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@stevesong said:

I am, no doubt, the guilty party as I first brought up Garritan violin here as an example of morphing/modeling technology. I listened to the demo (I won't comment on the music itself)...

I must take the blame there, as I actually put up the link. But I assure you I meant no disrespect to VSL forums; just trying to let stevesong know there was an improvement in the second version. Please forgive, and no bad manners were intended. Forum etiquette takes time to culture, but I'm a fast learner [:O]ops:

Mahlon Bouldin

@stevesong said:

I am, no doubt, the guilty party as I first brought up Garritan violin here as an example of morphing/modeling technology. I listened to the demo (I won't comment on the music itself)...

I must take the blame there, as I actually put up the link. But I assure you I meant no disrespect to VSL forums; just trying to let stevesong know there was an improvement in the second version. Please forgive, and no bad manners were intended. Forum etiquette takes time to culture, but I'm a fast learner [:O]ops:

Mahlon BouldinSorry if I was a little grumpy over this matter, but despite all appearances to the contrary I do really believe in good manners. The last couple of days have been manic for me, so I'm sure that I could have been a little more tactful. Anyway, no harm done as cm seems happy with the situation.

DG

@DG said:

Sorry if I was a little grumpy over this matter, but despite all appearances to the contrary I do really believe in good manners. The last couple of days have been manic for me, so I'm sure that I could have been a little more tactful. Anyway, no harm done as cm seems happy with the situation.

DG

Get yourself a mac, Daryl.
Sooth the nerves. [[:|]]

I have to admit i'm the same. There's something.....awkward about seeing another library mentioned here. As if someone tried to park a ford in the space marked 'rolls royce.'

It's just not done.

Regards,

Alex.

@DG said:

Sorry if I was a little grumpy over this matter, but despite all appearances to the contrary I do really believe in good manners. The last couple of days have been manic for me, so I'm sure that I could have been a little more tactful. Anyway, no harm done as cm seems happy with the situation.

DG

Get yourself a mac, Daryl.
Sooth the nerves. [[:|]]

Alex.Too slow, too expensive, nothing runs on them and can't run a dongle. Yeah, I'm really going to get a Mac [8-)]

DG

@DG said:

Sorry if I was a little grumpy over this matter, but despite all appearances to the contrary I do really believe in good manners. The last couple of days have been manic for me, so I'm sure that I could have been a little more tactful. Anyway, no harm done as cm seems happy with the situation.

DG

Get yourself a mac, Daryl.
Sooth the nerves. [[:|]]

Alex.Too slow, too expensive, nothing runs on them and can't run a dongle. Yeah, I'm really going to get a Mac [8-)]

DG

Hehe, sorry, i should have explained myself a little better.
I meant a raincoat..........

[H]

@DG said:

Sorry if I was a little grumpy over this matter, but despite all appearances to the contrary I do really believe in good manners. The last couple of days have been manic for me, so I'm sure that I could have been a little more tactful. Anyway, no harm done as cm seems happy with the situation.

DG

Get yourself a mac, Daryl.
Sooth the nerves. [[:|]]

Alex.Too slow, too expensive, nothing runs on them and can't run a dongle. Yeah, I'm really going to get a Mac [8-)]

DG

Hehe, sorry, i should have explained myself a little better.
I meant a raincoat..........

[H]


HAhaha! That's good in context. I had the same problem - someone outside the house yesterday was shouting ' Macs, Macs - we want Macs' - I looked outside and it was pissing down with rain.

@DG said:

Sorry if I was a little grumpy over this matter, but despite all appearances to the contrary I do really believe in good manners. The last couple of days have been manic for me, so I'm sure that I could have been a little more tactful. Anyway, no harm done as cm seems happy with the situation.

DG

Get yourself a mac, Daryl.
Sooth the nerves. [[:|]]

Alex.Too slow, too expensive, nothing runs on them and can't run a dongle. Yeah, I'm really going to get a Mac [8-)]

DG

Hehe, sorry, i should have explained myself a little better.
I meant a raincoat..........

