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  • Two #1 in the Charts! - A good week for VSL

    Dear forum-members,

    I hope you allow for some shameless self-promotion :-)

    The Vienna Symphonic Library is blessed with success, but to have two productions relying heavily on our products on top-positions in the charts at the same time is unusual nontheless.

    This week, the Austrian CD-charts are lead by "Falco Symphonic (Studio)", the DVD-charts topped by "Falco Symphonic (Live)".

    -> http://www.austriancharts.at/archiv.asp?todo=show&tag=15&monat=02&jahr=2008&sparte=d

    -> http://www.austriancharts.at/archiv.asp?todo=show&tag=15&monat=02&jahr=2008&sparte=a

    Both productions are a unique combination of meticulously restaurated original audio-files from 10, 20 or even 25 years ago, with newly recorded band & orchestra. The DVD contains also unique video-material from private archives.

    The orchestra was layouted with Vienna Instruments, recorded "live" in sections, and backed up by Vienna Instruments later-on. Especially the strings, horns and orchestral perucussions are VSL-instense :-). Programming was done by Gerrit Wunder, one of Vienna's up-and-coming arrangers. Executive producer was the former Falco-keyboarder Thomas Rabitsch. Restauration work be Doro Badent, additional restauration work by Chryselda Pedarnig (of VSL-fame - she's one of our denoising specialists!)

    -> http://www.sonybmg.at/artists2.php?iA=7&artist=21946&product=88697253279

    BTW ... both productions were technically supervised, edited, recorded and mixed by Yours Truly ... [<:o)]

    I answered questions about some VSL-unrelated background information and technical stuff in the Nuendo-forum:

    -> http://forum.nuendo.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=16978

    ... but the saying is "All good things come in threes", that's why there is the #4 in this week's DVD-charts, which was mixed by me some time ago: "Falco Live - Donauinsel" made its re-entrance into the charts, after being at #1 for 25 weeks already in 2004 and 2005.

    :-))

    It's a good week, isn't it?


    /Dietz - Vienna Symphonic Library
  • PS: A short explanation for all non-Austrians: Falco was _the_ major poptstar in this country during the 80ies and early 90ies. He even topped the US-charts with "Rock Me Amadeus". He died in a tragic car-accident exactly 10 years ago - this is why this hype is going on right now.

    /Dietz - Vienna Symphonic Library
  • Falco Symphonic - Reconstruktion - 3sat tv news:



    Quote: 'Wurde händisch entfernt' ------> Cool!

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    WNTV:



    Quote: 'Bis zur letzten Geige am letzten Pult'

    GREAT !!!!!!

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  • I LOVE IT !!!

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  • Congratulations, Dietz, that was an amazing technical accomlishment. I still hear "Der Kommisar" on the radio in the USA -- both the English and German versions are played here. Falco and Nena are the only singers who sing in German I've heard on the radio, besides the occasional opera aria. :)

    I hope you get a nice gold record for your wall, it sounds like you deserve it.  


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    Thanks for the friendly reply, Synthetic & Angelo!

    @Another User said:

    [...] I hope you get a nice gold record for your wall, it sounds like you deserve it.
    Right now, it looks like double platinum :-)

    /Dietz - Vienna Symphonic Library
  • Hi Dietz,

    all the best wishes from my heart go out to you and the team who worked on this. Besides the professional results (like platinum recods) this must have been a labour of love or, probably, obession. (in a very positive way)

    I lived once in Vienna, in the '80s, during the hype of Falco and the 1.Allgemeine Verunsicherung et. al.  (For some very romatic reason, gee, I am feeling old)  I remember once, where we all came out one night out of the Konzerthaus during Ball-Season, having sneaked in on the Ball of the Vienna Süßwarenfabrikanten, dancing Waltz in these beatifull halls all night.I can understand the fascination, that these times left on everybody who lived through it. My Vienna friends talked me into visting the Zentralfriedhof afterwards, now this was scaring, We (next to you in Germany) haven't gotten much of that Falco-hype lately, so I have to check on these records (or why is it not played here)

    One thing of the nuendo forum, that makes me green of envy is

    ".... Up to 160 audio-tracks were coming from his Mac-based ProT**ls-system, going to a Neve Capricorn console .."

    Wow, what a session this must have been....

    As I said, all the best .....hs

    P.S: What makes me worry is the statement, that you spend 100 days in a row on this endeavour.... does that mean that for this 100 days nobody worked on MIR?


    Too old for Rock n Roll. Too young for 9th symphonies. Wagner Lover, IRCAM Alumni. Double Bass player starting in low Es. I am where noise is music.
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    Thanks for the kind words, Holgmeister - yes, it was a big session, in any respect. But the efforts seem to pay off: Both the CD and the DVD are #1 again this week. 😊

    @Holgmeister said:

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    P.S: What makes me worry is the statement, that you spend 100 days in a row on this endeavour.... does that mean that for this 100 days nobody worked on MIR?

    LOL! I knew this question would come up. No, don't be afraid. As you may know by now, I'm an audio-guy, not a programmer, so right now I'm not _that_ important for the developement. Our software team, OTOH, was working nonstop on the MIR since last summer, with even more manpower than before! I just had to keep in touch and give weighty comments 8-) ... but thanks for being worried about the wealth of this project!


    /Dietz - Vienna Symphonic Library