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In my previous article, Mac Minis as VSL Farms concept: An Overview, I mentioned that if you wanted to load a significant amount of articulations, the whole Symphonic Cube could well require 10 slaves to run.

Of course, this figure depends on how many articulations you are loading, and how you spread them over your slaves.

The concept of computer farms is only interesting if you can load a basic set of articulations for every instruments, and besides, since some ot the Vienna Instrument collections come with more than 40GB of samples, you obviously can’t load them all. So, you will have to make a choice, and the most logical would be to start with the articulations your are the most likely to use. After all, the goal of this setup is to do quick, efficient and great sounding mock-ups, not to spend weeks refining a one-minute cue.

The VSL team recorded their samples following standard articulations for most of them. Thus, most instruments will have the same basic set of articulations: Sforzando, vibrato, non vibrato, flutter (or tremolo for the strings), half-step and whole-step trills, staccato, slow legato, fast legato, etc. It is then easy to make a choice which will work for most of the instruments included in the Symphonic Cube.

As an example, you could load the following 9 articulations for most instruments:

1. Vibrato / Non Vibrato
2. Sforzando
3. Flutter (Tremolo for Strings)
4. HS Trills
5. WS Trills
6. Staccato
7. Slow Legato
8. Fast Legato

Notice the “/” indicating that two articulations are loaded at the same time: switching between the two will be done with the Cell CrossFader, which creates very smooth transitions.

The Slow and Fast Legato patches are extremely useful to create beautiful legato lines, but they eat up a lot of RAM. So it might not be necessary to load both of them.

As you can see, this setup is limited to the most basic articulations – nothing fancy – because we need to load as many instruments as we can per computer, but also because there’s no need to load an articulation that you’re never going to use. Less is more!

Now, the previous list might not work for you, but you are totally free to load more or less articulations than that. It all depends on your own way of working – and the performance and memory of your slave, because if you’re using a Mac Mini, you’ll be limited to loading about 1.6 GB of samples.

Also, to keep mixing simple, it is better to group each instrument by orchestra section, for example:

• Slave #1: Flutes a3, Flute1, Flute 2, Piccolo, Alto Flute, Oboes a3, Oboe 1, Oboe 2, English Horn 1, English Horn 2
• Slave #2: Clarinets a3, Clarinet 1, Clarinet 2, Eb Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Basoons a3, Basson, Contrabassoon
• Slave #3: Horns, Horns a4, Horns a8, Triple Horn, Vienna Horn, Trombones a3, Tenor Trombone, Bass Trombone, Contrabass Trombone, Cimbasso
• Slave #4: Trumpets a3, Trumpet, Muted Trumpet, Piccolo Trumpet, Bass Trumpet, Wagner Tuba, Contrabass Tuba
• Slave #5: Percussion
• Slave #6: Percussion
• Slave #7: Orchestral Violins I, Orchestral Violins II, Orchestral Violas, Chamber Violins I, Chamber Violins II, Chamber Violas
• Slave #8: Orchestral Cellos, Orchestral Basses, Chamber Cellos, Chamber Basses
• Slave #9: Solo Violin, Solo Viola
• Slave #10: Solo Cello, Solo Bass

Remember that even though we are far from loading all the VI articulations, this setup will already give you plenty of power and flexibility to realize very advanced mock-ups, in a very short time.

Notice that two slaves are being used for the percussion. You might find that you do not need that many percussion, and only one slave will be enough for you.

You will also notice that Harps are not loaded in this setup, because using one slave just for them would be a bit overkill. I suggest loading them directly in your sequencer as a plug-in. However, If you really want to load them in the background, then you will probably want to use an ADAT (Lightpipe) FireWire interface on one of the slave, because if you don’t, the instrument will come out the same stereo pair as the other instruments loaded on that slave.

Indeed, since an ADAT interface provides four additional stereo outputs, you will get much more flexibility over mixing, and won’t be forced to load, on the same slave, instruments from the same orchestral sections.

Related Article: Mac Minis as VSL Farms: An Overview
Related Article: Mac Minis as VSL Farms: Audio Routing

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