For all that use Vienna Stuff, they are having an early bird special for their Dimension Strings due out next year. Early birds get the violins now and the rest when it comes out. Over 1,000,000 samples for the full collection. Fraction of the cost for early birds. (1/2). Will run atleast till October 15. Just bought mine, downloading the Violins now... :) product page: http://www.vsl.co.at/en/211/442/344/2512/2161.htm

Beat ya! Just finished downloading this morning. 


I'll be doing a review for DigiFreq as soon as I'm finished working with it for a while...
http://www.digifreq.com/digifreq/


Scott

--
Scott R. Garrigus - http://garrigus.com
* Author of the Cakewalk Sonar and Sony Sound Forge Power book series: http://garrigus.com/?PowerBooks
* Author of the Cakewalk Sonar ProAudioTutor video tutorial series: http://garrigus.com/?ProAudioTutor
* Publisher of the DigiFreq free music technology newsletter: http://digifreq.com/?DigiFreq
* Publisher of the NewTechReview free consumer technology newsletter: http://newtechreview.com/?NewTechReview

Wow, great deal. I wish I had some spare cash :'(

  Darn you Garrigus! :O I've got 3hrs left (10 servers :) ) I won't get to try it out till I get home from my show. I just got the studios and stages MIR expansion pack as well, so plenty of New toys (I mean 'Tools') to play with (right off). I absolutely LOVE Vienna's software!!! Rock Solid! MIR itself is amazing!!

Haven't tried MIR yet... is it really much better than other convolution reverbs?

I agree though... Vienna makes some of the best products on the market. Their attention to detail and quality is excellent.  I really like what they've done with the Instruments PRO software. Being able to add subtle nuances to various parameters (like tuning and timing) in real-time to humanize the performance really makes orchestrations sound realistic.

Scott

--
Scott R. Garrigus - http://garrigus.com
* Author of the Cakewalk Sonar and Sony Sound Forge Power book series: http://garrigus.com/?PowerBooks
* Author of the Cakewalk Sonar ProAudioTutor video tutorial series: http://garrigus.com/?ProAudioTutor
* Publisher of the DigiFreq free music technology newsletter: http://digifreq.com/?DigiFreq
* Publisher of the NewTechReview free consumer technology newsletter: http://newtechreview.com/?NewTechReview

Best Virtual Orchestra Mixing solution BY FAR!! I'm addicted to Mixing orchestra in MIR. Naturalizes Vienna's own samples. Most convolutions have 1-8 stereo impulses per room, Vienna's have like 11,000 per room allowing for any instrument being placed anywhere and faced anywhere, then mic'd in surround even from anywhere... (Conductor position is where it's at though for me... WOW! It's amazing what positioning the different sections/instruments changes the sound completely. You must try MIR since you haven't.