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Hello Herb
The Link to Epic Orchestra Pack on VSL Newsletter 113 is still dead
Best
Cyril
I have looked throughout the website, in every nook and cranny that I could think of, for the umpteenth time, and still I am failing to find any mention of Epic Orchestra, any listing, or even any audio demo. I even looked under drums! I tried products, user Area, downloads, DVD's, software, you name it.
Ah, I had that page bookmarked separately, so it might have loaded from a cached view.
Based on the price of 65 euros, I can see now that I made a big mistake in buying VE3 a few nights ago for 99 euros, as it would have been cheaper to wait a few days and just buy VE PRO directly for 149 euros.
This was the Big Mystery in the email announcement, but time was running out so a few nights ago I thought I'd better buy VE3 since the end of the month was racing forward.
Slightly disappointed that there is a "penalty" for taking that action -- I could easily have waited a week, in terms of project needs etc.
I read the email quite a few times, and it seemed clear the Epic Orchestra would be a free "extra" for those buying VE PRO during its first month of sale (before the price of VE PRO itself goes up), and that the window of opportunity for VE3 would disappear as soon as info went up on the website. That made for some stress in interpreting the language of the email before time ran out, in case VE PRO didn't initially include Epic Orchestra after all (and this was the consensus on several forums, so I didn't want to take any chances).
I personally could not afford to wait until the "last minute" for more info to become available, as I am going into surgery tomorrow (and this may have had to be accelerated, depending on conditions this weekend). It looked to me like I ran the risk of paying 49 euros extra, with no extra content, if I didn't act fast.
Christian,
Thanks for taking the time, and I hope I didn't come off sounding angry.
In reading the Epic Orchestra description, I was thinking there was a lot of programming involved for additional presets, matrices, etc., that might be useful beyond the fact that the sample content is probably all duplicative of my near-complete VSL collection. :-)
I guess I'll see when VE PRO arrives as a download, whether there is any disadvantage from the point of view of making use of the templates that it contains.
At any rate, I'm very excited by VE PRO. I couldn't make much use of VE2 on my ancient machine, but when I first downloaded the VE3 demo last week and then bought it a few nights ago, I was surprised that I could push it far further than the earlier VE2 I had tried, in terms of filled instrument slots.
OK, and with the details of Epic Orchestra now known, I am promoting the VE PRO Early Bird discount heavily on other forums.
This is as good of a deal as when Vienna Suite first came out. I use those Jazz Drums in almost every project now!
Way better than BFD's jazz expansion pack, with more musical expression, more nuanced playing possible, and far more brush strokes and snare hit positions.
I just ordered Appassionata I as part of the "free expansion pack" promotional, and it's good you are including its pizzicato articulation in Epic Orchestra.
