I just realised this was a thread about the demos!!

Well I just came back because I finally had a proper listen to your concerto Guy and I have to say this is where you are certainly at your best, when you are free to write the music in the directions that you want to go, and have fun with it it's so obvious you had fun with this one. Congratulations really excellent and so unique! You are really developing yourself as a significant contributor to compositions not only using VSL but all around and obviously your consummate piano skills as performance and also composer show themselves well here, - this is really showing us mortals what can be done with this library and it's truly ascendant and inspiring to know that the possibilities are very far reaching and deep musically indeed, and we can learn from your example and apply this knowledge of what *can* be done in the most musical sense not just as an immitation of an orchestra but as a tool for pure art itself, and be emboldened (I always wanted to use that word he he) by it for our own writing ventures - to write with a confidence that nothing really holds us back here but our own musical sense of adventure and what limitations we do or do not place upon it (I suggest none!). Also, there is a wonderful use of space here even when apparently the sound is full and that was especially interesting.

All the Best,
Miklos.

[:D]

Hey Christian Kardeis,

The Anaheim demo is amazing... can you share with us what reverb you used? It's especially "present" and really has some depth and life to it.

Kerry

Miklos, just what do you have against Donald Trump and iron pipes? I for one think his hairpiece would make an excellent World Dictator. The Hairpiece would be far better than the dictator America elected by a narrow margin several years ago. Woody Allen made a film about that some time ago I believe. though it featured a nose blown off a dictator.

Also, I am extremely irritated that VSL has chosen to use iron pipes for plumbing instead of sampling them, chromatically, with both hard and medium attack mallets in 6 velocities, with bowed variations. Really, I am a pro and I need those pipes, right now!!! for an important job on an ad sponsored by the American Lavatory Association.

Hi Kerry,

Thanks for your kind words. The Reverb used in the demo was Altiverb with "Wiener Konzerthaus" impulses. I used 5 instances of Altiverb. One for left front, one for left rear, one for right front and one for right rear (just the early reflection part switched on, the reverb tail was switched off) and one instance of altiverb for the main, overall reverb.

Furthermore I used the Processed Percussion a lot.
These samples are already convolved with the impulses VSL recorded in the "Wiener Konzerthaus". So the impulses of Altiverb and the Processed Percussion match perfectly.

The routing is a little tricky but once you´ve done it, it will save you alot of time while mixing.

You can find a good tutorial example how to build this setup on the audioease homepage. the example was done by the well known composer Maarten Spruijt.
He also used VSL samples for his tutorial, because they are recorded rather dry.

hope that helps.

best
christian

@chriskard said:

Hi Kerry,

Thanks for your kind words. The Reverb used in the demo was Altiverb with "Wiener Konzerthaus" impulses. I used 5 instances of Altiverb. One for left front, one for left rear, one for right front and one for right rear (just the early reflection part switched on, the reverb tail was switched off) and one instance of altiverb for the main, overall reverb.

Furthermore I used the Processed Percussion a lot.
These samples are already convolved with the impulses VSL recorded in the "Wiener Konzerthaus". So the impulses of Altiverb and the Processed Percussion match perfectly.

The routing is a little tricky but once you´ve done it, it will save you alot of time while mixing.

You can find a good tutorial example how to build this setup on the audioease homepage. the example was done by the well known composer Maarten Spruijt.
He also used VSL samples for his tutorial, because they are recorded rather dry.

hope that helps.

best
christian

Great post Christian. Are you running Altiverb on PC? Been pleased with it? CPU hungry?

Will ONE licence allow me to run Altiverb on the main Daw and 4 slaves?


Thanks again Christian for any advice your can give.


Rob

The Appassionata Strings sound lovely! Congrats to Herb and his very talented team! How much of the demos are standard vs extended? Does the portamento come with the standard set? (I hope so!) I'm saving my pennies for this one!

All the very best,

Darren

@Rob Elliott said:

Will ONE licence allow me to run Altiverb on the main Daw and 4 slaves?

