NAMM Update: With the release of several new download collections, the Vienna Symphonic Library rolled the odometer, surpassing one million published samples.
According to Vienna Instruments, this is by far the largest accumulation of samples by a single company.
The Vienna Symphonic Library also recently began offering download products. These collections are available from the download section [...]

Vienna Symphonic Library has released the new Vienna Instruments Collection Special Brass.
Description:
Like the recently released Special Woodwinds, the 21 GB Vienna Instruments Collection Special Brass offers resonant rarities that a first-rate virtual orchestra can’t do without.
To create the perfect counterpart for Vienna’s now famous Epic Horns, the team recorded an ensemble of six trumpet [...]

The Vienna Symphonic Library team has released VIENNA INSTRUMENTS Collection SPECIAL WOODWINDS, which is now available from Vienna’s worldwide network of distributors and dealers.
Description:
The Special Woodwinds Collection is a 29 GB cornucopia of exotic treasures for symphonic and orchestral works. A special gem is the bass flute. With its velvety, earthy sound, it expands the [...]

The Vienna Symphonic Library has released Vienna Special Edition, which is now available from Vienna’s worldwide network of distributors and dealers.
The Vienna Special Edition brings together the complete orchestra - and more - in one Collection. It is designed to be ideal for orchestral arrangements on the laptop, offering a useful cross-section of the Vienna [...]

2007 Winter NAMM Show: Vienna Symphonic Library introduced three new Collections, including Appassionata Strings, Bösendorfer Imperial, and Vienna Konzerthaus Organ.
Appassionata Strings
As the name suggests, these string ensembles are quite simply, passionate. Their lush, broad and emotive cinematic sound defies expectations for a virtual instrument. The large ensembles of 20 violins, 14 violas, 12 cellos and [...]

For the first time in the company’s history, the Vienna Symphonic Library has focused their attention on keyboard instruments. With the endorsement of “Bösendorfer Klavierfabrik”, the Vienna team has developed its first sampled grand piano software instrument, a recreation of a Bösendorfer 290 Imperial. And with the support of the “Wiener Konzerthaus”, the Vienna Symphonic [...]

The Vienna Symphonic Library has announced that it is offering the world’s first legato-sampled choir, free to Symphonic Cube owners through November 30th, 2006.
Registered users and those who purchase and register a complete Symphonic Cube (Standard Libraries of all 10 Collections) before November 30th, 2006, are eligible to receive exclusive Legato Performance Patches of the [...]

The Vienna Symphonic Library welcomes the New Year with a special concert recording. They’re not playing Johann Strauss at the Wiener Musikverein, but they’re presenting Modest Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition on the virtual stage of the Great Hall of the Wiener Konzerthaus, orchestrated by Maurice Ravel and realized with various sample libraries of the [...]

At Musikmesse Frankfurt, the Vienna Symphonic Library team introduced the Multi Impulse Response Mixing and Reverberation Engine. They also introduce a new addition to their popular Horizon Series product line: OPUS 2.
OPUS 2 – Orchestra
This new Horizon Series library expands the potential of OPUS 1 and the FIRST EDITION with new articulations, such as quick [...]

The Vienna Symphonic Library and its North American distributor ILIO have announced the release of all 13 Horizon Series products in HALion on Kontakt formats. All libraries including Vienna’s Performance Tool can be used on the samplers EXS24 mk II, GigaStudio, HALion, and Kontakt, on both Mac OS and Windows platforms.
The Performance Tool for PC [...]