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Studio Elements

previously "SYNCHRON-ized Elements"

Introduction

The Studio Elements were specifically created to give our renowned Vienna Special Editions a chance to shine in the unique acoustic ambience of the Vienna Synchron Stage, and make the ease-of-use of the Vienna Synchron Player available to them, and you.

Included Instruments

Studio Elements is subdivided in 5 Preset/instrument categories: Glass, Metal, Stone, Exotics, and FX Presets. The latter contains processed versions and combinations of the first four sections' instruments. These instruments are:

  • Glass

    • Glass Harmonica
    • Verrophone
    • Musical Glasses A-C
    • Bottles

  • Metal

    • Tam XXL
    • Tam-tams 85-130cm
    • Rails
    • Bass Waterphone
    • Standard Waterphone
    • Thundersheets
    • Japanese Singing Bowls
    • Crotales

  • Stone

    • Grande Lithophone
    • Orff Lithophone

  • Exotics

    • Ocean Drums
    • Bullroarer
    • Spring Drum
    • Cuicas
    • Waldteufel
    • Lion's roar

Due to the instruments' diversity, the articulations and Preset structure vary widely and depend on the specific instrument's requirements and capabilities.

Included Presets

By default the keyswitch mappings for Articulations start at C1 (for Middle C = C4). If there are additional subdivisions with keyswitches, these will start at C2.

Additional options within Articulations or Types are offered by the Dimension Controllers. The controller function is indicated by the respective caption. Generally, Dimension Controllers may take on different tasks as needed, but in this collection the only one employed is marcato control with Dim.Ctrl./A (CC1, modwheel).

01 Glass

  • Instruments:
    • Glass Harmonica
    • Verrophone
    • Musical Glasses A-C
    • Bottles

01 Glass Harmonica

  • Articulations:
    • Portato
    • Sustained
    • Marcato
    • Trills
    • Mallet normal and secco
    • Mallet glissando
User interface showing music articulation options like Portato, Sustain, Marcato, Trills, Mallet, Mallet secco, and Mallet glissando for Studio Elements.
Software interface showing digital audio workstation parameters for Articulation, including Marcato, Sustain, Trills, and Mallet, and Attack with Sustain and Marcato options, referencing Studio Elements musical production.

As the glass harmonica has no staccato notes, the keyswitches start at C#1 to keep consistency with other instruments.

02 Verrophone

  • Articulations:
    • Staccato, portato
    • Sustained normal and marcato
    • Rolls normal and marcato
    • Trills normal and marcato
    • Mallet secco
    • Mallet trills
    • Mallet glissando
Digital interface displaying musical articulations for Studio Elements, including staccato, portato, sustain, roll, trill, and various mallet techniques, mapped to C1 keyboard notes.
User interface displaying audio articulation, type, and attack parameters for Studio Elements, with Sustain selected in the Articulation and Attack menus, and Marcato selected under Type.
Type keyswitches: C2/C#2 normal/marcato

03 Musical glasses - A

  • Articulations:
    • Staccato, portato
    • Sustained normal and marcato
    • Rolls normal and marcato
    • Trills normal and marcato
Studio Elements user interface displaying articulation, type, and attack controls for musical parameters like Sustain, Staccato, Marcato, and Roll.
Type keyswitches: C2/C#2 normal/marcato

04 Musical glasses - B

  • Articulations:
    • Staccato, portato
    • Sustained normal and marcato
    • Rolls normal and marcato
    • Trills normal and marcato
    • Mallet soft, medium, hard
    • Mallet glissando
Digital audio workstation interface with articulation, type, and attack settings, showing Sustain selected for Studio Elements, SYNCHRON-ized Elements, and Vienna Special.
  • Type keyswitches: C2/C#2 normal/marcato

05 Musical glasses - C

  • Articulations:
    • Staccato, portato
    • Sustained normal and marcato
    • Rolls normal and marcato
Digital audio workstation interface showing Studio Elements for articulation and tempo, with options like Staccato, Portato, Sustain, Roll, Staccato fast, and Staccato slow.
Studio Elements software interface displaying musical articulation, type, and attack controls including Staccato, Portato, Sustain, Roll, Normal, and Marcato options.
  • Type keyswitches: C2/C#2 fast/slow (staccato, portato) and normal/marcato (sustained, rolls)

