Brass II

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

• Piccolo trumpet.
• Bass trumpet.
• Triple horn.
• Horn ensemble (8 players) / Epic Horns.
• Bass trombone.
• Contrabass trombone.
• Contrabass tuba.
• Wagner tuba.
• Cimbasso.

Articulations

Performances:

• Interval Performances: legato, marcato; slow & fast.
• Repetition Performances: legato, portato, staccato; crescendo & diminuendo.
• Performance Repetition upbeats: slow, medium, fast.
• Performance Trills.
• Solo instruments – Grace Note Performances: minor and minor 2nd, up and down.

Single notes:

• Short notes: staccato and portato with various attacks and note lengths.
• Long notes: sustains with various attacks and vibratos.
• Horn ensemble: blared sustains.
• Dynamics: crescendo & diminuendo in various note lengths, various vibratos; fp, sfz, sffz, pfp.
• Solo instruments – trills: half tone, whole tone; crescendo & diminuendo.
• Flutter tongues: normal and crescendo variations.

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.