Vienna Symphonic Library
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The Vienna Symphonic Library (VSL) is a library of samples of solo and orchestral instruments renowned for their lifelike performance and high quality. The VSL boasts a specially constructed silent stage for recording samples. According to the official website, VSL has almost two million samples.
The VSL Symphonic Cube gathers in one package ten collections that can be purchased separately: solo strings, chamber strings, two collections of orchestral strings, harps, two collections of woodwinds, two collections of brass (one of which includes Wagner tuba), and percussion. The sample libraries are available in stand-alone versions as well as versions for Gigastudio and Kontakt. The VSL uses Synchrosoft to protect against piracy. Under Mac OS X, the stand-alone version uses Audio Units, so the VSL can be used seamlessly from programs that use Audio Units, like Digital Performer.
A lite version has been made and called Horizon Series, which includes a great amount of basic articulations needed for a lot of containments and discrepancy.
The Game Audio Network awarded the VSL "Best Sound Library of the Game Audio Network Guild," and in 2003 the VSL won the EQ Blue Ribbon.
[edit] Criticism
Before a VSL client can use the excellent-sounding sample libraries, they must undergo a tortuously difficult and counter-intuitive installation process. "When you have instructions in three different locations, and each is a little different from the other, which one do you follow?", asks a reviewer for SonicControl.com [1]. The installer crashes very often, even on systems that supposedly meet the system requirements. If the installer encounters a problem, it deletes everything it has installed and quits; there is no way provided to install only a portion of the collection (e.g., if a user wants the trombones from a brass collection but doesn't want the Wagner tuba).
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