Thank you very much for your response, mhschmieder. I really appreciate your advice. I think I might just purchase Chamber Strings II and not I. The samples sound awesome. How does the Performance Tool work? Am I correct in believing that I can play "live" with the Performance Tool and it will sound natural? -- Brian
Hello Brian
Let me jump in. I understand that you need help because we are not able to test the four strings before.
As mhschmieder already mentioned the chamberstrings are very agile, contain all instrumentsand sound close to the solostrings (nice vibrato) even if we have an ensemble. A disadvantage could be that you don't get a "fat" string sound which is sometimes necessary for playing melodies in the pop and rock world.
Here you can listen to some U-music - done with VSL strings.
Perhaps you will find the stile in my demos like you want to produce yourself.
Let me know the piece and I can tell you something about the used library.
How does the Performance Tool work?
Load the Vienna Instrument (VST-Sample-Player). Load then a performance sample - such as "legato" into the VI and play what you want. If the first tone/note overlaps while playing into the following tone/note then the VI selects automatically the "crossing noise/sound" between these two tones/notes. So you will be able to recognize keys, valves, fingers, portamentos or what ever.
You can switch between several articulation by assigning keyswitches (midi controllers or notes on the keyboard and...).
This tutorial shows the necessary steps for creating a short music sequence - done with the VI.
I might just purchase Chamber Strings II
Keep in mind that all the instruments of the library "Chamber Strings II" are played with Sordino (mutetd)!
They sound really nice but it is not the everyday case in the "orchestra world". So I'm not sure whether it
is the best library for starting with.
All the best
Beat
- Tips & Tricks while using Samples of VSL.. see at: https://www.beat-kaufmann.com/vitutorials/ - Tutorial "Mixing an Orchestra": https://www.beat-kaufmann.com/mixing-an-orchestra/