06 Bottles

  • Articulations:
    • Staccato, portato
    • Sustained normal and marcato
    • Flutter tonguing
    • Sforzato
User interface screenshot showing musical articulation, type, and attack settings with Sustain selected under Articulation and Attack, and Marcato selected under Type.
  • Type keyswitches: C2/C#2 normal/marcato

02 Metal

  • Instruments:
    • Tam XXL
    • Tam-tams 85-135 cm
    • Rails
    • Bass Waterphone
    • Standard Waterphone
    • Thundersheets
    • Japanese Singing Bowls
    • Crotales

01 Tam XXL

Vienna Instruments Studio Elements Gadget plugin interface displaying various musical beater types and sound options for virtual instruments.
The Articulations here are named after the gadgets used to create sounds: regular beater, flexatone, metal, paperbox, cardboard tube, plastic, fretsaw, and miscellaneous 1 and 2. Articulations vary according to gadget and are shown below.
"Fretsaw" has no distinct articulations and a tonal range from F3 to F7.

Regular beater

  • Range: C4-C7
Vienna Synchron Studio Elements: Crescendo roll, Rim, and Single hits options for virtual instruments.

Flexatone

  • Range: C3-G6
Studio Elements Vienna Special synchronized sounds, piano keyboard interface showing long and short notes.

Metal

  • Range: C3-B7
Studio Elements percussion map showcasing various sound articulations for can, wrench, fork, grid, metal rod, and chains, with associated piano key assignments.

Paperbox

  • Range: C3-A7
Graphic demonstrating Studio Elements velocity levels from XXXS to XXL, with short, long, and short release durations.

Boardtube

  • Range: C3-G6
Keyboard layout showing Studio Elements instrument sound articulations like Glass, XS, S, M, L, XL with short, long, long release, and short release variations.

Plastic

  • Range: C3-G#6
Visual representation of Studio Elements naming conventions, showing sound variations from XXS short to XL long with different release options, mapped to black and white piano keys.

Miscellaneous 1

  • Range: C3-A#6
Studio Elements key assignment chart displaying sample variations like Ice Spoon, Styrofoam, Bowed, Rolls, and Massage Rod sounds categorized by length and release for sonic effects.

Miscellaneous 2

  • Range: C3-G6
Keyboard mapping for Studio Elements displaying various instrument articulations like Glass bowl, Tam beater, and Flyswatter.

02 Tam-Tams 85-130cm

Tam-tams measuring 85, 100, 110, and 135 cm, played with different beaters and a superball.

Studio Elements patch list showing various beater and stick articulation options like Superball crescendo, Sacre stick rub, and Metal beater variations.
  • Range: C4-C#6

03 Rails

Five railway rails of different size, with left and right hand strokes, tremolo, and 1 to 3 upbeats.

Piano keyboard keys with associated text labels, illustrating Studio Elements sound variations for Rail 1 and Rail 2, including upbeats, right hand, left hand, and tremolo.
  • Range: C3-A#7

04 Bass Waterphone

  • Articulations:
    • Staccato, portato
    • Sustained normal and marcato
    • Repetitions
    • Crescendo f and ff, normal and marcato
    • Tremolo crescendo, normal and marcato
    • Arpeggios
    • FX Loops
    • Strokes

Short notes

Staccato A and B, portato A and B

  • Range:
    • Staccato A G3-G#6
    • Staccato B G3-C7
    • Portato A E3-A6
    • Portato B E3-E6
Digital interface showing Studio Elements articulation and type categories for music production, with selected options Short notes and Staccato A.

Long notes

  • Range:
    • Sustained E3-D6
    • Repetitions A#1-F7
    • Crescendo f E3-D6
    • Crescendo ff E3-G6
    • Tremolo crescendo A3-D#6
A graphical user interface displaying Studio Elements sound parameters including articulation, type, marcato, and attack options for musical composition.

Arpeggios, FX Loops

These Articulations have no other options.

Studio Elements articulation menu showing selectable music performance techniques: short notes, long notes, arpeggios, FX loops, and strokes.
  • Range
    • Arpeggios C3-G6
    • FX Loops C3-A6

FX Loops

Virtual piano keyboard showing various articulation options including Forte, Mezzoforte, Piano, and Glissando, with long and short release settings for Studio Elements musical samples.

