INSTRUMENTS

• Harp I
• Harp II

This Collection owes its two instruments to the use of two harps in orchestral music of the mid 19th century. Harp 1 is played by Ruth Rojahn, harpist of the Hofer Symphoniker and internationally successful soloist. Apart from single notes in various playing styles the first harp offers an enormous wealth of glissandos, which now in Vienna Instruments are particularly brilliant and easy to use. The controller structure allows for extremely flexible and quick access – the user can switch between ranges, different tempos, up and down movements, and different scales in real-time while playing. Now you can access all Dimensions at the same time! The first harp’s spectrum is rounded out by a wide range of arpeggios which were not available until now.

The second harp, played by Julia Reth, contains an even larger number of single notes, also offering playing styles like damped, fingernail playing, and pedal glissandos. A lovely ethereal effect is created by the bisbigliando variations, the whispering of tender tremolos on two strings playing the same note.

Your purchase also entitles you to download the free Vienna Ensemble 2 mixing and host software.

The Harps Full Library contains 21 GB of uncompressed sample data in 44.1kHz/24-bit. Due to an innovative optimization process, the Vienna Instruments engine decompresses the samples in real-time, so that they take up only 14 GB of space on your hard disk. Please note: Even if you licensed the Standard Library only, the Full Library of your Collection gets installed on your hard drive since Standard and Extended Library can’t be separated due to structural database requirements.

Sustained notes:

• Normal, secco, près-de-la-table, fingernail playing normal and secco, harmonics, bisbigliando, pedal glissandos

Glissandos:

• Major and harmonic minor full-scale
  
• Melodic minor, diminished, pentatonic
  
• Whole tone scale
  
• Slow, medium, fast
  
• One, three, and 5 octaves, single and multiple cross glissandos
  
• Fast fortissimo glissandos spanning 1 octave

Arpeggios:

• Major, minor, diminished, augmented
  
• Three and four notes
  
• Slow, medium, fast

Harps is available in Standard, Extended (requires Standard edition) and Full editions.

Please note: Vienna Instruments require the ViennaKey

• PC Intel/AMD with Windows XP/VISTA 32 and 64 bit versions (Core 2 Duo/Xeon recommended) or
  
• Apple G4 (G5 or Intel Core 2 Duo/Xeon processor recommended) with Mac OS X 10.4 or higher
• 1 GB RAM (2 GB or more recommended)
  
• Fast separate hard drive with 21.0 GB free space for Standard and Extended Library
  
• ViennaKey (Vienna Symphonic Library USB protection device or other Syncrosoft eLicenser)
  
• DVD drive for installation
  
• Vienna Ensemble 2.0 host software or
  
• VST (OS X, Win XP), AU (Mac) or RTAS (Mac) compatible host - also works stand-alone
  
• eLicenser License Control Center 5.4.10.5 or higher (the latest available version from www.eLicenser.net is highly recommended)
  
• 88 key master keyboard (highly recommended)