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Re: [exs] Russian Orchestral samples

2002-10-09 by Sean McCoy

At 09:10 PM 10/08/2002 -0400, you wrote:

>In a message dated 10/8/02 1:41:06 PM, osr@... writes:
>
> >The "light edition" isn't significantly more than the Siedlazcek library,
> >
> >and is roughly four times as large.  The monster version costs
> >significantly less than the Miroslav Vitous library, and looks to be at
> >
> >least ten times as large.  What a bargain!  I'll take two!
>
>
>According to my math, VSL initial release is over FIFTEEN times the size of
>Siedlaczek Advanced Orchestra.
>
>Siedleczek Advanced Orchestra is five Akai CDs (500mb each), not all the
>discs are full, so it's about a 2 gig collection. VSL's "mini" version is 35
>gigs!

Sorry, Eric---I also have the Siedlaczek Upgrade 97 plus the EOS combo 
disk, so my collection is 9 CD's.  (can't have anybody thinking my math is 
that bad!)


>Put's the price into a different perpective eh.....:-)
>
>-EP


You're right.  For anyone doing serious orchestral work, even the full 
version can't be considered overpriced.  This is assuming the library is 
killer, of course.  Big and expensive don't always add up to good.

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