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.