[H]


HAhaha! That's good in context. I had the same problem - someone outside the house yesterday was shouting ' Macs, Macs - we want Macs' - I looked outside and it was pissing down with rain.
Rain. Mmmmmmmmm, I remember what that used to look like. My garden could do with some.

DG

@DG said:

Sorry if I was a little grumpy over this matter, but despite all appearances to the contrary I do really believe in good manners. The last couple of days have been manic for me, so I'm sure that I could have been a little more tactful. Anyway, no harm done as cm seems happy with the situation.

DG

Get yourself a mac, Daryl.
Sooth the nerves. [[:|]]

Alex.Too slow, too expensive, nothing runs on them and can't run a dongle. Yeah, I'm really going to get a Mac [8-)]

DG

Hehe, sorry, i should have explained myself a little better.
I meant a raincoat..........

[H]


HAhaha! That's good in context. I had the same problem - someone outside the house yesterday was shouting ' Macs, Macs - we want Macs' - I looked outside and it was pissing down with rain.
Rain. Mmmmmmmmm, I remember what that used to look like. My garden could do with some.

DG

And the, erm, apple trees. How are they?
[:O]

@DG said:

Sorry if I was a little grumpy over this matter, but despite all appearances to the contrary I do really believe in good manners. The last couple of days have been manic for me, so I'm sure that I could have been a little more tactful. Anyway, no harm done as cm seems happy with the situation.

DG

Get yourself a mac, Daryl.
Sooth the nerves. [[:|]]

Alex.Too slow, too expensive, nothing runs on them and can't run a dongle. Yeah, I'm really going to get a Mac [8-)]

DG

Hehe, sorry, i should have explained myself a little better.
I meant a raincoat..........

[H]


HAhaha! That's good in context. I had the same problem - someone outside the house yesterday was shouting ' Macs, Macs - we want Macs' - I looked outside and it was pissing down with rain.
Rain. Mmmmmmmmm, I remember what that used to look like. My garden could do with some.

DG

And the, erm, apple trees. How are they?
[:O]
I dug them up years ago, as they were incredibly slow to grow, parts kept dying and were totally unproductive [:D]

DG

@DG said:

Sorry if I was a little grumpy over this matter, but despite all appearances to the contrary I do really believe in good manners. The last couple of days have been manic for me, so I'm sure that I could have been a little more tactful. Anyway, no harm done as cm seems happy with the situation.

DG

Get yourself a mac, Daryl.
Sooth the nerves. [[:|]]

Alex.Too slow, too expensive, nothing runs on them and can't run a dongle. Yeah, I'm really going to get a Mac [8-)]

DG

Hehe, sorry, i should have explained myself a little better.
I meant a raincoat..........

[H]


HAhaha! That's good in context. I had the same problem - someone outside the house yesterday was shouting ' Macs, Macs - we want Macs' - I looked outside and it was pissing down with rain.
Rain. Mmmmmmmmm, I remember what that used to look like. My garden could do with some.

DG

And the, erm, apple trees. How are they?
[:O]
I dug them up years ago, as they were incredibly slow to grow, parts kept dying and were totally unproductive [:D]

DG
Really?
Just curious Daryl, how many did you have?

[*-)]:

Only two, but that was enough for a lifetime.

D

@DG said:

Only two, but that was enough for a lifetime.

D

Gee. Two?


[:P]

despite the apple trees which i'm sure make a fine cider this fall, did i get this right that there is a controverse gap between those constructing phrases excessively using the single samples of a library and those attempting to play them in realtime using any kind of performance algorithms...
when i first heared the demo which was initially postet here, i was very impressed with the sound, but upon listening closely a couple of times i doubt its distinctiveness..
still leaves the thing that we would all need a hell of a lot more dynamic samples
the morphing thing seems an interesting aspect though

I just happened to stumble upon this thread and am baffled by some of the comments, especially from DG.

