UB may not be ready yet either for those who have Intel Macs. I notice they seem to require a G5 and I have a G4.
Thanks for the heads up on problems with Halion Player on the Mac. At any rate, I am sure it will probably be even more expensive than Vienna Cube.
EWQLSO WITH EWI SOFTWARE
part-by-part tracking in a software DAW for recording purposes. I think the 5 computer setup is for live playing of a sixty-member virtual orchestra, vs. I assume it will cost upwards of $20,000 though, as it is ten volumes (apparently not available separately) and is all recorded at 192 kHz: The combined $1000 set is 80 GB, which is about ten times as much as you get with any of the similarly-priced dedicated collections for strings, brass, woodwinds, or percussion.Ī relatively new player has come along, Audio Impressions Realtime Instruments, and they cover everything from orchestral to world to ancient/baroque/etc. Yet the Kontakt2 library is 8 GB and Special Edition is around 36 GB. instead of going for the twofer of Special Edition and its expansion.
EWQLSO WITH EWI FULL
In fact, I may stick just with that for now, and augment with full libraries for Woodwinds/etc.
EWQLSO WITH EWI FOR FREE
It is worth noting that the subset of Vienna that comes for free with Kontakt 2 is only slightly smaller (in terms of instruments covered, and available articulations) than the Vienna Special Edition. I can't live with discontinuity, and am quite happy with its "old vinyl" timbre (which the Hollywood crowd would not like anymore). This is mostly because of the legato, which covers the most common playing style. I may still get a copy, but am fairly convinced after more demos and re-trackings (with available "freebie" teaser subsets from different vendors) that I'm going to go (at least initially) with an all-VSL solution. EM did a review in the new issue and gave it a 3 out of 5 for quality and a 5 out of 5 for value. It has a usable timbre and phrasing for classical work, but also has a bit of that Hollywood sound, and its timbre is easily manipulated in the GUI. That said, it is way better for most purposes than the budget libraries like MOTU's, Garritan's, Miroslav's, etc. It is by far the best bang for buck of any current string library. To JG, I recommend the HALion Symphonic library - especially if you can find a way to qualify for the cross-grade at only $300.
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