• AudioPort™ yields low latency via Gigabit Ethernet digital audio connectivity on a secondary LAN and works PC-to-Mac and PC-to-PC.
Glissando allows you to control the amount of pitch variation between notes. Note overlap and staccato notes interact; stacatto notes have less pitch slide than overlaps (slurs) to simulate the natural playing technique of real instruments. Instant instrument activation lets you activate from 1 to all realtime players or anything in between without loading or unloading sample sets.
• SPACE™: Individual placement for all realtime players within the library. Real time room size adjustment and simulated spot/room mic bleed for a live ensemble sound.
In DVZ Strings, for example, realtime performance controls include Pitch Spread and Time Spread. These produce changes in the pitch and time between instruments scaled proportionally to the speed and key velocity. The more common parameters such as Attack, Release and Glissando also scale to model real-world articulation based on how hard or fast you play. Automatic selection of tip, mid, and heel bow samples follow the speed and intensity of playing, or you can manually override this with forced bowing. Sophisticated orchestration, user adjustable play ranges and octave coupling let you determine when notes will be allocated to one or another section for rich, natural orchestrations that will be instantly playable by live musicians.
Audio Impressions’ Realtime Instruments™ is a collection of sample libraries, some of which are powered by DVZ. We have already recorded some 600 instruments from all over the world, and we continue to add to the collection as we prepare it all for delivery. The first libraries we release will be: •
DVZ® Strings
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DVZ® Winds & Brass
DVZ Strings 2.0, for example, has 70 orchestral players. These are comprised of 35 2-musician desks. The most comprehensive set of playing styles and effects for each instrument was recorded; all effects and styles appropriate to each instrument, such as mutes, bow positions, pizzicato, and so forth are available at start up.
SPACE™ is our patent-pending process that simulates microphone bleed, the spill of each instrument into all the open spot and room mics in a live recording environment. Signals fed into SPACE will sound as if they’re playing in an ensemble within the same environment. Each instrument can be discretely positioned, and the size of the room can be continuously scaled from a closet to a huge hall - all in real time. With the added realism of SPACE you actually save on computer hardware. SPACE runs within our AudioPort Host environment and sends digital audio over Ethernet to AudioPort plug-ins on your sampler. You can output in mono, stereo, or 5-channel surround, plus separate stereo section stem outputs, feeding these to a single audio interface on the sequencer. SPACE overcomes the acoustic anomalies of differently recorded samples while giving you real time recording environment and output format control.
HARDWARE AudioPort™ is Audio Impressions' proprietary system for enabling samplers to send up to 32 channels of digital audio over Gigabit Ethernet to the Sequencer computer. AudioPort is also cross platform, sending audio from its Windows VST host to an AU or VST AudioPort plug-in on any Mac OS-X or Windows sequencer. A separate Ethernet network handles MIDI communication and is also useful for advanced tech support and downloading software updates. AudioPort also includes a hosting environment to allow Kontakt 3 to play Audio Impressions' encrypted Realtime Instruments libraries. RTAS plug-in coming soon! Depending upon the library size, the chosen sample rate (DVZ libraries ship at 48 kHz, and 44.1, 96 or 192 kHz can be ordered), and upon the actual computers used, more than 2 samplers may be needed in addition to the sequencer computer. All computers transfer digital audio via AudioPort, and the libraries are controlled from a single graphical user interface (GUI) on one of the samplers, which we call the Control Computer.
Audio Impressions devised a readily scaleable architecture driven by a single “control computer” running our core technologies. standard Ethernet feeds MIDI control-data to the sampler computers, while a second Gigabit Ethernet returns digital audio back into your sequencer. A single instance of DVZ can manage 1 to 20 samplers, a technique known as cluster computing. This lets you move up to higher sample rates at any time with ease. Your Mac or PC sequencer gets our AU or VST Sync and AudioPort plug-ins to communicate with SPACE and DVZ on the Samplers. This system demands powerful yet readily available computers and peripherals, and requires no proprietary parts whatsoever (see our website for up to date specs). You use whatever audio output you prefer; only one is necessary, and that’s in the sequencer.
