ILIO Big Bang Orchestra: Solaris - FX Woodwinds

ILIO VSLSYT36 Overview

Vienna Symphonic Library Big Bang Orchestra: Solaris is a virtual instrument with a library consisting of a Low Woodwinds ensemble and a High Woodwinds ensemble playing unison and octave notes with a wide variety of articulations at Synchron Stage Vienna. A perfect addition to the BBO: Orion Woodwind Sections and BBO: Neptune Tutti Woodwinds, it expands the series with ready-to-use phrases from vivid shimmering arpeggios to suspenseful clusters ideal for creating beautiful textures out of the box for film and game scoring, trailer music, and sound design.

The Low Woodwinds section consists of three contrabassoons, two bassoons, one contrabass clarinet, and two bass clarinets. Together, they perform the fundamental lows, with articulations such as short notes (both bold and agile), long notes, espressivo, short and long swells, sforzatos, sforzatissimos, and flutter tongues. All these playing techniques are available as notes playing in unison and octaves, as well as in clusters. A crossfade patch allows you to blend seamlessly from unison to clusters and back.

The High Woodwinds section consists of one piccolo, three flutes, two oboes, and four clarinets. Playing techniques include long notes in unison and octaves, and runs and arpeggios in a wide variety of scales and chords. Runs are available in major and minor keys, as well as in diatonic modes, and chromatic and whole tone scales. As a variant, the Perform Octave patch lets you play a starting note of any length and trigger the run as soon as you press the target note an octave above or below.

Arpeggios are performed in various chords, including major, minor, sevenths, diminished, and augmented. Using the included Synchron Player s time-stretching feature, you can have an entire woodwind section play rhythmically perfect arpeggios by just holding a single key.

All 18 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 Synchron Player s internal mixer.

The software is compatible with Mac and Windows and operates in AU, VST, and AAX formats. Solaris integrates perfectly with every module in the BBO series.

Note:

Software requires an iLok account.

Two Woodwind Ensembles, 18 Musicians

Ensemble of low woodwinds (8 musicians): Three contrabassoons, two bassoons, one contrabass clarinet, and two bass clarinets

Ensemble of high woodwinds (10 musicians): One piccolo, three flutes, two oboes, and four clarinets

Unison and octave notes with a wide variety of articulations, clusters, runs, and arpeggios

Crossfade patch allows you to blend seamlessly from unison to clusters and back

Perform Octave patch lets you play a starting note of any length, and trigger the run as soon as you press the target note an octave above or below

Arpeggios Performed in Three Tempos

Played in 16th triplets, arpeggios are available in three tempos: 80, 100, and 120 BPM You can easily sync them to your host tempo using the Synchron Player s time-stretching feature, or even change the tempos in real time using a controller.

You can choose to start the loops on the highest or the lowest notes, and you can define the exit notes as note cutoff, highest, or lowest

Instead of choosing to start upwards or downwards, you can create beautiful woodwind textures by letting the ensemble play upwards and downwards simultaneously

Articulations FX-Woodwinds High

• Sustains
• Octave runs, C to B major, plain, and perform octave
• Octave runs, plain and perform octave, Ionian (major), Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian (minor), Locrian, chromatic, and whole tone
• Arpeggios up, down, and cross at 80/100/120 BPM, major, minor, dominant 7, major and minor 7, minor with major 7, diminished, and augmented

Articulations FX-Woodwinds Low

• All articulations regular and cluster
• Short notes, bold and agile
• Long notes, regular, espressivo, soft swell
• Dynamics, sforzato, sforzatissimo, short and long swell
• Flutter tonguing

Modify Your Sound with the Included Synchron Player

The section microphones can be independently adjusted in the integrated mixer of the Synchron Player, allowing you to emphasize the power of certain sections and giving you more freedom to modify your overall string sound

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

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

Experimental Presets: These presets add compression to the woodwinds using the integrated compressor to achieve a more powerful sound

7 Microphone Setups

• Main (Decca Tree stereo)
• Main (Decca Tree center)
• Main surround stereo
• High stereo
• High surround stereo
• Mid microphones
• Close microphones