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  • Hello All,
    It's quite funny over here, everybody was so happy that we're so perfectly in time with our new product and our preparations for Musikmesse Frankfurt and now we have to bring forward everything...
    Opus 2 will be up in our Web shop tomorrow, on April 1st. In the meantime, here's the info for you guys:


    OPUS 2 – ORCHESTRA

    OPUS 2 expands the potential of OPUS 1 and the FIRST EDITION with additional articulations and further instruments. It also offers bonus files which include basic articulations of instruments taken from other Horizon Series titles, like Solo Strings, Epic Horns, French Oboe, or Woodwind Ensembles.


    Strings
    OPUS 2 offers the complete articulation package of Legato Runs (major, harmonic minor, chromatic and whole tone scales), Vienna’s legendary “Flautando Strings”, and the easy-to-use but highly effective “Fast Repetitions”. The strings package is rounded out with a basic set of solo string articulations featuring the most important playing techniques.

    Woodwinds
    Since Vienna’s woodwinds’ Performance Legato articulations are especially popular, OPUS 2 offers the complete Performance Legato articulations for bass clarinet and contrabassoon. As requested by many users, looped sustains for all woodwind instruments are provided. A basic set of the Horizon Series’ French Oboe as well as the flute and clarinet ensembles completes the woodwind group.

    Brass
    The brass section is enhanced through the inclusion of sordino and stopped playing techniques. Solo trumpet and trumpet ensembles also feature Performance Legato articulations. As a bonus, a basic set of the Horizon Series’ powerful Epic Horns is included.

    Percussion
    Apart from additional timpani articulations (tremolo and single note glissandos), the percussion family is stocked with marimba, vibraphone, cencerros, plate bells and waterphone.

  • Now that it very very cool. And very very reasonably priced. I can definitely see acquiring this library soon. I cannot wait to see more details tomorrow.

    ON a sidenote, I've been using my bundled VSL sounds from Gigastudio 3 along with Overture and I've been getting wonderful results. Herb and Dietz: no matter the size of format of the library, your sounds are truly excellent. Very excited about Opus 2.

  • OPUS 2 INSTRUMENTS & ARTICULATIONS


    STRINGS

    VIOLIN ENSEMBLE
    VIOLA ENSEMBLE
    CELLO ENSEMBLE
    DOUBLE BASS ENSEMBLE
    Octave Runs: Major, harmonic minor, chromatic and whole tone runs of all string ensembles
    Fast repetitions
    Flautando


    WOODWINDS

    PICCOLO
    FLUTE
    OBOE
    ENGLISH HORN
    CLARINET
    BASSOON
    Looped sustains

    BASS CLARINET
    CONTRABASSOON
    Legato Performance instruments


    BRASS

    TRUMPET
    TRUMPET ENSEMBLE
    HORN ENSEMBLE
    TROMBONE
    TROMBONE ENSEMBLE
    Muted staccatos
    Muted sustained notes
    Muted sforzato

    Solo trumpet and trumpet ensemble: muted Legato Performance instruments


    PERCUSSION

    TIMPANI
    Single note and tremolo glissandos

    MARIMBA
    VIBRAPHONE
    CENCERROS (COWBELLS)
    PLATE BELLS
    WATERPHONE


    BONUS FILES

    Basic Articulations of
    SOLO VIOLIN (from SOLO STRINGS)
    SOLO VIOLA (from SOLO STRINGS)
    SOLO CELLO (from SOLO STRINGS)
    SOLO DOUBLE BASS (from SOLO STRINGS)
    FRENCH OBOE
    DOUBLE HORN ENSEMBLE (from EPIC HORNS)
    FLUTE ENSEMBLE (from WOODWIND ENSEMBLES)
    CLARINET ENSEMBLE (from WOODWIND ENSEMBLES)

  • OPUS 2 includes 9.3 GB of data on 2 DVD-ROMs and retails for EUR 445. Like all Horizon Series titles, OPUS 2 is available in EXS24, GigaStudio, HALion and Kontakt formats.
    Coinciding with the introduction of OPUS 2, the retail price of the most popular title of the Horizon Series, OPUS 1, is now reduced to EUR 845. On top of that, both OPUS libraries will be available at the bundle price of EUR 1,195.

    Best wishes, and thank you so much for your continued interest in our sample libraries!
    Martin, Vienna Symphonic Library

  • very nice! Thanks Martin!

  • Martin,

    Are the woodwind"looped sustains" performance legato instruments or regular?

    --Jay

  • Bravo!

    And excellent price, in my opinion!

    Iván

  • The Woodwinds looped sustains are regular multisampled sustainded notes.

  • Will there be any Giga 3 articulations ?

  • Any other products planned to be released soon?

  • Opus 2 is fully giga 2.5 compatible.
    So there are no exclusive Giga 3 programmings on the discs.

    best
    Herb

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    @Christian Marcussen said:

    Any other products planned to be released soon?

    No, not in the near future.

  • Ok... fair enough. So am I right that for an owner of Pro Ed, Solostrings and Epic horns, that Opus 2 (obviously I gues) will have very little to offer?(seing as I also have downloaded the free holyday stuff).

  • Exactly, Christian.

    best
    Herb

  • Exciting! What will the VIP upgrade price from Opus 1 be? What is meant by 'basic articulations' for solo strings? No portamento/legato articulations?

  • There is no upgrade price from Opus 1 to Opus 2 because it's all new material for Opus 1 and First Edition users.
    Basic articulations are single note samples (staccato, sustains, sforzato, tremolo, pizzicato, etc.). The Horizon Series bonus files don't contain any Performance articulations.

  • Hm. [;)] I think I sould wait with my comment until I see the detailed articulation list...

  • I don't remember a muted solo horn in the free Holiday Special articulations. Did I miss that one? Or are you going to make that one available to Pro edition users in the future?

    Best,
    Jay

  • Sorry, my mistake--no solo horn in Opus 2...

  • It's the stopped horn section of the holiday specials.

    best
    Herb