Les Grandes Orgues (The Great Organs) is a collection of over 100 discrete ranks sampled from various great organs around the world. Its highly realistic user interface has illuminated stops designed for touch screen capability or mouse control. The multi-screen graphic user interfaces are fully functional including every stop, coupler, piston and even the memory capture control panel. There are no pre-recorded combinations or groups of stops, since every rank was recorded separately. Using our SPACE™ technology you have total control of rank placement among various output channels. SPACE further allows you to use these samples either to augment existing organ stops (e.g., along side real pipes) or as a stand-alone organ. Using suitable hardware, Les Grandes Orgues comprises a fully portable system for scoring stages, orchestral recording, concert halls, outdoor concerts, or in any space where a full-size physical great organ is impractical if not impossible.
Please Note: Les Grandes Orgues is compatible with a variety of MIDI and USB keyboards and consoles. While AI does not sell this hardware, we are happy to make our specifications for the pictured console available on request (please visit our website).
LIBRARY CONTENTS DVZŠ Strings Orchestral String Instruments: 70 Violins I: 18 Violins II: 16 Violas: 14 Celli: 12 Basses: 10
DVZŠ Winds & Brass Brass Instruments: 116 Alto Trombone 1 (Eb) Alto Trombone 2 (Eb) Alpen Horn 1 Alpen Horn 2 Alpen Horn 3 Alpen Horn 4 Bass Trombone 1 Bass Trombone 2 Bass Trumpet 1 Bass Trumpet 2 Brass French Horn 1 Brass French Horn 2 Brass French Horn 3 Brass French Horn 4 Brass French Horn 5 Brass French Horn 6 Brass French Horn 7 Brass French Horn 8 Chimbasso 1 Chimbasso 2 Contrabass Trombone 1 Contrabass Trombone 2 Cornet 1 Cornet 2 Cornetto 1 Cornetto 2
Euphonium 1 Euphonium 2 Flugelhorn 1 Flugelhorn 2 Herold Trumpet 1 Herold Trumpet 2 Herold Trumpet 3 Herold Trumpet 4 Jazz Bass Trombone 1 Jazz Bass Trombone 2 Jazz Clarinet Jazz Flute Jazz Sax Alto 1 Jazz Sax Alto 2 Jazz Sax Baritone Jazz Sax Bass Jazz Sax Sopprano Jazz Sax Tenor 1 Jazz Sax Tenor 2 Jazz Trombone 1 Jazz Trombone 2 Jazz Trombone 3 Jazz Trombone 4 Jazz Trumpet 1 Jazz Trumpet 2 Jazz Trumpet 3 Jazz Trumpet 4 Natural Horn 1 Natural Horn 2 Natural Trumpet 1 Natural Trumpet 2 Nickel French Horn 1 Nickel French Horn 2 Nickel French Horn 3 Nickel French Horn 4 Nickel French Horn 5
Nickel French Horn 6 Nickel French Horn 7 Nickel French Horn 8 Ophecleide 1 Ophecleide 2 Peck Horn 1 (Eb) Peck Horn 2 (Eb) Piccolo Trumpet 1 (Bb) Piccolo Trumpet 1 (Eb) Piccolo Trumpet 2 (Bb) Piccolo Trumpet 2 (Eb) Sackbut 1 Sackbut 2 Serpent 1 Serpent 2 Slide Trumpet 1* Slide Trumpet 2* Tenor Horn 1 Tenor Horn 2 Tenor Horn 3 Tenor Horn 4 Tenor Trombone 1 Tenor Trombone 2 Tenor Trombone 3 Tenor Trombone 4 Tenor Valve Trombone 1 Tenor Valve Trombone 2 Tenor Valve Trombone 3 Tenor Valve Trombone 4 Tibetan Horn 1 Tibetan Horn 2 Trumpet 1 (Bb) Trumpet 2 (Bb) Trumpet 3 (Bb) Trumpet 4 (Bb) *Also known as soprano trombone.
