Description
Vienna Symphonic Library Studio Heckelphone - Crossgrade from VI Heckelphone Standard Library || Guildwater Gear is an Authorized Vienna Symphonic Library Dealer. If you have any questions about this product, please do not hesitate to contact us. Your digital software registration code and instructions will be sent to you, along with an URL connecting you directly to the manufacturer, who will provide you with your software digitally. Please be aware that software Is non-cancelable and non-returnable.
PLEASE NOTE: This is an upgrade / crossgrade product, which requires that you be a registered user of a qualifying product, in order for it to work for you.
New Kid on the Block
- Heckelphone in C
- Recorded at Silent Stage
- Short and long notes, legato, dynamics, flutter tongue, repetitions
- Mixer Presets for authentic placement at Vienna Synchron Stage
- Switch off internal reverb for placement in any virtual acoustic environment
The heckelphone was only developed in the 20th century (initiated by Richard Wagner), and with its dark, expressive character it rounds out the oboes’ tenor register. The instrument was recorded in the relatively dry and controlled environment of Vienna’s second studio, the Silent Stage, and offers all common articulations.
Low Reed. The heckelphone is tuned an octave lower than the oboe. It can replace the baritone oboe as it sounds quite similar. Because of its wider bore, the tone is heavier and more penetrating.
Endorsers. Richard Strauss was among the great composers who liked to employ the instrument, e.g., in his scores for “Salome”, “Elektra” and “Eine Alpensymphonie”. There are also pieces calling for heckelphone by Edgar Varése, George Gershwin, and many others.
Sampling. The library features a full set of articulations, offering various short and long notes, legato (including fast legatos that let you play trills), crescendos and diminuendos, sfz, sffz, pfp, flutter tongue, and repetitions. Long notes with and without vibrato. Recording the samples relatively dry at the Silent Stage makes it possible to place them on your virtual stage and in the stereo field wherever you like, but also enables you to integrate them with the Synchron Series by using the internal convolution reverb of Vienna Synchron Stage.