New Sibelius Sound Set VE Percussion and House Style Files!

[andi]

We have a new Sibelius Sound Set available for our Percussion library. Registered users can download it for free in the User Area under Overview/Needful Things/Sibelius Sound Sets:
http://vsl.co.at/en/68/141/460/576/655.htm

All the complex drum and percussion mappings have been incorporated in this new Sound Set. Now you have a big variety of articulations for lots of instruments at your fingertips in Sibelius. It has never been so easy to use this comprehensive library.

This new Sound Set completes the series of Sound Sets for our Symphonic Cube, which now can be used in its entirety with Sibelius.

In the User Area we offer Sound Sets for the following products:

Special Edition

Special Edition PLUS

Solo Strings I+II

Chamber Strings I+II

Orchestral Strings I+II

Appassionata Strings I+II

Harps

Woodwinds I+II

Brass I+II

Special Woodwinds

Special Brass

Percussion

Saxophones

Download Wind Instruments

Additionally we offer a new Vienna Symphonic House Style for our Sibelius users. It is strongly recommended for the Percussion Sound Set users, but all other users also can profit from these settings.

These House Style files come with additional entries for the Sibelius playback dictionary and instrument defintions.

Have fun!

Andi

[zentrumsounds]

Andi,

Congratulations... this is wonderful stuff. I've been using this now for a couple of days and it is really wonderful to have the Percussion so well integrated into the workflow.

Danke danke!!!

Jürgen

[Steve Martin]

Hi Andi,

this is just wonderful news to have all of these soundsets. I love VSL, and to be able to use it with Sibelius is just great. Thank you for all the work you have put into doing these soundsets. I have recently aquired Sibelius 6 so I am looking forward to using them with this.

best regards,

Steve[:D]

[zentrumsounds]

Hi Andi

i thought I understood how Sibelius and VSL / ensemble pro were interacting but what continues to puzzle me is how Sibelius knows where to send the various instruments of the cymbals family. I have a score which is working well thus far in which a single stave is sending notes to a vibraphone, marimba and then a tam tam, china cymbal, ride cymbal and standard cymbal (changing the instrument each time with instrument change text command). However even looking in detail at the XML file in the sound set editor I can't seem to make out what the magic is! Any insights you might like to provide?

Thanks!

Jürgen

[andi]

Hello Jürgen!

All Sibelius instruments have different Sound IDs. With the settings on the Manual sound sets page you tell Sibelius which instrument (or which Sound ID) shall use which channel.

I hope this explains a bit of the "magic". ;-)

Best,
Andi

[zentrumsounds]

Hi Andi,

Yes that much is certainly clear (having immersed myself these last months in expanding the sound ID xml vocabulary!).

However the point of confusion is specifically with those percussion instruments who share a common designation (i.e. drums, cymbals). I have as you mentioned, assigned the relevant channels in my Manual sound sets page, in this case three instruments of the cymbal family (tamtam, china cymbal, ride and normal cymbal). So lets say these are on channels 1, 2, 3 and 4. Each gets given the programme name 'cymbals' and interestingly the Sound ID column in the display on the right displays (none). So clearly this means that the Drum Maps area in the SSE is being addressed. However that doesn't explain how Sibelius 'knows' that I have my Tamtam on channel one does it? It does which is to me somehow magic at present! What's happening here Andi?

Incidentally, in Sibelius there appear to be some percussion instruments which fall under an all encompassing designation in the Instrument change text area. The example I have in mind is the Cymbal A-D. Of course in VSL these are four separate instruments. How can I go about calling each of these cymbals separately?

Thanks a lot Andi!

J

[andi]

Hi Jürgen!

Whenever a percussion (drum, cymbal) instrument is used the Sound ID column on the Manual Sound Sets page says "none". This just means that a Drum Map is used. Percussion instruments also have Sound IDs. As far as I know the channels for instruments of the same group are allocated by the order of appearance.

I can imagine that you don't want the name "Cymbal A-D" in your score. Just doubleclick it and rename it to whatever you want. That has no effect on the playback.

Best,
Andi