Tuba 1 (Bb) Tuba 1 (C) Tuba 1 (D) Tuba 1 (Eb) Tuba 1 (F) Tuba 2 (Bb) Tuba 2 (C) Tuba 2 (D) Tuba 2 (Eb) Tuba 2 (F) Tubax Tuben Alto 1 Tuben Alto 2 Tuben Alto 3 Tuben Alto 4 Tuben Tenor 1 Tuben Tenor 2 Tuben Tenor 3 Tuben Tenor 4 Weiner Horn 1 Weiner Horn 2 Weiner Horn 3 Weiner Horn 4 Wind Instruments: 142 A Clarinet Alto Flute 1 Alto Flute 2 Alto Flute 3 Alto Flute 4 Alto Recorder Alto Sax 1 Alto Sax 2 Alto Tarka Flute 1 American Nose Flute Armenian Duduk (Continued)
LIBRARY CONTENTS (continued-1) Wind Instruments (continued): Bagpipe Bamboo Flute Bamboo Flute Hi Bansuri Baroque Flute Bass Clarinet 1 Bass Clarinet 2 Bass Flute 1 Bass Flute 2 Bass Harmonica Bass Oboe 1 Bass Oboe 2 Bass Sax 1 Bass Tarka Flute 1 Bass Tarka Flute 2 Basset Horn 1 Basset Shawm 1 Basset Shawm 2 Bb Contrabass Clarinet 1 Bina Blues Harmonica Bombard C Clarinet 1 Carretto Wood Quena Cherokee Flute Chinese Flute Chinese Xiao Chromatic Harmonica Clarke Pennywhistle Contrabass Bassoon 1 Contrabass Bassoon 2 Contrabass Flute 1 Contrabass Flute 2
Contrabass Sax 1 Cornamuse Crumhorn 1 Crumhorn 2 Crystal Piccolo 1 Crystal Piccolo 2 Curtal 1 Curtal 2 Descant Recorder Didgeridoo 1 Didgeridoo 2 Didgeridoo 3 Didgeridoo 4 Double Hijwiz Eb Clarinet 1 Eb Contrabass Clarinet 1 Eb Contrabass Clarinet 2 Egyptian Ney Fife 1 Fife 2 Fife 3 Fife 4 Gemshorn Great Bass Rackett Heckelphone 1 Indian Shenai Irish Folk Flute Jogi Baja Kaen Kazoo Ensemble Kazoo Solo Large Penny Whistle Lizard Low Nepali Flute
Meg Whistle Mijwiz Mizmar Mizmar Small Morroccan Raita Mose単o Native American: Bass Flute 1 Bass Flute 2 Soprano Flute Turkey Bone 1 Turkey Bone 2 Oboe Cor Anglais 1 Oboe Cor Anglais 2 Oboe D'Amore 1 Oboe D'Amore 2 Ocarina Ocarina Melodiosa Ocarina Round Ocarina Toucan Ocarina Toucan Owel Peruvian Bamboo Flute Piano Flute Piccolo 1 Piccolo 2 Piccolo 3 Piccolo 4 Piccolo Oboe Pocket (Bamboo) Clarinet Pommer 1 Pommer 2 Punji Snake Charmer Pipe Rackett
Sarrusophone 1 Sarrusophone 2 Shakuhachi 1 Shakuhachi 2 Shawm Sheng Shofar Siku Pan Pipes Single Chanter Single Mefred Mijwiz Sizevari Small Zurna Sop. Tarka Flute 1 Sop. Tarka Flute 2 Sopranino Recorder Sopranino Sax 1 Soprano Sax 1 Soprano Treble Pipes Spirit Double Flute Suona Susato Kildare Susato Kildare Piccolo Susato Tabor Swanee Slide Whistle Tenor Recorder Tenor Sax 1 Tenor Tarka Flute Traditional Fife Treble Pipes Treble Recorder 1 Treble Recorder 2 Turkish Mey Whistling Hiking Stick (Continued) Zurna
