SYNCHRON TIN WHISTLES

Synchron Tin Whistles - 6 tin whistles in the keys of G, D, C, A, F and low D

Tin whistles, also called penny whistles because of their low price, originated in Great Britain and Ireland in the 19th century. The beaked flutes with six finger holes are used particularly in Irish, Scottish and Celtic music. Despite its high register, the tin whistle's sound can be quite smooth and lyrical, but it can also rise above other instruments with shrill assertiveness and agility.

This Synchron World Winds Pack contains six tin whistles in the keys of G, D, C, A, F and low D. Typical playing techniques and embellishments such as slides, cuts, taps, rolls and grace notes have been sampled in detail and are now in the clear patch -Structure of Vienna Synchron Player easily accessible.

All six tin whistles included in this pack were played by multi-instrumentalist and ethnic instrument expert Veronika Vitazkova, who is also a member of the Synchron Stage Orchestra. She regularly plays concerts with various orchestras such as the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna Chamber Orchestra and the Lower Austrian Tonkünstler, toured Europe as a solo flautist with Ennio Morricone, and played at the Salzburg Festival and Hollywood in Vienna.

Since she has worked on countless film scores in the Synchron Stage Vienna, she is now very familiar with the large Stage A, whose extraordinary acoustics contribute so significantly to the overall sound of the individual instruments.

In order to capture the instruments with this excellent spatial sound in the best possible way, seven separate, phase-coherent microphone arrangements were used. All microphone signals are available separately in the Synchron Player mixer window. A large number of presets offer perfect mixer settings and serve as a starting point for your own sound creations.

Below you’ll find a list of each whistle’s natural sampled tones, which are diatonic as opposed to chromatic. Nonetheless, this software instrument provides chromatic keyboard mappings for every instrument. In addition, legatos were sampled chromatically. If you want your composition to be played by a tin whistle player, please bear in mind that not everything you write and play on the keyboard may be possible to perform for a musician, due to the non-chromatic nature of each instrument.

• Tin Whistle in G - Range: g5 – g7     Scale: G Major (G, A, B, C, D, E, F#)
• Tin Whistle in D - Range: d5 – d7    Scale: D Major (D, E, F#, G, A, B, C#)
• Tin Whistle in C - Range: c5 – c7    Scale: C Major (C, D, E, F, G, A, B)
• Tin Whistle in A - Range: a4 – a6    Scale: A Major (A, B, C#, D, E, F#, G#)
• Tin Whistle in F - Range: f4 – f6        Scale: F Major (F, G, A, Bb, C, D, E)
• Low Tin Whistle in D - Range: d4 – d6    Scale: D Major (D, E, F#, G, A, B, C#)
• (c4 = middle c)

System Requirement

You can either "soft" activate the software on your computer without addditional hardware or transfer the license to an iLok USB dongle which has to be purchased separately. The iLok dongle can be used to run the protected software on different computers. Your licenses can be easily manged using the iLok Licence Manager. To protect your investment against theft or loss we recommend the iLok Zero Downtime protection with TLC.

An internet connection on any computer and a free user-accout at www.ilok.com is required to authorize the product. In order to download and install your software products and sample libraries authorized via iLok, please use the Vienna Assistant.

Please check with the software manufacturer which iLok version is required at least if you want to use a hardware iLok!