This is a master piece, in composition and in performance, a very high level! Congratulations!

Hi,

the only difference is the amount of microphones. See here: "Synchron Strings 1 Product Info" and scroll then to "Microphone Setup".

Hi Andrea,

that is a beautiful rendition, very natural. Congratulations! I enjoyed it!

Hi Claude (or Claude Marc?),

I had the same problem in the past with the Yamaha CFX. I have to dig in my memory. I think in my case it had to do with VST3. You could have a look, if you use the VST3 plugin or the VST2 64-bits plugin of Synchron Piano Player. In Samplitude there is a problem with VST3 plugins. Samplitude put the values of all cc's and the Pitch Bend to zero, when you start an existing project. 
If you are using now the VST3 plugin, you could try to use the VST2 64bits plugin and listen if that solves the problem (I don't know if you use directly the Synchron Piano plugin or the Vienna Ensemble Pro plugin. When you use the Vienna Ensemble Pro plugin and in that instance the Synchron Piano plugin, you have to use the VST2 64 bits version of Vienna Ensemble Pro).

I hope this is helpful. 

Good luck!

Thanks, VSL, for the great update. May I express something I hope for the future: the integration of the crescendo, diminuendo and pfp dynamics in Synchron-ized Woodwinds. For now I made a custom preset with a combined Vienna Synchron Player and Vienna Instrument Pro/MIR Pro instance, because I use that samples, especially with solos in orchestral music.

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Hi Jos,

I enjoyed listening to it. The music and the performance. Very realistic.

Thanks for sharing the piece.

That's great news! It makes the Synchron Piano's even better and more irresistible than they were already. Personally I like very much the velocity map editor! A beautiful fine tuning tool! Thanks for the effort you made!

I just played a little on the Steinway. With the velocity map editor a little bit adjusted, my Kawai keyboard has really gotten so much more a Steinway feeling (of course a real Steinway wins always ;) ). 
So many times it is in the details, and in this case for me the little adjustment in the velocity map makes the VSL Steinway the perfect instrument!

+1

Hi Dave,

A marvelous piece, Dave. You know, that most of the time I can't say so much about music, except one thing: I'm fascinated by it or not, I feel (or think I feel ;) ) the intention of the composer or not, and with this piece I hear definitly something that appeals to me in one way or the other. There is something very coherent in it, it tells me something musically, the last part with some humor in it (okay, that's what I hear...). From what I remember of your music, I shouldn't be supprised if this is one of your best pieces. And writing something for Becky is always special for you, I think. Congratulations!

I enjoyed your performance of Vivaldi's Winter. May I ask which library you use for the orchestra. I suppose, that the solo violin is the first violin of Solo Strings 1 of VSL.

You can probably link with a virtual midi cable like loopmidi. Install it on your pc and choose loopmidi1 as midi input device in lmms. Choose loopmidi1 as midi output device in musescore.

On "invitation" of William (but it is not a technical story about making reeds...):

To begin with: I never made one reed. I bought them from my teacher.
I had my oboe lessons always in the attic of my oboe teacher, where his studio was, and there he was almost always working on his reeds. He was one of the first oboists of the local symphony orchestra, and every year again with the start of the new season in september the big question was: should he have a good reed for the concerts, and preferably 2 to have a reserve? It gave often stress, because he did't know when he started a reed, how the quality turned out to be. So he made many at the same time, hoping there would be at least one very good copy. Every year he went on holiday with his family to Spain to buy a lot of Arundo Donax reed. The most stems were not useful for the reed for the oboe. And he used the unused stems to decorate the walls of his studio as a wallpaper.

Hi David, to begin with: a happy New Year for you and your whole family! 
I like this piece. I like the oboe. Although I heared also the release time little thing, for the rest I loved the performance very much. Very lively, warm, musical, I really enjoyed it, very "oboe" (I played the instrument for three years in a very long past, because of this sound!). Thanks for sharing.

Do you know the Konzerthaus Organ?
This is a wonderful instrument with many possibilities, from very soft to gloriously loud.

The discussion of this thread gave me the idea to do an experiment with Synchron Strings Pro + Mir Pro. 
For this experiment I used the "close sur to stereo" preset of SSP and I placed the sections in the Gateshead the Sage Hall 1.
For those interested, here is the link.

Serenade for Synchron Strings in The Sage Hall 1

I remember the piece five years ago. I enjoyed it then.

I enjoyed this new piece also very much. Music, performance, the sound of the instruments, so pure, lively, the story, the climax. Thanks for sharing!

Thanks, Jos, for your explanation about the sound. I'm glad that you wrote this, because this can help me to set the next step.
In Synchron Strings Pro there are many microphones to choose. I took a rather standard preset, but there are many more, with microphones that are further away. So I tried another microphone preset and set the link here. It is possible that it need some adaptation in the articulations, but I will do this later.

Update: I just finished the adaptation, and brought some other little improvements. Just click on the link to hear the last version. 

I should really appreciate to hear your opinion about this sound, and also your opinion, William.

Serenade for Synchron Strings

(I use here the microphone preset: sur to stereo,
the other version had the preset: wide Decca tree, and the imager made the stage a little smaller)

Thanks, William, for your kind words.
After putting the Serenade on this forum I worked until today many hours to improve the performance. Creating a good and natural rhythm wasn’t easy. It is definitely not just a metronomical 1, 2, 3, 4, certainly not the first melody played by the first violins.

I learned also a lot from the video, made by Guy Bacos, called “Big Bang Orchestra, Tana”, Tana, a limited version of the first violins from Synchron Strings Pro.
Guy, as you read this, thanks for your video, very instructive!

William, I don’t have the guts now to make a version for VI strings (as you expected), because I know, that will take many hours to make a good performance.

 

Here is my final version (and in the meantime I learn again: say never "final" version )

Serenade for Synchron Strings

Congratulations, Andy, on this project. Dorico and VSL, a beautiful combination!

Hi Jerry, it is a bit quite here at the forum, I know.
I listened to the first versions a while ago. And as far as I can remember, I listened that versions on my phone. Yesterday I listened on my computer with the monitors to the remix, then just to Kira.
What I heard was a beautiful voice, beautiful set in front of the string quartet, really lovely. And the song itself is beautiful too.
Now I listened to both versions and I have a slight preference for Kira, but that is probably just a matter of personal taste.

I can imagine, that this composition is something special for you, because of the occasion, the marriage of your daughter (I didn't find it anymore in the text, but I thought, you wrote that in the forum, or am I wrong?)

I looked into it. I don't see blinking the on/off button (red or blue), I tested it with velocity changes and cc1 changes.
So I think there is a hidden cc28 signal.
Another possibility is that the dedicated cc in the Synchron Player for the on/off button is cc28 has been changed by accident. You can click with the right mouse button on the on/off button to see, if the dedicated cc is cc28 or something else.
If not: when it is in Dorico, you could have a look in the expression map if there is a cc28 signal triggered.

Good luck!

Hi Paolo,

I think that there is a cc28 signal with a value below 64. Such a signal turns the velXF mode off. The button turns red in that case.
I hope this helps.

I just finished a piece for strings, in this case Synchron Strings Pro and a little bit (only a few notes) Synchron Strings 1.
I integrated this patches in the presets of Synchron Strings Pro in the Regular Vibrato Long notes section and the Regular Vibrato Legato section.
I'm very happy with Synchron Strings Pro!

I hope you enjoy the music.

Serenade for Synchron Strings (an old version, see below the last version)

Indeed.