Hi,
I've been researching for a while and posted a couple of queries on this forum but now ready to place my first VSL order. I was hoping for a little advice on a few of the following queries. I will be purchasing Solo and Chamber Strings (std+hoping for extended libraries with the holiday special on) plus Dimension Brass as they all suit many of my needs perfectly: I'll also be buying VE Pro 5/MIR Pro, VI Pro 2 and Vienna Suite,
From there it gets a little more challenging regarding supplementing these with SE & SE Plus libraries or just adding say Woodwinds 1 and a few download instruments for now..
1 I won't require much solo brass but would like to use smaller sections from time to time. Can Dimension Brass be used, and sound OK, with say 2 trumpets and 1 trombone as a small section (and even perhaps outside of the typical classical/film genre)?
2 SE/Plus instruments don't appear to have any cresc/dim articulations - are they easily achieved by other means with perhaps VI Pro?
3 Can, for example, the full DVD Chamber Strings be doubled in the background "quasi divisi" with the SE Chamber Strings without phasing (given the whole tone/half tone difference between libraries I'm unsure)?
Thanks, any advice on the above would help a great deal with my decisions on the rest of my order in regard to SE or no SE in the mix. I'm a "reborn composer" with 15 years of previous "real" full time professional orchestration experience and have been in IT for the past 20 years so while I'm starting out I'm thankfully not in totally unfamiliar territory..
Robert