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  • lottery winner

    On Sunday, November 30, 2003, this number was drawn by the Austrian Lottery Organization:

    695173

    The winner of the sampling session at the Vienna Symphonic Library’s Silent Stage is:

    Ian Livingstone

    Congratulations! Your number (690033) was closest to the drawn “Joker-Zahl”. We’ll get in contact with you to speak about your sampling wishes!

    And [URL=http://www.vsl.co.at/english/pages/profile/news/lottery.htm]here's[/URL] the list you can choose from

    and remember: only a CRAY can run an endless loop in just three seconds.
  • Congratulations Ian!
    ...I hope you'll write a "diary" of "what it will be" and post it here... so we, poor ill-fated, can read all of it... and dream too! [:D]

    rino [[;)]]

  • thanks! I will do.

    Cheers,
    Ian

  • Congratulations on the win Ian!

    ps. Your site is absolutely one of the coolest I have seen

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    @Another User said:

    Your site is absolutely one of the coolest I have seen

    I agree with you, Nicklas... [:D]

    r

  • thanks chaps - you're too kind [:)]

    Ian

  • So any idea yet what you'll sample?

  • Ian,

    Some of teh links on your website do not work in Safari. Are they just dormant right now?

    Awesome website! You do that?

    Yours,
    Evan Evans

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    Peter - still thinking about it to be honest - spoilt for choice. Some random thoughts though:-

    Trumpet/Bass Bones fff (ultra rude and loud)
    brass clusters, growls, ports, rips etc
    strings harmonics, exadurated vibrato

    then again I'm thinking all of these will probably be done at some point in the next year by VSL more thorughly than I could possible do in a day, so I should go more personal and record string phrases, ostinato bass riffs etc.

    Whatever I decide I'm going to have to make sure it's planned out to the finest detail and everything's scored and printed in priority order.

    Evan - no it was done by a guy called Ian Aspinal at www.thelosthighway.net I've just checked the links and fixed the quicktime vr tour, the rest was working from my end....

    Ian

  • ian,

    I thought of something interesting. let me know what you think. I use it all the time with real instruments. It basically sounds like a fluffy tender tremelo with lot's of overtones so it sounds kind of spacey. It's useful for the most eerie of suspense moments:

    Strings playing all the following techniques combined:
    Flautando (ppp)
    Sul Tasto -or- Ponticello
    Punta D'Arco
    Tremelo

    and maybe it's worth it to have a mezzo-forte version to crossfade some dynamics with.

    But it looks like strings aren't on the list of what you can choose from eh?
    Evan Evans

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    @Another User said:

    Evan - no it was done by a guy called Ian Aspinal at www.thelosthighway.net
    It's really great. Glad to hear this guys hireable. Maybe I'll drop him a line.

    Evan Evans

  • Ian,

    How about Muted French Horns? So commonly used in film scoring. I'm not sure when anyone will ever have them from VSL. Perhaps you could ask Herb.

    French Horns Muted before Trumpets and Trombones, for their common appearance in film music.

    Yours,
    Evan Evans

  • Even,
    Herb mentioned that muted brass were going to be a big part of the next edition.

    I don't remember if it was going to be stopped, or using a ball mute or some other kind of mute, though.

    Ian,
    One nice Horn effect that would be nice to have are the pitch bends that naturally occur when the player slowly stops/unstops the horn. It sounds great because the timbre changes with the pitch. Goldsmith used this in his score for The Mummy, for example (in this case the effect was fortissimo played with the whole section - very sinister sounding.)

    -Noel

  • just to mention ... did you read the text right saying *the winner of the _personal_ sampling session* ... although the resulting samples/instrument might be included in a further edition, they will be dedicated and made personally for the winner, means not intended to be released as a public extension to existing modules
    christian

    and remember: only a CRAY can run an endless loop in just three seconds.
  • But he could share if he wanted to?

  • I doubt it. They record the samples, they own 'em.

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    @slaroussels said:

    One nice Horn effect that would be nice to have are the pitch bends that naturally occur when the player slowly stops/unstops the horn. It sounds great because the timbre changes with the pitch. Goldsmith used this in his score for The Mummy, for example (in this case the effect was fortissimo played with the whole section - very sinister sounding.)
    You can hear EXTENSIVE use of this effect in my classical brass Quartet "Suppression" here:
    Suppression.mp3

    Enjoy!

    Evan Evans

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    @cm said:

    just to mention ... did you read the text right saying *the winner of the _personal_ sampling session* ... although the resulting samples/instrument might be included in a further edition, they will be dedicated and made personally for the winner, means not intended to be released as a public extension to existing modules
    christian
    Guess I didn't understand that. That's really nice of you to offer all that to just one person. What if he wants to share it?

    Evan Evans

  • hmm - supposing mr. z offers you some sampled instruments made by and for himself for your personal use, because let's say you are a good friend - are you entitled to share them? the rest is tbd - and i think the *d* does not mean discussed [;)]
    christian

    and remember: only a CRAY can run an endless loop in just three seconds.
  • He can if I tell him he can, out of the goodness of my heart. [:D]