After auditioning the Dimension Cellos I must write that the Dimension recording technique is creating an exponential leap forward in sampling that has no match anywhere. The sound is intricately varied, complex and immense in musical possibilities. A lifetime of musical expression is possible with these sounds, just as with a live orchestra.
The techniques that VSL first created - the analytical, fully detailed sampling of all the orchestral instruments which they were the first to do - have been expanded to a 3D complexity with the Dimension Strings. Each player is controllable, yet all harmonize together in a rich, complex way. It is exactly what happens in a live ensemble, and the technique with which this was accomplished is as revolutionary as the legato VSL pioneered. It is very significant that the previous work done - the gradually perfected way of sampling individual instruments which one can hear from the First Edition to the latest - formed the foundation for this new Dimension technique which solves the problems that in the past seemed impossible to address. I have, or have used, the major sample libraries starting with Miroslav Vitous, and because of this have a large base for comparison, and the VSL library has now reached a unique stage of uncanny realism and beauty that is based upon the fundamental musical principles that have always been the inspiration of performers and composers.