As 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. 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). The labour involved in seamlessly looping thousands of stereo recordings is back-breaking, so full marks to the company for making the effort.
For a reviewer with one eye on a deadline and the other on pub opening times, the number of performance styles in VSL is almost intimidating. A quick run-through of the piccolo's menu should give you the idea; there are (deep breath) long sustains with a choice of constant or progressive vibrato, two-second sustains, and short notes comprising staccato, 0.3-second and 0.5-second note lengths, the latter type played with or without vibrato. Most of these playing styles feature two, three or more dynamic layers (other woodwind instruments offer as many as six), and most of the shorter notes are supplied with a complete second set of alternative samples, which you can use to double-track the instrument without fear of sample duplication.
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The PE's seven new brass instruments add considerable depth and colour to the library's brass ranks. Each one offers straight notes with a choice of different note lengths, attacks and vibrato styles, plus a wide range of changing-dynamic performances (fp, sfz, sffz, pfp, crescendo and diminuendo) of different lengths and intensities. Three of the new instruments (piccolo trumpet, bass trumpet and contrabass tuba) play tone and semitone trills, and all but one of the PE's 14 brass instrument categories (including the ensembles) now offer VSL's beloved flutter tongue performances. Only the Wagner tuba fails to flutter.
Supplying sound libraries on hard disk makes it easy to manufacture different versions, and VSL are currently considering a flexible, user-orientated system in which content and sample resolution could be defined individually by buyers. The following new instruments have been recorded for inclusion in the Symphonic Cube.
VSL's new budget Horizon series, which offers themed packages like Solo Strings, Mallets, and Glass & Stones, combines selected VSL Pro Edition material with new instruments such as tenor and soprano sax, concert acoustic guitar, glass harmonica, verrophone, musical glasses and distortion guitar. These new instruments will also be available in the Symphonic Cube release.
In terms of the core multisampled instrument library contained in the Strings, Brass and Woodwinds, and Percussion volumes, the instruments included are just like any other EXS24 sample library you would purchase, and are also the same content and layout as the Gigastudio version. Installation is a simple matter of dragging the appropriate sample data to your drive, and copying the EXS24 instrument files into Logic 's 'Sampler Instruments' folder. Once this is done, the instruments can be loaded just like any other by selecting from the hierarchical pop-up menu.
Though Beethoven might not have recognised these exotic and highly varied instruments, enterprising samplists and composers will be glad to add them to their sound palettes. Unfortunately, the PE's Percussion manual fails to describe or explain the background of the non-orchestral percussion items, the one notable omission in an otherwise hugely comprehensive document.
As with the Orchestral Cube, the Performance Set Pro Edition contains an upgraded version of the Performance Set First Edition. VSL's new woodwind, brass and solo string instruments are all extensively represented, and many of the PS FE's instruments' performances have been expanded. There are 42 instrumental categories in all, comprising both solo instruments and ensembles.
All of the 10 woodwind instruments play performance legatos, and most of them play note repetitions in a choice of legato, portato, staccato and slow deliveries. All but the bass clarinet play grace notes; the new concert flute matches the original's large existing repertoire of performance variations, but the piccolo and alto flute have a reduced menu which omits the octave runs. The contrabassoon doesn't play runs either, but that's hardly surprising in view of its profoundly deep pitch!
If you need further proof of how thorough this Vienna lot are, try this: the bass trumpet plays 'upbeats' (one, two or three 16th notes leading to a short note) at 12 different tempos, in 10bpm increments from 80bpm to 190bpm. Each tempo offers a choice of single, double or triple upbeats (did I say thorough? Make that mad). All seven of the new solo brass instruments play upbeats, as well as performance legatos and note repetitions (the latter mainly with portato and staccato deliveries), and all but the Wagner tuba and contrabass trombone play grace notes.
When it comes to brass ensembles, VSL's Pro Edition adds comparatively little to the performances supplied in the PS FE. The three-trumpet, three-trombone and four-French horn ensembles all get some extra note repetition categories and the horns get an extra mf velocity level for their note repetitions, but the only truly notable change is that the trombone ensemble now joins the four horns in playing glissandi and performance glissandi, covering six semitones in range. No new categories are provided for the PS FE solo brass instruments.
If the orchestra as we know it were to disappear from the face of the earth, one suspects that few would mourn its passing more than the Vienna team. The company's high regard and respect for the venerable musical institution is evidenced in their web site's 'Instruments Online' pages, a fabulous educational resource full of colour pictures, descriptions of the instruments' sounds, playing styles, backgrounds, notation, and so on. Clearly a labour of love, this underlines the company's commitment to the instruments they have so carefully recorded, and should be the first port of call for anyone considering buying a VSL product.
Spitfire Audio is so good, they earned two spots on this list. We here at Output adore LABS: a collection of free instruments of all kinds. This assortment includes multiple stringed instruments (Strings, Amplified Cello Quartet, Arctic Swells), brass (Trumpet Fields), percussion (London Atmos) and more. A great choice for when you want a particular lead instrument to stand out in a crowded orchestral mix.
Whereas other orchestral VST instruments feature performances from world-class musicians and expensive recording spaces, Versilian Studios takes a different approach with the VSCO 2 Community Edition library.
This range of orchestral patches covers most of the standard instruments and articulations of a smaller, more intimate sounding orchestra. Designed for students and hobbyists, the original samples are part of the VSCO2 Community edition but have now been scripted for the full version of Kontakt to include legato, round robins and dynamics via the modwheel. Weighing in at just over a gigabyte in size, the samples cover strings, brass, woodwinds, percussion and even two pianos and a church organ. These are all available as separate patches but there are also clever multis which group the instruments into ensembles for easy chord, arpeggio and tutti playing. The bonus harp instrument is a heavenly addition to this fully-featured orchestral package. 2ff7e9595c
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