Okay, I just thought up a marketing idea that would make me and ten million other destitute composers soooooo happy. (Maybe I'll have to store this away with my other brilliant, but previously ignored ideas, like The VSL Sample Store and "VSL Records", not to mention sliced bread, and what I like to call "the wheel", but oh welll... [;)])
How about VSL Horizon Solo Singles!?
These would be Pro Edition single instruments, bundled with all articulations and performance instruments, and priced according to sample content. Yeah! What an awesome idea! Holy crap, we've got to get on this one right now! The clock is ticking! There's millions to made! Act now, offer valid only while supplies last!...
Okay, I'll calm down now.
But on the serious side. What makes the VSL absolutely unique are the performance instruments. That's what sets them apart. So, as a composer trying to build up to the Pro Edition, it's extremely difficult to convince myself that it's really worth buying the Brass and Woodwinds set (for example) when it doesn't have any performance instruments. What it boils down to is that, in order to get a true representation of VSL winds, for example, I really have to buy *both* Brass and Woodwinds AND the Performance Set. This is really quite frustrating. Does anybody see the sense in what I'm saying? VSL is just not complete without performance articulations, so it really doesn't make sense to sell these libraries without them. I know this seems like a criticism, but it's not. Looking at all the Horizon products, it's clear that VSL realize what I'm saying is true: they've consistently bundled the Horizon Series products *with* performance instruments, so that users could have a complete experience of what makes VSL unique. Perhaps this was not the case when VSL started, but it is now. Is there any chance of the original product-line being re-vamped? Perhaps after the Symphonic Cube is released?
J.
How about VSL Horizon Solo Singles!?
These would be Pro Edition single instruments, bundled with all articulations and performance instruments, and priced according to sample content. Yeah! What an awesome idea! Holy crap, we've got to get on this one right now! The clock is ticking! There's millions to made! Act now, offer valid only while supplies last!...
Okay, I'll calm down now.
But on the serious side. What makes the VSL absolutely unique are the performance instruments. That's what sets them apart. So, as a composer trying to build up to the Pro Edition, it's extremely difficult to convince myself that it's really worth buying the Brass and Woodwinds set (for example) when it doesn't have any performance instruments. What it boils down to is that, in order to get a true representation of VSL winds, for example, I really have to buy *both* Brass and Woodwinds AND the Performance Set. This is really quite frustrating. Does anybody see the sense in what I'm saying? VSL is just not complete without performance articulations, so it really doesn't make sense to sell these libraries without them. I know this seems like a criticism, but it's not. Looking at all the Horizon products, it's clear that VSL realize what I'm saying is true: they've consistently bundled the Horizon Series products *with* performance instruments, so that users could have a complete experience of what makes VSL unique. Perhaps this was not the case when VSL started, but it is now. Is there any chance of the original product-line being re-vamped? Perhaps after the Symphonic Cube is released?
J.