FIRST DEMOS of Synchron Strings I available

[Paul]

Hello everybody!

Finally, the very first demos for Synchron Strings I are ready!

Here’s what Guy Bacos said about his first contact with the Synchron Strings, resulting in his piece “The Hatchling”:

“What strikes me is the clarity and richness of the timbre as well as the natural reverb. I really appreciate the natural acoustics thanks to the multiple mic positions in various formats. The room ambience is amazing, with a beautiful smooth decay across the spectrum. This clarity allows Synchron Strings to easily blend with other instruments without the dreaded muddiness that is so often heard from sampled strings recorded in a live acoustic setting. Clearly a brilliant move by VSL!”

And Christof Unterberger created beautiful music to “Enter the Dream”:

“It was great fun to be part of the sampling sessions for Synchron Strings I as a cello player, and now it is an incredible feeling to work with these samples! I was blown away by the ambience and the sound we created at Synchron Stage. It’s fair to say that this hall is an instrument itself.
It’s really cool to have this incredible scoring stage available on my computer with Synchron Strings I, and it’s a pleasure to experience how well every instrument group is placed. Thinking about panning and impulse responses becomes pretty negligible… This short demo should illustrate the transition phase between falling asleep and the upcoming dream. Enjoy!”

With best wishes from your hard-working team in Vienna!

[HSM1]

 

Well done, very impressive! 

[LAJ]

 

Thank you for the great demos. They show that this Library sounds absolutely incredible!

2 questions ...

Could you please give us a short info about the mic-positions you used for the demos?

Which Player did you use? Already the Synchron-Player?

[Paul]

Hi, 

I'm sure that Guy and Christof can add much more information here, but in general, they both had access to all microphone positions, and they were performing with the classic Vienna Instruments. 

Best, 
Paul

[christof]

Exactly, as Paul mentioned, we didn't have access to the powerful Synchron player yet, so we had to improvise a little bit with multiple VI Pro instances per section.I guess this won't be the case once the library will be released.

In general I must say that this whole thing might be a game changer.

@Paul said:

Hi, 

I'm sure that Guy and Christof can add much more information here, but in general, they both had access to all microphone positions, and they were performing with the classic Vienna Instruments. 

Best, 
Paul

[LAJ]

Hello Christof,

well nobody has questions ... so I ask a last one :)

Am I right that the "Legato - Slurred" was not performed?

Thanks & Greetings

Lars

[SJSF]

Guy,

I hate to sound this picky...

But would it be possible to hear a version of The Hatchling without percussion? I know we'll get more demos, but it highlights the staccatos all over the place, just with a lot of percussion mixed in. That isn't a complaint about the writing. I just think an alternate version would be really useful to hear is all.

Either way, thanks for making everyone salivate enough as it is. 😉

-Sean

[Guy Bacos]

@SJSF said:

Guy,

I hate to sound this picky...

But would it be possible to hear a version of The Hatchling without percussion? I know we'll get more demos, but it highlights the staccatos all over the place, just with a lot of percussion mixed in. That isn't a complaint about the writing. I just think an alternate version would be really useful to hear is all.

Either way, thanks for making everyone salivate enough as it is. 😉

-Sean

The Hatchling (with no percussion)

[SJSF]

@Guy Bacos said:

The Hatchling (with no percussion)

Thanks a ton! It's great to get a "closer" listen to the strings.

My initial thoughts after hearing both demos:

Oh.. oh my. This isn't like before. It's not like when you hear a sample library and go "that's impressive". Synchron's best qualities literally make me weak at the knees. I'm saying to myself "this... this is what we've been waiting for all these years."

I could marry the Pizzicatos accross the range. The tone and color of the library overall is stellar. But everything pales in comparison to the absolutely gorgeous low end and dynamic expressiveness of the whole library, especially the variety of staccato attacks going on. It's magical.

At first the higher notes caught me off guard. The upper violin staccatos in The Hatchling reveal the room slapping back at you. I'm just not used to it with VSL's traditionally dry stage. But as I think about the various recordings and spaces I've played in myself, I realize it's the character of the space. I'd EQ it a bit differently, but that's just personal taste.

Some of legato transitions sound brilliant. Some are harder to tell, but I realize I don't have a clue which articulations were used where. Heck, we all use samples differently. Only time will tell as we get more demos and see video walk-throughs.

Overall, I think layering Synchron with Chamber Strings is basically just a must. It just must happen. I'm still weak at the knees here. I've never heard samples by so expressive. It's velvety chocolate goodness from quiet to loud then it gets gritty and bold but still very warm. It melts in your mouth. I'm dying here. Breathe Sean Breathe...

If Synchron Brass is modular/divisi, I'm going to need to get a better 3rd slave machine. I may as well start planning for that now. Dang it... Dang it dang it!

I'm in love.

-Sean

P.S. With Synchron, every other string library out there is probably a waste of hard drive space... and money. I'm seriously impressed.

[antcarrier]

Sounds good!

[stephen limbaugh]

holy f**k!!⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[Wayne Gardner]

Superb, this is truly worth the wait and plus a new Synchron player... thank you Lord (Paul!). lol

[garylionelli]

Great sound! Question on one of the pieces. In Christof's demo, it sounds as if he is not using legato. Slight detaché articulations instead? I hear separation between notes in most of the piece. Thanks.

[Beat Kaufmann]

So these demos are without EQs, Comressors, Limiters, MIRs, Reverbs, just pur, pur, pur?

If not then please do it once more without any effect please so that we only can hear the library...

Thanks!

All the best

Beat

_{It seems that I bought the right christmas present for me.}

[Guy Bacos]

Hi Beat,

I can't speak for Christoph but my demo has some stage recording MIRacle. No EQ at all.

I think most demos are presented with some reverb to help unify it and it's also important to show how it would sound in a more finished mix to not give a wrong impression.  

However, in the folowing days I'll be posting some simple melodies, with and without rev.

Guy

[matthieu.lechowski]

Many thanks for your help, Guy ! We would really appreciate simple melodies too.

[RLD]

@Guy Bacos said:

 

However, in the folowing days I'll be posting some simple melodies, with and without rev.

Guy

 

Thanks Guy for your work.

It will be also very interesting to have a version of the piece played with VEP and String, another with VEP and Dimension String

[FabioA]

@Guy Bacos said:

 

However, in the folowing days I'll be posting some simple melodies, with and without rev.

Guy

 

Thanks Guy for your work.

It will be also very interesting to have a version of the piece played with VEP and String, another with VEP and Dimension String

 

That's really to much work to ask to Guy! 😖

[esperlad]

I would suggest The Nutcracker.

[Dominique]

The whole Nutcracker? No problem, that demo would be ready by approximately 2021.