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VSL Plucked Instruments Standard

Product information "VSL Plucked Instruments Standard"

Nylon & Steel

These three plucked instruments are full-fledged virtual instruments with a comprehensive set of samples and articulations, but have never appeared on any other Vienna Instruments Collection.

Upright Bass features recordings of a plucked bass with an abundance of jazz articulations. The Concert Guitar is a unique, hand-made classical guitar with nylon strings. Overdrive features distorted tube sound recordings of a legendary Steve Vai signature seven-string guitar.

 

  Upright

Articulation groupStandard Library
01 SHORT + LONG NOTES
  • Staccato
  • Portato short and long
  • Snap pizzicato
  • Damped
  • Muted
  • Sustained with normal, light, and without vibrato
02 NOISES & FX
  • Slide noises, normal
  • Slide noises, "legato" mapping
  • Finger stops
  • Body noises
  • Arco sustained FX
10 PERF INTERVAL
  • Legato normal
  • Legato with ghost note
  • Glissando
  • Slow glissando
11 PERF REPETITION
  • Legato, with and without vibrato
  • Portato slow and fast
12 UPBEAT REPETITION
  • 1–3 upbeats, 80–100, 120, 140 BPM

  Concert Guitar

Articulation groupStandard LibraryExtended Library
01 SHORT + LONG NOTES
  • Staccato normal and Bartók
  • Sustained and ponticello, without and with vibrato
  • Harmonics artificial and natural
  • Staccato étouffé
  • Flautando with and without vibrato
  • Bartók (snapped) with and without vibrato
  • Étouffé
  • Tambora
02 HAMMER  
  • Hammer-ons
  • D, E, A, d, g, b, e strings
  • All strings combination
03 TRILLS & CO
  • Trills, half and whole tone
  • Tremolo, short
  • Bends, half tone, up and down
04 FX
  • Scratches combination
  • Golpe
  • Harp effects
  • Scratches on E, A, D
  • Muted chords
10 PERF INTERVAL
  • Legato normal
  • Legato sul ponticello
  • Glissando
  • Hammer-ons and pull-offs
 
11 PERF REPETITION
  • Legato slow
  • Legato fast, var. 1
  • Staccato
  • Legato medium
  • Legato fast, var. 2
  • Ponticello medium and fast
  • Legato crescendo and diminuendo
12 FAST REPETITION  
  • Fast repetitions
  • Normal
  • Ponticello
  • Crescendo and diminuendo
13 CHORDS on 4-6 Strings - Major and minor  
  • 3- and 4-key chords, C to B major and minor
  • Battente
  • Pulled
  • Rasguando short
  • Arpeggio/rasguando long
13 CHORDS on 4-6 Strings - Chromatic  
  • Chords in chromatic progression
  • Battente, pulled, rasguando short, and arpeggio/long rasguando
  • Major, minor, dominant 7, major 7, and minor 7 chords on 6, 5, and 4 strings
  • Diminished 7, major 7 with augmented 5th, minor 7 with diminished 5th, and minor with major 7th chords
  • Sus4 and 7sus4, with the E, A, and D strings as base
14 CHORDS on 3 Strings  
  • Chords played on 3 strings in chromatic progression
  • Battente, pulled, and rasguando short
  • Major base, 1st inversion, 2nd inversion, with 8ve
  • Minor base, 1st inversion, 2nd inversion
  • Minor 7, dominant 7, diminished 7, sus4

  Overdrive

Articulation groupStandard LibraryExtended Library
01 SHORT + LONG NOTES
  • Staccato short soft, medium, hard
  • Sustained with and without vibrato
  • Sub-bass sustained
  • Staccato normal soft, medium, hard
  • Portato short
  • Portato long with and without vibrato
  • Sustained with whammy bar (2 variations)
02 HARMONICS  
  • Artificial harmonics, 5th and octave
  • Natural harmonics
03 TRILLS + PHRASES  
  • Tremolo
  • Trills, minor 2nd to major 3rd
  • Grace noise, normal and with whammy bar, base note and octave
04 POWER CHORDS
  • Power chords, 4th and 5th
  • Power chords, major and minor
 
05 FX
  • Scratches on E and B string
  • Feedback effects, soft and hard
  • Bowed
  • Scratches with whammy bar
  • Scratch effects
10 PERF INTERVAL
  • Legato normal and with vibrato
  • Hammer-ons and pull-offs
  • Legato with whammy bar (2 variations)
  • Marcato, normal and with vibrato
  • Bends
11 PERF REPETITION
  • Staccato, normal and muted (2 variations each)
  • Power chords, 4th and 5th
  • Staccato dynamics, normal (2 variations)
  • Power chords dynamics, 4th and 5th
  • Sub-bass repetitions
12 FAST REPETITION  
  • Staccato, 140 to 160, 180, 200, and 220 BPM, normal and dynamics
  • Effects, 140 to 160, 180, and 200 BPM
13 SCALE RUNS  
  • Octave runs, legato, major and minor harmonic, C to B scale

 

Over 19,000 samples in 44.1kHz/24bit (4.8 GB download size).

Formats: AU/VST/RTAS (plug-in and stand-alone).

 

Safety Warnings: Die spezifischen Sicherheitshinweise für das Produkt sind in dessen Bedienungsanleitung aufgeführt.

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https://www.vsl.co.at

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