Big Bang Orchestra: Kopernikus

Introduction

Welcome to the Vienna Symphonic Library's series of Synchron Instruments! As the name says, Big Bang Orchestra furnishes you with a selection of full-orchestra articulations, at the same time allowing you (if you haven't done so already) to explore our powerful Synchron Player software. If you're looking for that extra dramatic effect or want to highlight a passage in your composition, this bonus library could be the solution, or at least point you in the right direction.

Multiple large metal sheet percussion instruments, possibly thunder sheets or gongs, arranged on stands in a recording studio or concert hall.
Overhead diagram of Synchron Stage Vienna, illustrating microphone and instrument placement for recording Synchron Strings I. The diagram shows violin, viola, cello, and double bass sections, with specific mic types like Close Mic, Mid Mic, Back Mic, and the Main Decca Tree array, indicating Standard Library and Add. Full Library mic options.

BBO Jupiter and BBO Kopernikus complement the former two with dedicated horn and trumpet sections, respectively.

Included Presets

Children's choir recording Big Bang Orchestra: Ymir at Vienna Symphonic Library Synchron Stage, with conductor direction and music stands.

BBO Jupiter and BBO Kopernikus further enhance the preceding two brass Libraries with articulations featuring horn and trumpet sections, respectively. The basic articulations are the same as those of Hercules, so that you can switch between the articulations of these brass Libraries without having to adapt any keyswitches.

  • Range Horns: D#2–F5 (Rips: D#3–G5)
  • Range Trumpets: F#3–D6
  • Articulation Keyswitches: C1–F#1/F1
Synchron Percussion II: A variety of orchestral percussion instruments, including gongs, cymbals, and small bells, arranged on stands in a recording studio or concert hall.

Short notes

Bold and agile.

  • Bold/agile: C6/C#6
Screenshot of the Vienna Symphonic Library Synchron Instruments interface showing articulation and type options including Short notes, Long notes, Legato, Dynamics, Flutter & trills, Fast repetitions, Bold, and Agile.

Long notes

Long notes regular, soft, marcato, and espressivo.

  • Type keyswitches: C6–D#6.
Vienna Symphonic Library Synchron Instruments interface showing Articulation and Type options including Long notes and Sustain for music production.

Marcato

Marcato attack can be added gradually to the basic articulation with the help of Dim.Ctrl/A (MIDI CC1, modwheel).

Vienna Symphonic Library Synchron Instruments interface showing Articulation and Type settings, with Legato and Regular selected, for Big Bang Orchestra Kopernikus.

Legato

Legato regular, soft, and marcato.

  • Type keyswitches: C6–D6
Vienna Symphonic Library software interface showing Articulation and Type settings for Big Bang Orchestra, with Dynamics highlighted in Articulation and Sforzato highlighted in Type, demonstrating musical expression controls.

Dynamics

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

  • Type keyswitches: C6–F#6
Vienna Symphonic Library software interface showing Articulation and Type settings for Big Bang Orchestra, with Dynamics highlighted in Articulation and Sforzato highlighted in Type, demonstrating musical expression controls.

Flutter & trills

Flutter tonguing, half and whole tone trills.

  • Type keyswitches: C6–D6
Vienna Symphonic Library Synchron Instruments interface showing Articulation and Type settings for Big Bang Orchestra. Articulation options include Short notes, Long notes, Legato, Dynamics, Flutter & trills, and Fast repetitions. Type options include Fluttertongue, Halftone trills, and Wholetone trills.

Fast repetitions

Staccato repetitions at 120, 140, and 160 BPM. These are already prepared for timestretching, i.e., all Patches have the original tempo they were recorded with entered as their source tempo. This allows you to adapt your repetitions automatically to the tempo of your project with only two mouse clicks.

  • Tempo keyswitches: C6–D6
Vienna Symphonic Library Synchron Instruments interface showing Articulation and Tempo settings for Big Bang Orchestra Kopernikus, with options like short notes, long notes, legato, dynamics, flutter & trills, fast repetitions, and tempos including 120 bpm, 140 bpm, and 160 bpm.