Sinphonica

Name: Sinphonica
Brand: IK Multimedia
SKU: SH-SEMAE-DID-IN
Price: 499.99 USD
Availability: InStock

Sculpted Sound.

The italian orchestra, reimagined

$499.99($609.99 incl. VAT)

Born from IK Multimedia’s long experience in orchestral virtual instruments and developed with the latest recording and audio technologies, Sinphonica introduces
a new orchestral instrument, with unmached realism and detail, built for contemporary composers.
Designed to combine realism, flexibility, and speed, Sinphonica offers a modern scoring experience centered on
expressive performance and flexible workflow for today’s production environment.

Sinphonica is a 64-bit application and requires a 64 bit CPU and Operating System.

Mac® (64-bits)

Minimal: Apple M1 or Intel® Core i5 Processor,16 GB Ram, MacOs 10.15 or newer. At least 250 GB of hard disk space*.

Supported Plug-in formats (64-bit): Audio Units, VST 3, AAX.

Windows® (64-bits)

Minimal: Core i5 Processor or equivalent, 16 GB of RAM, Windows 10 (64 bit) or newer. At least 250 GB of hard disk space*.

Requires an ASIO compatible sound card.

Supported Plug-in formats (64-bit): VST 3, AAX.

Internet connection is required for authorization.

* Single products hard disk space.

Sinphonica Maestosa Strings: 133.1 GB

Sinphonica Strings - Violins I: 26.9 GB

Sinphonica Strings - Violins II: 26.1 GB

Sinphonica Strings - Violas: 25.7 GB

Sinphonica Strings - Cellos: 34.4 GB

Sinphonica Strings - Basses: 20.0 GB

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Sinphonica $499.99

60 players.One expressive instrument.

Some instruments reproduce an orchestra. Sinphonica® lets you shape one. Created in Italy and recorded at the legendary Officine Meccaniche studios in Milan, Sinphonica brings together exceptional Italian musicians, meticulous sampling and a new generation of expressive technology. Inspired by the same Italian tradition that transformed raw materials into timeless works of art, Sinphonica approaches orchestral sound as something to be shaped, refined and brought to life. From the intimacy of a single phrase to the scale of a cinematic score, every element is designed around one idea: give composers the power to sculpt sound into emotion.

OVERVIEW

Sinphonica Overview

The italian orchestra, reimagined

Italy has shaped the language of music and art for centuries.
From the great instrument makers to opera, from sculpture to cinema, Italian creativity has always combined extraordinary craftsmanship with the pursuit of emotion.
Sinphonica carries that philosophy into a new generation of orchestral instruments.
Carefully selected Italian musicians, world-class recording, meticulous sampling and advanced performance technology come together not simply to preserve the sound of an orchestra, but to make it malleable in the hands of the composer.
The result is unmistakably alive: lyrical when you need intimacy, powerful when the score demands scale, and capable of being shaped continuously between the two.

Shape every performance

Sinphonica gives you the detail of a scoring stage without forcing you to engineer one.
Multiple microphone perspectives let you move from the immediacy of the players to the natural dimension of the room, while IK’s advanced orchestral technologies give you even deeper control over articulation, dynamics, expression and space.
Rather than simply selecting a sound, you can shape how it speaks, how it moves and where it lives.
The orchestra becomes your material. The performance becomes your sculpture.

More than a Library

Sinphonica begins with the authenticity of real musicians performing together, but goes far beyond simply capturing their sound.
Every articulation, dynamic, transition, microphone perspective and performance control becomes part of a creative palette that lets you sculpt the orchestra around your music.
Shape the phrase. Shape the dynamics. Shape the space.
From the finest performance detail to the entire orchestral image, Sinphonica puts expression directly in your hands.

Acoustic Realism with PALCO™ Technology

PALCO™ is Sinphonica’s 3D orchestral positioning system, powered by proprietary virtual stage positioning technology.
Unlike conventional stereo panning, PALCO uses impulse responses captured from multiple positions across the stage and multiple microphone configurations. As you move a section, PALCO interpolates between these acoustic measurements, reproducing the corresponding changes in localization, depth, room response and microphone perspective.
This allows each section to be positioned naturally within the recorded acoustic space, while maintaining the spatial character of the original hall.

Made in Italy. Sculpted for you.

The best orchestral libraries can be technically impressive.
Sinphonica aims for something more.
An orchestra with character.
An instrument with immediacy.
A sound with the depth to be transformed by the composer.
Captured from extraordinary Italian musicians. Refined through meticulous technology. Placed in your hands to shape into something entirely your own.
Because great sound shouldn’t simply be reproduced.
It should be sculpted.

