Hello all, I'm new to the VSL library. I currently use a private sample library of the Russian National Orchestra that I share as part of a consortium of film composers. In addition I use Sonic Implants, Dan Dean, Garritan and Miroslav. I run them on 8 giga PCs and on several macs running Kontakts via AULab and EXSmkiis.
I've just bought the Classical guitar, solo strings and the chamber strings. Installing the guitar I have to say I'm really disappointed with the sound, it seems to have a bucket load of data for something that sounds no more than a cheap lute or harp sample. Comparing it to the guitar samples bundled with Kontakt wouldn't be fair to those samples!
I have made a lot of successful guitar patches of my own over the years and feel the best way to achieve a usable performance patch is to be very expressive and idiosyncratic for every sample. I feel on this library too much care and attention has gone into making every sample sound identical, leaving a very cold and to be honest not very usable set of patches in my opinion. And surprisingly I find several examples of keys that have samples that are out of tune also, I cite A2 on AG_mV_sus+RS_FX-mu as one example, sorry, not good enough for the price, it took me several minutes to fix, I think sloppy that these minutes weren't applied at the factory end?
Here's an example of a piece I wrote completely performed on fake instruments bar a single solo violin:
http://hensonmusic.com/media/AudioLab/KaterinasTheme.mp3
And whilst it has a folky feel to it I feel this degree of realism would be hard to achieve from the VSL guitar patch (the guitars you here are two single patches I made myself from a Charango guitar constructed from the shell of an Armadillo!).
Could people advise me on whether the rest of the VSL library has this all too perfect and cold feel to it, as I don't wish to install another £600 of samples that I am not going to use!
Christian.
hensonmusic.com
I've just bought the Classical guitar, solo strings and the chamber strings. Installing the guitar I have to say I'm really disappointed with the sound, it seems to have a bucket load of data for something that sounds no more than a cheap lute or harp sample. Comparing it to the guitar samples bundled with Kontakt wouldn't be fair to those samples!
I have made a lot of successful guitar patches of my own over the years and feel the best way to achieve a usable performance patch is to be very expressive and idiosyncratic for every sample. I feel on this library too much care and attention has gone into making every sample sound identical, leaving a very cold and to be honest not very usable set of patches in my opinion. And surprisingly I find several examples of keys that have samples that are out of tune also, I cite A2 on AG_mV_sus+RS_FX-mu as one example, sorry, not good enough for the price, it took me several minutes to fix, I think sloppy that these minutes weren't applied at the factory end?
Here's an example of a piece I wrote completely performed on fake instruments bar a single solo violin:
http://hensonmusic.com/media/AudioLab/KaterinasTheme.mp3
And whilst it has a folky feel to it I feel this degree of realism would be hard to achieve from the VSL guitar patch (the guitars you here are two single patches I made myself from a Charango guitar constructed from the shell of an Armadillo!).
Could people advise me on whether the rest of the VSL library has this all too perfect and cold feel to it, as I don't wish to install another £600 of samples that I am not going to use!
Christian.
hensonmusic.com