Studio Concert Guitar

^{previously "SYNCHRON-ized Plucked Instruments"}

Studio Plucked Instruments was specifically created to enrich the tonal palette of your Synchron Instruments with the inimitable sound of our concert guitar, overdrive guitar, and upright bass recordings. This document will provide you with the information you need to use the Library with our Vienna Synchron Player.

The Presets of each instrument are subdivided into different Articulation categories, ready for your own creations:

• Concert Guitar

  • Short notes
  • Long notes
  • Long specials
  • Legato
  • Repetitions
  • Fast repetitions
  • Phrases
  • Effects
  • Chords

• Overdrive

  • Short notes
  • Long notes
  • Harmonics
  • Tremolo & trills
  • Grace notes
  • Power chords
  • Effects
  • Legato
  • Repetitions
  • Fast repetitions
  • Scale runs

• Upright Bass

  • Short notes
  • Sustain
  • Noises & effects
  • Legato
  • Repetitions
  • Upbeats

Within these Articulation categories, you can select different types – e.g., short notes staccato or portato. For some of the types there are additional options available, such as "ringing" or "stopped" sustains with or without vibrato.

The instrument Presets comprise all recorded Patches in Articulation groups, which again contain Types of the respective Articulation, with further options if available. The general structure was modeled after our other Synchron Collections, making it easy to switch or combine instruments without major adaptations.

Articulations are enabled by default. Disabling a slot means that all the slots dependent on it will be deactivated, too, so if you happen to be short of RAM it is possible to deactivate anything you don't really need (you can always add more stuff later).

By default the mapping of keyswitches for Articulations starts at C1 (for Middle C = C4) for higher instruments – in this case, concert and overdrive guitar –, and C6 for bass instruments – here, the upright bass. Other slot categories, e.g., release type, vibrato, etc., use keyswitches or dimension controllers such as the modwheel or playing speed.

• Articulation groups

  • Short notes
  • long notes
  • long specials
  • legato
  • repetitions
  • fast repetitions
  • phrases
  • effects
  • chords

• Range: D2–C6 unless indicated otherwise

Staccato A and B, Bartók staccato, étouffé staccato, and hammer staccato.

• Type keyswitches: C7–E7
• Range: étouffe D2–E5; hammering F2–A#5

Sustained, flautando, ponticello, and Bartók (snapping).

• Keyswitches
  • Ringing/stopped: A0/B0
  • No vibrato/vibrato: F6/F#6
  • Articulation type: C7–D#7

Étouffé ('choked'), hammered, artificial harmonics, and natural harmonics low and high.

• Keyswitches
  • Ringing/stopped: A0/B0
  • Articulation type: C7–E7
• Range
  • hammered F2–A#5
  • artificial harmonics D3–B6
  • natural harmonics low C3–A6, high C3–A5

Natural harmonics mapping

The mapping for each string starts at C, beginning with low E tuned down to D.

• C: Octave
• D: 5th (plus octave)
• E: 2nd octave
• F: major 3rd (+ 2 oct.)
• G: 5th (+ 2 oct.)
• A: 3rd octave

Performance legato, ponticello, glissando, and hammered/pulled transitions.

• Keyswitches
  • Ringing/stopped: A0/B0
  • Articulation type: C7–D#7

Regular repetitions slow, medium, fast, crescendo, and diminuendo, and ponticello repetitions slow and fast.

• Keyswitches
  • Ringing/stopped: A0/B0
  • Regular/ponticello: F6/F#6
  • Articulation type: C7–E7

Fast repetitions, 140 to 200 BPM, regular and ponticello.

• Keyswitches
  • Ringing/stopped: A0/B0
  • Regular/ponticello: F6/F#6
  • Tempo: C7–E7

Tremolo, half and whole tone trills, bends up and down.

• Keyswitches
  • Ringing/stopped: A0/B0
  • Articulation type: C7–E7
• Range
  • trills D2–F5
  • bends D#2–B5

Harp, golpe, muted chord strokes, tambora (thumb strokes), and scratching on the E, A, and D strings.

• Effect type keyswitches: C7–F#7

Harp mapping

Harp-like effects created by plucking the strings between the nut and the tuners.

• Range: C3–F6

Golpe mapping

Strokes on the top, side, neck, fingerboard, flams and fingernail strokes on the bridge of the guitar, and drum rolls.

• Range: D2–D6

Chord-mute mapping

Battente, pulled, short and long rasgueado, and arpeggio.

• Range: C4–G4

Scratches mapping E string

Scratching on the low E string.

• Range: C3–A#6

Scratches mapping A string

Scratching on the A string.

• Range: C3–A#5

Scratches mapping D string

Scratching on the D string.

• Range: C3–A#5

Chords in all keys, major, major 7, minor, minor 7, and chromatic mappings for various chords.

• Keyswitches
  • Right hand technique: A1–C2 regular/ rasgueado/ rasgueado rolls/ arpeggio
  • Ringing/secco/stopped: A0/A#0/B0
  • Tonal mode: F6–A6
  • Key: C7–B7

Mapping

1. E2–D#4 features the lower playing positions on the guitar with 3–4 6-string chords and 1–3 5-string chords followed by 4-string chords up to the highest chord.

2. E4–G5/G#5 (depending on the scale) features higher playing positions, with 6-string chords up to C3, if possible. The lowest of these are the same in playing position 1. They are followed by 5-string chords up to G3. The following 4-string chords are the same as at the 1st playing position.

Major

3-key chords on every note of the scale, C major to B major, played on 4 to 6 strings depending on tablature. Here's an illustration of the chords as played for C major, with the keys they are mapped to.

Major-7

4-key chords on every note of the scale, C major to B major, played on 4 to 6 strings depending on tablature. Here's an illustration of the chords as played for C major, with the keys they are mapped to.

Minor

Minor-7

Various (chromatic)

Here's an illustration of the chords, based on the lowest playing position on the guitar.

Chord play ranges

• Range Major 3 and 4 keys

  • C major: E2–G5
  • C# major: F2–G#5
  • D major: E2–G5
  • D# major: F2–G#5
  • E major: E2–G#5
  • F major: E2–G5
  • F# major: F2–G#5
  • G major: E2–G5
  • G# major: F2–G#5
  • A major: E2–F#5
  • A# major: F2–G5
  • B major: E2–G#5

• Range Minor 3 and 4 keys

  • C minor: F2–D#6
  • C# minor: E2–D#6
  • D minor: E2–D6
  • D# minor: F2–D#6
  • E minor: E2–D#6
  • F minor: F2–C#6
  • F# minor: E2–D6
  • G minor: F2–D#6
  • G# minor: E2–D#6
  • A minor: E2–D6
  • A# minor: F2–D#6
  • B minor: E2–D6

• Range Chromatic mapping

  • major: D#2–D6
  • minor: D#2–D6
  • dom7: D#2–D6
  • maj7: D#2–D6
  • min7: D#2–D6
  • dim7: A2–D#4
  • maj7#5: A2–D#4
  • m7b5: A2–D#4
  • Mmaj7: A2–D#4
  • sus4: D#2–D#6
  • 7sus4: D#2–D#6