Non-reverb samples

[warwick]

Demos sound fantastic, but are there demos without added reverb?

[Dietz]

Welcome & Thanks for the kind words!

No, they are "production-ready", so to speak (or at least I hope so). I made some more elaborated explainations about reverb and what I used for mixdown in an earlier thread (click here).

You may listen to our pure samples by ordering our Demo-Cube and/or watching the "Usability"-guide on our interactive CD-ROM.

One of the foundations of the Vienna Symphonic Library is the decision to record our samples with natural room to let the sound breathe - but without actual reverb. Without those typical "orchestral" reverb-tails, two things (amongst serveral others) are possible:

1. You can decide about the acoustic environment of your composition - be it a classical concert hall, a chamber-musical setting - or maybe a space-ship hangar for your next SF-movie score ;-]. Otherwise, it would always be "reverb on reverb", in the best case.

2. even more important: all those Performance Elements, which set our Library so far apart from everything else up to now, wouldn't work with a lengthy reverb hanging over from the note before (... quite clear, when you think about it).

Apart from this - virtual reverbation has reached a level of realism where it becomes almost as convincing as our Library; and I can tell you for sure that it will become even better in the not-so-distant future.


HTH,

/Dietz - Vienna Symphonic Library

[warwick]

Thanks that is exactly what I hoped for, will order the demo.

One more question, have you or do you know of anyone who has tried the library with Halion? I would like to now if there are any restrcitions on performance controls.

[Dietz]

Import into Halion works - BUT only to hear the samples. You would loose several of our painstakingly developped mapping- and performance-features.

/Dietz - Vienna Symphonic Library