At the CapellaWiki you can download a
BRAND-NEW configuration for Vienna SOLO VOICES for Capella 8 (probably running on Capella 7 too):

Vienna SOLO VOICES on CapellaWiki

Currently implemented: Soprano, Mezzo Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Baritone, Bass.
(Coloraturo Soprano still missing, sorry...)

Has been intensely tested for Capella 8 (Windows 7/10; maybe someone can test them on Mac, where Capella 8 is also natively running now).
Manuals are in German only (sorry for my laziness...), but this will not hinder installation or use.

Just give it a try...

LenoT

Hello VSL Team!

Unfortunately, installing the new update on a DELL XPS15 (Win 10) and using it inside Vienna Ensemble (6.0.18443) did not work, nor did the standalone version!

I got the red "!Vi-Pro!" exclamation marks in the VI-Pro instances in VE.
Updating the entries in Directory Manager had no effect.
The standalone version would not start at all.

At the CapellaWiki you can download an actualized configuration for Vienna Symphonic Libraries:

https://wiki.sins942.ch/
(there at: 'capella-tune/VSTs einbinden und mehr/ VST - VSL - Vienna Symphonic Library')

Has been intensely tested for Capella 8 (Windows 7/10; maybe someone can test them on Mac, where Capella 8 is also natively running now).
Manuals are in German only, but this will not hinder installation. Give it a try...

Vienna Special Edition and More: Addition of single instrument Vienna CLARINET in Bb (from the Woodwinds collection). A really well sampled Instrument! Works with Vienna Ensemble and both the Vienna Instrument Standard and the PRO Player.
You can play all necessary articulations, including 'scale runs' and all the 'glissandi'.
* To play 'scale runs' and 'glissandi' you need a start note of appropriate length. To write the scale runs in your score just use a second voice and switch it to 'muted', and make the start note invisible.
(Helps Capella users to overcome one of the shortcomings of the Special Edition.)

<RESOLVED> "when I installed the "25_Dimension-Strings-I_LibUpdate2019-03-21.zip" as described the VE/VI players (including PRO) could no longer find the samples!"

"25_Dimension-Strings-I_LibUpdate2019-03-21.zip" is now working as expected.

The problem I had when installing this update seems to have been caused because Vienna Ensemble had told me that I had installed the latest Version (17226). However, this obviously did not include the Vienna Instruments PRO player (which I always use): only later I noticed that there was already Version 17181 fo the PRO player, to be downloaded and installed separately.
Would it be possible to make Vienna Ensemble also updating the PRO player (if the license is present)?

Everything is working fine now (Win7 x64; and on Win 10).

So I can go on using this SUPERB LIBRARY!

On a Hi-DPI Laptop Monitor (here: DELL XPS-15; 3840x2160, Win10) the

STANDALONE PLAYER (as well as all the VIENNA SUITE plugin windows) appear MUCH TOO SMALL on the screen.
I suggest the standalone player to be virtually UNUSABLE on stage... 
And older users will have troubles to even see what settings are possible in the vienna suite plugins ...
(fortunately this does [not yet] apply to me, but making settings is really tedious!)

To VSL staff: there is a QT variable which resolves this problem (at least in part), I suggest this was done with the Vienna Ensemble and the Vienna Instruments (PRO) player.

Yeah!

Hello all!

Does anybody know what exactly the new Dimension Strings Update from 2019-03-21 does with this library?
Somebody from the VSL staff...?
(Could not find a changelog.)

I am asking because when I installed the "25_Dimension-Strings-I_LibUpdate2019-03-21.zip" as described the VE/VI players (including PRO) could no longer find the samples!
But the sample files (*.dat) were still on that disk (SSD)!
(All other contents and libraries were found and played correctly.)

No rescanning of the paths in the Directory Manager helped (and also not overwriting the *.dat files with the earlier saved *.dat files from a different drive).

Only a COMPLETE REINSTALL of the library (including earlier Lib. updates) brought it back to action again...! :=(
(Done at present without the new Dimension Strings Update from 2019-03-21...).
(Fortunately I also had saved all the *.cab files, so no new download was necessary.)

