I generally don't get too excited about any new library until there are demos out.

Agreed William and Mike makes a very fair point.  Perhaps just wishful thinking - but VSL track record, a HUGE need for the 'next generation' choir library - seems like all the tumblers lining up for a VSL 'hit'.  Or at least this customer is hoping and wishing.   :)

Would someone freaking guess the sample count so they can release it already!!!!!!!

Anyone when this is likely to be released?

I remember an email a while back saying it would be out by now...

Dan

Yes - I think Herb alluded to this a month ago or so - releasing this 'ahs / ohs' library now with WB to be a future release / update.  The 'syllables' should be helpful at this point and of course WB (done right) will be grand. :)

Okay jetzt komme ich dran: OH! MY! GOOOOOOODNESS!

Guten Morgen Herb,

glauben Sie mir: Ich wäre Ende 2009 nicht in Ihre Produktwelt eingestiegen, wenn ich mir (als ehemaliger Domspatz) nicht Grooooßes in Belangen des Legato Chors vorgestellt hätte. Ich bin sicher, dass das, was Sie da bringen werden, sich toll anhören wird. Keine Frage ...

Aaaaaaaaaber: Wenn man nun bedenkt, dass der Choir bereits für Ende 2006 angesagt war und nun 4 Jahre später mit A und U Artikulationen erscheint und ich mal durch das ABC singe, dann lande ich in Sachen fehlende (singbare) Artikulationen bei:

E, I, J, L, M, N, O, R (deutsch), R (österreichisch/ bayrisch ;-), S, W, Ä, Ö, Ü;

Und deswegen sagte ich anfangs: OH MY GOODNESS!!! 

Und jetzt betrachten wir nochmal den Fertigstellungszeitraum bis heute.

WIE LANGE SOLL DAS DENN BITTE DAUERN, BIS DAS "DING" IM KASTEN IST???

Und wenn man dann noch für jeweils 2 Buchstaben inklusive Extended Versionen 890 EUR rechnet dürfte das ganze (ohne Wordbuilder)...

                                                                                           ...  14.240 EUR kosten. 

Bitte sagen Sie mir, ob das wirklich so angedacht ist???

ICH BIN UM JEDEN PIEPSER DANKBAR ... Gott oh Gott ... :-D Sie sehen: Ich trags mit Humor ....

Übrigens gerne auch auf Englisch ...

Gruß Lars

Dank' you 4 die Flowers HOG. But I tink that 99 percent will have the same thoughts ... and so I translate the upper post 4 everybody:

Here it is again in a deeper & expanded version:

OH MY GOODNESS!!!

Good morning Herb,

believe me: I would not have become a VSL customer in the end of 2009 if I (as a former Regensburger Domspatz) had not been convinced that the Vienna Choir will be a big and wonderful release . I am sure that what you will release there will sound fantastically. No question... 

But: If now one thinks that the Choir was already announced for the end of 2006 and appears now - 4 years later  - with A- and U - articulations and I sing through all the singable letters of the ABC, then I end in the matter of being absent (singable) articulations with the following result:

absent singable articulations: E, I, J, L, M, N, O, R (in German), R (österreichisch/in Bavarian;-),  R (american), S (soft), W, Ä, Ö, Ü;

(Of course there are also some exotic letters like f. ex. in the French speech "the nosy words/ näselnde Wörter". A good exmaple for it is the word: Enfant (which means: Kind (deutsch)/ Child (english)" -  I think you know what I want to say ...)

That's why I said: OH MY GOODNESS!!! 

Now we look at the completion period till this day over again. So 99 percent of the CHOIR-interested people will ask you (or think by themselfes):

HOW LONG SHOULD THIS LAST, UNTIL THE WHOLE CHOIR IS IN THE BOX???

And if you think of 2 letters in each package including Extended versions and the price of 890 EUR you will end at a final price of: ...

                                                                   ... 14,240 EUR for the whole Vienna Choir. 

Please, tell us whether this really is your plan!??

I AM GRATEFUL AROUND EVERY RESONANCE FROM YOU.

... By the way, with pleasure you can write in German language ...

Greeting Lars