VSL Studio Special Woodwinds: Basset Horn
Basset Horn Virtual Instrument
Alto Voice
The warm, full-sounding basset horn covers the alto/tenor registers in the clarinet family, and was one of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's favored instruments.
The instrument was recorded in the relatively dry and controlled environment of our second studio, the Silent Stage, and offers all common articulations.
Features
- Recorded at Silent Stage
- Short and long notes, legato, dynamics, flutter tongue, repetitions
- Mixer Presets for authentic placement at Synchron Stage Vienna
- Switch off internal reverb for placement in any virtual acoustic environment
Kinky
Like the clarinet, the basset horn has a single reed and a cylindrical bore, but it is easily recognized by the conspicuous bend or kink between mouthpiece and upper joint.
It is typically in F, and has additional keys for an extended lower range.
No Relation
Being a clarinet, the basset horn is of course not related to the horn or other brass instruments. Mozart composed a number of pieces, e.g., his Masonic Funeral Music and the Gran Partita, and also used it in several of his operas.
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.
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 our Synchron Series by using the internal convolution reverb of our very own Synchron Stage Vienna.
System Requirements
- MacOS 10.14 Mojave and above
- Windows 10 and above (64-bit only)
- Intel, AMD, or Apple Silicon CPU
- 8GB RAM or more (16GB or more recommended)
- 4GB free storage space
- Free iLok account and iLok License Manager
- iLok Cloud and iLok USB licensing methods are supported
Plugin Formats
AAX Native, AU, VST2, VST3, and Standalone