Dear MIR Pro users,

You may have heard and seen Teldex Studio Berlin for Vienna MIR Pro already. Being an important part of our RoomPack 2 – Studios & Soundstages, this world-famous studio offers the ideal acoustic environment for all kinds of contemporary orchestral music production.

Taking the release of Vienna MIR Pro as an opportunity, I would like to share
my personal "orchestral starting points" for this prestigious soundstage with you. One is a full-blown setup with about 50 Vienna Instruments for large symphonic arrangements, which in real life would amount to around
80 players. The second one is meant to be used with smaller ensembles; it uses 32 Vienna Instruments, which makes it a good choice for Vienna Special Edition users, too.

Both
presets are based on examples of typical orchestral recording sessions supplied
by the highly experienced, award-winning Teldex Studio staff themselves (see
their exemplary session layout on the next page). All Icons are pre-positioned, levelled, labelled and assigned to Groups. Many of them make use of MIR's unique Character Presets. The presets come in two versions. One uses the standard Vienna Instrument player that comes for free with our sample libraries. The other one makes use of the advanced feature of our brand-new Vienna Instruments Pro 2.

In case of the standard Vienna Instruments, none of the players has any
sample data loaded. This is done on purpose: Personally, I tend to look at
these presets as an orchestra which has already taken seat, but no scores yet
on the music stands in front of the players. Depending on the task at hand I individually load selected Matrices into the Vienna Instruments I’m
planning to use. The beauty of this is that loading times are kept at a bare
minimum. RAM usage is no issue either, as the number of loaded samples is
totally scalable depending on the system's capabilities. Apart from that, these presets can be used with a diverse set of VSL products, be it the Special Editions, Download Libraries or DVD Collections, Standard or Extended content.

Vienna Instruments Pro 2 allows for a greatly enhanced
version of this concept: Here, the instruments have all the typical
articulations already assigned – but all Matrix-cells are saved in their “disabled”
state, meaning that all data are available according to individual needs at a
simple mouse-click, while no RAM is consumed until the sample data actually are loaded. In other words – every MIR Pro user is empowered to generate her or his own personal orchestral starting points from these basic setups.

Of
course, these presets don’t aspire to be an “instant mix”. Like me, you will
always find yourself changing some volume settings here, adding a plug-in
there, or moving one instrument to the other side, just because it fits in
better with a certain arrangement. It's also worth mentioning that I decided to stick to the smaller Boesendorfer Imperial grand piano instead of the much more elaborated Vienna Imperial, mostly in order to avoid any “Missing Instrument” messages for users who don’t own the latter yet.

I hope you’ll enjoy making music in this wonderful virtual hall as much as I do.

Yours sincerely,

Herb Tucmandl – Founder and Managing Director, VSL

Operating instructions: Copy the files with the extension
VIFrame64 to an appropriate location on your hard-disk and open them from MIR
Pro's file dialog like any other project. If you make any changes, don’t forget
to save your results under a new filename in case you want to come back to the original Presets later.