Strokes

Different strokes with hotrods and wood beaters, as well as glissando strokes.

Digital interface displaying Studio Elements articulation and type controls for musical sound production, featuring options like Short Notes, Long Notes, Arpeggios, FX Loops, Strokes, Hotrods, Wood, and Gliss. Strokes.
  • Range
    • Hotrods C3-E7
    • Wood C3-G6
    • Glissando strokes C3-C6

Wood

Single hits and chords. Mapped to white keys only.

Visual representation of a piano roll or MIDI keyboard layout with specific zones labeled. Label 5 indicates Chords, and label 3 indicates Single hits, illustrating sound elements for Vienna Special virtual instruments.

Glissando strokes

Glissandos with a light stick, and with a normal stick p and f.

Studio Elements interface displaying normal stick forte, normal stick piano, and light stick sound options alongside a piano roll.

05 Standard Waterphone

  • Articulations
    • Sustained normal and with modulation
    • Arpeggios
    • FX
    • Pizzicato
Digital interface displaying Studio Elements Articulation settings with options for Sustain, Sus modulation, Arpeggios, FX, and Pizzicato.
  • Range
    • Sustained C4-G6
    • Sus modulation C3-E7
    • Arpeggios E3-G#5
    • FX C2-A#7
    • Pizzicato E3-C6

FX mapping

Pizzicato tremolo, glissandos, and multivoice sounds

Virtual instrument key map displaying various articulations like multivoice, glissandos, pizzicato tremolo, for Studio Elements software.

06 Thunder Sheets

Five different thundersheets (A to E) with various articulations and individual sound sets.

User interface for Studio Elements displaying Thunder Sheets virtual instrument sound options, showing selections for different thunder sheet variations labeled A through E with corresponding musical notes C, C#, D, D#, and E.
  • Range
    • A, B, C: C3-D6
    • D: C3-G5
    • E: C4-D6
Thunder sheet A:
Piano roll interface displaying sound elements: Shaken, Bowed, Metal chain, Single hits, Hand rub, and Tremolo, for Studio Elements Vienna Special.
Thunder sheet B:
Studio Elements keyboard layout showing categories like Shaken, Bowed, Metal chain, Single hits, Hand rub, and Tremolo for sound design.
Thunder sheet C:
Vienna Studio Elements library key map showing articulations like Shaken, Bowed, Metal chain, Single hits, Hand rub, and Tremolo
Thunder sheet D:
Virtual piano keyboard showing mapping of Vienna Special Studio Elements sounds like Bowed, Metal chain, Single hits, Hand rub, and Tremolo to specific keys.
Thunder sheet E:
Studio Elements virtual keyboard display showing musical articulations like Shaken, Multi-hit, and Single hits, demonstrating sound patch categories.

07 Japanese Singing Bowls

Japanese singing bowls played with a wood beater normal and secco, and with a rubber beater.

Digital user interface for Japanese singing bowls, showing options for C1, wood beater, rubber beater, and secco wood beater, relevant for Studio Elements.
  • Range: B4-D6

08 Crotales

Crotales played with metal and triangle beaters, and bowed. For easier playing you can choose transposition for an 88 keys keyboard (1 octave down), or a loco mapping.

Digital audio interface showing Transposition and Beater controls for Studio Elements instruments, including 88 keys, Metal, Triangle, and Bowed options.
  • Range
    • 88 keys A#4-F#7
    • Loco A#5-F#8

03 Stone

  • Instruments:
    • Grande Lithophone
    • Orff lithophone

01 Grande Lithophone

A large 5-octave lithophone plaed with various types of mallet, sul ponticello, with finger, stone, needle, shattering, and bowed sounds.

Mallets, Sul ponticello

Ponticello and all mallets except the hard mallet offer open and secco sounds. The soft mallet also features rolls.

Screenshot of musical instrument Beater (articulation) and Type selection menus for Studio Elements software, showing options like soft mallet, hard mallet, open, secco, and roll.
  • Range
    • Soft mallet, Hard mallet, Sul ponticello: F2-D7
    • Soft rubber, Medium rubber: F2-D4
    • Very hard mallet: A#3-D7

Glissando

Up and down glissandos, p and f, at various speeds and in the low, middle, and high ranges of the lithophone.

