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  • Symphony Placement

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    First, let me say how excited I am about VSL. Having the ability to have recordings made over a long period of time, as opposed to a few day rental of a hall has clear advantages. This alone will probably be enough to offset any problems I might have with the library.

    Here are my concerns.
    1.Being it wasn't recorded in a large hall, how do I get correct placement of instruments. Is it all midi panning and depth of my reverb, or is there another answer?
    2. I understand this library is an all in one solution, but say I still have old favorite sounds from other libraries, and I wish to incorporate your performance set. I notice in your writings, you leave off the first note in many of your performances. Can this set be used on it's own, or only in conjunction with the Orchestral cube?

    Thanks
    Craig Sharmat
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    Hi Craig,

    thanks for joining us here!

    From the mixing-engineer's point of view, dealing with a sampling library like ours is exactly like mixing a multitrack-recording with overdubs (... this is very important to understand if one plans to use the full potential of the Vienna Symphonic Library). You have all options - but you have to make use of them.

    Like in Real Life, it is a very unlikely scenario to have a production where you raise the faders on the mixing console to 0 dB, and the mix is done; the more tracks involved, the more you won't see this happen (... although there are other compagnies claiming to offer exactly this option with "stage samples" ... go figure ;-] ...).

    In other words: Yes, you will have to make the decisions yourself wether you want to hear a classical symphonic setting, a chamber-musical atmosphere, or something completely different or new. All our samples are stereo, with the sound source as much in center as possible (or usefull). In many cases, simple power-panning will do. In most of our demo-sessions, I used the Waves S-1 as "glorified" pan-pot, because it offers intuitive ways of handling position, width and balancing of a stereo-track. (... instruments on a stage 30 meters away won't have intrinsic stereo-information; an intimate solo-piece 3 meters in front of you will.)

    As I mentioned in an earlier post, my reverb choices are diverse, although leaning strongly towards solutions like t.c.'s System 6000, Yamaha's S-Rev1 or AudioEase's AltiVerb. With these (or comparable) units at your hands, you can easily build a broad pallette of acoustic environments with convincing depth and sound.

    Regarding your second question - with some basic editing skills you can of course mix samples from any source you like; I doubt strongly that the sounds themselves will match qualitywise, though .... [:)]

    All the best,

    /Dietz - Vienna Symphonic Library
    /Dietz - Vienna Symphonic Library
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    Hi Dietz

    Thanks for your help [:)] .