What the hell is everybody's gripe with the Garritan violin? To this date, the Garritan Stadivari is about the only violin I've heard that could pass off as real in a recording when playing expressive passages. If you want to hear a very lousy and sickly sounding violin, check out Gigaviolin, a lame attempt to do what Garritan did.

The VSL solo string demos weren't as convincing. Some of that had to do with the cellos, though some of the more recent tests Beat Kaufman do sound pretty good. Timbre-wise the Garritan sounds pretty damn good too. I'm not hearing the same sample recording playing back time and time again, as I have in the VSL demos. The sound is full-bodied, and even the high notes which I originally thought sounded a bit off seem like they may have been corrected.

Based on other things DG has said, I'm not sure I can take what he says very seriously. For instance his comment about Macs being too slow compared to PCs. Geez. My 2GHz WinXP PC can take 2 minutes to find a file, the Mac does the same thing in one second. My old Apple II can render about 10 frames of game graphics and sound, while the PC takes that long do draw a 6"x6" transparent blue square. PC takes several seconds just to display a list of the ~70 installed apps, takes 35 seconds to delete 3000 emails, takes a few seconds to update icons with their pictures, takes minutes to switch to using virtual memory, and the list of snail-like behavior goes on and on. The modern PowerPC CPU at the same clock rate averages twice the speed of that gawd awful archaic 1975 Intel architecture. Not to mention Windows has about 30 bugs to every 1 Apple has. So I don't know how much credibility I put in the words of DG.

These massive GB sample libraries are going to collapse under their own weight. I remember how long it took for VSL to get a short little solo string demo done (Schubert quartet). And I haven't seen any other VSL solo string piece that moved beyond that Schubert one in all this time. So much for productivety.

-Elhardt

@Another User said:

What the hell is everybody's gripe with the Garritan violin? To this date, the Garritan Stadivari is about the only violin I've heard that could pass off as real in a recording when playing expressive passages.

[8-)]

@elhardt said:

.......So I don't know how much credibility I put in the words of DG.

-Elhardt

However, judging by what you think an orchestra playing Beethoven sounds like, I could easily say "right back at ya". [:D]

DG

@elhardt said:

For instance his comment about Macs [... blabla ...] twice the speed of that gawd awful archaic 1975 Intel architecture

what you are doing here ist worst kind of tendentious commenting as it could be found during the nineties in the .mac-newsgroups ... probably all macs are moving to intel now because it is such an inferior processor-platform.
SCNR, christian

@elhardt said:

I just happened to stumble upon this thread and am baffled by some of the comments, especially from DG.

What the hell is everybody's gripe with the Garritan violin? To this date, the Garritan Stadivari is about the only violin I've heard that could pass off as real in a recording when playing expressive passages. If you want to hear a very lousy and sickly sounding violin, check out Gigaviolin, a lame attempt to do what Garritan did.

The VSL solo string demos weren't as convincing. Some of that had to do with the 'cellos, though some of the more recent tests Beat Kaufman do sound pretty good. Timbre-wise the Garritan sounds pretty damn good too. I'm not hearing the same sample recording playing back time and time again, as I have in the VSL demos. The sound is full-bodied, and even the high notes which I originally thought sounded a bit off seem like they may have been corrected.

Based on other things DG has said, I'm not sure I can take what he says very seriously. For instance his comment about Macs being too slow compared to PCs. Geez. My 2GHz WinXP PC can take 2 minutes to find a file, the Mac does the same thing in one second. My old Apple II can render about 10 frames of game graphics and sound, while the PC takes that long do draw a 6"x6" transparent blue square. PC takes several seconds just to display a list of the ~70 installed apps, takes 35 seconds to delete 3000 emails, takes a few seconds to update icons with their pictures, takes minutes to switch to using virtual memory, and the list of snail-like behavior goes on and on. The modern PowerPC CPU at the same clock rate averages twice the speed of that gawd awful archaic 1975 Intel architecture. Not to mention Windows has about 30 bugs to every 1 Apple has. So I don't know how much credibility I put in the words of DG.

