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  • Inconsistent panning position

    S
    S
    Hi Vienna staff
    First of all I would like to take the opportunity to congratulate you all
    with the VSL and all the prizes and awards that keeps coming your way.
    It's certainly well deserved!

    I have had the full complement of the first edition for sometime now
    and there's one thing thats starting to annoy me. Many instruments
    don't have a consistent panning position - at one velocity level you may
    be a bit to left in the stereo image while at another level the sound
    suddenly shifts to the far right. This holds true also in going from note to
    note.

    Am I the only one who has noticed this?

    Anyway this pretty much the only complaint I can think of rigth now -
    the library is truelly amazing - its a sort of the 8th wonder of the world
    and work gone in to making the library matches the Colossus as well I guess.
    Can't wait to get my hands on the pro-edition. [:D]

    kind regards
    Bjarne Kristiansen

    p.s I'm refering to the Giga vesion here
  • T
    T
    No you're not the only one who's noticed this.
    I posted the same complaint a month or two ago, regarding the brass ensembles. Apparently it's a difficult thing to get right in the recording process.

    The solution is to narrow the stereo image, i.e. move the left and right signals closer together.

    Anthony Lombardi
    www.mp3.com/alombardi
  • K
    K
    if you think about how sound works, higher frequencies seem to travel faster or can be more prominent at different volumes.

    Brass instruments become much more brighter at louder levels. Add to it that the bell "directs" this sound somewhat, AND add to it that players can never play an instrument in the same direction every time, and you get an equation that can equal this sort of phenomenon.

    The plus side is, you'll generally want to collapse the stereo field of the VSL insturments in traditional orchestral settings. Its what makes them so flexible. Also general panning techniques collapse the field somewhat on its own.

    while it may be a somewhat "technical" approach, it definitely yeilds some flexibility.
  • DietzD
    VSL Team
    DietzD
    Highest care is taken to keep the stereo-position of our samples as consistent as possible. But due to peculiarities like directivity of the sound produced by the instrument according to its physical structure, playing techniques etc, it happens that the _perceptive_ center of a sample isn't the _technical_ center position.

    In many cases, this simply as it would sound if you recorded the instrument from a "conventional" performance. If it's disturbing the sonic image you had in mind, narrow the stereo-width, for example with Waves's S1 (or on behalf of simple power-panning) - which is a good idea anyway if you want to create a "stage"-situation other than a intimate chamber-musical setting.

    HTH,

    /Dietz - Vienna Symphonic Library
    /Dietz - Vienna Symphonic Library