Woodwinds II

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

• Piccolo.
• Flute 2.
• Alto flute.
• Viennese oboe.
• English horn 1.
• English horn 2.
• Small clarinet in Eb.
• Bass clarinet.
• Contra bassoon.

Articulations

Performances:

• Interval Performances: legato, marcato; fast & slow.
• Repetition Performances: legato, portato, staccato; crescendo & diminuendo.
• Viennese oboe – Performance Repetition upbeats.
• Performance Trills.
• Grace Note Performances: minor 2nd to octave, up & down.
• Runs: major, minor, chromatic, whole tone; up & down.
• Piccolo, flutes – arpeggios: major, minor, diminished triads; legato & staccato; medium & fast.
• Piccolo, Viennese oboe – mordents: legato & staccato, 12 variations.

Single notes:

• Short notes: staccato, short portato, long portato.
• Long notes: sustains with various attacks and vibratos.
• Dynamics: crescendo & diminuendo in various note lengths; fp, sfz, sffz, pfp.
• Trills: half tone, whole tone; crescendo & diminuendo.
• Flutter tonguing.
• Contrabassoon – FX techniques.

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.