I was thinking about some older posts. I seem to recall that Herb stated that a second violin may be recorded. I have not seen any quotes from him saying that it *not* happen. It would be nice to know for sure, or at least let the users know how likely such a new item might be recorded and released.

On a peronal note, I want to state that I use VSL products almost entirely. There is not anything that comes close to the attention to detail out there these days. I recently listened to another string product, and they cut too many corners. I won't be spending one penny on that thing! I don't know who has released any solo strings recently with good results. I am willing to listen to the demos...

Getting me advanced notice on upcoming products gives me something to plan for so I can make that upcoming purchase.

A second violin would be a great opportunity to see how VSL would do a new solo strings library. The recent muted trumpet Single Instrument has fewer articulations, but it has more velocity layers for some performance intervals. It sounds amazing in the demos, but it's hard to compare the sound of post-MIR demos with older ones.

Hi,

Just got an email from VSL announcing that Student Discounts has been prolonged until Oct. 20th, 2014.  

Does this mean that nothing new will surface during October ?  Oh..boy.. I wonder what's cooking at VSL as far as new products ? 

With the upcoming AES Show right around the corner. I hope something New and Very Exciting will be announced by VSL. 

Cheers,

Muziksculp 

VSL has a special offer every month, but the student offer is sometimes longer (like last year). I doubt there's any connection between the timing of special offers and other announcements.

It clearly took a vast amount of work to get Dimension Strings finished, and that only happened a few weeks ago, so I wouldn't hold my breath :) I would love to be wrong though....

Beside the plan to extend the DimBrass and to create a Dimension Strings muted Package ... I KNOW ... that they're working on ...

a) exotic Instruments and

b) additional articulations for some existing Packages ...

... since 4 years!!!

BUT NO WORD about the Person WHO told me ... I'm out of this thread now!

Extensions to the established libraries sound like a great idea.

As far as Dimension Strings are concerned, I'd prefer added articulations or an expansion to the current version. Imagine how great DS would be with all the articulations of Solo Strings... OTOH the opportunity to mix muted strings with the current DS library could be interesting [:)]

My whishes are not that unusual except one point surprisingly not yet mentioned:

- More Velocity-Layers [Y]

- muted Dim-Strings + Dim-Brass [Y]

- Choir and Soloists in VSL-Quality with Wordbuilder [:D]

(- Baroque-instruments would be of some interesting to)

Adding more velocity layers to existing content would be virtually impsible.

@Bill said:

Adding more velocity layers to existing content would be virtually impsible.

So true.  Also I don't think it's entirely necessary.  Most other libraries with multiple layers have all kinds of tricky crossfades and phasing issues.  It's a lot simpler with VSL where there's only one small range you have to look out for.

Hi Again,

Well .... It is November, 2014   .

What's happening ?  Nothing New from VSL so far.  I am guessing the development team of VSL is working hard on surprising, and delighting us with new products in the near future.   Hehe... I am hoping they are not taking a year long vacation [;)]   

Looking forward to some new, and exciting VSL products... Whenever they materialize. 

Cheers,

Muziksculp 

Nov. is another discount month !  Which is great. 

But... Nothing New, and Exciting [:(]

December is approaching :)

I'm feeling optimistic about December 1st - if anything is coming,  it's going to be then...

@andyjh said:

I'm feeling optimistic about December 1st - if anything is coming,  it's going to be then...

Haha.. Well, I have been feeling optimistic all year long, every new end of month, hoping something new, and exciting will be announced by VSL, but as you have seen, nothing new, and exciting has happened so far, except for various discount offers. 

I'm going to get optimistic again once we enter Jan.  2015  [:)]

Unless VSL Decides that Dec. is the right time for excitement !  (We shall see). 

Cheers,

Muziksculp 

Is there even any reason to believe that VSL have something ready to announce?

And the answer is Solo Voices :)

[Dreaming]

Very nice, if they manage to get a decent wordbuilder and than also use this technology and add some more to the VSL choir ....

[:O]

[/Dreaming]

Looking forward to hear the first demos :)

This is definitly very exciting news.

I do hope to, that they manage to provide a decent wordbuilder.

Worbuilding Vocals in VSL-Quality is definitly what would be worth waiting for.

best

fahl5

It is not only worth waiting for, it also means that i really need to think about increasing of my budget :)

wooo ... looks very interesting.  Can't wait to hear it.

I would have found another discount more exciting. [:P]