Yes, it is! The reduced price is shown on the product pages, but it was missing on this list. Thanks for pointing us to this!

Unfortunately, Jordan doesn't remember.... Here's what he said:

"Oh man – I realize I didn’t save a project for the piece I did. I basically called it up- tweaked the sound to taste and filmed it!!!!"

Best, Martin

Think of SYNCRHON-ized Woodwinds as a streamlined product that reflects the instrumentation of late romanticism (Wagner et al.). Yes, it doesn’t offer some instruments and articulations that are available with VI Woodwinds, and that’s not an omission, that's the concept of this product. That’s one reason why it’s so easy to work with. Our specialized team is working on one instrument for about a month… do the math how long it takes to create such a product, and then think of the costs. We need to find a balance between what we can achieve at a reasonable price and what most of our users want. If you want more instruments and articulations and the flexibility of VI Woodwinds, you’re a specialist (highly valued by us!) whom we’re happy to continue to serve with our Vienna Instruments Pro player. On the other hand, a lot of customers are paying for a product that includes instruments and articulations they never use.

Having said that, I’m certainly not going to rule out that there will never be any other woodwinds and articulations in the SYNCHRON-ized series. Right now, SYNCHRON-ized Woodwinds is a great solution in terms of instruments, articulations, what people are using, and how easy it is to work with this player and its pre-configured sound with lots of presets.

And of course we’re further developing the Vienna Synchron Player to add more features over time.

The new library includes new transition samples the perfectly match the corresponding notes before and after the transitions. Our team worked intensely on creating perfect and authentically sounding transitions in all velocity layers, for all legatos, with non-vibrato and vibrato articulations, as well as regular and fast variants—all these match perfectly so it’s easier and quicker to create authentic legato phrases without the need to tweak these transitions manually.

What's more, there are additional velocity layers for legatos and fast legatos.

Regarding a trial: Feel free to purchase and try it out, you may return the product within 30 days if you don’t like it.

The instruments in SYNCHRON-ized Woodwinds are based on the solo woodwind instruments in Woodwinds I, on most of the instruments in Woodwinds II as well as on the single instruments Clarinet in Bb 2 and Bassoon 2.

There is currently no prediction if a Synchron Woodwinds collection is happening anytime soon.

Our beautiful solo woodwind instruments are now available with the Vienna Synchron Player, enhanced, optimized, re-edited with a gorgeous out-of-the-box sound! Listen to the demos and watch the videos!
https://www.vsl.co.at/Synchronized_Woodwinds

What's more, we have a few Synchron Libraries on sale, check them out here!

Best wishes, Martin

No, the VI Special Editions are not going away. As a proof, we've just released Special Edition Volume 5 - Dimension Strings, in both versions - VI version for the Vienna Instruments and Vienna Instruments Pro players, and the SYNCHRON-ized versoin for the Synchron Player.

Don't believe everything that's happening on other forums ;-)

Yes, all the "sul tasto" articulations were recorded at the Silent Stage.

The answer is yes, these are all-new recordings! You can't fake great-sounding sul tastos ;-)

Cheers, Martin

Exactly, there is no difference, it's the same sampled instrument. It just says Cembalo in the VI patch list. The Single Instrument Harpsichord has more registers than the one included with the Special Edition Vol. 2.

The Standard Library of the Single Instrument Epic Horns, for instance, contains more articulations than the Epic Horns that are included with the Special Edition Vol. 2 and Vol. 2 PLUS, such as blared sustains, pfp, flutter tonguing, trills and additional repetitions. The Full Library contains even more articulations, as listed here:
https://www.vsl.co.at/en/Brass_II/Epic_Horns#!Sample_Content

Of course you can create anything with the basic artulations, but the more articulations you have at your disposal, the more choice you have to create more realistic, varied and colorful music. It's totally up to you which of these articulations you'd like to use, there is no general advice what you can and what you can't program with more or less options.

Cheers, Martin

Sorry, this overview page showed incorrect prices, it's corrected now. The prices on the product page, next to the add to basket button, were always correct.
Cheers, Martin

Thanks for pointing us to this, this info is missing on this page. Yes, The Brass Bundle does include the Extended Libraries of Vienna Dimension Brass I & II.

Cheers, Martin

Good question, but there's no "backward crossgrade", the route is always from VI to Synchron libraries.

