Overall this is a pretty good addon for your percussion arrangement. There are quite a few instruments that are missing and important in this plugin. So I hope on the next update they will add the rest of those like the Steel Drum and Rack Combos. The Reverb on the Vibraphone will default to dry so you can fix that in the mixer turn up the Reverb to 100% for your soft mallets.
I LOVE the effort put in to make this a reality. But we need rack combos. Maybe MS as a whole could benefit from enabling multiple unpitched instruments on a single staff, not just the VDL plugin - this needs to happen on a wide scale with user choice freedom!
The only good thing that I got from this was more realistic sounds. Tremolos play cymbal rolls, theres not vibraphone pedal option, notes are delayed, and when a note is released it plays it again. This is a really bad library that should not be $20. This should be free.
no one cares abt all the "enhancements" that are being added. we NEED rack combos!!!!!!
I'm leaving a negative review here in hopes that it's genuinely seen (especially since I'm not the first person asking for this). The sounds here are solid. I bought it wrongfully assuming drumline would be included since that's what the language suggested, but it's still a good value considering everything you get and the relatively high quality. But as someone who's trying to collaborate with someone who uses VDL through Kontakt, not having combined auxiliary percussion parts actively prevents me from being able to write on the same level. This is a very needed change!!
Love it but it needs rack combos. It's a nightmare having to change instruments just to create a rack part.
I love using this version of VDL for muse score but the thing I'm always missing is racks since I always write for marching and indoor.
I believe that VDL and VP are both very good, each having their own unique features. I believe that VP is very wide in instrument choices, having so many that I can barely find a use for them all. The melodic percussion sounds very nice and doesn't sound far away and empty in a way like Muse Percussion does. One of my issues though is that Vibraphone is missing its ability to work with pedal markings, and it seems that other people have had issues with it. Another issue I have is that the suspended cymbal releases are sounding very... funny.. after the release or the "final strike" of the cymbal, the sound sort of bounces and re-swells. Another little bug I've found is that on the marimba, if you give any pitch a 16th stem tremolo, it would turn into suspended cymbal chokes. I tried seeing if the official Tapspace manual for VDL had something about it, but nothing. Im not sure if this was intended, or a pure bug, but its something. Another thing I seen was that when I click on a note, specifically a tonal/auxiliary percussion staff, the sound will continue to play over and over, replaying the same sample. An example would be the flexatone, suspended cymbal, or ratchet. But overall, bugs behind, this is a dang well sound for Musescore.
I'm super impressed with the amount of detail that mapping the library with Musescore, especially with its soundflag options. Here are some of my gripes -No option to map multiple perc instruments on one staff -Cymbal rolls are a little buggy (ie not naturally releasing or following the mute release soundflag) -No way to release vibraphone pedaling atm