LIBRARY CONTENTS (continued-2) PERCUSSION Orchestral Percussion: 85 1 Mark Tree 1 Chime Tree 1 Bell Tree1 Oriental Cymbal Tree 1 Waterchime 3 Wind Chimes 1 Death Knell1 Clock Bell 3 Cowbells 2 Hand Bells 1 Sleigh Bell Shakers 1 Finger Cymbals 3 Sleigh Bells 1 Wrist Bells 7 Tambourines 1 Skinless Tambourine 1 Pandeiro 5 Triangles 1 Guiro 2 Large Shakers 1 Shaker Basket 1 Latin Knocker 1 Rosewood Clave 3 Wood Blocks 1 Board with Castanets 1 Boobams Set 1 Roto Toms Set 1 Piccolo Snare 1 14” Maple Snare 1 14” Steel Snare1 Field Snare 2 Field Drums 2 Grancassas 2 Timpani Sets (Six Drums per Set) 1 Piatti 6 Crash Cymbals
4 Suspended Cymbals 3 Gongs 1 Rectangular Gong 1 Tam Tam 1 Glockenspiel 1 Song Bells 1 Crotales (Chromatic) 1 Vibraphone 2 Xylophones 2 Marimbas 1 Bass Marimba 1 Contrabass Marimba 1 Chimes Set 1 Bass Chimes Set WORLD World String Instruments: 13 1 Shamisen 1 Koto 1 Guzheng 1 Moon Lute 1 Pipa 1 Sitar 1 Tambour 1 Russian Zither 1 Cymbolim 1 Lap Dulcimer 1 Hammered Dulcimer 1 African Monochord 1 Hurdy-gurdy World Wind Instruments: 45 1 Egyptian Ney 1 Zurna, Small 1 Double Mijwiz 1 Mizmar, Small
1 Mizmar 1 Pocket Clarinet 1 Duduk, Armenian 1 Duduk, Mid-East 1 Mijwiz 1 Moseño 1 Raita 1 Susato 1 Indian Shehnai 1 Been 1 Punji 1 Shofar 1 Conch Shell 1 Bamboo Flute, High 1 Bamboo Flute 1 Chinese Flute 1 Sheng 1 Shakuhachi 1 Cherokee Flute 1 Peruvian Bamboo Flute 1 Native American Soprano Flute 1 Native American Bass Flute 1 Pan Pipes 1 Tarka Flute, Soprano 1 Tarka Flute, Alto 1 Tarka Flute, Bass 1 Ocarina (Sweet Potato) 1 Ocarina Melodiosa 2 Toucan Ocarinas 1 Round Ocarina 1 Crystal Piccolo 1 Native American Turkey Bone 1 Fife1 Fife, Traditional 1 Penny Whistle, Large 1 Kazoo 1 Irish Folk Flute
1 Bagpipes 1 Treble Pipes 1 Treble Pipes, Soprano World Percussion Instruments: 52 1 Australian Bull Roarer 1 Australian Wind Wand 1 Spoons Wood 1 Spoons Metal 1 Washboard 3 Tibetan Bowls 1 Abacus Shaker 1 Puili Sticks 3 Temple Blocks Sets 1 Pike Drum 1 Djembe 1 Cajon 1 Bass Cajon 1 Deff Drum 1 Dumbek 1 Tablas Set 1 Monkey Drum 1 Tongue Drum 1 Gato Drum 2 Log Drums 1 Taiko Drum Medium 1 Taiko Drum Large 1 Marímbula 1 Kalimba 10 Angklungs, Bamboo (Chromatic) 10 Angklungs, Metal (Chromatic) 1 Balinese Vibes, Male 1 Balinese Vibes, Female 1 Large Gamelan Set (Continued)
LIBRARY CONTENTS (continued-3)
Band Brass Instruments: 12 4 Trumpets, Jazz 4 Trombones, Jazz 2 Cimbassi 2 Trombones, Contrabass
1 Frog Rasp Small 3 Finger Cymbals Sets 1 Sleigh Bell Set 3 Agogo Bells Set (Metal) 3 Agogo Bells Set (Wood) 1 Salsa Cowbells 1 Steel Drum Set 2 Timbales 1 Bongo Set 1 Conga Set 1 Samba Whistle 1 Owl 3 Guicas 1 Talking Drum 1 Splash Cymbal 1 Metal Crashers Set 1 Udu Drum
Band Percussion Instruments: 57 2 Small Shakers 2 Multi Shakers 1 Shakers Soft 1 Metal Shaker Guiro 1 Gourd Guiro 2 Gourd Cabasas 1 Metal Cabasa 1 Afuche 9 Maracas 1 Tamborim 3 Tambourines 1 Pandeiro 2 Castanet Pairs 1 Kokiriko 1 Latin Cricket 1 Ching Chock 1 Frog Rasp Large
