Note Performer and VSL

[ceg]

Hi,

I've just taken the plunge and purchased Vienna Symphonic Library (VSL) Special Edition 1 & 1+.

Does Note Performer work with it? Does it make sense to use the two together?

Any comments gratefully received!

Cheers

Charles

[Joseph]

short answer, yes.  But, why would you want to?  NotePerformer's charm is it's relatively small footprint with decent sounds.  More importantly [for me] is its response to the Sibelius score, i.e, dynamic markings.  I have not found other software instruments that respond in kind.  Therefore you might be making more work for yourself in balancing the disparate virtual instrument libraries.  Finally, I am not familiar with your particular package but in general those Vienna libraries are of a higher quality as I hear it.  

Anyway, my two cents for what its worth.  Joseph

[wizzarts]

Hi Charles,

congrats and welcome to the VSL-Family... I guess you bought the volumes and not the sections. Have you downloaded the manuals and hints provided under "needful things"?

www.vsl.co.at/de/68/141/460/1294.vsl

Setting up everything is quite easy. But you will have to do some little tweaking here and there using the inspector. Sometimes you might want to adjust the hairpins manually rather than using the "auto" feature. Also tweaking the startpoints and duration of single notes may help to make it a bit more human.

I am working in two steps when creating a score:

1) entering all notes and signs.

2) playing conductor. I am yelling at the musicians and do the adjustments (like a rehearsal situation)

Let me know if you need any help.

[ceg]

Thanks Joseph, thanks Wizzarts,

Thanks for the comments. I'll be playing with it in earnest in the next two weeks, so may post more...

Yes it was the volumes, not the sections. I'll definitely make sure to read the manuals carefully!

Charles

[wizzarts]

Volume 3 is missing but I am close to get it

If you have some extra money you should go for the VI Pro. It will give you a maximum control and also a brilliant human playback feature.

www.vsl.co.at/en/211/497/537/1456/1898/1083.htm

Overview:




Human Playback




3ndy

[ceg]

I got the impression that the main reason for getting VI Pro was if you had slave machines onto which you could offload processing. Is this not so? And if you do get slave machines, what spec do they have to be? I'm beginning to wonder whether I should be investing in a new machine, but have no idea what sort of spec I should be going for or how much money it is sensible to invest in one (sounds better than "spend on one" :-) )

[wizzarts]

No... what you mean is Vienna Ensemble Pro.... VI Pro is the pro-version of the Vienna Instrument - the play-engine where you load the samples.

There are some very interesting features like humanize which give you some more control over "falling into tune" or "delayed start".

To get the full performance in excessive scores, hmmm.... , yes, you will need another machine and Ensemble but as long as you are not working with Mir Pro one steady machine will do.

To answer your question this are the specs of my slave (sounds weird somehow ):

i7-4930K
64 RAM, 1600
additional 1.9 Tb RAM on a anglebird crest (yep, terrabyte) - actually 4 x 480Gb SSD stacked and jumpered as RAM
2 x 256 SSD, 1 for Windows, 1 for the programs
2 x 1Tb WD 10000 (EastWest CCC-1 and CCC-2)
4 x 512 Gb SSD (VSL and all the others)