@markbatuer said:

Hi FredB that's OK. How does the 8 violins ensemble sound? Some says this library sound a little thin. What do you think? And based on it sounds, can it be used alone or should have to be layered with some other string library?

All I can say is that it sounds like 8 players. I have done some recordings with 8 players before (4VL1, 4VL2,3VA,2VC,1CB) with overdubs, and with good programming I think it will sounds as good as that.

And keep in mind that this is just the Violin part of the collection, the thinnest section...

I  like this sound alone for many of my personnal project. but I presume it will blend well with other library, specialy those recorded by VSL and mixed inside MIR. But even without MIR it should do it.

Something else that have been improved is that the Vib/non-Vib crossfade is really better than older libraries. And the 4 layers velocity X-fade is smoother too.

Would be very very very happy to know, when the EARLY BIRD will dying.

(poor bird sniff...)

At these download speeds the early bird special will be over before I recieve my Violins...   [^o)]

Download speed is terrible, I was at 33% after 2 days... have to reboot the computer and it's going back from zero, now transfer rate is also zero???

VSL, are you there?

Sonny

Oh boy, not good. I have to take my laptop with me tonight. So I'll have to start the download all over again?

I afraid download manager will not support continue download once it quit.

Sonny

I don't advise that. I tried it a few times and it cut the download speed in half and reduced the number of servers from 4 to 2.

oops, my bad, My download actually continued from 33% ... just let it verify the downloaded contents in few minutes

Sorry and happy Dimention guys, can't wait!

Sonny

0.3%, and only three days and seven hours left.

Hmm. What's this book? I'll give it a read. " “Well, Prince, Genoa and Lucca are now no more than private estates of the Bonaparte family...."

0.4%

Yeah this is very bad... 4 hours only 5% downloaded.

And unless I missed it, VSL has remained silent in this regard.

We can only hope they are addressing it quietly, behind the scenes.

If you want to be identified as a modern download company, you must deploy BIG BOY SERVERS........

Sure it would be nice to have everything faster, but I can deal with a long download time, because its still faster than getting DVDs by mail.  

The main thing is - this is the most awesome string library on the planet!  Nothing else touches this.  Now available.  I am already doing a notation file in Finale for it.  VSL has gone beyond anything else in existence... again.

Hello William,

I've bought into the instant gratification that downloads provide.  [:)]

I agree with you one hundred percent it is all about these groundbreaking samples.

The possibilities are wonderful. The layering breathtaking. And when used with older String Libs it's fresh DNA at once.

@DG said:

I've now watched the video a couple of times, and whilst I find some of the tone a little strident, I don't think that it's something I can't deal with fairly easily. I also think that it's so cheap that I should just get it anyway. In some respects it might replace Chamber Strings in my template, as that Collection is often used for layering with Appassionata (and Orchestral at times), and I think that DS will probably do a better job.

You're one of the few who know how!

Are the posted sample content " articulations" is the finale list ?

DG, regarding GOS, that was a looooooooong time ago.  I actually did like the ability to program bow changes.  Unfortunately I never had much success with the library as I was one of those individuals who had nothing but trouble trying to get ye old Giga Studio to work properly.  As for forcing bow changes, the samples were set up in two banks, mapped to two different sections of the keyboard, with down bows in one set, and the upbows in the second set.  You could program bowing however you wished.  The downside was that when doing that, the notated part ceased to correspond to actual notes as the upbows (IIRC) were typically placed three or four octaves higher on the keyboard.  The ranges of the instruments were generally not quite full range.

Overall, for the time frame that it was released, it was a major breakthrough.  IIRC, it was the first major strings samples library of its kind, and even predated VSL (I think).  It was very different from the later GPO stuff, and was sampled at a much more in-depth level, with better overall sound.  Would it compare to VSL?  No.  As it was written for Giga Studio, the library has long since become obsolete.  Even its design had become obsolete prior to Giga Studio's demise, and the library has not been supported for several years.

A couple other Dimension String questions:

Does it require the latest VI Pro/VE Pro build/MIR Pro/MIR 24?

Is it possible to get it to work under the older MIR SE?  At this point I am still on MIR SE, and it will be quite awhile before I can jump to the full MIR Pro.

Thanks.

The demos sound promising!

Here's an idea to make the section sound less thin (in theory): use the pitch/transpose trick (as described by Beat on his site) to create another 8 extra violin section. Double those with the existing 8 and you'll have 16 unique players (without phasing problems).

Or: double the 8 strings with the chamber strings. Will give you 6+8= 14 strings :D which you still could divide (albeit unevenly) in 2 or 3 divisi.

Hi noldar12, 

@Another User said:

Here's an idea to make the section sound less thin (in theory): use the pitch/transpose trick (as described by Beat on his site) to create another 8 extra violin section. Double those with the existing 8 and you'll have 16 unique players (without phasing problems).

Or: double the 8 strings with the chamber strings. Will give you 6+8= 14 strings 😄 which you still could divide (albeit unevenly) in 2 or 3 divisi.

I wouldn´t do that. Here´s a link that points in the right direction, from our perspective. 

Best, 

Paul

Hi Paul,

First of all, well done on the Dimension Strings (you must get tired of hearing that [:D]). That's an interesting approach (using alternate strings for the same passage), haven't thought of that (reading the interview right now by the way!)

Will this be available via the Vienna Hard drive?

I recently had a bit of nightmare downloading an Albion library over a weekend ... and that was only 20 Gig .... downloading 33 Gig ... and more in the future is a bit impractical for me.