![]() ![]() The first production at Synchron Stage Vienna in October 2015 was the recording of the film score of the famous Sissi trilogy. The heart of the modern music production facility is the large recording hall, Stage A: with its 540 m², it can accommodate an orchestra of up to 130 people. Completed in September 2015, the building features several recording and control rooms, editing studios, individual booths ("iso booths"), two instrument storage facilities with several pianos and concert grand pianos and approximately 300 percussion instruments, a sheet music archive, lounges, and offices and lounges for composers, producers, staff, and guests, totalling more than 2,000 square meters. The hall, which dates back to the 1940s, was converted into a globally unique music production facility, in collaboration with the renowned Walters-Storyk Design Group and architects Schneider+Schumacher. ![]() In 2013, the Vienna Symphonic Library took over the historic, landmarked "Synchronhalle" on the grounds of the Rosenhügel film studios of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation. Tucmandl always played the cello himself. Until the end of 2016, Tucmandl invited singers, musicians, ensembles, orchestras there and samples were recorded almost daily under the artistic direction of Michael Hula. ![]() It was located in Ebreichsdorf, a village near Vienna, in Llower Austria. Since no existing recording studio could guarantee constant acoustic conditions for recording orchestral samples, the company designed and built a custom recording facility the so-called Silent Stage. ![]() The specially built Silent Stage the markings on the floor indicate the positions of the musicians. While the largest libraries at the time covered the entire orchestra with about 6,000 samples, Herb Tucmandl developed a structure for over a million individual notes and phrases. He tested his concept with the cello himself and convinced the investor Markus Kopf with the tonal results. Through their combination, they allowed users lively interpretations for the first time. His idea stood out for his approach of recording not only single notes but also tone combinations (e.g. Because the sounds available at the time did not meet his requirements, he developed his own concept for an authentic-sounding sample library for orchestral music. In the 1990s, Tucmandl, a former cellist (as a substitute member with the Vienna Philharmonic, amongst others), later cameraman, director and composer used some of the available first-generation sample libraries for the creation of his own film scores. The company was founded in Vienna in October 2000 by Herbert "Herb" Tucmandl. Herbert Tucmandl during first tests for the Vienna Symphonic Library.(2004) ![]()
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