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Epic Cinematic Strings At Your Fingertips

Vienna Symphonic Library's Appassionata Strings Bundle delivers the larger-than-life orchestral sound you need for cinematic scoring. Complete with full orchestral violin, viola, cello, and bass sections covering 20 violins, 14 violas, 12 cellos, and 10 double basses (six of which are 5-stringed), as well as all of the sounds, performances, and articulations included in both Appassionata Strings I and Appassionata Strings II, this collection is a must-have for any serious film or video game composer. Thanks to the performance-detection power of the Vienna Instruments sample player, you'll find it easy to control the expression and articulation of each instrument in your VSL sound library, regardless of which DAW you compose in. From fast repetitions to lingering sustains, at full volume or con sordino (muted), Vienna Symphonic Library's Appassionata Strings Bundle is your one-stop-shop for epic cinematic strings!

If you're a composer, you need this powerhouse bundle

The Appassionata Strings Bundle gives you arco and legato styles, plus accented interval notes, staccatos and spiccatos from the 20 violins, 14 violas, 12 cellos and 10 double basses — six of which are 5-string instruments that deliver rich and dramatically deep low end. Appassionata Strings I covers a broad range of articulations; Appassionata Strings II offers most of the articulations of its predecessor, but played con sordino. You can even combine the normal with muted strings, resulting in a spectacularly thick and zesty sound.

Two fantastic string collections

VSL's Appassionata Strings Bundle puts together two fantastic string collections, Appassionata Strings I and II, giving you the ultimate weapon for deploying epic cinematic strings. When you write legato and sul G with varying vibrato intensities, you produce a gargantuan, passionate string sound. These massive strings are perfect for all kinds of music, from lush adagio themes to pulse-pounding action cues. And to keep all this string power organized, you get Vienna Ensemble mixing and host software for free.

Appassionata Strings I: sophisticated, nuanced string ensembles

Vienna Symphonic Library Appassionata Strings I ensemble samples provide sophisticated, nuanced features, such as various facets of sustains and Legato performances with different intensities of vibrato as their main focus, but also include articulations such as sul-G performances, accented interval notes, spiccatos, staccatos, various repetition performances, trills, runs, and more. Appassionata Strings not only integrate well into a variety of musical styles, they also emulate live performance with "out-of-tune samples," where various players correct intonation as the tone progresses.

Appassionata Strings II: the ultimate in romantic Hollywood strings

Vienna Symphonic Library Appassionata Strings II delivers that sweet, lyrical, and romantic "Hollywood" string sound you want, offering nearly all the articulations included with the first Appassionata String Collection, but also played con sordino. With their passionate, emotive, cinematic sound, you can integrate these strings into any musical style — from pop ballads to complete orchestral scores. Appassionata Strings II also features Vienna's innovative "out-of-tune-samples," mirroring a real string ensemble where individual players will slowly correct their intonation as the tone progresses.

A superior way to orchestrate

The Vienna Instruments series expands on the previous libraries and offers embedded intelligent Performance Algorithms in an easy-to-use plug-in that lets you orchestrate with 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.

First-call musicians, first-class samples

At Sweetwater, we hold the Vienna Symphonic Library in high regard; that's because we're picky about our orchestral samples. It all starts with the musicians. Since VSL's inception, first-call musicians have been providing the sound and character of these instruments as soloists and ensemble leaders. This approach is largely responsible for the impressive sonic authority and authenticity we have come to expect from VSL virtual instruments.