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  • Non-reverb samples

    Demos sound fantastic, but are there demos without added reverb?

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    Welcome & Thanks for the kind words!

    No, they are "production-ready", so to speak (or at least I hope so). I made some more elaborated explainations about reverb and what I used for mixdown in an earlier thread (click here).

    You may listen to our pure samples by ordering our Demo-Cube and/or watching the "Usability"-guide on our interactive CD-ROM.

    One of the foundations of the Vienna Symphonic Library is the decision to record our samples with natural room to let the sound breathe - but without actual reverb. Without those typical "orchestral" reverb-tails, two things (amongst serveral others) are possible:

    1. You can decide about the acoustic environment of your composition - be it a classical concert hall, a chamber-musical setting - or maybe a space-ship hangar for your next SF-movie score ;-]. Otherwise, it would always be "reverb on reverb", in the best case.

    2. even more important: all those Performance Elements, which set our Library so far apart from everything else up to now, wouldn't work with a lengthy reverb hanging over from the note before (... quite clear, when you think about it).

    Apart from this - virtual reverbation has reached a level of realism where it becomes almost as convincing as our Library; and I can tell you for sure that it will become even better in the not-so-distant future.


    HTH,

    /Dietz - Vienna Symphonic Library

    /Dietz - Vienna Symphonic Library
  • Thanks that is exactly what I hoped for, will order the demo.

    One more question, have you or do you know of anyone who has tried the library with Halion? I would like to now if there are any restrcitions on performance controls.

  • Import into Halion works - BUT only to hear the samples. You would loose several of our painstakingly developped mapping- and performance-features.

    /Dietz - Vienna Symphonic Library

    /Dietz - Vienna Symphonic Library