That’s pretty much the standard. I add an expressive patch for Long sometimes depending on the piece. I keep trying to use Eastwest “Detache” for Medium, it’s quite perfect, except that it’s ridiculously loud so I squash the volume dynamic to ~ 64. Sometimes I tolerate it, sometimes not.
@babylonwaves I see you already have an update - congratulations!
With updates please ensure to keep files in the same locations with the same names, ideally only adding new files. I’m keeping mine in version control to share them across my computers and ensure consistency. So I have to check out the entire library and uncompress the new ones - hoping it’s 1-1 still. If they moved around that would be a mess.
Even more ideal is if you had update patches, only containing the changed files. Also if you version stamped the names, instead of ‘latest’ (which when sitting on disk becomes meaningless if all updates are named ‘latest’) that would be better. Thanks -
Ah. I noticed the thumbnail, but was wondering why the narrator couldn’t pronounce Dorico consistently.
we’re doing everything we can to keep you entertained 
Yeah, I’d have to support Dan here, the update process could use a little streamlining. I do realize we’re at v11.8 here, so it apparently has been fine for peeps so far, but I just found it’s easiest to delete everything and extract from the latest download…
There’s a useful third party free open source tool called DupeGuru for Windows and MacOS, which you can point at two paths and it will find files in one that are an exact match for the other in terms of contents and delete them. You can make one of the two paths a “reference” path so it won’t delete from those. If you run this on the original Art Conductor unzipped folder as a reference folder plus the update unzipped folder as a normal folder, it should remove all unchanged files from the update folder, making it easier for you to tell what has actually changed (since those changed files will be the only ones left in the new folder).
I’ve used this program for years in cases where I have multiple copies of the same path or set of files and I don’t want to keep different copies “just in case” they might be different (ex. in the case of a timestamp difference but the same size).
Here’s another video showing you how to set up things:
Michael,
I tried updating using a utility just now, but it did compare timestamp and size, and it still copied almost everything…
Will try with actual file content next time…
B.
Yeah you might have to configure the settings to not compare timestamp and to compare the contents. Dupeguru has multiple ways of matching from what I recall.
These videos show how to set up VSL Synchron Player and Spitfire Player with Art Conductor maps. These were frequent support topics in recent days, so the videos may help some of you as well.
How do you choose in the Library Manager to get the PBT file only in the current project or as system default?
Art Conductor 11.9 Update
New Additions:
VSL Synchron Prime Orchestra Standard
VSL Synchron Prime Orchestra Flow
Spitfire Abbey Road Bassoons Core
Spitfire Abbey Road Bassoons Pro
Fixes:
AudioBro Modern Scoring Strings Snapshots - Aleatoric Pads missing
Orchestral Tools - Berlin Percussion Sine - Snare 2 was missing
Updated:
Orchestral Tools - Layers
Orchestral Tools - Lucent Flute
Orchestral Tools - Mistral Jazz Flute
Orchestral Tools - Modus
Orchestral Tools - Duplex
Orchestral Tools - Salu
Orchestral Tools - Berlin Solo Strings
Orchestral Tools - Miroire
Spitfire - Fractured Strings
Spitfire - British Drama Toolkit
The last email I received from Babylon Waves was for the 11.9 update, so slightly confused by this announcement for 10.8.
Oups …
Working exclusively on solo strings by spitfire, I would like to be sure that they are present in art conductor before buy it. Thanks
I’m sure much of the appeal of Art Conductor is the multiplicity of available maps but I use mainly VSL libraries and the playback templates they provide. Has anybody compared the playback of VSL Prime and Duality Strings Essentials using the VSL and Babylon Waves maps? Is there a noticeable difference? Also, I suspect the reduced price for Dorico users referred to in the OP is no longer in effect but wonder if I might be mistaken.
Hi. Check out Playback Template – Dorico
The VSL maps are in general easier to use and have all articulations of practical use in Dorico, They also load automatically if you use a VSL playback template created with the wizzard.
The Art Conductor maps sometimes cover more available articulations e.g. violins 1 prime has 26 whereas the VSL one has 18 + 2 add on which in this case actually cover the additional base articulations in Art Conductor (Art Conductor does not use add-ons).
For some VSL libraries the EMs from Art Conductor have a lot of additional articulations compared to the VSL ones but most are not practical to use in Dorico e.g. hair pins cannot activate crescendo or diminuendo samples and you have to suppress payback of the hairpin and use a hidden user defined articulation provided by Art Conductor instead if you want to use them.
To be able to do this you have to load a file with user added playing and playback techniques into the Dorico library manager which Art Conductor provides for nearly all instruments. if you do not save the resulting library as your user library you have to do this each time you use the instrument with its Art Conductor EM. The Art Conductor collection is very helpful however for libraries from companies not providing EMs (like the Spitfire Solo Strings mentioned above)
This is easy to fix. Just select all the techniques and change the controller for all selected at once.