ANTIQUE Antique Wind Instruments: 23 1 Recorder, Sopranino 1 Recorder, Treble 2 Recorders, Soprano 1 Recorder, Tenor 1 Recorder, Descant 1 Shawm 2 Basset Shawms 2 Crumhorns 2 Pommers 2 Curtals 1 Piano Flute 2 Sarrusophones 1 Heckelphone 1 Basset Horn 1 Bombard1 Racket 1 Great Bass Racket
BAND Band Wind Instruments: 17 2 Flutes, Jazz 2 Clarinets, Jazz 2 Jazz Sax, Soprano 2 Jazz Sax, Alto 2 Jazz Sax, Tenor 2 Jazz Sax, Baritone 2 Sax, Bass 2 Tubax 1 Sax, Contrabass
Antique Brass Instruments: 14 2 Trumpets, Baroque 2 Cornets 2 Cornetts 2 Ophicleides 2 Serpents 2 Trumpets, Slide 2 Sacbuts HARPS Harps: 4 2 Orchestral Pedal Harps 1 Paraguayan Harp 1 Celtic Harp KEYBOARDS Keyboards: 18 1 9’ German Concert Grand Piano 1 9’ Austrian Concert Grand Piano 1 7’4” Italian Grand Piano 1 7’4”Japanese Grand Piano 1 Calliope 1 Pump Organ (Harmonium) 2 Harpsichords1 Tack Piano 2 Toy Pianos 2 Celestes 1 Hammond B-3 1 Rhodes 88 Electric Piano 1 Wurlitzer Electric Piano 1 Clavinette 1 Farfisa Organ MUSIC EFFECTS Music Effect Instruments: 50 1 Waterphone 1 Rub Rods
1 Musical Saw 1 Theremin 1 Glass Harmonica 2 Singing Bowls 1 Wine Glass, Large 1 Music Box 1 Ratchet 1 Vibraslap 1 Flexatone 1 Jew’s Harp 1 Wood Slaps (Whip Crack) 1 Hand Claps Stick 1 Spring Scratcher5 Fire Bells 1 Finger Siren 1 Klaxon Siren 1 Swanee Whistle 1 Boatswain’s Whistle 1 British Police Whistle 1 American Police Whistle 1 Cuckoo Whistle 1 Duck Call Whistle 1 Tweety Bird Whistle 1 Train Whistle 1 Antique Car Horn 1 Tuned Bulb Horns Set 1 Fight Bell 2 Bowed China Crash Cymbals 1 Baton Tap 1 Anvil 1 Chains 1 Coil Spring 1 Struck Heavy Cable 1 The Beam 1 Thunder Tube Large 1 Thunder Tube Small (Continued)
LIBRARY CONTENTS (continued-4) 1 Thunder Sheet 1 Wind Machine 1 Pop Gun 1 Track Pistol 2 Cannons (1812 Overture style)
1 Martin 12 String, Steel 1 Ovation, Nashville Tuning 1 Ramirez, Flamenco 1 Acoustic Bass, 4 String 1 Jazz Stand-Up Bass
GUITARS & DRUM KITS
Electric Basses: 14 1 Fender Deluxe Jazz Bass 1 Fender P-Bass 1 Custom Fender P-Bass 1 Gibson Blackbird1 Gibson EB2 1 Gibson SG Bass 1 Hofner Violin “Beatle” Bass 1 Jerry Jones Neptune, 6 String 1 Dean Edge Hammer, 10 String 1 Music Man Stingray, 4 String 1 Steinberger M-Type, 4 String 1 Yamaha TRB-5 II, 5 String 1 Fretless, 4 String 1 12 String Bass
Electric Guitars: 14 1 Gibson ES-355 1 Gibson Explorer 1 Gibson Les Paul 1 Gibson SG 1 Gretsch Chet Atkins Tennessean 1 Magnatone Lap Steel 1 PRS Santana III 1 Rickenbacker 360 1 Rickenbacker 360-12 1 Rickenbacker Bakelite Lap Steel 1 Schecter Telecaster 1 Sho-Bud Professional Pedal Steel 1 Sho-Bud Lap Steel 1 Washburn “DimeBolt” Acoustic Guitars & Basses: 14 1 Banjo, Closed Back 5 String 1 Banjo, Open Back 4 String 1 Dobro, Spruce Top 1 Cort Steel String, ¾ Size 1 Collings Steel String, “000” Size 1 Greg Brent, Classical 1 Gibson Super 400 1 Mandolin 1 Martin 6 String, Steel
