BIG BANG ORCHESTRA MUSCA

Big Bang Orchestra: Musca - Low Strings

• Two string ensembles, recorded in the Synchron Stage Vienna

• Playing 6 cellos and 4 basses in octaves

• Many microphone positions with additional “close” mics

• Real legato, glissando, espressivo, pizzicato, trills, swells etc.

• Exceptional surround sound from the large Synchron Stage Vienna

Great Viennese string sound

The music capital Vienna has always been famous for its string sound. In the large hall A of VSL's own Scoring Stage, the deep string ensembles of the Synchron Stage Orchestra enter into an almost symbiotic connection with the extraordinary acoustics of the large hall “Stage A” to create a string sound that reflects the overall sound of the Big Bang Orchestra rounded off with substance.

Recording the six cellos and four basses playing together offers the immense advantage that the musicians coordinate perfectly with one another. The balanced sound created in this way is, thanks to the balance of intonation, timbre, phrasing and vibrato intensity, from a single source and is characterized by a harmonious fullness of sound.

The library contains the same playing styles as BBO: Lyra, with variants of short notes, long notes with two vibrato intensities, legato, espressivo, sfz, sffz, crescendo and diminuendo, tremolo, fast repetitions of notes, half and whole tone trills, half and Whole-tone glissandi and pizzicati. As with all libraries that are played with the Vienna Synchron Player, the tempo of articulations, such as B. repetitions or glissandi, can easily be changed with the integrated time stretch feature. With special patches, you can combine the low strings of Musca with the high strings of Lyra. Both groups are then available across the keyboard, either overlapping in the middle or separated at split point C3.

The performances of the string ensembles of BBO: Musca have been completely re-recorded and are perfectly coordinated with the tutti recordings of other Big Bang Orchestra modules. With the available mixer presets you get a perfect sound "out-of-the-box", with which you can start immediately. "Room Mixes" are CPU and RAM-saving stereo mixes in which the signals from the Decca tree and the surround microphones are combined in a premix. Other mixer presets come up with a combination of individual microphone signals that are on separate mixer channels and can be changed as desired. These include B. “Stereo Decca Tree” and “Surround to Stereo” - the latter adds the signals from the surround microphones to the stereo output of the synchronous player in order to achieve a denser, richer overall sound. The “Surround” presets can be used in actual 3D audio setups, e.g. B. Dolby Atmos or Auro 3D. In the “Processed” category you will find mixer settings with names such as “Compressed”, “Sparkling”, “Wall of Strings”, “Howling Strings” and many more. All mixer presets were masterfully created by Bernd Mazagg, Chief Recording Engineer at Synchron Stage Vienna.