@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

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

@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

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

@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

He can if I tell him he can, out of the goodness of my heart. [:D]

@cm said:

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

Good point. But treating customers like criminals is never good policy I think. Look to Steve Jobs as an example of success based on treating customers as customers not criminals.

Evan Evans

Treating customers like criminals???

(he must have forgotten his medication - just when I thought it was working :wink[:)]

@evanevans said:

But treating customers like criminals is never good policy I think. Look to Steve Jobs as an example of success based on treating customers as customers not criminals.

Evan, my brilliant friend, I can't follow this post. 1) if the terms of the lottery were "no shary", then I don't see how that equates to treating customers like criminals. 2) Steve Jobs is a VERY complex, multi-faceted guy; I think he only works as an example if you spotlight a FEW of those facets. As much as I adore OS X and thank him for bringing to life in a few years what Linus Torvalds has never pulled off (despite working at it since the late eighties with programmers from all of the world), who exactly do you think cut the legs out from under Logic PC? It is hard to support the case that he did this purely to liberate Logic PC users from the evils of the Prince of Insufficient OS Quality.

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@peter0302 said:

Treating customers like criminals???

(he must have forgotten his medication - just when I thought it was working :wink[:)]

Haha. No. It's just maybe I misunderstood but it sounds like CM was saying something to the effect of if IAN shares the samples with another person, it will be without an attached license, and what happens if that person shares them with someone else? At that point without a license there'd be nothing prohibiting rampant legal distribution of the sounds.

I think I understood that this is what CM was saying quite clearly. And the thing is, if you don't have a license than you are an unauthorized user and hence using it illegally. And it is treating customers like potential people who may engage in potential illegal activity that is NOT necessary by corporations. Yet many still do. If someone want so t do something illegally, making it difficult for them is not going to change their criminal attitude and it's just going to make honest customers feel like a link in the criminal chain.

Enough said. If you don't get it, try reading up on Steve Jobs. An excellent example of someone who tries to treat customers like customers, and let's the law do it's duty in weeding out criminals shoul dit be necesssary. All the necessary protections against illegal activity are protected by law. It is not necessary to create piracy circumvention tools. In fact studies show that such locks foster piracy and an atmosphere of needing things to be unlocked.

Evan Evans