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Well! you could always make additional tracks with additional midi articulations. Xp pro is worth it really worth it! 512 Mb of RAM are enough for some things. One idea would be to freeze, or bounce to audio, or exprot to audio your every instrument and then you would have all the instruments you want, without problems. I mean even with 2 Gb, you can't go much above 100 midi tracks. So if you run out, you just start making audio files.

You know... Goggle is your friend: NOTION - Products (For the default sounds found in NOTION) and https://secure.notionmusic.com/store/soundlib/index.cfm? (The expanded sounds, incluyding mallets No.8)

Quite lovely indeed! Could you post the score in pdf? Not every one has subelius music plug ins, and I'm not able to download them or install them actually... :(

Intelligence is devided in sectors. One can be a complete moron (not that you are), and be a wonderful artist. One can be autistic, so unable to work inside the society, yet have an amazing mathematical mind. One can be "slow" in the ways of an IQ test, but still be a wonderful composer One could be scrap in maths, but a brilliant physicist (Einstein). Nothing to worry about, and these IQ test are kinda rubbish most of the times. So what that youhave 101 IQ? I have no idea what I have.

Well, I found it a little worst (at the moemnt) in notation capabilities. I'm not inteestred in time issues exactly (because it largely depends on the experience of the user), as much as the final result. And I'm not sure that Notion can do everything that Finale and Sibelius is doing. But again, Windsor, Harvey and the other people locked with Notion, are working really hard to listen to the users. BTW, I also got the demo of course, but not in time for the competition, so I never got around playing with it a lot (due to business... like in busy :o)

Hum... if you won it, why not try it? It's good. It's not as good as Finale, or Sibelius yet BUT: the developers are listening closely to the users And it's designed to be used as a sequencer as well (much more than Finale or sibelius) and comes bundled with a lot of sounds recorded with the Londo Philharmonic (I think). It cotst 599$, so it's well worth the trying out at least... Especially if you've won it for free!

:-/ A difficult one My main issue with EW is this: Their marketing strategies kinda suck! I mean you get a 50% (actually can get you more (66%) for Platinum only, I hope it still works, if you want. You cna find it at 995$, platinum!), but, even with that sale, there are new products coming in NAMM. Which means that pretty soon you will feel left out, you will want the new products, and the worst support will start to dissapear. Already normal platinum/gold/silver are considered a little museum items. Now onto a more deep answer: With xp pro you get the following bad issues: * You will need an extra 70 Gb * If you want to keep using normal platinum, you will have to copy the normal platinum nki files, and NOT delete the old folder, which means that your hard disk will contain 2 platinum and 1 xp pro! That is a massive 200 GB (more or less) (<-but I think there is a way to avoid doing that, but it takes a lot of computer knowledge, although there is a guide somewhere on the SOL site) * It costs * Pretty soon support will dissapear, and EW has already announced 5 new products for early Jan 2007. Now on the good parts: * Xp pro, has many new articulations which help a lot * It has repeated articulations to avoid the "machine gun" effect * It has solo strings * It has chamber strings (4 violins, 3 violas, 3 violoncellos), for divizi effects (but the articulations are somewhat limited) * New and more percussion * includes a Piano Now, I personally had gold for about a year. When the opportunity for a sale knock, couldn't resist anymore and went for gold xp pro. But it's at 500$, not 1500$ (sale included). But is IS a great addition to a library and compliments the normal one pretty well. One thing you need to consider finally is this: Do you have a sequencer? How do you work, cause with Platinum you usually need a second (slave) cmoputer, or at least A LOT of RAM. XP pro needs more than that Do you have much practice with production and sequencers? Cause if not, maybe platinum can be daunting at first, wher gold, is realyl straight forward. If you have the money, definately go for it, no doubt! Just make sure you know (in yourself) where you're treading. :P

I like it quite a lot! It is...beautiful! That Db around the middle will give a hard time your soprano (but I do know 1 who can do it, meaning that there are sopranos that sing this high... :D), and you do approach it with care so it should be ok... I like the pulse, the ideas, the modal structure of the harmony, although it does tend to expose more than often the C maj chord as mentioned elsewhere. I'm not sure if this piece would go anywhere else, but this place. :w00t:

Come on guys. You're replying to an ad of 2 lines??? "well payed", how much? Marius asked some things: "deadlines"? "peformed or not"? Come on. You will believe this atlantis guy? Do you know how much it takes to bring up an opera? And the guy is promising good money and so on? Do you think that anyone looking for composer for an opera for crying out loud, would be like this? Sorry, atlantis I don't believe a word you say. Provide proof about all the things you promise and I'll give you links to my (amazing, wonderful, great, unique :)) music! Until then... no deal!

Concert pitch, all clefs though... Traspose only the parts, and depending on the conductor the score or not, in the end. The small problem lies when the conductor tells the clarinets that they should "start over from D", where the clarinets have no D anywhere but C in their parts...

OMG YES! It's tons better! (miles better maybe is a better term) With Platinum you get 24-bit instead of 16-bit, you get 3 mic positions instead of 1 and you get more velocity layers in most cases. Furthermore there is a current sale to end in 31st of December 2006. You should aim for both the regular and the xp pro, though... XP pro has some articulations which are really useful... But of course again you will reach 130-140 GB of hard disk, and you could use a slave computer for that... :-/

Hem.. which VSL library exactly? Opus 1 and 2? Cube? Performance tools??? Which Gold, regular or (unleaded) xp pro? Why do you need the info? To buy? For a debate going ot a flame war maybe (these things tend to happen in comparisons...) EW is a tool which works out of the box! With the reverb ready, with panning ready and so on. Plenty of articulations and the sound is very close to the known "Hollywood" sound we're used in films. The problem is that unless you have Platinum (3 mic positions), you can't very easily escape that grant sound. Platinum offers much much more and it is indeed a very good library. Perfect for surround sound systems as well! It's rather small (Gold, at 18 Gb and xp pro at 21 GB) which will fit into any hard disk and won't create much troubles, if you use DFD correctly! But you may get bored with the sound pretty fast, as you cannot play with reverb... VSL is perfect for more "classical" and closer to "realistic" results. The one things that it has is the legato, which is uncompromisingly better than any other library! Offers huge articulations and is a pro tool (as well as Gold, and especially platinum btw...). You will be spoiled with the excellent articulations, but it does take some more tweaking than EW, and also you will need a reverb (most users go for IR1 or Altiverb... pretty expensive both... :(). On thing to keep in mind is that if you do go for the full thing then you will need free hard disk space of 550 GB! That's 2 hard disks, the least! Think about that as well... Film,game music? EW will cover you no doubt! Classical, more adapted music? VSL! You can find prices on their websites, so I won't be making any comparisons...

Marius you will be more than happy with your new "toy".

1. Yes it comes with Komakt so there is no need for sampler. 2. Differences: i. 24-bit vs 16-bit ii. 3 mic positions vs 1 mic position (F) iii. More velocity layers (Platinum of course) 3. Differences are not so big, unless you're working for DVD (24-bit), or surround (5.1) system, where the 3 mic positions are essential. 4. All demos are made with Platinum XP Pro! No official demos for Gold xp pro, but check the forums (Sounds on line) for a user named Tchoyy. He's simply put amazing!