly list them all if we tried. For example, you can use the articulation sequences of the Vienna Synchron Player to effortlessly create fluid bowing patterns. You can alternate between simple up- and downstrokes or explore multifaceted combinations that blend spiccato and détaché for added depth and motion. Beyond that, the Synchron Player includes a variety of preconfigured sequences to get you started, and you can easily design your own for complete creative control.
Vienna Symphonic Library Synchron Duality Strings (Ostinato) Features:
- Incredibly detailed dual-ensemble orchestral VI with dynamic, repeating patterns
- Contains staccato, détaché, and legato articulations crafted specifically for ostinatos
- Captured at the Synchron Stage Vienna by the city’s top string performers
- Large Stage A ensemble presents a grander, more symphonic effect
- Small Stage B ensemble delivers incredible note transparency and intimate sonic focus
- Perfect synchronization between ensembles provides lag-free sampling
- The ability to blend delivers organic mixing presets for each ensemble, or you can work with each individually
- Thoughtful Flow View provides effortless, intuitive playing
