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VSL "Synchron FX Strings I" is coming soon.

From the wording of the promotion, it sounds as if they did some "renovations" to the Synchron Studio before the FX recordings (and after the Strings I recordings?).
 
Might be better to wait, like you suggest. It’s available at JRR now for $294 US. No additional discount beyond the intro price. VSL has it a few dollars cheaper for $288 US.

If you're looking for an extra discount to sweeten the deal and have your eye other VSL products as well (like the new CFX), I have a few spare $500 VSL vouchers from JRRShop that I'll make available at 25% off (the cost I got them for). PM me if interested.
 
If your work is your passion, why not?
Do you think that Hans Zimmers Team (to just name one) is stopping work after 8 hours?

To me that's all BS, if I'm to be honest. In today's society, everyone is going on about "passion" and all this shit. Everyone's so passionate, everyone's found their true calling, everybody's having so much fun. Motivational quotes everywhere. Yeah right.

Being a programmer guy in the middle of the famous "crunch", working on some complex, 7 months overdue piece of software, or editing millions of samples to no end - pretty sure that's a ton of work and not pleasure and hedonism. I'm also sure that when you're working at Remote Control, you're not staying for another 6 hours because it's all games 'n cheer and laughter at uncle Hans' funhouse, but because you finally made it into Hollywood and you don't wanna fuck it up.

I have a few passions in my life, but honestly I don't wanna do any of these things for 8+ hours straight if I don't have to. Let's be honest: when you're getting shit done, only a certain limited part of it is being passionate and playful and creative and whatnot, and all the rest is discipline, dilligence, focus and hard work - professionalism.

I was often surprised to receive support replies from VSL staff on weekends or holidays. I don't know what kind of contracts they have. Perhaps it's not a standard 40 hour week, monday to friday, 9 to 5 thing. But I do hope they're not slaving away.

Hey VSL guys, I know I've been whining about the Player still not being ready, but just to make this clear: I'd never expect you to work 7 days a week so that I can use your string library earlier. :)
 
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If your work is your passion, why not?
Do you think that Hans Zimmers Team (to just name one) is stopping work after 8 hours?
If your work is your passion, why not?
Do you think that Hans Zimmers Team (to just name one) is stopping work after 8 hours?
If you read correctly, I wrote "FOR THEIR BOSS" Understand ? How is this possible people judge so fast about a small and ironic answer, and give advice to a guy they don't know ? Think twice before writing, OK ?
 
This library is quite a radical departure for VSL. They've never done this sort of performance library before (i.e. having musicians actually perform written parts of compositions). I kind of assumed that there were philosophically against doing this sort of thing. If you use this sort of content, it gets into the murky area of being a chunk of library music, and not your composition.
 
I wondering if VSL’s brand is so specific, as you suggest, that this library isn’t going to do so well for them.

Judging only from this thread, die hard VSL users don’t seem tremendously excited about it.

And I wonder if vi-c members who — had Heavyocity or Orchestral Tools put out this exact same library — would have been excited by it, will generally just avoid something put out by VSL.

Could be just my imagination.

Could be that VSL's business people have decided they can't afford NOT to get into this to broaden their product base. If it's taught us anything, I think the recent releases of the VSL Synchron Strings and HZ Strings has shown that it's tough to come out with a new nuts-and-bolts string library and have a product that's dramatically better than anything that's come before it. We've had companies recording string libraries for a long time now, and previous efforts were done very well. It's going to be tough to come out with a new product of that nature and totally surprise and astonish the market (barring some really new and breakthrough technology). The celebrity branding (Hans Zimmer Strings, Eric Whitacre Choir, Kenny G Soprano Sax, etc.) will be the last marketing frontier.
 
Tough competition now with so many owning Albion 5, OA stuff, etc...

Not necessarily, if you're getting paid to create content and want some fresh sounds. What they're charging is cheap compared what it would cost to hire players and a studio to do that. And, there are no royalties to be paid. If you have professional use for it, it's a bargain.
 
Synchron Strings FX 1 = WOW!
The spherical texture variation high or low is beautiful and playable. The Synchron player (update your license software) interface is well done. I have Auddict, Olafur, Heavyocity (all have their good points) and this is simply organic (not something I would have ever used to describe VSL) and better. The only drawback to the player-it is not a stand alone and must be accessed through your DAW. Paul sent me an email saying they are working on it to be stand alone. This is how the Synchron strings should have rolled out.
 
The first one to get it, please compare it to Spitfire's Albion IV Uist. I suspect they have a lot in common as for the target, but with a very different approach.

Paolo
 
Hey,
If you already have the Synchron Strings FX 1 standard edition, could you please tell us about the sound : wet, dry, both ? In all the demos, even in the superb "walkthrough of Amadeus 1" I find it sounds very "wet" "reverb ish..." not dry at all, so it seems difficult to integrate in a dry mix... Maybe it's me ?
- and what about the mics possibilities(standard edition) ?
-In the VI Pro, there was a "sequencer", is it still there in the Synchron player ? I imagine VSL will make a Synchron Pro later, any infos about that ? Lots of questions ! THANKS for your precious time if you can answer.
 
Hey,
If you already have the Synchron Strings FX 1 standard edition, could you please tell us about the sound : wet, dry, both ? In all the demos, even in the superb "walkthrough of Amadeus 1" I find it sounds very "wet" "reverb ish..." not dry at all, so it seems difficult to integrate in a dry mix... Maybe it's me ?
- and what about the mics possibilities(standard edition) ?
-In the VI Pro, there was a "sequencer", is it still there in the Synchron player ? I imagine VSL will make a Synchron Pro later, any infos about that ? Lots of questions ! THANKS for your precious time if you can answer.

https://vi-control.net/community/threads/synchron-fx-strings-1-walkthrough.71860/
 
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