Vienna Woodwinds Reviews
Everything sounds really good but the clarinets are really quiet to the point where I have to increase the volume for them to max. I really hope this is fixed in the future
I hate to say this, because this product is really very nice, but the clarinets are far far far too quiet. They're drowned out by every single other instrument in the orchestra including... wait for it... the bass clarinet. I hope the devs improve this problem in coming iterations.
sounds are too quiet: weird sound: Flute sounds worse than the musesound one and everything else( and in the bundle too) sounds too bad. It is not worth the money
Partner Response: Hello Kriivanskij, Thanks for your review. All our sounds are designed in a way that puts them in the correct correlation with the rest of our instruments. Our goal was to provide with an authentic dynamic range, without any applied compression. Of course sound is always a matter of taste as well. Best, Paul Kopf / VSL
This library is terrible just stick to the free one, here's why: - All the sounds are too quiet even at max volume on the mixer. - There is too reverb and its diffucult to control it. - The oboe and bassoon sond really bad, too synthetic, and too thin unlike the rich sound they should have IRL. - Every instrument have terrible articulation problems, especially legato when doing fast runs, it just sounds awful. There are also many problems when doing legato phrases that ends on a staccato note. The musehub free library have some limitatons with staccato but legato sounds are excellent unlike every paid library on here.
I bought this library for use with fast articulation pieces, and even for just expressive moments and I have a few things: -Not very good with handling repeated notes at fast tempos, and fast articulation measures -Audio balancing needs desperate work, even with full volume in the mixer it's still a bit quiet -Some notes are dragged behind tempo or straight up skipped If you are considering a library for any application I mentioned, or just in general, stick to muse woodwinds until a better library or update releases for this. I couldn't recommend this for the price. If anything changes, I'll update the review accordingly
They sound Amazing but they have to much reverb sounds like they are playing in a bottle the flutes sound weird they dont even sound like flutes, I enjoy the Bass Clarinet so much its very clear and loud, I would like the full family of these instruments I also want saxophones to be in this so I can use these and brass together because they are so quiet my free muse sound saxophones are overpowering these instruments I also need clarinets to be louder and I want Vibrato with these instruments
So disappointing. I can't understand how this library could have gotten a 100% rating. Unbelievable !
Possibly the best Woodwinds library available. Some have commented that the volume is a little low, and this is true. Bumping them up by a few db in the mixer easily fixes that!
I can't fault the Vienna Symphonic Library's exceptional quality—which I already knew as a GigaStudio user. The only thing I notice is the overall low volume of the samples. Have others noticed the same thing?
I was fairly disappointed with other woodwinds because they just didn't have the quality I was looking for, and had a ton of articulation issues. That being said, Vienna is by far the best, and as others have said, it's near perfect. The only bug I've encountered so far is the Bassoon 2 trill is broken and doesn't start the trill until after it ends on the page (all other trills work fine). I will say, I recommend cranking the mixer up by a lot to get the woodwinds to pierce through the orchestra. The only things that I would be really love to have with as additions are the Contrabass Clarinet, Eb Clarinet, and a 3rd player for Flutes, Oboes, Clarinets, and Bassoons, but these are just minor things that I can live without.
This woodwinds library has amazing sound quality, a large variety, and little to no bugs. Every instrument sounds like it should and fits in almost perfectly. A great compliment to the rest of the series.