[…] libraries like ‘Elements’ and ‘Special Keyboards’ bridge the gap between genuine innovation and textures recorded from real instruments, with all the richness that live instruments-capture can provide. Vienna’s Orchestral Library will always be its signature product, yet these supporting libraries, celebrating the weird and wonderful instruments further towards the periphery of concert music have even greater appeal.
John Buchanan, Future Music, December 2007
Playing a real harmonium involves non stop pedal pushing, but VSL have banished the leg strain on their 8GB Special Keyboards by sampling eight harmonium stops, ranging from a plain, hymnal bourdon to the multi-octave wheeze of “Grandjeu’. We can now enjoy long sessions of this folksy Victorian reed organ without coming away feeling that weve been man marking `Chistiano Ronaldo’. [...] All good fodder for the creative composer’s sound palette [...].
Dave Stewart, Sound on Sound, October 2007
Company: Vienna Symphonic Library