Build your orchestra

Start with the strings you need. Build the orchestra you want. Then shape every detail until the performance becomes uniquely yours. Choose the individual MAESTOSA string session you need, or bring all five sections together in the complete collection.
Each session is an instrument in its own right, while together they form the full symphonic vision of MAESTOSA Strings.

From performance to sculpted sound

Before the microphones. Before the software. Before the first sample was edited, there was a question:
What should a modern orchestral instrument feel like?
For Sinphonica, the answer began in Italy.
Not simply because Italy is our home, but because Italy has spent centuries turning craftsmanship into expression — through music, instrument making, opera, cinema, architecture and art.
We wanted to approach the virtual orchestra with that same philosophy.
Not as a collection of samples. As an instrument shaped from real performances. And so we started where every great orchestra starts: With musicians.

TECHNOLOGY

Specs

Sinphonica is a 64-bit application and requires a 64 bit CPU and Operating System.

Mac® (64-bits)

Minimal: Apple M1 or Intel® Core i5 Processor,16 GB Ram, MacOs 10.15 or newer. At least 250 GB of hard disk space*.

Supported Plug-in formats (64-bit): Audio Units, VST 3, AAX.

Windows® (64-bits)

Minimal: Core i5 Processor or equivalent, 16 GB of RAM, Windows 10 (64 bit) or newer. At least 250 GB of hard disk space*.

Requires an ASIO compatible sound card.

Supported Plug-in formats (64-bit): VST 3, AAX.

Internet connection is required for authorization.

* Single products hard disk space.

Sinphonica Maestosa Strings: 133.1 GB

Sinphonica Strings - Violins I: 26.9 GB

Sinphonica Strings - Violins II: 26.1 GB

Sinphonica Strings - Violas: 25.7 GB

Sinphonica Strings - Cellos: 34.4 GB

Sinphonica Strings - Basses: 20.0 GB

From performance to sculpted sound

60 musicians. One orchestra.

The first chapter of Sinphonica is MAESTOSA Strings, built around a 60-piece symphonic string ensemble carefully assembled from outstanding players from some of Italy’s most prestigious orchestras.
The objective wasn’t simply to gather exceptional musicians in a room.
It was to make them perform as an orchestra.
To capture the interaction between players and sections. The subtle variations that happen naturally inside an ensemble. The way the character of the orchestra changes as sixty musicians move together from the most delicate passages to full symphonic intensity.
These are qualities that cannot be created afterwards.
They have to happen in the room.

The right place to capture it

That room was Officine Meccaniche in Milan.
We chose it not simply as a recording studio, but as an essential part of the sound.
Its combination of detail, dimension and musical character allowed us to preserve the immediacy of the players while capturing the natural sense of space around the complete ensemble. Microphones were positioned throughout the room, from intimate perspectives close to the musicians to the wider image heard from the conductor’s position. Every perspective captured a different relationship between player, orchestra and space. The room wasn’t something we wanted to remove from the recordings. It was part of the instrument we wanted to build.

Capturing a performance

The sessions went far beyond recording notes at different dynamics.
We wanted to capture what makes strings expressive: the beginning of a bow stroke, the transition between notes, the tension of a crescendo, the subtle variations between players and the movement that happens inside a sustained sound. We also encouraged the orchestra to move beyond conventional playing — exploring unusual gestures, textures and performances that became part of MAESTOSA’s more cinematic side.
Because we weren’t simply recording notes. We were capturing the raw material of expression.

From performance to instrument

When the sessions ended, another kind of craftsmanship began.
Thousands of performances were listened to, selected, edited, balanced and carefully assembled into a single coherent instrument.
The challenge was to preserve all the humanity and complexity of those performances while making the experience of playing them feel completely natural. Technology plays an enormous role in Sinphonica, but its purpose is ultimately to disappear.
The complexity stays underneath. The orchestra stays in front.

VERSIONS

Select your version and instantly explore all the included gears in the section below

NEW

Sinphonica Maestosa Strings

Sinphonica Maestosa Strings.Includes Violins I and II, Violas, Cellos, and Basses.

$499.99 excl.VAT

($609.99 incl.VAT)

Sinphonica Strings - Basses

Sinphonica Maestosa Strings - Basses. 8 players.Also included in Sinphonica Maestosa Strings.

$129.99 excl.VAT

($158.59 incl.VAT)

Sinphonica Strings - Cellos

$199.99 excl.VAT

($243.99 incl.VAT)

Sinphonica Strings - Violas

$149.99 excl.VAT

($182.99 incl.VAT)

Sinphonica Strings - Violins 1

$169.99 excl.VAT

($207.39 incl.VAT)

Sinphonica Strings - Violins 2

$149.99 excl.VAT

($182.99 incl.VAT)

VIDEOS

AMPLITUBE 5 - Overview

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60 players.One expressive instrument.