- VIENNA SYMPHONIC LIBRARY NO SOUND SET MANUALS
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Manuals & CompatibilityĪt long last, printed versions of VSL's excellent manuals, previously available only as PDF files, should now be available.
VIENNA SYMPHONIC LIBRARY NO SOUND SET FULL
The labour involved in seamlessly looping thousands of stereo recordings is back-breaking, so full marks to the company for making the effort. One great advance is that all the ensembles' and solo instruments' sustained notes have been looped, with the solo instruments presented in a choice of looped or non-looped versions (the solo strings are currently unlooped, though one presumes VSL will rectify that in a future edition). All in all, there are around 50 additions, ranging from orchestral staples (piccolo and English horn) to exotic ear candy (Peking opera gong).Īs well as filling gaps in the instrumental ranks, the VSL PE features new playing styles and adds more variations and dynamic layers to the existing instruments' repertoire. The most significant new arrivals occur in the woodwinds, but seven new brass instruments also make their debut, along with essential tuned percussion instruments, masses of brand new unpitched percussion, and for the first time, solo strings.
VIENNA SYMPHONIC LIBRARY NO SOUND SET PRO
The Pro Edition (henceforth known as PE) of this already enormous library adds important instruments which were missing from the First Edition (FE).
VIENNA SYMPHONIC LIBRARY NO SOUND SET UPGRADE
If you thought the VSL First Edition's 92GB was overdoing it a bit, you'd better sit down and take a deep breath before reading the next statistic: the VSL Pro Edition upgrade is 235GB in size. Undeterred, the Vienna team continued with their mission to record practically every sonic nuance of the symphony orchestra, and have now faithfully delivered the second phase of their project. The scope and sheer size of the library was unprecedented, causing some critics to doubt whether users could ever fully understand its complexities. Clearly, this was not an organisation to do things by halves! Finally, the company turned the hype into reality when they delivered the first edition of this grand opus on a series of 14 DVD's, reviewed in SOS May 2003. Word also leaked out that the company had constructed a custom-built acoustically treated orchestral recording facility, the Silent Stage, to record the library. Despite widespread scepticism, VSL began to deliver on the hype when they turned up at trade shows with their own acoustically isolated chamber, the so-called Symphonic Booth (see next page), so that people could hear the quality of their work-in-progress library themselves. In Spring 2002, the Vienna Symphonic Library team announced one of the wildest dreams yet, a massive orchestral library whose sample count would eventually run into millions. With the old RAM size restrictions swept away, sound companies were free to think in Gigabytes rather than Megabytes, and to contemplate the creation of sound libraries which would indulge their users' wildest dreams. Even if anyone had been mad enough to record that much data, presenting it in the limited Akai ROM format would have required 176 disks - more CDs than most people have in their music collections! But the advent of hard-disk streaming samplers brought a dramatic change.
Is it the be-all and end-all of orchestral sound libraries?īack in the not-so-far-distant past, when orchestral sample supremos Miroslav Vitous and Peter Siedlaczek ruled the roost, the idea of a 90GB sound library would have seemed laughable. The eagerly awaited upgrade from the VSL team breaks all records for size, depth and scope. As with the First Edition, the constituent volumes of the Orchestral Cube Pro Edition (the Strings, Brass & Woodwinds and Percussion Pro Editions) can also be purchased separately (right). The VSL's Performance Set Pro Edition (far left) and Orchestral Cube Pro Edition (centre).