Vienna Instruments Percussion
Virtual Instrument

Apart from the multitude of percussion instruments already contained in the Pro Edition and Horizon Series Libraries, Vienna Instruments: Percussion also offers new instruments, making this Collection a truly magnificent profusion of percussion! Many instruments are now available in a second version: Timpani 2 (with up to eight velocities), snare drum 2 (up to 12 velocities, with and without snare), bass drum 2, field drum 2, tambourine 2, triangle 2, suspended cymbals 2, and a-due cymbals 2. Moreover, there are completely new instruments in Vienna Instruments: Percussion, such as concert toms, roto toms and Taiko drums.

As a novel feature, Vienna Instruments: Percussion also contains production-ready instruments, processed with sought-after high-end studio equipment, put into the right perspective with multi-sampled convolution reverb from the Vienna Symphonic Library’s MIR development. The basic percussion instruments (timpani, snare and bass drum, tambourine, suspended cymbals, a-due cymbals, glockenspiel, triangle, xylophone, tubular bells, tam-tam and concert toms) thus are not only available as samples with minimal reverb of the Silent Stage, but also with the reverb of the world-famous Wiener Konzerthaus in various stage positions. Naturally, these MIR impulses implemented in the samples just scratch the surface of the potential and flexibility of the future MIR engine; nevertheless, they offer a preview of its acoustic possibilities and allow the user to work quickly.

Vienna Instruments Percussion - Articulations - Full Library (Standard + Extended Libraries)

Timpani 1
Timpani 2
Single hits (normal, secco, coperto), tremolos (normal, crescendo, diminuendo), tremolo glissandos, single hit glissandos, upbeats;
Repetition Performances;
Various mallets

Vienna Instruments Percussion - Drums
Snare drum 1
Snare drum 2
Snare drum ensemble
Piccolo drum
Field drum 1
Field drum 2
Bass drum 1
Bass drum 2
Concert toms
Roto toms
Taiko drums
Tambourine 1
Tambourine 2

Vienna Instruments Percussion - Cymbals & Gongs
Piatti (a-due cymbals)
Chinese cymbals
Crash cymbal
Ride cymbal
Splash cymbal
Suspended cymbals
Finger cymbals
Gongs
China gongs
Peking Opera gongs
Tam-tam 1
Tam-tam 2

Vienna Instruments Percussion - Mallets & Blocks
Celesta
Glockenspiel
Vibraphone
Xylophone
Marimba
Wood blocks
Temple blocks

Vienna Instruments Percussion - Percussion
Altar-boy bells
Angklung
Antique cymbals
Anvil surrogate (rails)
Bell tree
Bells
Boobams (boa bams)
Brake disks & springs
Bull roarer
Burmese bells
Car horns
Castagnets
Caxixi
Chimes
Church bells
Claves
Cow bells (cencerros)
Crotales
Cuíca
Finger bells
Flexatone
Guiro
Guns (shots)
Hammer
Japanese singing bowls
Jingle ring
Lion’s roar
Lithophone (small)
Log drum
Ocean drum
Plate bells
Rainmaker
Ratchets
Rock bells
Shaker
Ship’s bell
Siren
Sleigh bells (jingle bells)
Small bells
Spring drum
Thunder sheet
Triangle 1
Triangle 2
Tubular bells
Vibratone
Waldteufel
Waterphone
Whip
Wind machine

Vienna Instruments Percussion - Minimum Requirements

Apple G4 800 MHz (G5 recommended) with Mac OS X 10.4 or higher. AU or VST host program.

PC Intel/AMD 2 GHz (3++ GHz recommended) with Windows XP. VST host program.