I am off and running with the wonderful inspiration presets! Although I am a relatively accomplished orchestrator, my need for speed is a real issue when it comes to fulfilling deadlines in episodic television. I am now able to quickly create a cue, and then add some solo instruments and percussion to enhance the illusion of realism. The director on my show is very happy with the results that I am getting.
Is there a place where users share their own patches, perhaps ones like the inspiration presets?
Will VSL have any new ones in the future?
Gratefully,
Robert
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Inspiration presets - user patches or future updates?
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Just bumped into this while searching. I've been working with VSL instruments for years and only recently got to playing a bit with the Inspiration Presets, which are really nice. I almost never use any layering within VIP as I program each instrument by hand, but this is great fun and very useful for quick jotting down of ideas. Has VSL produced some more of these goodies? I'd probably find some time to layer frequently-used combinations myself but I don't want to reinvent the wheel if there's a preset file already programmed.
Thanks.
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It would sure be nice if VSL added some form of User Repository to it's website. They would, of course, have to specify that there was no guarantee as to the quality of anything users upload, and that they were not responsible for any problems such files might cause. But if there was a user rating system, those uploads that were worthy would be quickly apparent.
I suppose it's possible that some professionals might not want to share any of their secrets, and that's perfectly understandable. But no one would be forced to upload anything. There are probably some users who develop their own VI Pro matrices and presets they would be happy to share.
I participate in a community involved in a completely different type of software that benefits hugely from file sharing in a repository.
Just one man's opinion, and I don't pretend VSL would find these comments persuasive. They might consider it too much of a potential headache.
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Hey,
I think, it would be really great, to see how other persons use the VIPro (or standard VI). So I decided to post my Solo-Horn preset here. The text below gives some instructions on it. I hope it can inspirate someone.
Triple Horn (legato)- User Preset
This is a preset for playing Legato-Horn-passages with the VIPro2-Player, assuming you own all the SE Vol1- and Vol1+-Articulations for the Triple Horn (and the MIRx for Teldex maybe). I designed it for me to accompany scores of other composers for fun. For this purpose, I added an EQ with a major cut around 4100Hz and the Miracle-Teldex-Hybrid to avoid conflicts with the original score and to make it fit better into already mixed and mastered music (The EQ-cut is also good, when watching a soccer game and wanting to be able to hear the commentators and playing for fun at the same time, without having the feeling, that horn and TV-sound fight against each other the whole time ;-) ). You won't find this in my preset, so it is to be applied by yourself if you like.
I will now list some things, you have to know, when wanting to use this preset properly.
1) There are 5 Matrices in this Preset, which you should be able to have access to. Personally I use the Pitch-Wheel for that. I lowered the Data3 of it in my MIDI-Keyboard to 04, so that in the middle position I can play the normal legato. The other articulations I chose are from top to bottom: Perf-Leg-Sus, Rep-Leg, Portato, Sustain. You will find, that I use CC5 for changing matrices, so you would have to change the controller of your Pitch-wheel as well, but of course, you can choose personal preferences here, too.2) I only assigned CCs to parameters, I really need for my purpose. And I automated as much as possible, so that, a do not have to use too many faders. In the end, I came up to only use CC7 (Volume), CC2 (Expression, Vel-X, Filter, Dyn-Range, Y-Axis-change), Speed (x-Axis change, humanization) and CC74 (MIRx dry/wet). You will notice, that especially the legato-matrix is quite huge. I played around with some parameters there like Streching, Start-Offset, Attack and Release. This makes it possible to play slowlier and faster stuff, without changing anything manually, because attack times etc are adjusted to need. Most things, I did in this matrix, are done for reasons of humanisation and automation. Feel free to play around there. It might be confusing for You, that the other articulations contain 2 slots, although they are identical. I chose to do this, because I felt the need to mark a certain point, where, for my ears, all articulations sound similar in their timbre and to have a visualisation for that. This way, it is easier for me to see this point in the Basic view of VIPro2 when playing.
3) I use the Modwheel to control CC2. Be sure to set Data 3 there to 88 so that it does not cover all velocities. The preset is adjusted to that.