  • Range: C2-A7
Musical articulation and tempo settings for Studio Elements sound library, displayed alongside a piano keyboard, showing options like f, faster, down, high and p, slow, up, low.

Finger

Open and secco, played with the fingernails normal and accented.

A screenshot displaying the Studio Elements virtual instrument interface with options for beater types like 'Finger' and articulation styles such as 'Open' and 'Secco'.
  • Range: F2-D7

Stone

Played with small and big stones.

Software interface showing sound articulation options including Mallet, Glissando, Rubber, Finger, Stone, Needle, Shatter, and Bow, with Small and Big size selections, for Studio Elements audio production.
  • Range: F2-D7

Needle

Played with a 3 mm needle, center and effects, and with a 5 mm needle at the side and sul ponticello.

Screenshot of Studio Elements virtual instrument interface showing sound articulation and type selection menus, highlighting Needle as a selected beater and 3mm - center as a selected type.
  • Range: F2-D7

Shatter

Shattering sounds, portato and accented.

Digital interface showing sound articulation and dynamic options, including soft mallet, hard mallet, sul ponticello, glissando, soft rubber, medium rubber, very hard mallet, finger, stone, needle, shatter, bow, portato, and accent, for Studio Elements virtual instruments.
  • Range: F2-D7

Bow

Played with a bow, piano and forte.

Studio Elements interface showcasing selectable musical articulations and dynamic options including mallet types, sul ponticello, glissando, and piano/forte.
  • Range: F2-D7

02 Orff Lithophone

Orff lithophone (1 1/2 octave range): single hits, 1-4 upbeats, rolls, and rubbed. For easier playing you can choose transposition for an 88 keys keyboard (1 octave down), or a loco mapping.

User interface displaying 'Transposition' and 'Articulation' settings for Studio Elements software, featuring options like '88 key,' 'Single hits,' and 'Roll'.
  • Range: 88 keys G5-D7, loco G6-D8

04 Exotics

  • Instruments
    • Ocean Drums
    • Bullroarer
    • Spring Drum
    • Cuicas
    • Waldteufel
    • Lions Roar

01 Ocean Drums

Ocean drum A and B with short, long, and motion sounds, as well as different performances and excerpts thereof.

  • Range
    • Ocean drum A C4-C8
    • Ocean drum B C4-B6

Ocean drum A

Image showing a piano keyboard with keys labelled 4 to 8, alongside a list of corresponding Studio Elements musical performance variations including full, excerpts, motion, long, and short.

Ocean drum B

Virtual instrument interface showing a piano roll with Performance 2 excerpts, Performance 2 full, Performance 1 excerpts, Performance 1 full, Motion, Long, and Short labels for Studio Elements.

02 Bull Roarer

Performances with lengths from 14 to 73 seconds, and various excerpts.

  • Range: C3-B7
Piano-style graphic featuring numbered excerpts and corresponding performance durations like 73 sec, 66 sec, 48 sec, 27 sec, and 14 sec, demonstrating functionality of Studio Elements.

03 Spring Drum

Two spring drums: pizzicato, finger snips, strokes, pulses, and rotation sounds.

  • Range: C3-A#6
Vienna Studio Elements key map for musical articulation, showing pizzicato, rotation, and finger slide variations assigned to piano keys.

04 Cuicas

Three cuicas, piano and forte sounds at different lengths. Cuica 1 also offers FX sounds.

  • Range: C2-G7
Keyboard key mapping for Studio Elements virtual instrument, displaying forte and piano articulations with various lengths and registers like medium, high, short, and long, including specific FX options.

05 Waldteufel

Large and small Waldteufel, short, medium, and long sounds.

  • Range: C3-G#4
Studio Elements keyboard mapping showing small and large note durations.

06 Lions Roar

Lion's roar with muted and open tones at different lengths, and tremolos.

  • Range: C3-G5
Virtual instrument keyboard display showing articulations mapped to specific keys including Tremolo, Long open tone, Medium open tone, Short open tone, Long muted tone, Medium muted tone, and Short muted tone, for Studio Elements or SYNCHRON-ized Elements.

