Thanks Paul for your detailed answer but excuse me, there are still just some questions left:

"Synchron Venue"

Great! Will it have likewise 7 microphone-positions ? (That would be cool to have multimiking in MIR)

"7 seperate channels in VE"

?? 😕, my current Project (a quite "normal" Pianoconcerto) has currently already 55 VE-channels x 7 which Synchron-miking will make nearly 400 channels in the VE-Mixer so please think about

• either submixes for each channel
• or perhaps microphone-mixing iside VI to keep the whole setup manageable.
• or at least a possibility to mix the different microphone-positions for all channels globaly since it would be very tedous to setup 7 microphones for each channel seperatly this might be useful sometimes, but will be very very clumsy if it must be done allways seperatly

"Disable Cells Feature in VI: You can now load samples of a cell only when it is receiving MIDI, and load presets with disabled cells, enabling them on demand."

Sounds interesting:

• So we could load the whole vienna content in disabled cells and VI only activates those "cells" or (what would be even much more economic) exactly only those samples of a certain preset, matrix or patch which are actually played. 
• Or do we need to load all in activated cells while programming and, just can reduce the amount of loaded as soon we are sure which cells are not needed in the finished project. ( I think we have had something like that long time ago in the 32bit era)

"but we are FAST"

will it take month or years to get the whole Synchron-Orchestra?

"There will be no Dimension Strings products recorded at Synchron Stage"

That will be a good reason to add multimikrophon-ability in the upcoming MIR-Synchronstage-venue, to combine your wonderful dimension strings with the new libraries.

"There will be more historic instruments, just like Historic Winds I"

I still wonder how your strategy with for instance new historic libraries will be. Of course they need to have a silentstage version to be combinable with the existing historic woodwinds, but would that mean that you will not use the synchronstage also for later projects like that? (Another reason to let MIR with a Synchronstage-Venue blend silent and synchron-libraries

"Starting June 1, 2017, Synchron Percussion I will be part of the bundles Percussion Complete and Vienna Super Package."

The current introduction-pricing offers a reduction of 15 %, the superpackage gives currently an reduction of 30 %, so am I right, that it is worth for sperpackageusers to wait until June?

Thanks for the info Paul :)

Looking forward to the rest of the orch.... I sure hope to high heaven that there will be seperate Violin I and Violin II.

Cheers.

@fahl5 said:

"Starting June 1, 2017, Synchron Percussion I will be part of the bundles Percussion Complete and Vienna Super Package."

The current introduction-pricing offers a reduction of 15 %, the superpackage gives currently an reduction of 30 %, so am I right, that it is worth for sperpackageusers to wait until June?

Getting Synchron Percussion I by completing the bundles Percussion Complete or the Vienna Super Package is not going to be cheaper than taking advantage of the current introductory offer.

Martin
VSL Marketing

@fahl5 said:

"Starting June 1, 2017, Synchron Percussion I will be part of the bundles Percussion Complete and Vienna Super Package."

The current introduction-pricing offers a reduction of 15 %, the superpackage gives currently an reduction of 30 %, so am I right, that it is worth for sperpackageusers to wait until June?

Getting Synchron Percussion I by completing the bundles Percussion Complete or the Vienna Super Package is not going to be cheaper than taking advantage of the current introductory offer.

Martin
VSL Marketing

Oh what a pitty.

But.....

....than I am obviously still right, that there is at least no reason for a Superpackage Users for any hurry, since their reduction will at least not change after the introduction offer expires.

@Jeff Hayat said:

Looking forward to the rest of the orch.... I sure hope to high heaven that there will be seperate Violin I and Violin II.

Chances for that are high I guess Jeff. With the sections being recorded in place, and with the Synchron Stage ambiance baked in, it wouldn't be possible to form a second violin section out of the first without compromising the natural ambiance and spatial cues.

if the new Full Library Synchron Percussion costs 1.490, imagine a Dimension Series? 

@Jeff Hayat said:

Looking forward to the rest of the orch.... I sure hope to high heaven that there will be seperate Violin I and Violin II.

Chances for that are high I guess Jeff. With the sections being recorded in place, and with the Synchron Stage ambiance baked in, it wouldn't be possible to form a second violin section out of the first without compromising the natural ambiance and spatial cues.