{{despite these problems: the Dimension Strings library is really a superb collection! I use it quite much!}}

At the CapellaWiki you can download  actualized configurations for Vienna Symphonic Libraries:

https://wiki.sins942.ch/
(there at: 'capella-tune - VSTs einbinden und mehr')

They have been intensely tested for Capella 8 (Windows 7/10; maybe someone can test them on Mac, where Capella 8 is also natively running now).
Manuals are in German only, but this will not hinder installation.

Vienna Special Edition and More: Addition of Vienna WHISTLER and Vienna OVERDRIVE (7-strings sampled E-Guitar). Minor improvements.
Vienna Dimension Strings: Configuration with more possibilities of control.
Vienna Choir: Minor corrections.

Hello William!

If you search for "Max Schönherr" at this adress (using the Umlaut ö !):

http://www.wienbibliothek.at/

and then go to 'Handschriften' you will find a catalog entry 'Bauernmusi aus Oesterreich' somewhere down in that list (No. 26).

It is said to be a copyist autograph with pencil annotations by Schönherr.
But maybe this is is the score you have already found elsewhere (??).

Best LenoT

Hello Francesco,

Sounds great, really! The VSL samples and and the reverb used in your Dropbox mp3 lets sound it very crisp and impressive.

What is the difference to the Version you posted on Soundcloud (in a "technical" sense)?

Best, LenoT

A free public preset configuration (V 1.0) for the use of the
Vienna Dimension Strings (for the VI-PRO Player) with the Capella notation software
was published on the CapellaWiki (under "capella tune - VSTs einbinden und mehr" there):

 Link: Capella and Vienna Dimension Strings

It runs with Vienna Ensemble and the VI-Pro Player (Windows 7 x64 or higher recommended).

You can play the FULL ENSEMBLE and DIVISI of player groups 1 and 2. Switching is done by simple 'div.', 'divisi', 'div.(1)', 'div.(2)' and 'unisono' commands. You can easily access (probably) all available articulations (and even some more) for the full ensemble and the divisi.

Please note: The configuration, including its description, is in German only (as is the CapellaWiki website).
 
Have much fun,

LenoT

Hello fifiott,

I received an E-mail, I suggest it was yours.

I tried to answer part of your question in the 'forum notensatz' (according to your query there), so please have a look there first.

Best,

Finally, our waiting was rewarded with another great sounding product! 

Due to the consistent organisation of matrices of all DS instruments, everything is already working fine here!

Hello Pavol!

This is not just a very nice peace, it is also well done! (I 'had to' listen to it for several times)

It is rather recuperative and relaxing to find a post of well done jazz and fusion music here....

By the way, who is the singer?

Best wishes

LenoT

Dear VSL Team,

"Matrix: clear slot" is a very helpful feature when configuring multi-player libraries like the Dimension Strings.

However, if we clear the first slot(s), the matrix forgets all its cell namings, because these are assigned to the first slot(s)!

Would be VERY helpful (save much work) if the matrix would keep these names!

Hello VSL Team!

Today I used the Dimension Strings Doublebass preview for the first time.

I had to notice, however, that the preview is missing some sustained (sVi) patches (notes) of the standard range

at the lower end: E1 to F#1 (at least).

Would be nice to have these.

Will there be a preview update?

OR WILL THE FULL BASSES COME OUT SHORTLY ANYWAY?

(I think many people are impatiently looking forward to the completion of this well done library)

Edit: It will be VERY helpful to have the same preset and matrix configuration as with the other DS instruments!

In any case, it sounds great!

An UPDATE to the preset configuration (V 3.4) for the use of the
Vienna Choir (Standard + Extended) with the Capella notation software
was published on the CapellaWiki:

Capella and Vienna Choir

NEW: the configuration is now ready for the VO-PRO player.

Please note: The configuration, including its description, is in German only (as is the CapellaWiki website).
 
