just one more thing though,
Beat.. I went to your site and listened to your examples within the tutorials of VSL and VI with that passage of a solo violin demonstrating different playing techniques.
The resault sounded the same to me. I suppose you are using the same samples, just a different player (the VI)?
But one observation though. I don't want to be annoying, but of all techniques I found the legato the least believable. the problem is I can here it's a sample, I hear the sample starting and getting chopped to go to another. I suppose that's something which is unavoidable?? it's true that the room reverb you add does help a little, but isn't it because it's less accurate?
Maybe I was listening to an outdated example of legato?
Greets

Hey guys,

Thanks for all the info. I can now judge more intelligently what library I should get.
Many thanks,
ALG

Thanks for replying Paul. I start understanding.

I took a look at the articulation charts as you suggested Beat, thnx.

I see the VI is the "latest thing" and it does sound profoundly impressive. you say it's a collection that comes with your own sample player. But the samples are remain in the same structure, just more of them (about twice as many).
Could this sample player function with the PRO edition?
Is it that sample player that makes your experience so pleasant Beat? Besides the improvement of simplicity, does it effect that actual result by other then the delays of some legatos? I don't mind loading different legatos if that's the problem..

Is VI (the sample p layer)a replacement for GigaStudio or an improved Performance Tool?

Many thanks for your patience []

Dear Christian.

My reply is late because i spent couple more hours trying to compare articulations between products and I still have not managed to find out which is which.
I can see that Op. 2 offers articulations that also exist in the Pro Performance set, yet it's named differently. That's very confusing.

So just to make this short...
Would you say I will have the complete vienna orchestral capabilities (or close to complete) if I get the Orchestral Cube Pro + Performance set Pro? And evetually, which of the Horizon should I get?

Sorry for being so clueless ops:

Greets,
ALG

I currently use the first edition of Orchestral Cube. Bought it couple of years ago.
Now I start wanting more.

I have a chance to buy at lower price VSL libraries. Those include the entire Performance set, Pro edition and the entire Horizon series.

But I'm confused.
Does VSL repeat samples in different libraries? do they use the same samples from Performance Pro in Horizon? Would I need Opus 1 AND 2 or just 2?

Is Performance Pro + Horizon = Symphonic Cube or is it an entirelly different set of samples?

Is there somewhere a comparison chart you could reffer me to?

Many thanks for your help,
Alg

Ok,

After some trying out (much) I installed a midi driver called Maple. It installs 4 virtual midi ports wihch passes information between programs. I then simply followed the instructions of VSL's perf tool and set the right Ins and Out, just substituting Nemsys with Giga (the new port's name) and VSL Router's with Maple.

Thanks for the help anyway cm.
By the way, i meant by "the rest set in Gigastudio" that port 2 to 4 of the Maple, was set in Giga studio respectively, but actually, with Perf tool V.2 you don't do it this way. The instructions are different then for Perf tool V.1

Dear experts,
I just set my system and wanted to start learning when I found out that the USB keyboard I have is recognized as one midi port. The problem is that the Performance tool requires me to have 4 MIDI ports, of which port 1 will be dedicated to it, and the rest set in GIGASTUDIO.

What do I do? Do I really have to connect through a midi cable instead of my USB? My sound card doesn't have a MIDI I/O.

Is there a program that will route my USB MIDI signals to virtual MIDI ports? I tried using Maple, but of course that program only bridges between programs and does not send my USB MIDI signals to its own MIDI ports.

Please help