There are rumors and rumblings that Vienna Instruments is going to be discarded as a "Legacy" product. Does anyone here disagree with this? Please write a response if so. IT MUST NOT HAPPEN !
I find this so disturbing because VI is the best sample library in existence for orchestral composers who want to create their own sound, create their own orchestra. It allows direct access to the rawest sound of music - the actual performance, unsullied by any processing, on the Silent Stage, of the great musicians of Vienna. This can be done at the PATCH LEVEL allowing total control, easily accomplished within the excellent software of Vienna Instruments. And then you can place that into any imaginable reverb or environment with flawless integration, including that masterpiece of software, MIR.
Load an articulation. Play. Load another and switch with a key. Play. It is simplicity itself. Then save your own unique combo. It allows you to create the EXACT INSTRUMENTS you want, not some big menu-driven, impossible-to-understand monstrosity that forces you to focus on computer programming instead of MUSIC!
I feel so strongly about this because I've incorporated VI into my basic music thought process. You can think about the articulations needed in a composition, and they are THERE! Not in some huge preset with all these hidden variables that you HAVE TO USE PROPERLY OR ELSE! - but every patch right there simply and ready to use directly, based on what the musicians actually did.
This is the great accomplishment of VSL, beyond any other libraries - they captured the beautiful sounds of great musicians in an orchestra purely and cleanly. And they did it without any processing beyond just assembling the note performances. That is so great it cannot be overstated. It is the Zen of sampling. It is the utter simplicity yet greatness of pure music. It is what was always most needed in sampling but never existed until VSL. And it has been done brilliantly and with total access by anyone using VI.
VSL is not making as much money with simply selling samples because everybody and his brother now has a sample library. But they are garbage compared to Vienna Instruments and must not be allowed to destroy it!
Vienna Instruments must continue because it is the purest and most powerful digital music performance in existence.