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  • Can you share your Opus 1 findings, please?

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    For those who already have it, I would like to hear about the overall strengths and weaknesses of this product. What surprised you? What disappointed you? I've always liked the VSL legato woodwinds in the demos and Opus 1 seems to be the cheapest way to obtain them. Thank you.

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    Alex Cremers
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    Exactly... the woodwinds are in my opinion the a real gem... simply perfect.

    I find the solo trumpet legato too short to be useable

    Im not too fond of the string legatos... they just dont sound right to me. In all fairness this could however be due to the .Pal files not loading right, but im not sure. When I use legato strings it does not sound fluent at all, but rather apbrupt shifts from note to note.

    But the woodwinds are godlike. Horns legatos sound really good aswell, but their shortness will prevent me from using it unless I fiind a good way around the problem (i.e crossfading and using sustain patches)
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    I agree with Christian: with the perf tool, the clarinet for example is by far the best sampled instrument I've ever played, I took Mozart's clarinet Concerto and played at the same time, then put it off and just followed the score, and I suddenly realized I had spent a couple of hours hypnotized... it sounds a lot like the real thing (nothing is perfect of course)... As for the Brass in their Perf patch, also incredible, though a bit short as well (just as the cellos), I missed the vibrato in the Oboe
    As for the strings, they sound very well to me, very clear and sharp, though I am missing some more expressivo patches; from what I am playing or semi-composing they sound more realistic to me in fast paced cues than in melodic ones, but again, this may be solved with midi tweaking ( I'm still missing more vibrato hehe) and I also agree with the "Hollywood" violins, I can't seem to make them sound as I'd love too ( I am not a fully trained composer so that could also be a reason, but I agree with the "buggy noise" being quite weird...) and I still have some problems using the Perf Tool with some instruments.

    Overall I am happy with it, after all it's part of the Vienna Library and the quality of it is very good... Let's see if I (we) can make realistic music out of it now...

    Regards,

    Ivan.
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    @Another User said:

    and I also agree with the "Hollywood" violins, I can't seem to make them sound as I'd love too ( I am not a fully trained composer so that could also be a reason, but I agree with the "buggy noise" being quite weird...)


    Pal files? Buggy noise? Don't know what these are but it sounds quite alarming.

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    Alex Cremers
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    .Pal thing has been fixed, did not do much difference. The strings in general sound great, but I just dont like the sound of the string legatos. But I dont get any "noise" as in a distorted sound... just that going from one note to another sounds abrupted. Its possible thats what a string legato sounds like, but it just dident sound like what I thought (but im no trained composer, so I dont know if it sound correct)
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    @Christian Marcussen said:

    .Pal thing has been fixed, did not do much difference. The strings in general sound great, but I just dont like the sound of the string legatos. But I dont get any "noise" as in a distorted sound... just that going from one note to another sounds abrupted. Its possible thats what a string legato sounds like, but it just dident sound like what I thought (but im no trained composer, so I dont know if it sound correct)
    Hmm, could you put up a small mp3 with some slow legato movements showing this problem?
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    Sure.. will do within a few days. But as I said... im not sure its a problem. Maybe it just does not sound as I expected.
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    @Christian Marcussen said:

    Sure.. will do within a few days. But as I said... im not sure its a problem. Maybe it just does not sound as I expected.
    I doubt it [;)] The string legatos from the first edition sound just fine..