Cheers, Martin

Steffen, I think the misunderstanding is that the SYNCHRON-ized Dimension Brass I Collection includes all the articulations of the Full Library (= Standard and Extended  Library) of Vienna Dimension Brass I. The same goes for SYNCHRON-ized Dimension Brass II.

So your special super price - for long-term customers like you - for completing your VI Super Package with Vienna Dimension Brass I and II is € 273, which is € 136 per library and therefore 30% (thirty percent!!) lower than the reduced introductory price of € 195 per Collection. In addition to that, you can crossgrade to SYNCHON-ized Dimension Brass I for €35 per library. All this sounds pretty inexpensive to me.

As I said in another post, for customers who don’t have any Vienna Dimension Brass products: SYNCHRON-ized Dimension Brass I & II will be part of the Synchron Package starting December 1, after the introductory period. You may complete your Synchron Package then to get the new libraries (at a discount of roughly 17%), but you're far better off when you purchase them during the introductory period through November 30 at a discount of roughly 28%.

On the product page there’s a line just above SYNCHRON-ized Dimension Brass I & II, indicating that these products are currently not part of the Synchron Pacakge, and it doesn’t say so anywhere.

It’s different with Vienna Dimension Brass I & II. Both libraries are currently included in the VI Super Package, as you see from complementary discounts, and since we’re technically adding Extended Libraries to both Collections, making them Full Libraries, these Collections are included in the Super Package as always – they’re just getting articulation extensions.

Cheers, Martin

SYNCHRON-ized Dimension Brass I & II will be part of the Synchron Package starting December 1, after the introductory period. You may complete your Synchron Package then to get the new libraries (at a discount of roughly 17%), but you're far better off when you purchase them during the introductory period through November 30 at a discount of roughly 28%.

Cheers, Martin

There's a box with all promotional and regular prices at the bottom of the product page. The upgrade path from Chamber Strings I to SYNCHRON-ized Chamber Strings will remain, but the upgrade price will go up from €145 to €195 on August 1st. The additional discount for registered users of Synchron Strings I is only available in July 2018, which means that the combination of both discounts is only available in July, too.

Cheers, Martin

Hello again everybody,

As announced last week, the full set of articulations of the violas of Synchron Strings I is now available at myVSL.

The complete bass section will be available in approximately one week--we'll keep you posted...

All the best,

Martin

The complete set of 2nd Violins has just been made available, you may donwload the files at myVSL.

Yes, please go ahead and download the 2nd violins, they're marked "complete".
Martin

Hello everybody,

The full set of articulations of the 2nd violins of Synchron Strings I is now available at myVSL.

The complete viola section will be available in approximately one week--we'll keep you posted...

All the best,

Martin

Hello Sonny,

In order to make the most of it, you SHOULD buy the Woodwinds Bundle Full Library! You'll also get the 2nd clarinet (Bb) and the second bassoon to complete your woodwind instruments. When you're logged in, go to the Woodwinds Bundle product page and you'll see "Your Price". Click on the i button to reveal all your discounts.

Martin
VSL Marketing

Originally Posted by: fahl5

"Starting June 1, 2017, Synchron Percussion I will be part of the bundles Percussion Complete and Vienna Super Package."

The current introduction-pricing offers a reduction of 15 %, the superpackage gives currently an reduction of 30 %, so am I right, that it is worth for sperpackageusers to wait until June?

Getting Synchron Percussion I by completing the bundles Percussion Complete or the Vienna Super Package is not going to be cheaper than taking advantage of the current introductory offer.

Martin
VSL Marketing

Well, with our vast number of customers, it always depends on the number and mixture of your previously registered products if you can take more or less advantage of a promotion.

Some people are happy they can save now on Keyboards & Guitars, and they’re not intending to complete their SE Vol. 2 in the near future. There might be others, like you in this specific case, who don’t save more in the long run, but they also don’t lose anything (except for €2 rounding error). As you say, you get your savings earlier (I don’t see why this is a bad thing ;-), but in no way is there any huge amount of savings lost. In your specific situation, you don’t lose anything.

In our promotions, we offer all kinds of discounts and advantages, for a diverse group of customers. Everyone is free to take advantage of an offer, or pass, and many are very happy about our promotions. It always depends on your registered products, current needs and plans for the future, and that’s a very individual thing.

Cheers, Martin

There seems to be a mistake with the download price of the Full Library of Dimension Strings I, and with the Student Price of the Standard Library. Best Service were already informed about this.
Cheers, Martin