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BBC Symphony Orchestra Professional Bundle

The complete orchestra including piano

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    The complete orchestra including piano

    Experience the highest standard in orchestral sampling with the world-class BBCSO Professional Bundle, a complete orchestra at your fingertips, featuring strings, brass, woodwinds and percussion— plus, BBCSO Piano — a highly expressive Steinway concert grand. Unmatched in its versatility, all instruments have been recorded at the iconic Maida Vale Studios, featuring an exhaustive range of beautifully performed articulations and expertly curated signals and controls. Presented in our award-winning, dedicated plugin, switch between three editions with our inbuilt Mode Switching technology.

    BBCSO offers a universal starting point for music creators of every level – from those just starting out, to professional composers.

    Offer ends June 26th, 2025.

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    What's included

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    BBC Symphony Orchestra Professional

    The gold standard

    Including three editions interchangeable through our groundbreaking mode-switching technology, BBCSO Professional is our definitive orchestral library, offering everything you need to produce world-class orchestral scores.

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    Left: BBCSO Piano Professional plugin interface. Top: The Piano surrounded by mics. Bottom: Pianist performing

    Mode Switching

    It’s now easier than ever to share and collaborate with fellow composers, collaborators and directors — whatever edition of BBCSO Piano you own. Our groundbreaking mode switching technology makes each edition of BBCSO Piano and BBC Symphony Orchestra interchangeable, so you can mock up your scores quickly and with ease.

    For composers on the go or with a limited technical setup, start writing a piece of music using Discover, and finish it in the Core or Professional edition, with a fuller range of signals, controls and versatility. It also works the other way around: write a piece in the Professional edition and a collaborator can open it in Discover, play what you’ve written (with the sounds intelligently substituted), and add to it. When you reopen their edited version, you will hear their additions alongside your original composition – with your full selection of signals.

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    Left: "The British Broadcasting Corporation" sign. Top right: A wide image of the studio, filled with empty chairs and microphones. Bottom right: A violin and bow resting on a chair.

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    FAQs

    Are BBCSO and BBCSO Piano two different products? 

    Yes, these are two different products. They are purchased separately and installed separately. However they do use the same plugin file in your digital audio workstation. The plugin file is the main BBC Symphony Orchestra Plugin. 

     

    What is the difference between BBCSO Piano Core and Pro? 

    The only difference between BBCSO Piano Core and Professional is the number of microphone signals. 

    BBC Core only has the main MIX 1 signal available. 


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    Tech specs

    Mac system requirements

    Mac OS X 10.15 to OS12

    Minimum: 2.8GHz i5 (quad-core), 8GB RAM

    Recommended: 2.8GHz i7 (six-core), 16GB RAM

    Intel and M1 Macs supported

    64-bit DAW Required (32-bit DAWs not supported)


    PC system requirements

    Windows 10 and Windows 11 (latest Service Pack, 64-bit)

    Minimum: Intel Core 2.8GHz i5 (quad-core) or AMD Ryzen 5, 8GB RAM

    Recommended: Intel 2.8GHz i7 (six-core) or AMD R7 2700, 16GB RAM

    64-bit DAW required (32-bit DAWs not supported)


    File size

    BBC Symphony Orchestra Professional — 630.3 GB download size

    BBC Symphony Orchestra Piano Professional — 35 GB download size

    667 GB disk space required during install

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