Dorico music notation software from Steinberg Price: $559.99; discounts of 50% (71% for education) for cross-grades from Sibelius, Finale, Notion available Until October last year
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Tag: virtual instruments
Vienna Ensemble Pro 6 – Review
Version 6 of Vienna Ensemble Pro (VEP 6) has just been released. We take a look to see what’s new and how well the product works as part of a highly sophisticated audio and music studio environment.
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Sibelius 8 – Review
Jean Sibelius, the 150th anniversary of whose birth we celebrate this year (he lived from 1865 to 1957), officially composed only seven symphonies. Certainly only seven were published. Yet fragments of an 8th do exist; and indeed were performed in 2011 barely three minutes long, though. Sibelius certainly withdrew and tried to suppress his 8th.
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Vienna Instruments PRO 2 – Review
When we looked at Vienna Solo Strings a few months ago, mention was made of the ways in which its audio samples can be controlled’ parameters changed; presets configured and saved; sound properties experimented with, and so on. By default VSL’s bundled Vienna Instruments usually handles such control; you are referred to that review for this context..
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Vienna Symphonic Library Solo Strings Review
Virtual Instruments (VIs) allow you to work with lifelike sounds in sequencers and Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs) like Apple’s Logic and notation packages like Avid’s Sibelius. (Avid has just announced Sibelius 7: watch for a review here shortly.)
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