As well as filling gaps in the instrumental ranks, the VSL PE features new playing styles and adds more variations and dynamic layers to the existing instruments' repertoire. One great advance is that all the ensembles' and solo instruments' sustained notes have been looped, with the solo instruments presented in a choice of looped or non-looped versions (the solo strings are currently unlooped, though one presumes VSL will rectify that in a future edition). The labour involved in seamlessly looping thousands of stereo recordings is back-breaking, so full marks to the company for making the effort.
As well as filling the gaps in the woodwind department, the PE adds a second solo flute (confusingly called 'Flute 1'), allowing the programming of true four-part harmonies played by two flutes, piccolo and alto flute. Played by a new performer, the new solo flute sounds similar in timbre to the first, but its tone is slightly sweeter and fuller on its long sustained notes. All the new woodwinds contained in the PE enjoy the full range of performance styles detailed earlier, and the oboe, clarinet and new solo flute also offer a new category of 'accelerating trills', which start slowly, then speed up. This may sound slightly pointless, but it's exactly the sort of musical effect that can make a MIDI arrangement sound more organic.
VSL Performance Tool Full Version
As well as adding solo strings, the PE also substantially updates the existing string ensembles, supplying a host of new articulations which include no-vibrato versions. There's a new sustain category called flautando, a hushed, breathy and expectant sound which resembles a quiet tremolando. The violins' menu of crescendo and diminuendo performances is enlarged, and their trills now take in minor and major third intervals and accelerating versions, the latter a very arresting effect when played on 14 violins! Muted (con sordino) and metallic-sounding sul ponticello versions of most of the main playing styles appear for the first time, along with tight and loose col legno hits and the Bartok 'snap pizzicato' noise.
Having used the EXS24 version of VSL on a variety of Macs, including a dual-2GHz G5 and a 17-inch Powerbook, I have to say that these tools make for a great self-contained writing facility, especially when you add Emagic's Space Designer convolution-based reverb into the equation. Using a multiple-computer Gigastudio setup gave me far more voices, of course, but it's also a more complex configuration to manage, and there's definitely something to be said for a stand-alone workstation, even if it isn't quite as powerful. Incidentally, it's worth mentioning that Logic 's Freeze function isn't, sadly, much help in this department, since the function doesn't allow the memory used by an instrument to be unloaded when a Track is 'frozen' (for more on G5-based EXS24 performance, see this month's Apple Notes). However, if Emagic make this possible, the combination of Logic, EXS24 and VSL will be hard to beat for serious composers and orchestrators. Mark Wherry
As with the Orchestral Cube, the Performance Set Pro Edition contains an upgraded version of the Performance Set First Edition. VSL's new woodwind, brass and solo string instruments are all extensively represented, and many of the PS FE's instruments' performances have been expanded. There are 42 instrumental categories in all, comprising both solo instruments and ensembles.
The four string ensembles each get a new category of repeated 60bpm quarter notes, and all but the basses get a new set of fast repetitions (16th notes at 150-190bpm), which include crescendo and diminuendo versions. New performances for the violin and viola sections include 120bpm note repetitions played with vibrato, 'performance tremolos' (much the same as normal tremolos, but benefiting from the Legato Tool's smoothing effect), grace notes in a choice of tone or semitone intervals, and 'performance legato grace notes' in which the tool automatically selects an up or down grace note of a semitone, tone or minor third interval, depending on the previous note played (note: on this particular patch, intervals wider than a minor third played with legato fingering result in no sound at all!).
For this reason, it made sense for VSL to release the Pro Edition with 16-bit sample data (indeed, this was the only option for the Gigastudio version). The other advantage to keeping the library in a 16-bit format for the time being is to keep the computer requirements down, since a 24-bit version of the library will add at least a third to the amount of storage and processing power required. The next version of VSL should, however, be supplied in a fully 24-bit format. Mark Wherry
A small selection of unpitched percussion (castanets, shakers, caxixi, guiro and three types of 'jingle ring' skinless tambourine) also gets the note-repetition treatment. Some of you may feel that creating realistic percussion performances is best left to more specialised, groove-based libraries and tools like Recycle and Acid, but the inclusion of these carefully sampled, exquisitely recorded loops once again proves VSL's commitment to giving their users as many musical options as possible!
I tried to rewrite the performance tool for linux but was able to get the real performance tool working in wine under linux. The Performance Tool opperates to it's full potential under wine and I am able to get the most out of it under Linux. (this took me years to get running!).
Use this tool with the Perfect Repetition Instruments. This new version makes repetitions easy and convenient to play as it substitutes the old pattern scheme with a clever random round robin algorithm. Additionally two cycle repetition modes are included.
This guide will compare WSL 1 and WSL 2, including exceptions for using WSL 1 rather than WSL 2. The primary differences between WSL 1 and WSL 2 are the use of an actual Linux kernel inside a managed VM, support for full system call compatibility, and performance across the Linux and Windows operating systems. WSL 2 is the current default version when installing a Linux distribution and uses the latest and greatest in virtualization technology to run a Linux kernel inside of a lightweight utility virtual machine (VM). If your distribution is currently running WSL 1 and you want to update to WSL 2, see update from WSL 1 to WSL 2.
As you can tell from the comparison table above, the WSL 2 architecture outperforms WSL 1 in several ways, with the exception of performance across OS file systems, which can be addressed by storing your project files on the same operating system as the tools you are running to work on the project.
WSL 2 is a major overhaul of the underlying architecture and uses virtualization technology and a Linux kernel to enable new features. The primary goals of this update are to increase file system performance and add full system call compatibility.
Consider trying the VS Code Remote WSL Extension to enable you to store your project files on the Linux file system, using Linux command line tools, but also using VS Code on Windows to author, edit, debug, or run your project in an internet browser without any of the performance slow-downs associated with working across the Linux and Windows file systems. Learn more.
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The first version implemented system calls natively on Windows. System calls are essentially functions provided by the kernel, which means that only the calls that were implemented were supported in the WSL environment. You may have noticed this if you used early versions of WSL and found libraries and tools that were attempting to access system calls that hadn't been implemented (for example, the Go debugger). While incremental improvements were made to add support for more functions, WSL 2 takes a completely different approach to this by shipping a lightweight virtual machine with a complete Linux kernel.
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Very realistic and detailed sound100% versatile library and playerLarge number of articulationsPre-mapped CC parametersWell-looking GUIHumanize and Stretch functionsYou can extend the range up to one octave higher and lowerStandard version already contains the full set of articulations
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