Sorry, no Tom Toms at the moment.
We want to make orchestral Tom Toms - but hard to find good instruments here, but we don't give up.

Here is an actual Percussion list for the Pro edition:
(I don't know for some instruments the english term, I wrote them in italic style, maybe my wife Sabine will ad this names later)

Anklung
Anvils
Boa Bams
Burma Bells
Castagnettes
Caxixi
Celesta
Chinese Gongs
Claves
Flexaton
Chimes (glass, bambus, metall)
Glockenspiel (a smaller one - "Table" Glockenspiel"
Guica
Guiro
Jingle Bells
Lion Roar
Logdrum
Marimbaphone
Oceandrum
Peking Opera gongs
Ratschen
Rockbells (a kind of untuned cencerros)
Rühr Xylophone
Rainmaker
Schellenkranz
Schwirrholz
Shaker
Sirenes
Snare drum ensemble (4 player + performance repetitions)
Tamtams (a second set)
Tempelblocks
Vibraphone
Vibratone
Waldteufel
Windmachine
Waterphone

extensions for First Edition Percussions:

more mallet variations for:
Cencerros (Almglocken)
Glockenspiel
Gongs
Tubular Bells
Woodblocks
Xylphone

Performance Repetitions for:
Timpani, bass drum, all snare drums

celesta!

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hey herb,

any picutres of the lion doing the lion roars?! ;P

hehee

seriously tho, what the heck is that?

Guica, Waldteufel (it's a name of a bird), and lion roar belong to the same instrument family:
a construction where a skin is "rubbed" with a piece of cord.
The lion roar is the bass instrument.

Later on there will be exact descriptions in our "Instruments Online"


In the meantime you can hear a short example:

http://www.vsl.co.at/upload/forum/Lion-roar_3.mp3

Herb, one word: wonderful!!! [:D]

Martin

I was a classical percusionist, and I never heard such a thing !


Crazy library...



Regards

The French dyslexic who speaks badly English.

Fantastic!

I can't wait to hear the Cuica (how many different versions of the spelling are there? I've seen a few) - I'm guessing that this is the same instrument that makes an 'ooh-eeh-ooh' noise? I think there's one at the end of Williams' 'Phantom Menace' score (in the parade).

I'm packing away my sticks as we speak...

[:)]

peter

Lion Roar - Listen to Edgar Varese - he uses it, eg. 'Ameriques'
which by the way is one of my favorite pieces. [:D]

I was just thinking « What composer could use that ‘Lion rooooaaar’ »

Thanks for the answer before I post...

Verese, of course.

What Verese didn’t use, anyway ?

(except, ‘spoon on dishes’ maybe...)

I see in the list : ‘Sirenes’... I supose Varese has been playing in Vienna... It will be easy to do a Varese transcription whit VSL...


(No spoon on dishes in the vienna percussion stock, herb ?)


The French dyslexic who speaks badly English.

Sidenote to Herb (and everybody else, of course): The ominous "Schellenkranz" is a more or less trivial Tambourine, AFAIK :-]

/Dietz - Vienna Symphonic Library

"Sidenote to Herb (and everybody else, of course): The ominous "Schellenkranz" is a more or less trivial Tambourine, AFAIK :-"

You're very close, dietz [:D]
In fact it's a tambourine without skin (we'll use the term "tambourine jingle" in Instruments Online).

sabine

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Really looking forward to playing around with all the percussion in the pro edition!!! Beautiful to have the possibility to choose from so many instruments!!! Great...

Matt