I just downloaded this update, but when I try to open the (unzipped) file it asks me which application to use. ???

I am on Windows 10.

Normally I use CC11 for local dynamic changes and CC7 for global dynamic settings. (see attached image).

Very occasionally however, for some reason, CC7 does nothing at all, and I can't see why. Vel XFade is on in the Perform settings, the patch Velocity XFade is set to global, but no CC7 changes have any effect on the sound. (CC11, CC1, etc. all work normaly).

Any ideas what is going wrong?

One thing I have been long waiting for is a VSL woodwind library with more velocity layers. The VSL woodwinds sound so good, but if you do a run including crescendo the change of timbre is much too abrupt. 

As it is I sometimes have to use other libraries just for this reason. :-(

Any chance of seeing this soon?

I am trying to install this update. It comes to my computer as a zip file. When I unzip it, it is a viupdate file. What do I do with that? When I dbl click on it it asks me what application it should open.

???

Great, that works, thanks! :-)

I just bought the Cinematic Studio Strings Library. In Kontakt running alone it works fine, but loading it within VEPro (within Kontakt) gives this as the interface. (see attached jpg).

Any idea how to solve this?

I just installed the Synchron strings update. Where are the Cantabile violins?

Oops, found them!

Thanks! :-)

I have a project combining VIpro winds and Synchron strings. In VEP7, the instance with the Synchron strings has no mixer at the bottom of the window. Where is it? I don't mean the mixer for each individual instrument, I mean the mixer for all the channels. In the other VEP instances it is there as usual.

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Thanks so much. :-)  At least that is a good tip, I didn't know about the shift key shortcut.

Thank you for your reply. It does not even require opening a project. With VEPro 7 installed, even if it is not running and I open DP 9.5 (not even a file, just the opening screen) and then set it to midi only, DP immediately crashes. If I go back to VEPro 6 DP behaves normally. 

:-(

Is there a way to save VEPro7 files as VEPro6 so I can go back?

I'm on PC and it is still happening. Everything is normal as long as DP is NOT midi only. 

Since I installed VEP7, Digital Performer 9 cannot run in midi only mode, it crashes. Removing VEP7 and replacing it with VEP 6 makes DP normal again. 

BUT, now I can't load recent projects because they say they were made in VEP7. (even though I did not use any of the new features)

Help! I'm in mid-project and this is making it impossible to work. :-(

I downloaded the license and ran it through the elicenser. But there is STILL no percussion showing in the Synchron player. :-(  And I closed them all down and restarted VEPro and the Synrchon player, as well as my DAW.

Solved: For some reason I had to redo the preferences directory and now they finally appear.

Thanks for your help. :-)  

I redownloaded the Percussion part of the Epic Orchestra (the only part I need), and reinstalled it. Still nothing changed in the Prefs. and it does not appear in the Synchron player.

???

Thanks Paul, 

Here are the only two places any Synchron Perc shows up (as part of the Epic Orchestra). 

I also am including the database, as requested.

Best wishes,

Alan

I have bought and paid for VEPro v. 7. Today I downloaded the only part of Epic Orchestra that I need: Synchron Percussion. But it does not show up in the Synchron Player. And I downloaded and installed the latest Synchron player today. Here is a screen pic. What you see here is only the Synchron libraries I already owned.

SOLVED: I downloaded the latest player!

I bought the Yamaha a few weeks ago, and now I just bought the Steinway. Both are installed on my SSD drive. My Steinway is corrected e-licensed with no problem. 

However the player only shows the Yamaha. The little piano icon shown in the manual to the left of the scale button does NOT appear.

??????

You are definitely right about the variety of attacks: these are so many ways the bow can contact the string! :-) I still find that my ears also want more variety of rubato.

Interesting. I have only one little suggestion, the "bas level" of vibrato seems a bit too flat to me, I don't think it should ever really sound like non-vibrato. 

Just my opinion!

Definitely better. :-)  The vibrato is still a bit too predictable for my taste, but I'm very picky!

Originally Posted by: fahl5

Originally Posted by: belkina

HI Steffen,

The legato here sounds very nice. :-)  Did you do anything special with the controls to achieve it?

Let me thank you first for your friendly reaction.

Honestly it does seem to be not that much. But perhaps I am already to much used to do so:

• All longer notes have a Velocity-Xfade Curve
• I always try to search for at least some intervalls which seem to be most reasonable to apply slured Legato.
• the rest is for the most part normal legato sometimes fast or marcarto
• while in episodes like that I avoid the Soft legato.
• The in my impression most important aspect seem to be just to try to achieve a reasonable dynamic development of the whole.

While the last aspect is in a strict sense nothing what touches any terchnical question of realising a good legato but I believe this helps the listener to understand and follow the musical context which will make it much easier for him to feel the notes of a certain phrase as connected.

And Yes I still believe given one has chosen the most suitable type for each situation the Synchron Legato does a good job to support this impression. 

I hope I was able to answer what you asked for.

Yes, it does. One important thing that emerges from this discussion is that articulation alone is never enough. It is always related to the envelope of the note, the vibrato, etc. A non-musician listener will just say that the result sounds "expressive". But (as you know) that word includes many aspects of each note: attack, the sustain envelope, vibrato evolution over time, how it is connected to the notes before and after, etc.

As I said in another post, virtual orchestration at its best is a kind of ear training: the goal is a really musical performance, but we have to know how to set up each parameter. In the same way, a violin teacher cannot just say to her student "Play better", but rather has to provide very specific help, like "lean into the attack here, less vibrato there, a bit of portamento here, etc." Real help comes from being as specific as possible!

Originally Posted by: MMKA

Alan, a question for you: what do you think about the attacks of my Synchron alone version?

:-) The attacks are quite nice, but I would like a bit more variety, in particular the difference between a note that starts a new bowstroke and a note within a slur, where the attack would normally be somewhat gentler. There are a few existing sample libraries that offer this. When the strings are playing with everybody else it's not noticeable, but in an foreground string line like this one it makes a difference.

While we are on this subject, if I listen to the real version I am also struck by more variety in the enevlope of each note. That I think can be done with the Synchron strings, using controllers on each note. It's a lot a work, but we are trying to imitate performers with decades of musical experience and training, under a fine conductor. And virtual orchestration, like real orchestration, should be a kind of continuous ear training. There are so many things I hear now that I did not even notice years ago when I started. And I know lots of student conductors for whom the same is true. That's why I thought of this "challenge". :-)  

HI Steffen,

The legato here sounds very nice. :-)  Did you do anything special with the controls to achieve it?

Originally Posted by: crusoe

Here's my take - SY violas only, a tiny bit of delay on top of the factory preset (and nothing else). Vibratos are not even close, but I couldn't make them any better. Well, I'm only learning to use this library, and this was a good exercise:

https://drive.google.com/open?id...FpKUFWJ53-6BDo8a0w90wc_c

One thing I tried myself was having them play loud and with maximum vibrato, and then using CC11 to make it sounds softer. But I couldn't get the attacks to sound right. :-(