Vienna Instruments Video Tutorials
In our User Area you will find several video tutorials that demonstrate how to work with Vienna Instruments and explain the various functions of the software. You will also find these videos on the Vienna Instruments Software CD-ROM that comes with every DVD Collection.
Additionally, our experts Paul Steinbauer and Christian Kardeis have produced three training videos, showing the complete process of creating a piece of orchestral music, from arranging the various instruments of a score to mixing. The videos explain the steps in detail using the Vienna Special Edition. Additionally, registered users of the Vienna Special Edition can download the corresponding MIDI files and projects for Mac (Logic 7.2.3, Cubase SX3, Cubase 4) or PC (Cubase SX3, Cubase 4, Nuendo 3, Sonar 6), as well as presets that work with the Vienna Special Edition.
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Instruments Online
The Vienna Symphonic Library’s website offers free access to the first complete, multimedia instrument encyclopedia with comprehensive information on the principles of instrumentation. It features the sounds of various playing techniques of all kinds of instruments, high-quality images, and extensive information about each instrument. Every instrument profile has text descriptions, historical development and classification of the orchestral instruments, playing techniques, notation, range, function in the orchestra, semantics, symbolism, combinations with other instruments, musical extracts as notation and Vienna Symphonic Library sound samples.
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Beat Kaufmann’s Online Tutorials
Beat Kaufmann, a Swiss teacher and composer, has contributed an enormous wealth of wonderful pieces to our Demo Zone.
Beat has also earned a worldwide reputation for creating online tutorials that are extremely helpful for beginners, since they are easy to understand and yield great results quickly.
Vienna Instruments Tutorials
http://www.beat-kaufmann.com/vitutorials/
Tutorial 2007: Successful Music with Samples (English)
Tutorial 2009: Successful Music Production with VSL Products (English)
http://www.beat-kaufmann.com/
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The Guide to MIDI Orchestration, 3rd Edition by Paul Gilreath
http://www.musicworksinteractive.com/gtmo-main.html
The hardback comprehensive text comprises over 700 pages that progresses from an overview of orchestral history to in-depth discussions of each section of the orchestra. The book is written for composers, arrangers and MIDI musicians of all levels, providing the information necessary to help everybody who demands the best achieve successful and realistic MIDI orchestrations.
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