I'm with you! An outstanding library and I'd love to hear more like it!
Agree. It’s a phenomenal library with a lot more expressive range than is evident in the walkthrough or demos.
Right! I keep thinking about this library too… Hoping OT will release more impressive stuff like this in the future.
Its focus is soft playing, which is not the dynamic focus of most libraries. But it can still do a credible robust forte when needed. And for a chamber string library that covers a lot of ground that you’d want to use a chamber string group to cover. It has a particular bent—the aesthetic follows from Vasks’ first symphony—but they’ve done an excellent job of generalizing that so the sound coheres but doesn’t feel overly restrictive. Listening to the demos you might think its expressive range is narrow and quite niche, but that’s not really the case. The Vask aesthetic does extend over the whole library but that serves more as glue to hold the library and its various articulations together—it ensures a kind of background coherence to the sounds—but it does not feel like a restriction in use, other than how any sample library comes with certain limitations.
Feel free to post your PVS demos in this or the unofficial thread. There aren’t too many in circulation. You will receive all the listens and likes you could ever hope for.
It’s one of my favorite libraries and I use it frequently, both the ensemble and the first chairs. The first chairs have some real sweet spots as a quartet. I also find it an excellent complement to other string libraries.
I thought it got enormous praise from virtually everyone! Such a great sound
I don’t think there have been all that many user demos posted after the initial flurry at release. And comparatively there weren’t even that many during the release period. And this is not just the case with PVS. It seems like there are fewer user demos of most libraries than there once were.
There's a sense in which I'm so completely enthralled by just the first chairs - and even just the soft sul tasto and lyrical articulations at that - that it's really slowed me from getting more stuck into the rest of the library.
Do you think the room noise is more controlled than something like Tallinn (if you own that)? I love the sound of the strings in Tallinn, but they are just not usable to me because of the baked in room noise. There was a comment that said they sounded like a fan was on in the back on every release tail, and that perfectly describes the issue I have. Does PVS have a similar issue?
Vasks, is an amazing library, that really breathes life into music, and it has sounds I cannot get from other libraries, like the really quiet stuff. It just sounds very unique. I used it a lot, especially the solo instruments. Of course with very quiet sampling there is always an issue with noise floor. But in the mix it is not a problem. It is only an issue when you want to make a really quiet instrument cut through a mix, which is not intended to be done - meaning when you raise to much the volume of a quiet sample, which inevitably will also raise the sound of the noise floor. Hope this helps. All in all, I use Vasks lib a lot, and recommend it.
