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  • SE vs Cube demo request.

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    Hi,

    There are so many wonderful demos of both SE and the Cube libraries.

    I think it would be nice to hear two versions of the same composition, one realized with full SE with PLUS and another realized with the Cube. It'd be nice if someone who has the access to both could make this demo using each package to the best of its ability. I think it would give a clear picture of the potentials/limitations of both SE and the CUBE. It could be something really short with a minimal arrangement.

    Could someone make such demo?

    Thank you,

    sasha 
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    Hi Sacha

    If the same articulations are used in both demos you can't make out a (big) difference I believe - even if the SE samples are used for two half tones.

    The really difference you will find in missing sample articulations in the SE-Library.

    One of the most important and missing articulation is in the "Dynamic-Section": Diminuendo/Crescendo. The a nice end of a piece, played, with natural diminuendos in every instrument section is a fantastic thing. In SE: Fade out by Track-Automation of your Sequencer or produced by an audio editor.

    Another imoprtant articulation of VSL's libraries is the type "détaché/portato long" (~ 0,5s). I believe that SE "only" contains the portato short (~0,3s) samples. You would be in a fix after two bars because of this missing "portato long articulation" in case of pruducing calssical mock-ups. But...

    Maybe you are the composer/creator of the music. Show consideration for these missing samples[:)] and no more problem because of missing articulations... [:)]

    The SE-Library is fantastic. You get a lot of samples for quite a cheap price and the legato samples are inclusive of this offer.

    So if you bought some full libraries - Strings and Woodwinds for example - you can get the whole rest of the symphonic instruments with just this one library. From one day to the next you have a piccolo, drums and other percussions, a harp, brass instruments, a harpsichord, an organ, a vibraphon, a guitar and a lot more instruments... in your orchestra[:)] That's Heaven on Earth my dear!

    Beat

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    PS: Sorry, that you didn't get a comparison demo Full <> SE [;)]

    - Tips & Tricks while using Samples of VSL.. see at: https://www.beat-kaufmann.com/vitutorials/ - Tutorial "Mixing an Orchestra": https://www.beat-kaufmann.com/mixing-an-orchestra/
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    Thanks for a quick reply Beat.

    What I ment by the demo is if one could record a versitale and dynamic musical phrase that uses slow and fast pasages, p and f, repetitions, and use the most appropriate/availabe articulations in Cube and then realize the same phrase using full SE to the best of what it can offer. Obviously the Cube version of the phrase will sound a lot more dynamic and diverse as there are a lot more articulations in the Cube to make suttle nuances. The version done on SE would have to be comprised of only available articulations in SE and use, for example, midi dynamics instead of true cresc./dim.

    To me that would show how SE can handle that pfrase in comparison to the Cube.

    Hope it makes some sense.

     

    @Beat Kaufmann said:

    PS: Sorry, that you didn't get a comparison demo Full <> SE 

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    Thank you,

    sasha