VSL Plucked Instruments Full

Nylon & Steel

These three plucked instruments are full-fledged virtual instruments with a comprehensive set of samples and articulations, but have never appeared on any other Vienna Instruments Collection.

Upright Bass features recordings of a plucked bass with an abundance of jazz articulations. The Concert Guitar is a unique, hand-made classical guitar with nylon strings. Overdrive features distorted tube sound recordings of a legendary Steve Vai signature seven-string guitar.

Upright

• Staccato
• Portato short and long
• Snap pizzicato
• Damped
• Muted
• Sustained with normal, light, and without vibrato

• Slide noises, normal
• Slide noises, "legato" mapping
• Finger stops
• Body noises
• Arco sustained FX

• Legato normal
• Legato with ghost note
• Glissando
• Slow glissando

• Legato, with and without vibrato
• Portato slow and fast

• 1–3 upbeats, 80–100, 120, 140 BPM

Concert Guitar

• Staccato normal and Bartók
• Sustained and ponticello, without and with vibrato
• Harmonics artificial and natural

• Staccato étouffé
• Flautando with and without vibrato
• Bartók (snapped) with and without vibrato
• Étouffé
• Tambora

• Hammer-ons
• D, E, A, d, g, b, e strings
• All strings combination

• Trills, half and whole tone

• Tremolo, short
• Bends, half tone, up and down

• Scratches combination

• Golpe
• Harp effects
• Scratches on E, A, D
• Muted chords

• Legato normal
• Legato sul ponticello
• Glissando
• Hammer-ons and pull-offs

• Legato slow
• Legato fast, var. 1
• Staccato

• Legato medium
• Legato fast, var. 2
• Ponticello medium and fast
• Legato crescendo and diminuendo

• Fast repetitions
• Normal
• Ponticello
• Crescendo and diminuendo

• 3- and 4-key chords, C to B major and minor
• Battente
• Pulled
• Rasguando short
• Arpeggio/rasguando long

• Chords in chromatic progression
• Battente, pulled, rasguando short, and arpeggio/long rasguando
• Major, minor, dominant 7, major 7, and minor 7 chords on 6, 5, and 4 strings
• Diminished 7, major 7 with augmented 5th, minor 7 with diminished 5th, and minor with major 7th chords
• Sus4 and 7sus4, with the E, A, and D strings as base

• Chords played on 3 strings in chromatic progression
• Battente, pulled, and rasguando short
• Major base, 1st inversion, 2nd inversion, with 8ve
• Minor base, 1st inversion, 2nd inversion
• Minor 7, dominant 7, diminished 7, sus4

Overdrive

• Staccato short soft, medium, hard
• Sustained with and without vibrato
• Sub-bass sustained

• Staccato normal soft, medium, hard
• Portato short
• Portato long with and without vibrato
• Sustained with whammy bar (2 variations)

• Artificial harmonics, 5th and octave
• Natural harmonics

• Tremolo
• Trills, minor 2nd to major 3rd
• Grace noise, normal and with whammy bar, base note and octave

• Power chords, 4th and 5th
• Power chords, major and minor

• Scratches on E and B string

• Feedback effects, soft and hard
• Bowed
• Scratches with whammy bar
• Scratch effects

• Legato normal and with vibrato
• Hammer-ons and pull-offs

• Legato with whammy bar (2 variations)
• Marcato, normal and with vibrato
• Bends

• Staccato, normal and muted (2 variations each)
• Power chords, 4th and 5th

• Staccato dynamics, normal (2 variations)
• Power chords dynamics, 4th and 5th
• Sub-bass repetitions

• Staccato, 140 to 160, 180, 200, and 220 BPM, normal and dynamics
• Effects, 140 to 160, 180, and 200 BPM

• Octave runs, legato, major and minor harmonic, C to B scale

Over 32,600 samples and 30 GB of sample data in 44.1kHz/24bit (8.5 GB download size).

Formats: AU/VST/RTAS (plug-in and stand-alone).