Hi, All!
Been a while since I last posted at VSL. I kind of got out of the loop after I decided I couldn't afford the First Edition. Now what OPUS 1 is out (BTW, with the designation "1," should we be expecting a "2" and "3"?) I now have a reason to revisit VSL. I'm glad I found out about this in time. I was about to buy the "Gold Edition" of that other orchestral library. [8-)]
Now before everybody gets all worked up about VSL's policy on the Horizon Series, let's not make this thread another flamewar. I think OPUS is the best (only?) way for VSL to compete with QLSO (strictly a price thing--we all know VSL sounds better). But that is all besides the point.
Right now, I need to be convinced that VSL will do all I need it to do, with what I already have. I'm convinced that Kewl-SO can do that, albeit with less versitility on a per instrument level. So with after that long intro, here are my questions:
1) Will OPUS 1 run realistically on my current machine (alongside Giga and Cakewalk SONAR)? My current configuration is: P4 2.4ghz, SB Audigy2, 1.5gb RAM. HD space is not an issue for me. I have plenty.
2) Does the OPUS 2 offer a broad enough range of instruments for me to accomplish what I need to do? Basically, I need to be able to believably recreate music from the Baroque period (Bach, Handel, etc.). I have compared the intrument lists of OPUS and QLSO, and found that QLSO has more instruments available, but OPUS probably has alot more versitility per instrument.
3) If that is within the realm of (reasonable) possiblity, how much work is it to accomplish this? I have never worked with Giga before, so I understand that there will be a learning curve there. I'm okay with that. What I need to know is, once I become proficient with Giga/OPUS, how much tweaking in terms of dynamics, velocity, etc. is required to make a piece sound reasonably good. Other than those variables, what other kinds of tweaking would be required?
4) (Really a Giga question) When all is finished, can I simply "render" out .wav files without having to go to my HDD recorder? Right now I'm using synths, and it's a real pain to get audio files.
Well, there you go. I would appreciate any input any VSL user (OPUS, FIRST, or PRO) could give me. Thanks, all!
~Chris
Been a while since I last posted at VSL. I kind of got out of the loop after I decided I couldn't afford the First Edition. Now what OPUS 1 is out (BTW, with the designation "1," should we be expecting a "2" and "3"?) I now have a reason to revisit VSL. I'm glad I found out about this in time. I was about to buy the "Gold Edition" of that other orchestral library. [8-)]
Now before everybody gets all worked up about VSL's policy on the Horizon Series, let's not make this thread another flamewar. I think OPUS is the best (only?) way for VSL to compete with QLSO (strictly a price thing--we all know VSL sounds better). But that is all besides the point.
Right now, I need to be convinced that VSL will do all I need it to do, with what I already have. I'm convinced that Kewl-SO can do that, albeit with less versitility on a per instrument level. So with after that long intro, here are my questions:
1) Will OPUS 1 run realistically on my current machine (alongside Giga and Cakewalk SONAR)? My current configuration is: P4 2.4ghz, SB Audigy2, 1.5gb RAM. HD space is not an issue for me. I have plenty.
2) Does the OPUS 2 offer a broad enough range of instruments for me to accomplish what I need to do? Basically, I need to be able to believably recreate music from the Baroque period (Bach, Handel, etc.). I have compared the intrument lists of OPUS and QLSO, and found that QLSO has more instruments available, but OPUS probably has alot more versitility per instrument.
3) If that is within the realm of (reasonable) possiblity, how much work is it to accomplish this? I have never worked with Giga before, so I understand that there will be a learning curve there. I'm okay with that. What I need to know is, once I become proficient with Giga/OPUS, how much tweaking in terms of dynamics, velocity, etc. is required to make a piece sound reasonably good. Other than those variables, what other kinds of tweaking would be required?
4) (Really a Giga question) When all is finished, can I simply "render" out .wav files without having to go to my HDD recorder? Right now I'm using synths, and it's a real pain to get audio files.
Well, there you go. I would appreciate any input any VSL user (OPUS, FIRST, or PRO) could give me. Thanks, all!
~Chris
