ILIO Big Bang Orchestra: Izar - Low Brass Clusters

ILIO VSLSYT2A Overview

Vienna Symphonic Library Big Bang Orchestra: Izar is a virtual instrument with a library comprising an ensemble of 4 bass trombones, 1 bass tuba, and 1 contrabass tuba playing half-tone clusters at Synchron Stage A Vienna. A perfect complement to Big Bang Orchestra: Jupiter, Hercules, and Kopernikus brass ensembles, this library expands the series with brassy sounds in the lower register, ideal for creating dramatic dissonances and powerful fortississimos effortlessly right out of the box, and great for modern film and game scoring, trailer music, or sound design.

Big Bang Orchestra: Izar includes all of the articulations of BBO: Hercules Low Brass, sans legatos, and played as clusters. You get short notes, marcatos, several dynamic articulations (sfz and sffz, and various crescendos and decrescendos), flutter tonguing, trills, glissandos, and fast repetitions, all played as half-tone clusters consisting of three adjacent semitones. For long notes, you can choose whether to use an additional fff layer. There is also a preset that combines patches of BBO: Hercules (if installed) and Izar, allowing you to crossfade from straight notes to clusters.

All six musicians performed together and were recorded with an array of microphones including individual close mics for each instrument, mid mics, Decca Tree (left-center-right), surround, and high surround outriggers. This gives you more control and more creative options when mixing your sound using the included Synchron Player s internal mixer.

The software is compatible with Mac and Windows. It runs as standalone software or operates in AU, VST, and AAX formats. Big Bang Orchestra: Izar can be combined with the tutti recordings of the Big Bang Orchestra to create an even brassier orchestral sound. It also integrates seamlessly with every module in the Big Bang Orchestra series.

Note:

Software requires an iLok account.

Articulations

Special XFade preset for owners of BBO: Hercules and BBO: Izar

Short notes, bold, and agile

Sustained regular with and without fff layer, soft, marcato, and espressivo

Sforzato, sforzatissimo, swells short and long, soft and very soft swells, soft diminuendo

Flutter tonguing

Halftone and whole-tone trills

Fast repetitions, staccato at 120/140/160 BPM

Glissandos minor and major 2nd

Modify Your Sound with the Included Synchron Player

Six levels of reverberation and additional processed presets are offered for each microphone setup: Close, Classic, Wide, Distant, Ambient, and Wet.

Factory Mixer presets are based on the room microphones, leaving the individual section microphones disabled. Section microphones can be added to emphasize certain instrument groups.

Change the level, panning, delay, and channel EQ settings for each channel. You can also insert any of the built-in FX plug-ins to further optimize your sound.

Room Microphones Presets

Room Mix Presets: Based on a room mix created from all available room microphones.

Stereo Decca Tree Presets: The Decca Tree is the microphone tree that is the heart and soul of every orchestral recording. It consists of a main stereo channel and a mono center channel, which capture the details of the room from the conductor s perspective.

Surround-to-Stereo Presets: Offer the massive sound of all available room microphones, including the Decca Tree mics down-mixed to a stereo signal.

Surround Presets: With your Synchron Player inserted as a surround plug-in in your DAW, these presets provide the starting point for your surround setup.

Processed Presets: Use the integrated compressor to achieve an even more powerful sound with presets such as Compressed, Sparkling, Wall of Low Brass, Howling Brass, and Threatening Sustain, which correspond with the Low Brass presets of Big Bang Orchestra: Hercules.

7 Microphone Setups

Main (Decca Tree stereo)

Main (Decca Tree center)

Main surround stereo

High stereo

High surround stereo

Mid stereo

Low Brass close