Hello Marc,
answers in between
all the best
Herb
1) When it comes to copying the sounds to hard drive, can you do so on many disks? I mean, could I have three giga platforms with each their own copy of the many dvds on their respective hard drives? Rest assure, I am fully aware of the amount of memory it would involve.
There is no restriction to copy the library on different systems/harddiscs.
Best way to handle it, is to connect them via LAN.
So you have to copy the DVDs only one time, and than simple copy the library over your network.
2) I am a composer and orchestrator in my community and I work with real orchestras most of the time and like many of you, we know that working with real musicians is always the best solution, how would you rate the library in terms of general musical rendition compared with your personal experiences with real musicians?
Generally the library is better in tune than a real orchestra [[;)]]
The musical input you get normaly from good musicians has to be solved by yourself if you work with samples.
3) When it comes to composing for a movie or tv series, I like to stay in the MIDI world as long as I can since changes occur until the last minute. I see the gig file names in many examples posted in the forum explaining some demos and realize that it can take up to three or four midi channels for the flute part for example. (In my case now, using the Vitous library still, I often use two or three tracks of the same instrument with the different articulations I want) I like to have easy access to the different articulations from my sequencer tracks, but it seems that it can take many to acheive the desired effect. Does the performance tool solve the problem, have I not understood the principle? Any thoughts or suggestions on this? Or else simple explanation on how this thing really work?
A standard setup where you can capture most of the common articulations would be the "Basic set" out of the orchestral cube. Here you have the most important single note articulations which can be managed with the alternation tool. Here you use one miditrack.
On a second miditrack simply use a performance legato version of this instrument.
It depends on the function and the orchestration,
for a virtuos solo with different playingstyles you will use more tracks.
4) How do your CPU behave in gigastudio with, say the four banks loaded up? Any recommandations?
Our library is not CPU extensive, RAM is the more important issue.
5) It seems that the samples available now have been recorded at 44.1, 16 bit, but it is announced that the future additions will be clocked at 96, 24 bit. Will there be a dithered down version of these new samples? (Why? Because in my case, I have to choose one sampling clock for all the sampler stations I own and of course, 44.1, 16 bit is the compromise for all my machines. I can't afford to switch all the time between sampling rates when I work for tv. Time is a luxury...)
The samples were recorded in 96 kHz 24 Bit and full editet in 96 kHz 32 Bit float. Our future releases will propably support both Bitrates 24 and 16, so you can decide which one you want to use.
6) What do you know about the hard disk editions?
They will be huge [H]
New instruments and instruments sections and new performance elements for the existing instruments.
We are recording since several month the harddisc stuff, here is a short overview (excerpt) of the new instruments:
small string ensembles, 8 double horn section, solo double horn,
french oboe, woodwind ensembles, solo and ensemble brass with sordinos,
small clarinet, saxophones, a second harp,
answers in between
all the best
Herb
1) When it comes to copying the sounds to hard drive, can you do so on many disks? I mean, could I have three giga platforms with each their own copy of the many dvds on their respective hard drives? Rest assure, I am fully aware of the amount of memory it would involve.
There is no restriction to copy the library on different systems/harddiscs.
Best way to handle it, is to connect them via LAN.
So you have to copy the DVDs only one time, and than simple copy the library over your network.
2) I am a composer and orchestrator in my community and I work with real orchestras most of the time and like many of you, we know that working with real musicians is always the best solution, how would you rate the library in terms of general musical rendition compared with your personal experiences with real musicians?
Generally the library is better in tune than a real orchestra [[;)]]
The musical input you get normaly from good musicians has to be solved by yourself if you work with samples.
3) When it comes to composing for a movie or tv series, I like to stay in the MIDI world as long as I can since changes occur until the last minute. I see the gig file names in many examples posted in the forum explaining some demos and realize that it can take up to three or four midi channels for the flute part for example. (In my case now, using the Vitous library still, I often use two or three tracks of the same instrument with the different articulations I want) I like to have easy access to the different articulations from my sequencer tracks, but it seems that it can take many to acheive the desired effect. Does the performance tool solve the problem, have I not understood the principle? Any thoughts or suggestions on this? Or else simple explanation on how this thing really work?
A standard setup where you can capture most of the common articulations would be the "Basic set" out of the orchestral cube. Here you have the most important single note articulations which can be managed with the alternation tool. Here you use one miditrack.
On a second miditrack simply use a performance legato version of this instrument.
It depends on the function and the orchestration,
for a virtuos solo with different playingstyles you will use more tracks.
4) How do your CPU behave in gigastudio with, say the four banks loaded up? Any recommandations?
Our library is not CPU extensive, RAM is the more important issue.
5) It seems that the samples available now have been recorded at 44.1, 16 bit, but it is announced that the future additions will be clocked at 96, 24 bit. Will there be a dithered down version of these new samples? (Why? Because in my case, I have to choose one sampling clock for all the sampler stations I own and of course, 44.1, 16 bit is the compromise for all my machines. I can't afford to switch all the time between sampling rates when I work for tv. Time is a luxury...)
The samples were recorded in 96 kHz 24 Bit and full editet in 96 kHz 32 Bit float. Our future releases will propably support both Bitrates 24 and 16, so you can decide which one you want to use.
6) What do you know about the hard disk editions?
They will be huge [H]
New instruments and instruments sections and new performance elements for the existing instruments.
We are recording since several month the harddisc stuff, here is a short overview (excerpt) of the new instruments:
small string ensembles, 8 double horn section, solo double horn,
french oboe, woodwind ensembles, solo and ensemble brass with sordinos,
small clarinet, saxophones, a second harp,