Nope. 1 licence per PC.

@Rob Elliott said:

Will ONE licence allow me to run Altiverb on the main Daw and 4 slaves?

Nope. 1 licence per PC.



No problem Christian. I'll just leave Wizoo's W2 on the slaves (writing stage) - when the cue is done send over the audio files to the main daw and run Altiverb through then.


Any possible replies on the other questions as far as Altiverb running well on PC? (heard some horror stories). Going to upgrade my CPU on my main Daw to a Duo duo chip (and recommendations there on best price vs. value - i.e. - 3.0 Ghz duo duo's two times the price of the 2.8 duo duo's - thus not worth the extra .2 CPU advantage...)

Hope I am clear on this.

Rob

Well, I have no significant troubles with AV on windows.

@Christian Marcussen said:

Well, I have no significant troubles with AV on windows.

Great Christian. Have you compared it to W2? Just trying to consider if I want to go to Altiverb - only to scrap it once MIR shows up.


Rob

No I havent, but I'm loving AV. As it became clear to me that MIR was far, far down the road I decided to buy several AV licences. I doubt I'll get MIR now, unless I'm rolling in money and the demos blow my mind [:)]

Christian, Why buy several lic's of AV? Can you just mix on your main Daw?


Looking forward to your reply.


Rob

I've found altiverb has the best sound of any convolution reverb, I don't know why, and I also think the built in EQ has a surprisingly excellent sound, (only works on the wet signal though) but it's great for quickly carving out a sound or fine tuning the reverb. I only used it on the Mac but mostly it's very good, I'm still using V5 though as I had some trouble with third party IR's in version 6 which they tell me are a bug and giong to be fixed.

Miklos.

@mpower88 said:

I've found altiverb has the best sound of any convolution reverb, I don't know why, and I also think the built in EQ has a surprisingly excellent sound, (only works on the wet signal though) but it's great for quickly carving out a sound or fine tuning the reverb. I only used it on the Mac but mostly it's very good, I'm still using V5 though as I had some trouble with third party IR's in version 6 which they tell me are a bug and giong to be fixed.

Miklos.

Thanks Miklos.

@Another User said:

Yes, you see that on the product page...

quote.
I'm saving my pennies for this one!

Me too![:D]

P.S. Sorry, I'm not sure how to use the quote.

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@Rob Elliott said:

Christian, Why buy several lic's of AV? Can you just mix on your main Daw?


Looking forward to your reply.


Rob

Because the sound from each slave comes into my slave as one source. So if I want to place each instrument in a virtual room I have to do it locally. Does the anser make sense?

For instance my Strings slave...If it all comes into my DAW I cant set Violins to the left, celli to th eright etc. Thats why on my slave I use AV's room feature to place them in the room, much like you could to with GigaPulse.

@Rob Elliott said:

Christian, Why buy several lic's of AV? Can you just mix on your main Daw?


Looking forward to your reply.


Rob

Because the sound from each slave comes into my slave as one source. So if I want to place each instrument in a virtual room I have to do it locally. Does the anser make sense?

For instance my Strings slave...If it all comes into my DAW I cant set Violins to the left, celli to th eright etc. Thats why on my slave I use AV's room feature to place them in the room, much like you could to with GigaPulse.


Totally understand. What I was thinking is that each string section could be sent over one at a time to a seperate audio track within the main Daw and then IR processed then - plus this gives you some individual section 'mixing flexbility' later on (ability to adjust relative levels between sections).

Takes more time but just an idea maybe (save some money plus have more flexibility and control later on).


Rob

Ah sure thats entirely possible - but I don't have the patience [:)]

@Christian Marcussen said:

Ah sure thats entirely possible - but I don't have the patience [:)]

I hear ya - I'd much rather do it your way. Did you get a break on the additional lic's for the slaves?



Rob

Great work Christian, sounds like an Oscars winning music [[;)]]
Could you plese tell me which patch you used for the repeated strings at the beginning ?

Thanks