I was wondering, since the VSL team has done such a wonderful job with the woodwinds series, are there any plans to expand the woodwind family with for example the contrabass flute, and double-contrabassflute?

They have a beautiful full tone, and although they are not as commonplace as the smaller siblings of the flute family, with their unique identity and tone they certainly deserve a place of their own.

If there are no plans yet, please take it into consideration for a possible future release.

In my USER AREA > INSTRUMENT COLLECTIONS > PERCUSSION & KEYBOARDS, the link of the Manual Elements directs me to a page with an error message.

Could you please check this?

Thanks.

A1? That would be poster format, that is really BIG.

Unfortunately I have not been able to find a tool for drawing staffs less than 1 cm width.

Good luck with your composition. 

I have to agree that the current policy of VSL in case of a damaged dongle is quite absurd.

Being forced to pay 20 Euros for each single license in case a dongle is damaged?

That's like turning the misfortune of your customers into a profitable business!

It means that those customers who have invested a lot of money in VSL libraries and who therefore are the greatest supporters of VSL as a company are punished the most, because they will literally have to pay hundreds of Euros to replace a damaged dongle! 

I think that is VERY unfair and unreasonable.

If I had known this policy before purchasing licenses I would have thought twice about purchasing any license.

It would be much more reasonable if we could simply back up each license in a non-activated state on a spare dongle, so that in the case a dongle is damaged, we would simply be able to send the damaged dongle to VSL and activate the licenses on the spare dongle.

Thanks for clearing that up, Stefan.

The reason why I asked is because Time+Space announced at the VI forum that the 23% discount is applicable when 'you create a personalized bundle with 4 or more standard DVD collections', and also on the Best Service site when I read the details about the VSL sale in the . pdf file, scrolling down to offer no. 2, it says 'Buy 4 or more standard DVD collections'.

Just to be sure: if I buy just 4 extended libraries I don't get the 23% discount, because I first need to buy 4 standard libraries?

I recently ordered the DVD 'Bruckner's Decision'. 

I can't comment on the quality yet because it's on its way, but the reviews on Amazon were favorable for the most part. 

As for Amadeus, I never liked the way Mozart was depicted either.

It's of course the Mozart seen through the eyes of Salieri, but still, the overall image of Mozart which lingers in the minds of most people having seen the movie becomes one of a giggling idiot, which Mozart was not. 

The installation went fine now; thank you Dietz.

When I tried to install the latest update of Roompack 2 I got the message that the source file was corrupted.

I downloaded the files again, tried to install them, but it was of no use: the same message appeared.

Could you check this please?

Downside is that it's going to take a LOT of time working on the settings and templates for various instruments. I hope that perhaps the VSL team will work on some ready-to-go presets/templates?

With such a deep VI perhaps that in the future VSL will consider some import function so that third party samples can be imported and mapped into VIPro.

Just watched the demos online: I'm very impressed by the possibilities of the new VIPro, great job! 

When I clicked on the 'Download' buttons on the 'VIPro product page - Videos section' no download was intiated, but instead I got the message 'No File ID was specified'.  

By the way, about the introductory offer: for the free extended library does a user have to have the 10 libraries contained in the cube, or does the offer also apply to users who have 10 DVD standard libraries which may not all be included in the symphonic cube?

I wonder: will there also be a prize allotted to the one furthest off the mark in the choir quiz?

 There goes the neighbourhood...

Aren't there basic rules about conduct for this forum?

Perhaps it's good to send a reminder before organpipes become airborne, oboes are stuffed down people's throats, and people get strung up with the strings of the first violins, whether they be LASS's or VSL's strings...

For a moment there I thought I read "I think that every man prefers a beautiful girl instead of the wife he got"...

Hi Dietz, thank you for your thoughts, but there's a special reason why I am searching for a tool to draw music staffs.

The reason why I am searching for such a tool is that I love working with hardcover sketchbooks, journals and notebooks.

I know that there are some journals and notebooks which are pre-formatted with music staffs (Moleskine, Paperblanks. I use them both), and they serve their purpose very well.

I also know that Moleskine's music notebook will be getting a slightly larger format were one blank page is alternated with one page with music staffs, and this would be an ideal layout for me.

However, I love working with large A3 sized hardcover sketchbooks, and so far the only types available are the ones with only blank paper inside.

Call it eccentric, but for me working with a large hardcover sketchbook like the Moleskine A3 folio sketchbook is something very special and appealing. Since they are not available in the interior layout that I would like best I am searching for a convenient tool which allows me to draw music staffs on blank paper without having to draw line after line with a ruler.

The only tools available are the ones which draw staffs of approx. 1 cm, and I am unable to find any other tools for drawing smaller sized music staffs anywhere.

Does anyone of you know if there are any tools on the market to draw music staffs which are less than 1 cm wide (that is, measured from the top line to the bottom line of a staff)?

I know of only three tools used for drawing staffs on blank paper:

-the noligraph, a 5-lined pen,

They have in common that the width of the staff is not less than 1 cm, and so far I have not found anything for drawing smaller staffs; hence my question.

I remember from reading a post a number of months ago that the initial release of the choir would be one without a wordbuilder, but that a wordbuilder might be an option for a future upgrade.

It's been a while since this thread came up, so I was wondering if any plans have been made for the development of perhaps a dedicated engine and user interface for the Konzerthaus organ.

And by the way, has VSL ever considered licensing such a dedicated engine to third party developers?

Look under products -> software -> Vienna MIR and Vienna Suite: new room pack and IR libraries.

Haven't heard anything new about the choir though...

I wish the price of SSD's would drop as fast as 4GB unbuffered non-ECC modules over the past month because now Kingston offers their 12 GB kits for one third of the price of a month ago.

Corsair now also offers a 24GB kit for X58 systems priced at $1349

 The Ramjet kit is ECC. The price is nice though.

Affordable DDR3 4GB sticks which are non-ECC, unbuffered, have been very pricey and hard to find up to now.

Finally the price of 4 GB DDR3 memory sticks are moving in the right direction.

Recently Mushkin announced new 12GB kits (3*4) in their Blackline range (price of which is still not known), and now Crucial is joining by offering 4 GB DDR3 sticks, unbuffered, non ECC at approx. half the price of their Kingston equivalent.

I think others will follow soon with probably even lower prices, so that's good news for those who have been waiting for affordable 4GB DDR3 sticks.