Would be very very very happy to know, when the EARLY BIRD will dying.

(poor bird sniff...)

Download speed is terrible, I was at 33% after 2 days... have to reboot the computer and it's going back from zero, now transfer rate is also zero???

VSL, are you there?

Sonny

I afraid download manager will not support continue download once it quit.

Sonny

I don't advise that. I tried it a few times and it cut the download speed in half and reduced the number of servers from 4 to 2.

0.3%, and only three days and seven hours left.

Hmm. What's this book? I'll give it a read. " “Well, Prince, Genoa and Lucca are now no more than private estates of the Bonaparte family...."

0.4%

Sure it would be nice to have everything faster, but I can deal with a long download time, because its still faster than getting DVDs by mail.  

The main thing is - this is the most awesome string library on the planet!  Nothing else touches this.  Now available.  I am already doing a notation file in Finale for it.  VSL has gone beyond anything else in existence... again.

You're one of the few who know how!

DG, regarding GOS, that was a looooooooong time ago.  I actually did like the ability to program bow changes.  Unfortunately I never had much success with the library as I was one of those individuals who had nothing but trouble trying to get ye old Giga Studio to work properly.  As for forcing bow changes, the samples were set up in two banks, mapped to two different sections of the keyboard, with down bows in one set, and the upbows in the second set.  You could program bowing however you wished.  The downside was that when doing that, the notated part ceased to correspond to actual notes as the upbows (IIRC) were typically placed three or four octaves higher on the keyboard.  The ranges of the instruments were generally not quite full range.

Overall, for the time frame that it was released, it was a major breakthrough.  IIRC, it was the first major strings samples library of its kind, and even predated VSL (I think).  It was very different from the later GPO stuff, and was sampled at a much more in-depth level, with better overall sound.  Would it compare to VSL?  No.  As it was written for Giga Studio, the library has long since become obsolete.  Even its design had become obsolete prior to Giga Studio's demise, and the library has not been supported for several years.

The demos sound promising!

Here's an idea to make the section sound less thin (in theory): use the pitch/transpose trick (as described by Beat on his site) to create another 8 extra violin section. Double those with the existing 8 and you'll have 16 unique players (without phasing problems).

Or: double the 8 strings with the chamber strings. Will give you 6+8= 14 strings :D which you still could divide (albeit unevenly) in 2 or 3 divisi.

Hi Paul,

First of all, well done on the Dimension Strings (you must get tired of hearing that ). That's an interesting approach (using alternate strings for the same passage), haven't thought of that (reading the interview right now by the way!)