Hi all,

Thanks for the input.

This is not an easy decision...

I will probably end up buying just the Special Edition.

And we'll see from there... Hope VSL makes an upgrade path.

I wonder what the VIP price would be for the standard "Super Package" coming from the Extended S.E.

Christian; can you answer that more or less?

Thanks!

-Em

Oh, by the way, might I change course and indeed go for the Symphonic Cube; the soonest I can order it here at my local store is January 3rd 2008. Is that still ok with the promotion? It would only arrive about 10 days later, so I guess the registering would be out of date?

emanuel, discounts only apply to extended libraries - everything else (discount on the *boxes* coming with standard) would be much too complicated regarding clearing between VSL, distributors and dealers.

i think it is a great option that distributors and authorized dealers can sell extended libraries and detirmine if a discount applies for a certain user.

of course you understand i'm not authorized to promise possible future discounts here, nor estimations about their scope or extent.

we know that often some time goes by between purchase and registration, so there is always a kind of *grace period* and in worst case you simply send us the proof of purchase and we proceed manually ...

in case of purchasing the symphonic cube at a store (and the guys there are not 100% familiar with the promotion) ... order the symphonic cube standard, order the 8 cheaper extended libraries so leaving the 2 most expensive for the *free extended promotion*

christian

OK, sounds good,

that keeps my options open till January 3rd :)

Thanks!

-Em

Hi Christian,

So here we are, January 3rd.

Kind of made up my mind; The Symphonic Cube it is!

Possibly augmented by the keyboards package and Appassionata strings.

(All of these; "standard" editions)

If I order today - meaning I'l only have the product in 10 days,

can you assure me that I can have those 2 or 3 free extended libraries?

I promise to register as soon as I can. ;)

I'll wait for your answer before going to my local shop.

Thanks man,

-Emanuel

i replied in an email ... christian

Great, thanks Christian!

Symphonic Cube is on order :)

-Em

Hi there!

I ordered the Symphonic Cube 1 month ago, it still hasn't arrived.

Starting to get a bit worried here... is this normal?

-Em

Nope... I'd contact the dealer which is delivering to you. That should be BestService in your case, even if you ordered from VSL website. check back with them at www.bestservice.de!

All the best,

PolarBear 

Ok  I will, thanks.

More news on tuesday...

Just to clarify: Vienna Special Edition also cannot be resold, or is it an exception due to its duplication and entry-level nature?

I ordered five libraries before Xmas and two more that arrived today, and will be ordering at least one more by the end of the month. I need to get a larger external hard drive before installing these latest ones, but even with the ones already installed, the qualititative difference is so immense that I would be inclined to stop using VSE altogether and just one-by-one complete my collection of the full libraries. I didn't expect this; I thought I would merely be getting more articulations vs. also getting much better quality with the articulations that overlap VSE.

For some reason I can't find the FAQ's page on the website today, which I thought I remembered seeing earlier and which I thought spelled out the exact policy for the Special Edition. I have Extended and was considering buying Plus, but am less inclined to do so if there is no resale value nor any discount value towards the full collections, as we are by now talking about an almost $2000 investment.

My own thought on this is that the Special Edition seeds sales for your full libraries, and as it is otherwise redundant and somewhat of a super-set of the collections now being packaged with both Kontakt 3 and Mach Five V2, it seems that an exception is in order if there isn't already in place, as the net result would probably be far more people buying into the full libraries (primarily because of the K2 and Mach Five "giveaways").