Drum Kits: 8 * 1 Rogers 1 Premiere 1 Ludwig 1 Ayotte 1 Gretsch 1 Yamaha 1 Peavey 1 Drum Workshop DW 22
* All drum kits contain the following original samples: Kick, Snare, three rack toms, three floor toms, Hi-hat, Ride, Sizzle Ride, Splash, Crash & China crash. All instruments have the following basic mics: Close, leakage, overhead, room. All kicks have the following permutations: Non-beater head on, Non-beater head off, Pillow in, Pillow out, Plastic beater, felt beater. Additional kick mics are: outside non-beater head, inside close to beater, outside close to beater.
Total Instruments: 605 (Organ listings on next page)
THE GREAT ORGANS GREAT 16’ Principal 8’ Principal 8’ 1st Diapason 8’ 2nd Diapason 8’ Gamba 8’ Chimney Flute 8’ Spitz Flute 4’ Octave 4’ Flute D’Amour 2 2/3’ Twelfth 2’ Fifteenth IV Mixture III Scharff 16’ Double Trumpet 8’ Tromba 8’ Trumpet 4’ Clarion Great to Great 16’ Great Unison Off Great to Great 4’ CHOIR 16’ Double Dulciana 8’ Concert Flute 8’ Dulciana 8’ Unda Maris 8’ Lieblich Gedeckt 8’ Erzahler 8’ Erzahler Celeste 4’ Principal 2 2/3’ Nazard 2’ Piccolo 1 3/5’ Tierce 1’ Fife 8’ Corno Di Bassetto 8’ Harp
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Celeste Chimes Tremolo Choir to Choir 16’ Choir Unison Off Choir to Choir 4’ SWELL 16’ Lieblich Gedeckt 8’ Open Diapason 8’ Gamba 8’ Gedeckt 8’ Voix Celeste II 8’ Flute Celeste II 4’ Octave 4’ Flute 4’ Unda Maris II 2’ Piccolo III Mixture 16’ Fagotto 8’ Trompette 8’ Oboe 8’ Vox Humana 4’ Clarion Tremolo Swell to Swell 16’ Swell Unison Off Swell to Swell 4’ SOLO 8’ 8’ 8’ 8’ 8’ 4’ 8’
Grand Diapason Concert Flute Violoncello Violoncello Celeste Koppel Flute Orchestral Flute English Horn
8’ French Horn 8’ Tuba Mirabilis 8’ Bombarde 8’ Fanfare Trumpet 4’ Fanfare Trumpet Zimbelstern Tremolo Solo to Solo 16’ Solo Unison Off Solo to Solo 4’ POSITIVE 16’ Quintaton 8’ Principal 8’ Gedeckt 4’ Octave 4’ Rohr Flute 2 2/3’ Nazard 2’ Wald Flute 2’ Super Octave 1 3/5’ Tierce 1 1/3’ Larigot 1’ Kleine Principal II Cimbal II Tertian 16’ Holzregal 8’ Cromorne 4’ Rohr Schalmei Tremolo ECHO 8’ 8’ 8’ 8’ 4’ 4’
Open Diapason Chimney Flute Salicional Vox Angelica Principal Open Flute
2 2/3’ Nazard 2’ Gemshorn 1 3/5’ Tierce III Scharf 8’ Trumpet 8’ Vox Humana 4’ Clarion Tremolo ECHO PEDAL 16’ Bourdon 8’ Gedeckt PEDAL 32’ 32’ 32’ 16’ 16’ 16’ 16’ 16’ 8’ 8’ 4’ 4’ IV 32’ 16’ 16’ 8’ 4’
Open Wood Principal Contra Bourdon Contra Bass Open Diapason Violone Bourdon Lieblich Gedeckt Octave Spitz Flute Choral Bass Nacht Horn Mixture Bombarde Trombone Fagotto Tromba Clarion
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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS •
What is DVZ?
