Big Bang Orchestra: Quasar

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.

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.

Upgrade Info

The instruments in this collection were derived from our Libraries Synchron Percussion I and Synchron Percussion II, which not only feature more instruments, but also offer additional articulations. Owners of BBO Phoenix and/or BBO Quasar will receive discounts on the purchase of these Libraries.

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Included Presets

BBO Quasar complements the pitched percussion from BBO Phoenix with a selection of unpitched percussion instruments, including bass and snare drums, concert toms, taikos, tambourine, piatti, suspended cymbals, tamtams, slapsticks, thundersheet, triangle, windmachine, and woodblocks.

Drums

Bass Drum

Bass drum played with soft and hard beaters: normal and rim hits, 1–4 upbeats, and rolls.

Soft/hard beater: C1/D1
Range: C4–C5

Screenshot showing the Beater selection interface for Vienna Symphonic Library's Big Bang Orchestra: Quasar, with options for Soft beater and Hard beater visible.

Mapping:

Keyboard interface displaying music articulation options like Roll, Upbeats (1-4), Rim, and Normal in the Vienna Symphonic Library Synchron Instruments.

Concert Toms

Concert toms ranging between 8" and 16", arranged in octave mappings: normal and and rim hits, stick on stick, rolls, rimshots, and muted.

Range: C2–G#7

Vienna Symphonic Library Big Bang Orchestra Quasar virtual instrument software interface showing Tom-Stack settings with selectable tom drum sizes: 8, 10, 12, 14, 15, and 16 inches.

Mapping:

Vienna Symphonic Library Big Bang Orchestra Quasar drum sample interface displaying various 14-inch tom articulations like Muted, Rimshot, Roll, and Normal.

Snare Drum

Snare drum played with sticks, rods, and brushes: single hits offcenter (normal) and rim, 1–4 upbeats, and rolls (sticks only).

Beater keys: C1–D1
Range:
- sticks: C4–C5
- rods, brushes: C4–B4

Beater MIDI CC controls for Big Bang Orchestra Quasar virtual instrument, showing selectable options for drum sticks, rods, and brushes.

Mapping:

Taikos

Taikos from 8" to 53" (mapped to two instruments per octave) played with a cudgel and with a tam beater: normal and side hits left/right, and rim hits (cudgel only).

Cudgel/tam beater: C1/C#1
Range:
- cudgel: C3–A7
- tam beater: C3–G#7

User interface showing options for instrument beater types like Cudgel and Tam beater, alongside stack sizes for drum or cymbal samples from 8 to 53 inches, for the Big Bang Orchestra: Quasar virtual instrument.

Mapping cudgel:

Close-up of a digital piano keyboard interface with labeled instrument samples for Big Bang Orchestra: Quasar, including 20-inch and 26-inch rim, side, and normal right/left drum sounds.

Mapping tam beater:

Musical keyboard keys with mapping for Big Bang Orchestra Synchron Instruments, showing 20 and 26 microphone positions: Side Right, Normal Right, Side Left, Normal Left.

Tambourine

Tambourine: center and rim strokes, 1–4 upbeats, and thumb tremolo.

Range: C4–C5

Mapping:

Musical keyboard interface showing articulation options like Tremolo, Upbeats, Rim, and Center, typically found in a Vienna Symphonic Library Synchron Instruments plugin for orchestral music production.

Cymbals and Tams

Piatti

Piatti: normal and muted strokes, sizzle stroke.

Range: C4–G4

Mapping:

Digital keyboard interface displaying musical articulations Strokes sizzle, Muted strokes, and Strokes for Vienna Symphonic Library instruments.

Suspended Cymbal

Suspended cymbals played with sticks, mallets, and brushes: edge and top hits, and rolls (according to beater).

Beater keyswitches: C1/E1
Range
- sticks: C4–C#5
- mallets: C4–C5
- brushes: C4–D#4

Screenshot of a digital audio workstation (DAW) interface, specifically the Big Bang Orchestra Quasar's 'Beater' instrument selection menu. The menu shows options for selecting drum beater types: Sticks, Mallets, and Brushes, with 'Sticks' currently highlighted in blue. This visual aids users in understanding how to choose percussive instrument sounds within the Vienna Symphonic Library Synchron Instruments.

Mapping sticks:

Digital piano roll interface showing programming for musical instrument samples like Roll Edge and Roll Top in gray and white bars, with keys labeled 4 and 5.

Mapping mallets:

Vienna Symphonic Library Big Bang Orchestra Quasar software interface showing a piano roll with Roll and Single hit sections labeled with numbers 5 and 4.

Mapping brushes:

Musical keyboard interface showing velocity layers and Edge and Top labels, relevant to the Big Bang Orchestra Vienna Symphonic Library.

Tam-tams

Large and extra large tam-tams (100 and 120 cm): normal and muted strokes, rolls.

Tam-tam large/Xlarge: A1/A#1
Range: C4–C5

Orchestral size selection menu showing Large 100cm and XLarge 120cm options for Big Bang Orchestra Quasar.

Mapping:

Screenshot of Big Bang Orchestra Quasar software interface showing a piano roll with Roll, Muted strokes, and Strokes options.

Percussion

Slapsticks

Large, medium, and small slapsticks mapped to octaves: variants 1–4.

Range: C3–D#5

Mapping:

Screenshot of a musical instrument interface showing a piano roll on the left and selectable sound variations like Medium, variant 1-4 on the right, for Vienna Symphonic Library Synchron Instruments.

Thundersheet

Large thundersheet: single hits with hands, sticks, felt, rubber, and gong beaters, chain, and brush; shaken, bowed, and played with a superball; tremolo with gong beaters and brushes.