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Setting Up a Matrix/Template in the Vienna Instruments Player

By   /  February 6, 2013  /  Virtual Instruments  /  No Comments

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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.

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Insights: VSL Woodwinds 1

By   /  August 11, 2012  /  Virtual Instruments  /  No Comments

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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.

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Insights: Hollywood Strings Keyswitch Finger Positions

By   /  March 13, 2012  /  Virtual Instruments  /  No Comments

First Position pitches for the violin. Click graphic for larger view.

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.

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Insights: Albion

By   /  February 22, 2012  /  Virtual Instruments  /  No Comments

AlbionBox

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.

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Hollywood Strings Gold Part 1: A Professional Orchestration Pre-Review

By   /  May 26, 2011  /  Virtual Instruments  /  No Comments

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In this first review, we look at the risk/reward behind Hollywood Strings and The Language of The Bow.

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L.A. Scoring Strings – Part 1: The NEW Workhorse String Library

By   /  July 31, 2009  /  Virtual Instruments  /  No Comments

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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