VSL Podcast Show 010
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VSL podcast Tuesday July 25th, 2006. A community show for users for the Vienna Symphonic Library.
* Welcome all to the VSL podcast

wedge Tech Topic - Composing with the VSL 3

* Download the Logic file from Elvenmusic.com
www.elvenmusic.com
* Writing Chords and Top line melodies

* Using the Trumpet, Horn, Trombone and Tuba samples

wedge Tech Topic - Thinness of VSL strings?

* Solutions to thinness .. ideas by Chris Caouette
www.chriscaouette.com
* I have been playing around with comparing stings in WE vs VSL. There are many times they actually sound identical. So far this is what I found.
For the violins you can get a thicker sound when the natural vibrato is happening (ie mf and f). In this range you can use volume control to achieve
dynamics and make adjustments as you back off on the MW. It seems that VSL modwheel programs are more of a non-vib to vib control, which is what
makes the thinness stand out. Coupled with Space Designer and the DIR-MIXER I could get a sound I even preferred to EW.

Now the basses are a bit of a troublemaker. Some VSL notes sound the same as EW but not many. The trouble in the VSL library is the lack of any vibrato and
natural chorusing that happens because of that. The challenge here is how to create the same effect yet still maintain the realism. Logic has a few plugins that
I would like to use to create this result and I will report on my findings. The reason I would rather use plugins is if I am successful then I can go back to using VSL
and I won't feel uneasy about investing any more money in it and the plugins can translate to K2, EXS or the VI. The 'effect' that I am trying to give the basses is
subtle but will help create that fat full sound. Maybe even an extra insert Space Designer is the answer.

wedge Play break music. Beat Kaufmanns "Sonata in G for Piccolo Flute Willem DeFesch"

* Visit Beats site for great tutorials on using the VSL
www.beat-kaufmann.com
wedge Composition Showcase

wedge Composer Review Number Twenty - Hetoreyn
www.elvenmusic.com
* Play piece - "Haunted house"

wedge Composition Showcase

wedge Composer Review Number Twenty one - OB one
olivier.ob1@wanadoo.fr
* Play piece - "La Grande Vadrouille"

* Play piece - "Being John Malkovich"

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* Request listener comments on
hetoreyn@yahoo.co.uk
Please send any comments on the show to my e-mail address. If anyone has any questions that they'd like to ask of course we have the VSL forum, but if there is a big topic that people would like me to put out on the show, send it to my e-mail and I will get it up on the show, for later comments and suggestions.
* Request for listener compositions to showcase

If you like the idea of getting your stuff heard for comments and appraisal please send it in to me along with some details on who you are, what your VSL forum name is and a little bit about the piece that you are submitting. I claim no copyright towards other peoples pieces, as I say this is a community show and is all about showcasing the music.
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* Play outro music - Hetoreyn - 'Scientific Wonders'

* Visit the VSL Site
www.vsl.co.at
* Also visit the website
www.elvenmusic.com