Have much fun,

Impatient after download I immediately had to do the first test:

It really sounds great, and fits so well into the chorus of the other Dimension strings!

Indeed there have been attempts to "repair" the tempered scale,

e.g. with 'Hermode Tuning' (i.e. a technique to adust tuning online according to the harmonic context).

However, while this brings interesting results in some cases, you need different rules for different types of music or harmonics to get acceptable output.

So we all stick to the tempered scale (...) as we do with the general tuning (440 Hz).

I remember the situation in my small alpine home valley some 40 years ago: Five brass bands (a. 15-30 musicians, with 1500 inhabitants!) and at least 2(-3) tunings (some people may remark that the 3rd one 'just happened, sometimes'). Joint concerts were a challenge...

((The different tunings, i am sure, were not a result of a search for the "universal" tuning...))

Modern times with more communication brought the people and the tunings together!...

Another update (V. 3.5) was made on the Special Edition preset configuration for Capella,

available on the CapellaWiki:

Capella and VSL Special Edition

It includes now a complete configuration (preset) for the VSL FLÜGELHORN, usable with both the VI and VI-PRO Player via Vienna Ensemble, and via the VI player within the Capella memory space.

In addition, some smaller adaptations werde made (see version log in the configuration ZIP file, unfortunately still only in German).

Here is a demo recording for a double brass ensemble (2x 3 Flühelhorns + 1 Tenor Trombone):

Giovanni Gabrieli - 'Jam non dicam vos servos'

Played by Capella via Vienna Ensemble and VI-Pro Player, with reverb 'Konzerthaus Grosser Saal' of the Vienna Suite.

The dynamic symples are really great and contribute much to liveliness!

Have much fun,

Yes, it's truely hard waiting for the next part of this excellent library to be released.

To tide ourselves over this hard times I thought that another demo of the superb possibilities of this orchestra might ease our yearning.

Here is an interpretation of Peter Warlock's "Capriol Suite":

Peter Warlock: Capriol Suite

It was produced directly from my notation program (Capella) via Vienna Ensemble and the Vienna Instruments PRO Player, with just a small resonance EQ of the Vienna Suite for the Violins (to make it sound softer in the mid-heights), and the help of the chamber violas and basses. Reverb: Grosser Saal Near of the Wiener Konzerthaus (I like it) .

This piece is especially suited for testing of such a library because it requires a lot of divisi, one of the main strengths of Dimension Strings.

This demo shows unequivocally that the Dimension strings can truely "stand on their own feet".

(I know, of course, that playing it with a real DAW could enhance the output quality, but I like notes much more than tracks [though I have a DAW, I don't like its score editor] ...)

Have much fun!

A small update (V. 3.2) was added to the Special Edition preset configuration for Capella

on the CapellaWiki:

Capella and VSL Special Edition

It includes now a second preset of a clarinet available with the VI-PRO Player (following a discussion elswhere here in this forum).

This might be helpful during unisono passages of a score. Though this does not bring different samples it provides more preconfigured "liveliness" through different settings of delay and tuning.

@BILL: Hopefully, there will become more VSL users here with this configuration...

Have much fun,

Sorry, but: no.

That is with the Special Edition ...

Sincerely,

A public preset configuration (V 3.2) for the use of the
Vienna Choir (Standard + Extended) with the Capella notation software
was published on the CapellaWiki:

Capella and Vienna Choir
(under "capella-tune - VSTs einbinden und mehr" there)
It runs with Vienna Ensemble and the VI Player (Windows 7).

Please note: The configuration, including its description, is in German only (as is the CapellaWiki website).
 
Have much fun,

A public preset configuration for the use of the Vienna Instruments
Special Edition (Volumes 1 + 2) with the Capella notation software
was recently published on the CapellaWiki:

Capella and VSL Special Edition

including presets for the Soprano Saxophone (Standard) and the Vienna Jazz Drums (General MIDI).

It runs with Vienna Ensemble, with both the VI player and and the VI-PRO player (Windows 7).