VWinds Flutes Overview

[@DesoloZantas]

This is amazing! I hope to see you fill out the brass register with French horns, euphonium, and tuba

[@utah-composer]

The new decay feature is critical for notation playback realism. I requested this on the VI forum. Thank you for adding it!

[@TomMAF4]

Sounds awesome! Can't wait for strings!

[@DesoloZantas]

Studio strings

[@marieandallanslade6673]

Wouldn’t that be Vstrings

[@petrkorinek9559]

Yes please, but first complete the VHorns with French Horns and Tuba

[@TheUnderscore_]

@@petrkorinek9559 I was hoping for euphonium too but no one remembers euphonium 🥲 I'd settle for cimbasso tho ngl

[@TheUnderscore_]

Not incredibly likely but I'm praying for it. Strings are _extremely_ complex to physically model in any way.

[@schragemusik]

I've been waiting for this. It sounds that waiting hasn't been in vain. I love their instruments.

[@DeloofTegOrb]

My predictions for the near future of new VSeries instruments, in which I'm going to try and manifest into existence lol: (August or October 2024) - VStrings featuring 9 individually recorded instruments including; Violin 1 and 2 + sections, Viola 1 and 2 + sections, Cello 1 and 2 + sections, Double Bass 1 and 2 + sections, and a Harp. I believe the pizzicato mode could be located at the top right of the main interface, which is in the area where you'd see the option for each different mute in VHorn's Brass Sections. (Harp could be excluded in place of some other alternative string instrument) (January or March 2025) - VHorns Brass Section 2 featuring 8 individually recorded instruments including; C Trumpet 1 and 2, French Horn 1 and 2, a Bass Trombone, Tuba 1 and 2 and a Sousaphone (including a free 'V2' update for both VHorns Brass Section and VHorns Saxophones, which adds a few new articulations, as well as an option for the new virtual rooms seen in VWinds) In late 2025, hopefully we see either orchestral percussion, world instruments (personally hoping they add recorders, sitars, harmonicas and accordions) and after that, possibly branch off to VGuitars to include different guitars, basses, banjos, mandolins, etc.

[@yango8778]

OMG! I didn't expected a contrabass-flute!!!! This is so amazing!!! ❤

[@crackcaster]

5:43 you guys are confident about your product and i respect that, gonna get it😄

[@thegoodgeneral]

Modulation of timbre in the vibrato settings is a step in the right direction. Would be great if the previous VWinds had this option retrofitted.

[@daniel_leibovic]

I have been looking forward to this release! Sounds incredible and I love your focus on playability. This video is the first of your channel that goes in depth into the preferences page (controlling vibrato, air, flutter, etc) and I hope you might do a full deep dive into various possibilities with this page, as this only scratches the surface of how different parameters can interact with each other (the interaction of parameters and recommended settings aren't fully explained in the manual). For example, this video says you recommend leaving Round Robin off for all woodwind instruments, but the Flute manual says "Consider using the round robin feature if you are using the same instrument twice" (which is also probably a typo?). All that aside, thanks for your amazing work, you have the best woodwinds!

[@marclarcher7908]

Great to have Simon Passmore onboard. Any video from Ann-Kathrin Dern in the next days? Those sound really good. OH CNSMDP room? This will bring good memories (FMSM guy here). Which hall is it? Grand plateau? Fleuret? Art lyrique?

[@DeloofTegOrb]

Are you guys ever gunna do recorders?

[@vincecomposer]

I'd absolutely love recorders as well!

[@vadersgoldfish]

Dear lord this sounds amazing. How did I miss the launch??? Will be buying soon. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@akcel1211]

Une maniabilité et une qualité sonore sublime, bravo !

[@rakatafly1978]

Génial ! A quand des flûtes à bec baroques ? Les seules qui existent sont celles de Miroire, par Orchestral tools... Ici en France on est plutôt pas mal lotis dans ce style de musique, non ? Pas difficile de trouver de bons instrumentistes.

[@philcurry]

Wow!! Sounds amazing!!

[@DadoSimicStudiostriver]

Love it. Sounds quite organic and realistic.

[@ABE2000]

Finally the wishes come true!

[@LeonThomasian]

This is incredible

[@kaiditatham700]

Incredible!

[@soulscape5083]

I can’t understand I have all the V series but I rarely use them. I never can get good results, maybe I have to program really hard to achieve something good. Meanwhile, for example with “the TP” I can just play realistic lines while playing realtime with CC11 and CC1. The trumpet from VBrass sounds “midi” by comparison, whatever I try to do.

[@cpia2002]

Can I have your pianist for my studio please ? Ask them to pick up a copy the flutes on their way!

[@marclarcher7908]

Simon Passmore has his own KZbin channel with excellent tips for producing high quality mock-ups. Just sayin'...

[@peterpeper4837]

Can I get an official statement that these are not the very best flutes at the moment and will ruin my music so I don't have to spend all that money? Or at least any extra discount for the ones who have the rest of the winds (yes, i'm really cheap).

[@AlonsoJoaquinComposer]

Sick stuff

[@kostyakonstantinoff]

Hi. Is there any non-legato patches for these flutes? Can I play polyphonic melody?

[@acousticsamples]

No, i'm afraid it's not possible, sorry.

[@kostyakonstantinoff]

@acousticsamples ok thanks

[@channells]

Legato Transitions We spent considerable time and effort carefully extracting every minor detail of recorded transitions in order to give a variety of customizable legato transitions, and to help make the Flutes as indistinguishable from a live performance as possible. A new feature for Flutes is the option to choose 'Smart' transitions - these are a mixture of perfectly smooth transitions and transitions with a slight re-attack, depending on the difficulty of the interval being played. The controllable transitions range from lightning-fast changes to slow bends, with and without extra attack. We made sure to cover all of this, and you’ll see that this can all be edited in the interface. The legato behavior can even be randomized to help give a more human-like performance.

[@patrickbourke1812]

What are the red keys for?

[@acousticsamples]

The red keys are keyswitches, which all have different functions (repeated/retriggered notes, breath/key noises, small pitch bends etc), and they can be moved up or down in the interface to suit different keyboards and playing styles

[@cjadams7434]

This sounds great but next time no metronome for gods sake!

[@AlonsoJoaquinComposer]

Yup this is amazing, best modeled stuff I've heard. However the biggest problem in vseries remains being space simulation, the virtual space makes this stuff sound much worse and "modeled". The A/B with the virtual mics off are actually insanely realistic and this stuff just sound real to my ears in those examples. However lots of the pro people I know (trained in mixing and acoustics with actual experience in mockups) heard this library out of the box and were not conviced by it. I highly recommend shipping this stuff with the virtual space turned off and only promote it as an extra feature. So far sp2016+Cinematic Rooms do a much better job at creating depth and adding some distance, for those who are be reading this. Not to say this is on Acoustic Samples, as I don't know any 1 plugin that can accurately model a proper space without sounding uncanny and weird. The sp2016 trick works fine for creating distance and blending this in a mix, not necessarily for placing it in a room with acoustics, etc. I don't think the current tech allows for it, considering for how long convolution and other reverbs have been around it's really interesting how we can never get this right. It's probably going to need deep AI learning of some sort probably

[@rayplaysmusic]

Maybe The UAD Capitol Chambers, Hitsville and Sound City Reverbs will do the trick?

[@bulentkamali]

OMG !