05 FX-Presets

This section features Presets with instruments treated with the Synchron Player's internal effects processors such as additional reverb, saturator, equalizers and filters, etc. The first four sections bear the same name as the major Elements sections - Glass, Metal, Stone, and Exotics - and contain three different FX Presets for each instrument. The fifth section is called Combined FX and offers 24 Presets of layered and processed instruments in order to attain a special sound quality that a single instrument might not be able to achieve. The following chapter lists the instruments used in the individual Presets, so that you can get a rough idea of what they sound like. Of course, the naming of these Presets also should give you a hint in that direction!

05 Combined FX

  • 01 Bottler

    • Bottles sustained
    • Bass waterphone sustained
    • Grande lithophone bowed, piano
    • Range: F2-F5

  • 02 Hectic Hector

    • Orff lithophone 4 upbeats
    • Grande lithophone nail
    • Grande lithophone shatter
    • Range: G3-D7

  • 03 Mystica

    • Waterphone sustained
    • Verrophone sustained
    • Glass harmonica sustained
    • Range: G3-G6

  • 04 Soft Steps

    • Verrophone staccato
    • Verrophone mallet
    • Grande lithophone soft mallet
    • Range: C3-C7

  • 05 Stardust

    • Bottles flutter tonguing
    • Grande lithophone shatter, accented
    • Orff lithophone rubbed
    • Range: G3-F5

  • 06 Stona

    • Bottles staccato
    • Grande lithophone soft mallet, secco
    • Waterphone pizzicato
    • Range: C3-C5

  • 07 Stone Stories

    • Glass harmonica sustained
    • Verrophone sustained
    • Orff lithophone rubbed
    • Range: G3-G6

  • 08 Wols

    • Verrophone portato
    • Grande lithophone sul ponticello, secco
    • Grande lithophone bowed, piano
    • Range: G3-D7

  • 09 Broken Glass

    • Musical glasses B sustained
    • Musical glasses C sustained
    • Range: C4-D7

  • 10 Dark Winds

    • Bottles sustained
    • Grande lithophone bowed, piano
    • Range: C2-D4

  • 11 Drifting Away

    • Verrophone sustained
    • Bass waterphone sustained
    • Range: G3-D6

  • 12 Dystopia

    • Glass harmonica portato
    • Musical glasses C portato slow
    • Range: C4-G6

  • 13 Impulse

    • Verrophone staccato
    • Verrophone portato
    • Range: C4-E6

  • 14 Marbles

    • Grande lithophone soft mallet
    • Verrophone portato
    • Range: C4-G6

  • 15 Pins and Needles

    • Grande lithophone sul ponticello, secco
    • Grande lithophone nail, accented
    • Range: C4-C7

  • 16 Talos

    • Glass harmonica sustained
    • Musical glasses C sustained
    • Range: C4-D6

  • 17 Fabric of Space

    • Waterphone sustained with modulation
    • Waterphone sustained
    • Bass waterphone portato B
    • Waterphone pizzicato
    • Grande lithophone soft mallet, low
    • Range: E2-C4

  • 18 Jaw Harp

    • Japanese singing bowls, wooden beater
    • Range: B4-C7

  • 19 Sprite

    • Crotales bowed
    • Grande lithophone big stone
    • Grande lithophone soft mallet, low secco
    • Range: C4-C6

  • 20 Resonant Drums

    • Grande lithophone big stone
    • Grande lithophone shatter, portato
    • Grande lithophone needle 3mm, FX
    • Grande lithophone finger, secco
    • Range: F2-C7

  • 21 Approach

    • Bull roarer
    • Tam XXL FX-2 metal
    • Range
      • C3 - 14 sec. performance
      • C4 - 27 sec. performance
      • C5 - 66 sec. performance

  • 22 Horrid Ensemble

    • Thundersheet A-D, bowed
    • Range
      • white keys only except D#5
      • C2-E2
      • C3-E3
      • C4-D4
      • C5-D#5

  • 23 Buried

    • Bass waterphone hotrods
    • Range: C3-C7

  • 24 Element 115

    • Orff lithophone rubbed
    • Orff lithophone rolls
    • Range: G4-C6
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