Chamber Strings is part of the Symphonic Cube, which consists of ten "Vienna Instruments Collections". Chamber Strings features the following instruments:

• Violin Ensemble (6 Musicians)
• Viola Ensemble (4 Musicians)
• Violoncello Ensemble (3 Musicians)
• Double bass Ensemble (2 Musicians)

Articulations

Performances:

• Interval Performances: legato, portamento, zigane (gipsy), détaché, marcato, spiccato
• Performance Trills
• Repetition Performances: legato, portato, staccato, spiccato, harsh
• Grace notes: normal, zigane

Single notes:

• Short notes: short staccato, long staccato, short détaché, long détaché, 4 variations each
• Long notes: sustains with and without vibrato, espressivo
• Dynamics: various crescendos & diminuendos, with and without vibrato, fp, sfz, sffz
• Sustained tremolos
• Trills: normal and baroque trills, half tone & whole tone, crescendo & diminuendo
• Pizzicatos: normal, Bartók pizzicatos
• Natural harmonics: sustains, glissandos
• Artificial harmonics: staccato, sustains, repetitions

The Vienna Instrument Engine:

• Powerful proprietary streaming audio engine, developed by Vienna Symphonic Library's Christian Teuscher.
• Up to 3,456 Articulations (Patches) on one MIDI channel.
• RAM pre-load of up to 25,600 stereo samples (based on 1.6 GB available RAM under Windows; 48,000 samples on a 3 GB Mac G5).
• 64 stereo voices per instance streaming from disk.
• Extremely low load times (average 1 sec. per Patch) using pre-caching.
• Lossless real-time de-compression for using less RAM and hard disk resources.
• RAM Optimizer kicks unused samples out of RAM.
• Pre-configured Patches.
• Performance Detection algorithms integrated in Patches without the need to switch manually between articulations.
• Trigger comprehensive sets of articulations using hardware controllers (MIDI learn), key switches, and speed, without ever leaving the current MIDI channel.
• Layer Articulations for simultaneous or crossfade performances in one Preset.
• Easily design your own Instruments using Drag & Drop.
• Switch Velocity Crossfades and Release Control on/off on the fly.