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Hi Mike(mh-7635)
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I went to your site and I must say it's a model of elegance and class... Also, congrats for your work, your touch is clearly "elegance" you know "how to write "for orchestra and especially "Strings". For me it's always a pleasure to discover talented people. Again congrats for your work.
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You got a "mini lecture" because you inferred me and other posters where trolls. However, I'm sorry William, you did not need to reply, clearly you are under the mis-apprehension that I wish to engage in dialogue with you. But seeing as you did, your a fine one to talk about lecturing. Your immature reply suggesting that I was in char......oh christ , your really not worth it...... but I will stand up for opinions other than your own that I happen to agree with.
I've noticed the same thing. I haven't yet had time to see if this is a result of the VIPro preset settings being different to the ones I had on the original Solo Strings (and just to avoid confusion my comment is based on a comparison of the new Solo Violin 2 and the Solo Violin from Solo Strings I & II.
Just had chance to double check the volumes of both the new instruments and they are both about 4dB quieter. This means you cannot simply put them into an existing matrix (in my case a custom matrix) of either the solo violin I or solo cello I respectively and use as an alternative legato sound for example in a particular passage. There are certainly ways to work around this but you have to have a separate matrix in a preset and then boost the level of that. This is not really ideal. If you however want to have the two solo violins playing in unison by putting them in two slots of a single cell then this is a problem...I know you can adjust the levels of the slots but there is no headroom so you have to pull one down - In this case the original solo violin or cello and this then affects the whole MIR natural volume level etc...
I do not understand why the levels are not matched if indeed they are intended as a solo violin II and a solo cello II and not as someone suggested earlier in this chain, a first chair for dimmension strings, or something like that...I do not have Dimmension Strings so I cannot compare the levels with those instruments.
I have bought the flute 2, both oboes, the second Bb Clarinet and Bassoon 2 in order to create custom a2 instruments in my orchestral template. I can then have solo, a2 and a3 (via the ensemble instruments) in my woodwind. The levels all match in these second instruments when I pair them up. I also have the C and Bb Trumpets for a2 Tpts and they are matched.
These new solo string instruments are excellent of course...I am just perplexed as to why VSL did not match these instrument levels as it makes it tricky to fully utilize them. Perhaps someone from VSL could explain or comment?
Best, Andy
