Audio Impressions

Audio Impressions will be demonstrating the first official release version of their 70 piece DVZ Strings 2.0 sample library at The NAMM Show 2009 in Anaheim, CA.

Description:

DVZ Strings 2.0 allows you to produce compositions in real time with the real-world balance of live musicians that will translate directly to accurate MIDI mock-ups as well as fully playable scores without loading or unloading different samples.

Enhancements in the latest version include re-mastered Strings; microtonal scaling for world music, key-switching options, 3 Decca Tree room mic selections, individual stereo outputs for each string section and AudioPort – a high-quality digital audio over LAN process which links PC’s to Mac eliminating the need for costly sound-cards.

Future releases already in production will include DVZ Winds, Brass, Jazz Band, Guitars, Keyboards, and Pipe Organ, as well as Percussion and Drum Kit suites.

Audio Impressions’ libraries are designed by a composer for composers who use computers to create music for film, videos, episodic TV, live theater and for Videogames.

DVZ Strings Version 2.0 will retail for $2499.00 MSRP.

Audio Impressions has announced Version 2.0 of DVZ Strings, their virtual-instrument strings library that comes with their Divisi technology, which creates real-world, real-time, section balances.

Version 2 Features:

• DVZ Strings now use Audio Impressions’ proprietary software that enables Mac and PC computers to work together and eliminates the need of additional D/A converters by routing the sampler’s outputs into the host computer for improved the lowest latency with less hardware.
• Also improved is the work-flow. DVZ stems can be viewed on separate MIDI tracks with real-time editing for as many as five sections at a time with independent articulations and playing styles, without ever having to load additional samples—the entire library is loaded at start-up.
• Individual stereo outputs for each string section with DVZ stems can be viewed on separate MIDI tracks with real-time editing for as many as five sections at a time with a two octave KBD controller option.
• The strings are remastered and key switches have been added for changing styles on the fly via MIDI Continuous Controller messages that can be edited directly on your sequencer MIDI tracks.
• Included is SPACE, a DSP process which transforms individually recorded instruments into a single live performance and a virtual sound-stage that lets you position the various players anywhere on it and AudioPort, the first Mac and PC compatible high-quality digital audio over LAN.

Audio Impressions has introduced turnkey DVZ Realtime Strings packages optimized for their DVZ-RT and SPACE technologies.

According to Carl Marinoff, Ai’s Marketing Director, the systems are fully scalable, come pre-installed (no DVDs), automatically map all MIDI configurations on start-up and support multi-channel Surround Sound and sample rates up to 192 kHz out of the box.

Depending on whether you need to perform real-time theatrical and stage productions or create music for a score, Ai’s 70-piece DVZ Powered RT-STRINGS requires 3 Apple Mac Pro or Intel Core 2 Duo computers at 44.1-48 kHz operation. For higher audio resolutions, add more PC’s.

NAMM 2006 Update: Audio Impressions’ showed its Concert Series DVZ Strings library, consisting of 60 string players which can be selected on or off at any time, even within the body of a piece. Every possible articulation and playing style necessary to achieve the full array of sounds that each instrument is capable of producing is available without loading or unloading.

AI’s DVZ (digital voice zones) process makes it possible to orchestrate sampled instruments by automatically dividing and assigning the notes played on the keyboard into their proper instrument sections in real-time.

DVZ can divide strings, brass, woodwinds or any other sections of like or non-like instruments and voices. For instance, chords could be divided so that the top note could be a trumpet, the middle a sax and the bottom a trombone. DVZ processing is unlimited and the number of divisions increases proportionately with the number of instruments being played.

This allows entire-section slurs and runs to sound realistic, creating true orchestral balances like those found in the “real” world. The precise number of instruments to be chosen or changed and can automatically generate MIDI parts for accurate score printing.

Other AI technologies include keyboard hysteresis, which measures the key velocity speed and volume over time and adjusts envelopes and time delays accordingly and DVZ processing for guitars determines the correct notes and voicing that would be capable of being played on a guitar for that range and tempo. Read more…