DVZ® refers to the Italian term divisi, which means “divide,” as in dividing a section of monophonic players to handle a chord, which is exactly what live orchestral sections do. Divisi is typically a string term, but the method applies to any ensemble of instruments. We do it with patented software. In order for divisi’d samples to work optimally, every player must be discretely recorded, as we have done with Realtime Instruments™. Conventional sample libraries are recorded with multiple players – even whole sections – per sample such that each additional note played in a chord plays the same intruments again. For instance, if you have a 70-piece string section conventionally sampled and play 2 notes, you hear 140 players. This sounds unnaturally thick and over-modulated. With live musicians, notes are divided among a fixed number of instruments; DVZ does exactly that with samples. Regardless of how few or how many notes you play, the orchestral balance will always be correct and the sounds will remain clear and distinct. An added benefit is that your mixes no longer require compresson or gain riding to compensate for unnatural power buildup with more notes played. •
What is DVZ-RT?
DVZ-RT (Digital Voice Zones – Real Time) is our virtual instrument technology bundle with multiple “powered by DVZ” programs, including: DVZ® RealTime Orchestrator, SPACE™ Mic-Bleed Simulation and AudioPort ™ Digital Audio over Ethernet transport. DVZ-RT, (or just plain DVZ for short) plus your sequencer, 2 or more sample playing computers, and the AI Realtime Instruments™ collection all work together as a unified, powerful, professional tool. Realtime Instruments DVZ libraries, in particular take full advantage of the automatic orchestration capability of DVZ-RT. DVZ automatically assigns MIDI channels to control each sample and allocates notes to implement divisi between sections, between the instruments within a given section and even between strings all the way up the neck of each stringed instrument. Third party software is also used: Music Labs’ MIDIoverLAN CP™ plus AI‘s AudioPort together rely on Ethernet to communicate between multiple sampler computers and your sequencer, providing MIDI control and cross-platform capable digital audio transport. AudioPort Host uses Native Instruments’ Kontakt 3 to play the samples.
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How does DVZ-RT’s orchestration function work?
DVZ-RT’s Orchestrator divides and assigns chords or notes to designated players or sections in real-time. As a simplified example, if you were to play a five-note chord with our strings, the top note would be played by the first violins, the second note by the second violins, the third note by the violas, the fourth note by the celli, and the fifth note by the basses. Orchestrator’s artificial intelligence knows whether the notes are within range of the different sections, sending the notes in any register to suitable instruments (i.e., soloists and 2-musician desks). Whereas attempting to play violins, violas, celli and basses together with a conventional library would create an artificial blend of all of these sections and spread them across a keyboard – or would waste your precious time with overdubs – DVZ Orchestrator maintains a natural, correct orchestral allocation and balance in real-time with no “hard split” keyboard or overdubbing necessary. You can still do overdubbing or inserts in a conventional manner, for instance, to substitute pizz for some of the arco strings, and DVZ Orchestrator will subtract the number of instruments needed from another track and rebalance the previous track to fill in the gaps. •
What patents does AI hold?
