I too would love a choir - but! While I use the orchestra all the time in my compositions, I dont use a choir just as much. Therfore I doubt I would be able to justify the price it would cost - Lets say its their next big thing The Choral Cube... $11000 - I just dont use a Choir that much.

We could of course hope that it would be a smaller release, but I doubt it. I think we would see 10 collections

- Bass
- Alto
- Soprano
- Tenor
- Boys
- Girls

and then maybe solo versions of the above. It would be awesome - and as I said very expenssive.

to choir or not to castrati...

I would be happy having one clarinet color above the Bb Soprano
and one below the Bb Bass

I mean, i don't live in the eighteenth century, as many of you do (just kidding), where no clarinets where use:
http://www.research.umbc.edu/~emrich/chapter7-10.html

Anyhow, where should Vienna get a subcontrabass clarinet from, there where only three build, of which one is here in the Wind Instrument Museum where i live. I guess Herb and Dietz would go banana seeing the instruments in this museum, for example the contrabass sarrousophone...

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Eb Soprano is part of Woodwinds II,
Contrabass clarinet in BBb and Bassethorn are already in production for our upcoming Special Wind Instruments collection.

best
Herb

@PierreFunck said:

There are already acceptable samples of early wind and keyboard instruments available (except cornett = zink), but not the slightest trace of baroque and Renaissance string instruments. Wouldn't that be the Next Big Thing for the VSL?

Well I've got the Early Patches & Banchetto Musicale DVDs by Andreas Sumerauer

http://www.dausenkunz.de/early_patches/
http://www.banchetto-musicale.com/en/index.htm

also the Northstar Ancient Worlds (very old samples, tho')

http://www.northstarsamples.com/AncientAkai.html

and the SampleTekk Renaissance Flutes

http://www.sampletekk.com/products.php?cat=31

I wasn't aware of anything else. Have you any further details?

There was a posting by Fabio Vicentini on some sampling done by himself, including the famous cornett/zink samples. Would that I could get my hands on those... [*-)] I'd be willing to pay serious money!

Here's a link

http://www.webalice.it/fatis12/Fabio%20Vicentini/Musica%20Antiqua_files/La%20Gru.mp3
http://www.webalice.it/fatis12/Fabio%20Vicentini/Musica%20Antiqua_files/Sonata%20a%20Doppio%20coro.mp3

I've writen to Worra (SampleTekk) and he says he might produce somemore in the future: I think, tho', that he means more wind instruments and not viols.

@herb said:

Eb Soprano is part of Woodwinds II,
Contrabass clarinet in BBb and Bassethorn are already in production for our upcoming Special Wind Instruments collection.

best
Herb

you tease you tease... any specials for brass...

I always get giddy when hearing of your upcoming stuff. I just love the thought that their will be more colors from VSL to paint with.

@Another User said:

I've writen to Worra (SampleTekk) and he says he might produce somemore in the future: I think, tho', that he means more wind instruments and not viols.

Yes, that's the point: there aren't any samples of baroque violins, violas, cellos, and violone, neither are there any samples of treble, tenor, and bass viols... and I'm afraid that sampling these instruments will be as complicated as sampling modern string instruments... [:'(]

@herb said:

Eb Soprano is part of Woodwinds II,
Contrabass clarinet in BBb and Bassethorn are already in production for our upcoming Special Wind Instruments collection.

best
Herb

Very nice!!!

Thank you Herb "El Owner" Tucmandl.

I give back to Bagpipe, Erhu, Serpent and Stockgeige - Over.

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@PierreFunck said:

...I never heard about the Northstar "Ancient Worlds". Can you recommend them?

Well, it was avery example of Early Instrument sampling and, to be honest, I think things have got a lot better since then. Coupled that with the cost ($249) and I don't think that its actually very good value.

Still, we can all dream about a VSL Renaissance Band, can't we? [[;)]]

@jamriding said:

Still, we can all dream about a VSL Renaissance Band, can't we? [[;)]]

Yes... and IMHO, a "baroque" orchestra would be even more important. By "baroque" I mean string instruments in their original 17th-century shape with gut strings, and 18th-century-type wind instruments. Instruments of this type were in use at least until the middle of the 19th century, so for baroque, classical, and early romantic music, this orchestra would actually be more appropriate than the modern one.

@Christian Marcussen said:

- Erhu

http://www.chineekong.com/index.htm

http://www.chineekong.com/vstmain.htm

Have a listen to the piece "Er Hu" here:
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=ADFEAEE57B1CDF46AD7720C79E3A49C8A07AF60C9042F4891B2C4575DAA7344D9E1864E712F68181C38F0FF03AC7FB58E85E10D2CAF154FCDC60713C8CE4A362323D4E167958&uid=CAW030604101152&sql=11:jsngtq3zxu4a~T3

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@Christian Marcussen said:

- Erhu

http://www.chineekong.com/index.htm

http://www.chineekong.com/vstmain.htm

Have a listen to the piece "Er Hu" here:
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=ADFEAEE57B1CDF46AD7720C79E3A49C8A07AF60C9042F4891B2C4575DAA7344D9E1864E712F68181C38F0FF03AC7FB58E85E10D2CAF154FCDC60713C8CE4A362323D4E167958&uid=CAW030604101152&sql=11:jsngtq3zxu4a~T3

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That's a long number [[:|]]

@jamriding said:

That's a long number [[:|]]

Not my fault, but the amount of files stored there... or the criptic love of the administrator for occult codes or ciphers [6]

Just click on it, i should open a site to a preview of a chinese soundtrack i made in 2001. If you like what you hear, i can send you a free mp3 via email.

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Fun facts of the day:

A GUID (Globally Unique IDentifier) only requires 32 hexadecimal characters (128 bits) to be unique across all space and time. That number you just displayed? It's enough to represent say... oh... the number of atoms in the universe - with room to spare.

I'm guessing there's somewhat fewer songs on the site than that.

[[;)]]

BTW, when you run into sites like that which spew out such ridiculously large URLs, you can use TinyURL to shrink it to a manageable size.

http://tinyurl.com/rlzez