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

• Violin ensemble (14 players).
• Viola ensemble (10 players).

Articulations

Performances:

• Interval Performances: legato, portamento, staccato, tremolo.
• Fast Interval Performances: legato, marcato, spiccato.
• Performance Trills.
• Interval Performances muted (con sordino): normal, portamento.
• Violins: Interval Performance Glissandos on the same string.
• Repetition Performances: legato, bow vibrato, portato, staccato, spiccato, harsh, upbeats, pizzicato.
• Repetition Performances muted: legato, portato, staccato.
• Runs: legato, spiccato; major, minor, chromatic, whole tone.

Single notes:

• Short notes: short staccato, staccato, short détaché, long détaché, 4 variations each.
• Long notes: sustains with and without vibrato, espressivo, flautando.
• Dynamics: various crescendos & diminuendos, with and without vibrato, fp, sfz, sffz, pfp.
• Tremolos: sustains, crescendo & diminuendo.
• Trills: half tone, whole tone, minor, major 3rd, accelerando.
• Pizzicatos (loose and tight) and Bartók pizzicatos.
• Col legno.
• Con sordino: staccato, détaché, sustained, crescendos & diminuendos, fortepiano, sforzato, tremolo, pizzicato, trills.
• Sul ponticello: staccato, sustains, crescendos & diminuendos, sfz, tremolo.
• Artificial harmonics: staccato, sustains.

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.