The Vienna Strings is a massive treasury of multisamples that was captured with pioneering recording technology in a specially constructed sound stage. Every instrument and section was recorded in one finely tuned environment for sonic consistency throughout the library.

        Strings is part of the Vienna Orchestral CUBE  and contains 10,588 Samples - 11 GB - 2 DVDs
16-bit, 44.1kHz.

Sample Content of the Strings

chromatically sampled
up to 5 dynamic layers
up to 3 articulations
(especially solo brass): soft, normal, marcato
without vibrato, soft and strong vibrato, progressive vibrato
different lengths for short notes: 0.1 sec, 0.3 sec, 0.5 sec
2 sampled variations of the same note for each short note
long notes (1 to 20 seconds) with release trigger
Single tones with progessive dynamics

3 dynamic intensities
slight, e.g. pmf etc.    up to 4 dynamic layers
medium, e.g. ppmf    2 dynamic layers
strong, e.g. pp
crescendos - diminuendos, e.g. pp
fp, sfz, sffz
lengths from 1 to 6 seconds
with and without vibrato
Trills slow and fast variations as well as accelerations
Tremolos crescendo and diminuendo patches CLOSE

Instruments

Violin ensemble
Viola ensemble
Violoncello ensemble
Double bass ensemble  
Harp