Setting Up a Matrix/Template in the Vienna Instruments Player
A first glance at the Vienna Instruments player can appear to be both daunting and overwhelming. However, once you get past vision shock, within just a few steps you can create a template, actually, a matrix that you can call up and re-use whenever you want.
Read More →Insights: VSL Woodwinds 1
With this summer’s release of three new woodwind ensemble libraries, I thought it worthwhile to re-examine the Vienna Symphonic Library’s Woodwinds 1 which uses the Vienna Instruments player.
Read More →Insights: Hollywood Strings Keyswitch Finger Positions
Hollywood Strings Keyswitch Finger Positions feature offers composers the unique coloristic writing opportunity of actually playing full lines across positions 1-4 on the string instruments, or to select smaller areas to perform on a single string.
Read More →Insights: Albion
Albion is the newest orchestral brainchild from Spitfire Audio, headquartered in Great Britain. It follows the path of Symphobia 1, Hollywoodwinds, and Symphobia 2 by being a problem/solution orchestral module that does not compete directly with full fledged orchestral libraries from EastWest, SONiVOX, or the Vienna Symphonic Library.
Read More →Hollywood Strings Gold Part 1: A Professional Orchestration Pre-Review
In this first review, we look at the risk/reward behind Hollywood Strings and The Language of The Bow.
Read More →L.A. Scoring Strings – Part 1: The NEW Workhorse String Library
L.A. Scoring Strings is one of the most anticipated sample libraries in the past few years. See why Peter Alexander thinks it’s the new workhorse string library.
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