Let's hope so. I have no use for a string lib which only has Violin I. Not the way I write and orchestrate 😊

The other thing I am hopeful for is true div. Recordings of everything re-done with half-size sections. THAT would be a game-changer (and oh boy how I hate that phrase!!!) - the only other string lib on the market w/div. is LASS. Which works well, but this could easily surpass that if done correctly. Hopefully the markest will dicate that going that extra mile is feasible.

Really, really looking fwd to this entire orch package. Currently, the only VSL products I own are Epic Horns, and VEPro. I am aware of VSL's rep for quality, and attention to detail, and hope that the VSL standards will be met here.

BTW - remember that NSS thread in '02 (?), where everyone was laughing at VSL, when they came on and announced that they were doing this huge mega-lib.... who's laughing now? 😊

Hi Paul,

the percussion sound amazing! Can you tell us yet if there is going to be a string library from this studio?

thanks,

Steve :-)

Since it is obviously called Synchron-Series and a new "era" we should expect nearly everything (expect dimension strings 😉) so keep your Bucks since there will be sooner or later of course more than one good reason to spend them here .

Thanks Fahl5,

I'm guessing the answer is yes also!

best,

Steve :-)

@Jeff Hayat said:

The other thing I am hopeful for is true div. Recordings of everything re-done with half-size sections. THAT would be a game-changer (and oh boy how I hate that phrase!!!) - the only other string lib on the market w/div. is LASS. Which works well, but this could easily surpass that if done correctly. Hopefully the markest will dicate that going that extra mile is feasible.

regarding to half-size sections:

I don't use the LASS, but I can say one thing for sure.

Since I have all existing String Libraries I agree abselutely with Herb who says that such a huge String-section like the Appasionatas can not easyly be replaced by combinations of several strings. Before I bought them I thougt he was wrong.

I created big String-Sections by combining the Chamber Strings or Orchestral Strings with dimension Strings and used a lot of detuning and so on ... But when I played the Appaionatas as a demo I found out in the end it is not the same "thick sound" of the Appasionatas.
To have all existing Strings is a real pleasure! And what ever is coming with SS-Strings ... it will surely a great addition to what is existing, but no replacement or gamechanger. At least everything what can be good already exists.

Hi, Paul

I have a similar quesiton as LAJ:   I already have an orchestra template and am using a MIR Pro for the room (e.g. Teldex, etc.).  I also take advantage of MIR's ability to draw from built-in presets for each type of instrument and set the mixer levels to the natural sound that allows each instrument to be at the right volume relative to each other.

How would I integrate a new Syncron Drum into that orchestra template?  Would I use the "close mic"?  Would MIR know what settings to use?

Hi Stephen, 

You will get the best results if you just use the microphone positions to match your orchestral template (check the balance between the available positions, you will get quite close to the Teldex).
Synchron Percussion I is not supposed to be used within MIR PRO. 

Best,
Paul

Paul said something about  the"natural noise floor" in these new samples,, in one of the exciting Synchron Percussion presentations video. I don't know if I can share a youtube link in the forum, so in the Synchron Bells video at 0':45'' you can clearly hear the noise floor coming up in the high dynamic sample; that one doesn't sound like natural noise floor, but like "too much gain added" :) , 
Now, personally, I have plenty of beutiful samples from other companies made almost unusable because of the noise some layer has. VSL libraries are so perfect in that field, I really hope you were so unlucky to trigger one of the few "bugged" sample of this new thrilling library in the video! :P

OK another simple but presumably indiscrete question:

What should we expect from the Synchron-Series:

Am I that wrong if I expect it would it be

• all what is Part of the Symphonic cube
• with 7 mixable Synchronstage microphone-positions ( Hi Jeff....😛) and
• auro 3D acoustic
• considerably more Velocitylayer with
• Need for ten time more SSD-Storage (3-4 TB)
• and all that twice as expensive as the current silentstage Symphonic cube.

(I know that no VSL-guy will ever answer but, this is what seems to me reasonable to expect from the upcoming new Synchron-Series)

@fahl5 said:

Synchronstage micepositions

Meow. 😃