I spent $50 on this and don't get me wrong I love it, but the only issue I have with it is that when I try to use a tremolo on a suspended cymbal it doesn't sound like it's being played with mallets it sounds like it's being played with drumsticks and it sounds so bad. Kinda the same thing with the gong, I wanna add gong rolls to my compositions and arrangements but it just sounds like crap. Please if there's anything you can do to help me with this I will be so happy!
👍These instruments are great, I like them a lot, some are cute, for example, Slide Whistle, Flextone, Vibraslap and Xylophone, they are very common in cartoons and nursery rhymes. But I found that most of the products seem to have increased in price a lot. I saw some products that were originally priced at $19.99, and suddenly increased to $49.99 around April or May this year. Many products have increased in price by about $30-40, although not all products have increased in price, but this situation still makes me sad...😭 But the sound of these products sounds good, so I will still give a positive review. There are actually 84 instruments in this set, including: Agogo Almglocken Angklung Ankle Bells Bass Drum Bass Pan Bell Plates Bell Tree Bird Calls Birds Meinl Bongos Brake Drum Cabasa Castanets China Cymbal Claps Claves Concert Toms Congas Cowbell Crash Cymbals Cricket Crotales Djembe Double 2nd Pan Doumbek Drum Kit Earth Plate Electric Bass Electric Guitar Energy Chimes Finger Cymbals Flexatone Frog Garden Weasel Glockenspiel Gongs Guiro Hi-Hat Ice Bell Impact Drums Jam Blocks Lead Pan Log Drum Maracas Marching Machine Marimba Ocean Drum Piano Propane Tank Rainsticks Ratchet Ribbon Crasher Ride Cymbal Rototoms Shaker Shakerines Shekere Siren Sizzle Cymbal Slapstick Sleigh Bells Slide Whistle Snare Drum Splash Cymbal Suspended Cymbal Swish Knocker Taikos Tam-tam Tambourine Tang Tangs Temple Blocks Thundersheet Timbales Timpani Trash Can Triangle Tubular Bells Typewriter Vibraphone Vibraslap Vibratone Waterphone Wind Chimes Wind Gong Wood Blocks Xylophone
The sounds are great. However I’m finding simple things that stand outl. The bowed crotale sound doesn’t sound bowed and theres an attack on each note. The “play with shaft” featrue in Marimba works great, but the xylo version changes pitch down a half step then back up every other note. unuseable currently.
I LOVE the effort put in to make this a reality. But we need rack combos. Maybe MS as a whole could benefit from enabling multiple unpitched instruments on a single staff, not just the VDL plugin - this needs to happen on a wide scale with user choice freedom!
The only good thing that I got from this was more realistic sounds. Tremolos play cymbal rolls, theres not vibraphone pedal option, notes are delayed, and when a note is released it plays it again. This is a really bad library that should not be $20. This should be free.
no one cares abt all the "enhancements" that are being added. we NEED rack combos!!!!!!
I'm leaving a negative review here in hopes that it's genuinely seen (especially since I'm not the first person asking for this). The sounds here are solid. I bought it wrongfully assuming drumline would be included since that's what the language suggested, but it's still a good value considering everything you get and the relatively high quality. But as someone who's trying to collaborate with someone who uses VDL through Kontakt, not having combined auxiliary percussion parts actively prevents me from being able to write on the same level. This is a very needed change!!
Love it but it needs rack combos. It's a nightmare having to change instruments just to create a rack part.
I love using this version of VDL for muse score but the thing I'm always missing is racks since I always write for marching and indoor.
I believe that VDL and VP are both very good, each having their own unique features. I believe that VP is very wide in instrument choices, having so many that I can barely find a use for them all. The melodic percussion sounds very nice and doesn't sound far away and empty in a way like Muse Percussion does. One of my issues though is that Vibraphone is missing its ability to work with pedal markings, and it seems that other people have had issues with it. Another issue I have is that the suspended cymbal releases are sounding very... funny.. after the release or the "final strike" of the cymbal, the sound sort of bounces and re-swells. Another little bug I've found is that on the marimba, if you give any pitch a 16th stem tremolo, it would turn into suspended cymbal chokes. I tried seeing if the official Tapspace manual for VDL had something about it, but nothing. Im not sure if this was intended, or a pure bug, but its something. Another thing I seen was that when I click on a note, specifically a tonal/auxiliary percussion staff, the sound will continue to play over and over, replaying the same sample. An example would be the flexatone, suspended cymbal, or ratchet. But overall, bugs behind, this is a dang well sound for Musescore. EDIT: June 27, I would like to add that they have fixed pedal marking for vibraphone, but now without them, it sounds like they manually cut the audio short, but it doesn't bug me that much. The only thing we are fully missing is the rack combos and mixed percussion staves!
I'm super impressed with the amount of detail that mapping the library with Musescore, especially with its soundflag options. Here are some of my gripes -No option to map multiple perc instruments on one staff -Cymbal rolls are a little buggy (ie not naturally releasing or following the mute release soundflag) -No way to release vibraphone pedaling atm