This is my situation also. I already own the full SE with the plus extension.So, I have some decent brass covered with this.

Well, I cannot give you a definitive answer about the usefulness of dimension brass in your music. The concept looks very good.

For now, I  just ordered brass 1 because of the multitude of articulations. At the moment, I am studying a couple of scores by John Williams. The brass writing there is so advanced. Very virtuosic, often dominating the whole orchestra.

So, I guess for anything that comes close to such a brass style the older brass 1 would be still better because it has such a huge variety of articulations. 

But there are other styles were brass is not nearly as dominant. Here, you might get faster results with dimension brass. Hopefully, they wil melt better in an organic way.

Keep in mind that brass 1 is not a complete brass library. You are still missing bass trombone/contrabass trombone and contrabass tuba.

I guess that I can live easily with those low brass instruments having only a dozen of articulations.So,my SE would cover this easily.

This may be of not much help for you. Just the way I see things....

If Dimension Brass is succesful it's defenitely worth to consider it.

Of course not. To be honest, I've not the slightest idea how Dimension Brass could have been done just using samples of previous libraries.  As we mentioned for Dimension Brass: the most important thing was, that all players of a section performed together but were recorded with individual microphones.

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Herb

 Hi Jack,

the recording setup was designed to get as less as possible leakige between the mikes.

This setup is not an optimal one for overall miking

And an overall room mike wouldn't work with the apporach, that the ensemble could be used for chord playing with individual instruments, it would only work for unisono performing sections like our previous recorded ensembles.

By the way the Dimension Brass work perfectly with all existing ensembles, if you want to produce a kind of spot and room mike setup.

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Herb

 Hi Simon,

thanks for your interest. Reverb was a Vienna Suite.

I just used a factory  "Konzerthaus" preset  without any additional tweaking, no other effects or EQ were applied.

Demos will be online propably tomorrow.

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Herb

Replace?  One would surely hope not: there are at least some of us who are drawn to VSL precisely due to the fact that VSL offers something other than "Hollywood," that it is far more than the "one trick pony" that some of the competition tends towards.

Augment/additional sound options?  One would hope so: the greater choice within the available sounds, the better.  If VSL were to gain a greater share of the "Hollywood" sound market, that would likely be of benefit VSL's bottom line.  But, if one is composing a piece for a smaller "classical" type ensemble, there are reasons why one can find demos of Mozart on the VSL site, though not on the sites of certain competitors: VSL can do it well, certain competitors cannot.

... which of course is based on a reworked single postion of the MIR recording sessions (... just for the sake of completeness ;-) ...)

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