We were granted US Patent 7,109,406 on September 19, 2006 for our core DVZ® technology. We have multiple additional patents pending and trademarks filed for our SPACE™ microphone-bleed simulation, and various other technologies involving equal-power synthesis, realistic orchestration, the specialized DER microphone process and related signal processing. As well, international protection has been sought through foreign patents. Multiple trademarks have been filed and registered, and copyrights have been filed as well. Ai is willing to license our technology. •
Can other library companies use our technologies?
DVZ-RT is too important a technology to keep to ourselves. We are excited about making this available for everybody. We will build custom software GUIs for other libraries and license hardware implementations.
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How are Realtime Instruments libraries being delivered?
The first library released, DVZ Strings 2.0, will be delivered on a USB thumb drive at 48 kHz. You can purchase for a nominal price all four sample rates (44.1, 48, 96 and 192 kHz) on a hard drive. Other libraries will be similarly delivered. The DVZ-RT software is downloadable to ensure you get the very latest, up-to-date version when you buy it. •
Will AI sell hardware?
Ai doesn’t sell software or hardware directly; that’s available through our resellers. Neither will we build computer systems for resale; instead we have been working closely with qualified DAW builders to create complete turn-key systems with computers and Audio Impressions software set up and ready to use. Please check our website for details. •
Why does DVZ Strings take two PC samplers to run? Can’t they just run on a single Mac Pro?
DVZ technology does a number of things differently than traditional sample libraries in order to get the most realistic sample library in the world. Everything related to DVZ technology is way more intense. With respect to the Mac Pro, we are developing a port of DVZ Strings to the Mac OS (yes, with fully revised and optimized coding). However, when that’s done, it may or may not be possible for all 70 DVZ Strings to play on a single Mac Pro. Yes, the MacPro has 8 cores, but in some respects even if it had a 1000 core processor, a major bottleneck would remain: the bandwidth of the computer’s front side bus. That’s where all the streaming data has to whiz by in real time. We won’t know how this works until the software port is done. It’s not about voice count alone, as was true in days of yore. With DVZ technology, it’s all about how many voices must be streamed instantaneously and simultaneously with less than one millisecond apart and without glitches and crashes. It takes 35 MIDI channels handle our 70-instrument DVZ Strings library, but this does not equate with streaming 70 voices at once. In reality, the simultaneously streamed voices can be over 13 times that count.*
DVZ Strings uses three digital audio voices per MIDI channel simultaneously, that’s 105 voices all the time. When you play fast passages you can get as many as eight additional streams per instrument due to decay and release overlaps. This means that when DVZ Strings is played very fast and very aggressively at peak limits, the grand total of instantaneously streamed digital audio voices can exceed 940 voices. This doesn’t become a tremendous problem if each MIDI channel has rests and different note on/off demands. However, DVZ is based on the fact that all voices MUST be streamed at precisely the same time and with precisely the same rhythms, overlaps and time-out rests – it’s 35 MIDI channels acting as one. DVZ Strings is the next generation in sample library technology, and with it comes a certain degree of new thinking all around. •
What Uses Are Permitted?
When you purchase AI Realtime Instruments in musical compositions, and can modify them by applying any desirable MIDI, audio or other signal processing to alter them to create a musical composition. You may not alter the samples themselves or redistribute them, either altered or unaltered, for playback on any sampler system. You may use the sounds to create music libraries for resale, but not to create sample libraries that could themselves be used to create new musical compositions. Sound designers or others may not use them to create sample compilations for composer clients. When you purchase a license for an Audio Impressions Realtime Instruments Library package and the DVZ core software package, you get perpetual permission to use these sounds in as many musical recordings as you want without any additional royalties or licensing fees. You are also granted permission to cite Audio Impressions™, DVZ® SPACE®, AudioPort™ and the Realtime Instruments™ package and related technologies by name or logo on any project you create using our samples, so long as you attribute these per our licensing agreement. Logos are available for download on our website. *The reason it’s 35 channels and not 70 is that while there are 70 string instruments in the package, these are delivered as 2 instruments per player and 35 2-instrument players add up to 70 string instruments.
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