Description
What this is
The same instrument as VG Windscape, with the whole VG sound library instead of the thirteen pad sets alone. Everything in VG Windscape is included here, so there is no reason to buy both.
If you already own the VG Wind Ensemble Complete Collection, buy VG Windscape instead. Every sound set you have loads in it exactly as it is, and you would be paying twice for the sounds.
An instrument that draws
Breath moves the brush, notes place and colour it, and a picture is made in a second window while you play. Not a visualiser watching finished audio from the outside: the image comes from the playing itself, so it follows the intention rather than the loudness, and the same piece played twice gives two different pictures.
Twenty two effects, from rain and frosted glass to liquid, kaleidoscope and handwriting. The brush paints out of photographs, a set of which comes with the instrument, and you can point it at a folder of your own. Scenes drift between saved looks on their own while you play. One button records the picture together with the sound and saves a video file.
The visual window runs beside the instrument rather than inside it, so however busy the picture becomes it cannot reach the sound. It needs Google Chrome, which is the browser that lets a page listen to MIDI, and an internet connection the first time it opens, after which it works offline for good.
Sound that can hold still
A picture that builds over a minute needs music that can wait for it. In Pad/Scape mode each of the three instrument sections gets an attack and a release of up to three seconds, its own delay and reverb, and a freeze worked from the controller rather than from the screen. One breath becomes a bed that keeps sounding while the image grows on top of it.
13 sound sets for pads, textures and slow landscapes
Pad Late Thaw
Pad Weather Front
Pad Warm Fog
Pad Slow Amber
Pad Night Meadow
Pad Iron Sleep
Pad Silver Rain
Pad Drifting Reeds
Pad Turning Light
Pad High Frost
Pad Northern Glass
Pad Long Shadow
Pad Black Water
And the complete VG Wind Ensemble collection
Bass Clarinet
Clarinet Bb Bright 1
Clarinet Bb Warm 1
Flugelhorn Warm 1
Flute Ethnic Neo
Flute Jazz 1
Flute Syn Desert
Flute Syn Highland
Flute Syn Moonlight
Flute Syn Sakura
Flute Syn Spirit
Harmonica 1
Harmonica 2
Harmonica 3
Harmonica 4
Harmonica 5
OD Guit Crunch
OD Guit Drive
OD Guit Heavy
OD Guit Max
OD Guit Mild
OD Guit Raw
Saxophone Alto Bright 1
Saxophone Alto Bright 2
Saxophone Alto Lead 1
Saxophone Alto Subtone 1
Saxophone Alto Warm 1
Saxophone Alto Warm 2
Saxophone Baritone Bright 1
Saxophone Soprano Bright 1
Saxophone Soprano Bright 2
Saxophone Soprano Lead 1
Saxophone Soprano Warm 1
Saxophone Tenor Bright 1
Saxophone Tenor Lead 1
Saxophone Tenor Subtone 1
Saxophone Tenor Subtone 2
Saxophone Tenor Warm 1
Syn Air Ghost
Syn Air Sky
Syn Analog Tonewheel
Syn Brass Aerohorn
Syn Brass Alphora
Syn Brass Corvella
Syn Digi Axis Light
Syn Digi Surface
Syn Edge Form V
Syn Edge Rust
Syn Edge Stream
Syn Grit Burn
Syn Phase Density
Syn Phase Fluid
Syn Phase Motion
Syn Phase Vector
Syn Strings Cellix
Syn Strings Prism
Syn Strings Sky
Syn Wave Deepform
Syn Wave Fatline
Syn Wave Lush
Trombone Bright 1
Trombone Warm 1
Trumpet Harmon muted 1
Trumpet Jazz 1
Trumpet Lead 1
Trumpet Soul 1
Trumpet Subtone 1
Tuba Warm 1
Cello Jazz 1
Viola Jazz 1
Violin Jazz 1
Oboe Jazz 1
Oboe Symphonic 1
Oboe Section x4
Bassoon Jazz 1
Bassoon Symph 1
Bassoon Section x4
The instrument
- Built on the VG Wind Ensemble engine: three instrument layers, breath and wind controller handling, keyswitches, harmonizer, portamento, backing track player
- Works with Windows and Mac as a standalone and runs as a plugin in all major DAWs (Cubase, Logic Pro, Ableton Live, Reaper, FL Studio etc.) as VST/VST3/AU
- Compatible with breath controllers (AirMotion, TEControl, MRTAudio), wind controllers (AKAI EWI4000s, EWI5000, Solo, Roland Aerophone AE-10, AE-20, Pro AE-30, Yamaha WX, Yamaha YDS, Berglund NuEVI, NuRad, EMEO, Robkoo R1, Clarii mini, DigiBrass Tilt, Tipsy etc.), and MIDI keyboard controllers. The picture can also be played with an ordinary MIDI keyboard, or with the mouse alone
- Aftertouch, Mod Wheel and Keyswitches to morph and perform sounds while playing
- Articulations: Falls, Squeezes, Soft attack, Accented attack, Bend
- Expressive effects: Expression, Attack, Vibrato, Growl, Wah
- Additional effects: Portamento, Morph Mixer, Chorus, Phaser, Filter, Modulation
- Reverb, delay and stereo control to fit the instrument in every mix
- Custom designed, unique GUI
- Recorded sample quality: 24 bit / 44.1 kHz
- The instrument archive is 1.76 GB for PC and 2.52 GB for Mac. The rest of the sound library comes as several separate archives, about 10 GB in total
- Further sound sets: vgtrumpet.com/vg-sound-collection/
Before you start
- VG Windscape Quick Start Guide: installing, connecting a controller, and every panel of the instrument
- VG Windscape Visual Manual: every effect and every control of the visual window
- Video: “VG Windscape, the instrument that paints while you play”
- The demo runs in your browser, with no installation and nothing to sign up for