These massive GB sample libraries are going to collapse under their own weight. I remember how long it took for VSL to get a short little solo string demo done (Schubert quartet). And I haven't seen any other VSL solo string piece that moved beyond that Schubert one in all this time. So much for productivety.

-Elhardt

Hmm.... I was going to get the sharp quill out, but i see Herb, Daryl and CM got in first.

Elhart, it's obvious by now you've never played in an orchestra. If by some erroneous assumption on my part you actually HAVE played, then i can only suggest you get the ears waxed with a fire hose or something. The technology of this effort looks interesting, but then so does a lot of technology these days, including the work and 'RESULTS' coming from the VSL VI. From an ex orchestral player's perspective, the strad doesn't sound like a violin. That doesn't mean i hate GG, or wish him ill, simply that it doesn't do it for me. There will be plenty who do want this type of product. But for you to suggest that more than one of these fine fellows has little or no idea of what a violin sounds like, is to suggest that the majority of astronauts would rather pass wind in a spacesuit than not. And i can ssure you, that the gentlemen in question have a shedload of experience between them that gives them more than enough authority to question the 'playability' or 'tone' of any instrument thrust in front of them.

And then you gleefully jumped in on the perennial Mac versus Pc debate. How boring are you. We were having a quiet laugh and a joke, full of IRONY, when you suddenly strap on your gladiator tribute convention codpiece, and start weilding the plastic axe, roaring like a kitten stuck in a public toilet. The debate continues to be nonsensical. Like an ocean wave, one surges forward, then the other. Perhaps you're still on the first wave, and have just fallen off your surfboard, but sone of us have paddled back out to catch the next curler, more than once. Why, us chaps are well past puberty. How about you?

'Massive GB sample libraries are going to collapse under their own weight.'

What a lot of manure. The sheer volume of options and articulations available, enable us to fine tune, to a much greater level, a sense of realism in our work. You might be content with a synthy string section, and that's your choice, but at the moment, you're performing the equivalent of standing in the showroom of a Rolls Royce collection waving a ford flag. And different structures of libraries will serve different purposes, although i will suggest that once the hardware and OS software catches up, and that's not far off now, then a Terabyte of samples will seem............modest.

For what it's worth, GG is a decent chap who has contributed much to the development of samples, as have Herb, Dietz, and the team here at 'Rolls Royce central'. I know for a fact he's made a very worthy contribution to a project in Edinburgh for people who aren't as fortunate as us.
But, we have our opinion on what is the sound we hear, and how an instrument is played, and some have the experience to know the difference.

I hope you think about what you wrote in more depth, and realise some of us chaps disagree with you completely . You like the Strad, go get it, and if it suits YOUR needs and you think it's ok, then you're in front. But it's YOUR opinion the Strad is ok for you, and OUR opinion it's not for us.

As for your attrocious maths when it came to counting the number of demos (29, and that's official), you're either prone to exaggeration, have an intent to downplay the VSl's major profile in the sample performance community including the playability and enormous potential of the solo instruments, limited only by the USERS's skills, or your maths teacher is going to be very dissapointed at the end of your semester.

@herb said:

Before you do propaganda for other developers here, please do a little more research. There are 29 dedicated solostring demos on the Vienna Instruments Solostrings demo page.

I'm not doing propaganda for other developers. I have no interest in seeing the Garritan succeed. Quite the opposite acutally. However, my statement about not seeing anything in the solo strings that has gone much beyond the Schubert demo has now been twisted. Throwing a solo violin in with orchestra or doing a trill demo is hardly what I was talking about. I did however find a Ravel quartet demo which does sound pretty good. That's about the only other major solo strings demo I've come across since the Schubert one came out. Thus my point stands.