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  • Will VSL's old instruments soon be obsolete?

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    Just wondering if VSL's about to usher in a new wave of room based samples that will make their silent stage room products obsolete?

    Any news on this?

  • DietzD
    VSL Team
    DietzD
    Why should something become obsolete that was made to have timeless value ...?
    /Dietz - Vienna Symphonic Library
  • W
    W

    This question makes no sense.  It would not be a matter of "obsolete"  - why does something become "obsolete"?  It is because it is replaced by something better.  But what you state is a "new wave"  would not  be better at all.  You assume that room sampling along with the instrument samples is better.  That is completely false.  It is an inferior approach used by second rate companies to disguise the lame performances and recordings they are doing.  The entire philosophy and technique of sampling dry sounds is to allow perfection of individual instrument tonality and expression and infinite variation in ambience and reverb.  You will never get that with room sampled sounds.  You will be stuck with the tonality and ambience that is cemented permanently into the samples  and which profoundly affects the insturment's own sound - which does not happen with VSL and which makes it far superior to that approach. 
  • M
    M

    ^THIS^
  • J
    J
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    @Simon Hanna said:

    Just wondering if VSL's about to usher in a new wave of room based samples that will make their silent stage room products obsolete?

    Any news on this?

    I think what Simon meant to ask was, "Just wondering if other sample companies are going to usher in a new wave of silent stage room products to replace their already obsolete room based samples?"

    I'm sure that was an honest mistake so let's all just enjoy ourselves a good lauph and move on.