VSCO 2 Standard Edition provides the realistic sound you need to get started writing beautiful orchestral music – or add a few intimate and clean instruments to your existing sample library collection. Regardless of if you’re writing concert music or scoring the next game, the 35 essential orchestral instruments and sections in the Standard Edition is the foundation you need to get the job done.
VSCO 2 Standard includes one of each common woodwind, brass, and string instrument and all the essential percussion instruments. One microphone position (Main) is available in the patches. No Faux Legato patches are provided. Please see the instrument list at the bottom of the page for details.
FEATURES
Lightweight Collection
At only 3.8 GB thanks to lossless .NCW compression, VSCO 2 Standard can easily fit on a flash drive for portable use while providing an accurate set of patches for sketching and composing.
Everything in VSCO 2 was recorded new for the project with a consistent set of microphones and a single recordist. Regardless of type, instruments blend together realistically.
4 Round Robins on short articulations, up to 8 Round Robins on most percussion provide a significant boost in realism over freeware and legacy libraries recorded decades ago. Special Time Machine (“TM” in patch name) patches allow adjustment of staccato lengths.
Modwheel Crossfading Dynamics
Create natural sounding crescendos and diminuendos, build shape into each line by using your modwheel to control the dynamics of the instruments.
A technique called ‘Phaselocking’ was used on all samples of solo instruments, ensuring transitions sound smooth and natural and like a single instrument.
Between 3-6 dynamic levels were captured based on the instrument, allowing finite control over tone through each line.
What do folks think?
“VSCO 2 Standard Edition gives us a quite rich sampling content, and, even at this intermediate version, the library covers several needs and very large design solutions… As for the samples’ sound quality, VSCO 2 features defined and extremely clear and expressive sounds.”
– Pietro Fraccavento, AgeofAudio
Instrument List
Woodwinds
- Flute – Piccolo
- Flute – Flute I
- Double Reed – Oboe I
- Double Reed – Bassoon I
- Single Reed – Bb Clarinet I
Keys & Mallets
- Keys – Church Organ
- Keys – French Harpsichord
- Keys – Grand Piano
- Keys – Upright Piano
- Mallets – Glockenspiel
- Mallets – Xylophone
- Mallets – Ethnic Xylophone (Balafon)
- Mallets – Tubular Bells
- Mallets – ‘Tube Glock’
- Mallets – Vibraphone
- Mallets – Marimba
Brass
- Horn – Double Horn in F I
- Trumpet – Trumpet in Bb I (orchestral)
- Trombone – Tenor Trombone I
- Trombone – Bass Trombone II
- Tuba – Tuba I
Strings
- Bowed – Solo Violin
- Bowed – Solo Viola
- Bowed – Solo Cello
- Bowed – Solo Contrabass I
- Bowed – Violin Section (5 players)
- Bowed – Viola Section (3 players)
- Bowed – Cello Section (3 players)
- Plucked – Concert Harp
Percussion
- Drums – Snare I
- Drums – Snare II
- Drums – Toms
- Drums – Bass Drum
- Drums – Timpani
- Cymbals – Crash Cymbal I
- Cymbals – Crash Cymbal II
- Cymbals – Susp. Cymbal I
- Cymbals – Susp. Cymbal II
- Cymbals – Gong I
- Metals – Cowbell I
- Metals – Cowbell II
- Metals – Triangle I
- Metals – Triangle III
- Metals – Triangle V
- Metals – Anvil
- Metals – Ratchet I
- Traps – Claves I
- Traps – Guiro
- Traps – Tambourine I
The sounds are crisp and realistic, adding depth to my compositions with ease.
Absolutely blown away by the quality and variety of sounds in this orchestra. Highly recommend for anyone looking to elevate their compositions.
The variety of instruments in this collection is impressive and the quality is top-notch, would recommend to any musician looking to expand their orchestral palette.
Amazing value for the price! The sound quality is top-notch and the variety of instruments is impressive. Would highly recommend for anyone looking to add depth to their compositions.
I am blown away by the realistic sounds and versatility of this orchestra plugin – it has taken my compositions to the next level!