Percussion

Percussion is part of the Symphonic Cube, which consists of ten "Vienna Instruments Collections". Percussion features the following instruments and articulations:

Timpani 1
Timpani 2

• Single hits (normal, secco, coperto), tremolos (normal, crescendo, diminuendo), tremolo glissandos, single hit glissandos, upbeats.
• Repetition Performances.
• Various mallets.

Drums
Snare drum 1
Snare drum 2
Snare drum ensemble
Piccolo drum
Field drum 1
Field drum 2
Bass drum 1
Bass drum 2
Concert toms
Roto toms
Taiko drums
Tambourine 1
Tambourine 2.

Cymbals & Gongs
Piatti (a-due cymbals)
Chinese cymbals
Crash cymbal
Ride cymbal
Splash cymbal
Suspended cymbals
Finger cymbals
Gongs
China gongs
Peking Opera gongs
Tam-tam 1
Tam-tam 2.

Mallets & Blocks
Celesta
Glockenspiel
Vibraphone
Xylophone
Marimba
Wood blocks
Temple blocks.

Percussion
Altar-boy bells
Angklung
Antique cymbals
Anvil surrogate (rails)
Bell tree
Bells
Boobams (boa bams)
Brake disks & springs
Bull roarer
Burmese bells
Car horns
Castagnets
Caxixi
Chimes
Church bells
Claves
Cow bells (cencerros)
Crotales
Cuíca
Finger bells
Flexatone
Guiro
Guns (shots)
Hammer
Japanese singing bowls
Jingle ring
Lion's roar
Lithophone (small)
Log drum
Ocean drum
Plate bells
Rainmaker
Ratchets
Rock bells
Shaker
Ship's bell
Siren
Sleigh bells (jingle bells)
Small bells
Spring drum
Thunder sheet
Triangle 1
Triangle 2
Tubular bells
Vibratone
Waldteufel
Waterphone
Whip
Wind machine.

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.