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    R
    R
    Does anyone know what make and model recorders were used in recording these samples? Thanks much! Rod
  • michiM
    VSL Team
    michiM

    Hello Rod,

     

    Thank you for your interest in our Recorder Library! We've been lucky to get great support from Yamaha Austria: http://www.yamaha.at

    The instruments are from Yamahas "YR" series.

     

    All the best, Michael 

     

     
  • R
    R
    Many and belated thanks to Michael for your reply about the make of recorders. I was wondering if it was possible to set the tuning of the recorders to values other than A = 440 in Vienna Ensemble. Baroque recorders are often tuned at A = 415, and Renaissance recorders at A = 466. I've even seen medieval recorders tuned at A = 523 and A = 392. If it can't be done in Vienna Ensemble, do you know of some other way to do it in Cubase 6.5? Thanks, Rod
  • M
    M

    You can just set the master tuning either on the vienna instrument plug in, or you can do it for all plug ins in a vienna ensemble instance by clicking the master tuning butting (it's an image of a tuning fork). Works great. You can also change scales and tunings in VI Pro.
  • R
    R
    Correct me if I am wrong, but I don't think I can change the master tuning for all plug-ins in plain Vienna Ensemble, although I see it can be done in Vienna Ensemble Pro. I can't see a tuning fork button in Vienna Ensemble, but I see one in the Vienna Ensemble Pro manual. Also, it seems that the tuning range is limited in Vienna Instruments. For example, I can only change the master tuning for Special Edition matrices from 420 to 460. Are the recorders limited to a range of 420 to 460, or is that a limitation of Vienna Instruments as opposed to Vienna Instruments Pro? Thanks, Rod
  • M
    M

    I haven't personally looked into adjusting tuning ranges that far but just as first thought it seems like you are going to want to detune to something suitable and then look at a key change on top of that to get you where you want to go. If you detune the original sample that much it's not going to sound very good or realistic. For example, figure out how much a semi tone or whole tone keychange would get you in terms of hz then adjust it the rest of the way by adding/subtracting the difference, depending whether you're going up or down.

    Haven't use this but it may help http://users.utu.fi/jyrtuoma/speech/semitone.html

    Actually just for curiosity I just tried that out and it looks like transposing 1 semitone down from A440 gives you roughly "A"415 (G#415) (415.30469~) Just changing down a semitone in key would get you to where you want to go without any further tuning. If you want to be really precise then you could just adjust the tuning down by 0.3hz :)