VSL 50% off legacy products during March

[Guy Rowland]

Can't remember a sale quite this deep. This link has the bundles and a few single instruments:

https://www.vsl.co.at/en/News/2020-03_Vienna_Heroes

But I think all the old VI Player instruments are also 50% off so you may want to trawl through this list (I find their website hard to navigate):

https://www.vsl.co.at/en/Products/Product_List

Any particular tips out there of ones to look out for?

[Linos]

Guy, the library that I can recommend are the woodwinds. Actually the Special Editions too, but they are not included in the sale. It's the VSL Woodwinds that have stood the test of time. Everything else I like the deep list of articulations, and the meticulous quality control. But I just can not warm to the sound. If you write detailed tv music that needs a dry and close studio strings sound Dimension Strings are hard to beat. But listen closely to the demos. The sound you hear is the sound you get. That's pretty much it I think. For brass and percussion, the dry sampling approach does not work as well in my opinion.

[Guy Rowland]

Thanks Linos - I too am a fan and have the whole SE woods range now, vols 1 and 2 regular and plus. I don't know if its worth thinking about some of the full versions of them? The one thing I'd really like is smoother dynamic range on stuff like the clarient which can be lumpy on crossfades, but as I understand it the full versions are much the same there.

FWIW I do quite like some of the solo brass too.

[GR Baumann]

Super essential for your next Morricone mockup.

https://www.vsl.co.at/en/Voices_Complet ... le_Content

[GR Baumann]

P.S. I do not understand one thing though, now that whistle-blowers are legally shielded from retaliation in Europe, I wonder.

Why did VSL never release a female, a trans, and last but not least a Mahler sized whistle-blower choir?

[Guy Rowland]

Super essential for your next Morricone mockup.

https://www.vsl.co.at/en/Voices_Complet ... le_Content

Hmm, I like the idea but not the execution from those demos.

[Lawrence]

Unfortunate that Special Editions aren’t included-I would most likely have upgraded my woodwinds. I’m thinking that Berlin Expansion B will probably be my next woods purchase, given a sale.