The Vienna Symphonic Library is an innovative, research-driven music software and sample library developer based in Vienna, Austria.To give you an impression of the performance of the libraries, there are a number of free instruments available. These are fully usable (no demo versions) and require a VSL account for download as well as a free iLok account for activation (no dongle needed!)
Having used the EXS24 version of VSL on a variety of Macs, including a dual-2GHz G5 and a 17-inch Powerbook, I have to say that these tools make for a great self-contained writing facility, especially when you add Emagic's Space Designer convolution-based reverb into the equation. Using a multiple-computer Gigastudio setup gave me far more voices, of course, but it's also a more complex configuration to manage, and there's definitely something to be said for a stand-alone workstation, even if it isn't quite as powerful. Incidentally, it's worth mentioning that Logic 's Freeze function isn't, sadly, much help in this department, since the function doesn't allow the memory used by an instrument to be unloaded when a Track is 'frozen' (for more on G5-based EXS24 performance, see this month's Apple Notes). However, if Emagic make this possible, the combination of Logic, EXS24 and VSL will be hard to beat for serious composers and orchestrators. Mark Wherry
VSL Performance Tool free download
The four string ensembles each get a new category of repeated 60bpm quarter notes, and all but the basses get a new set of fast repetitions (16th notes at 150-190bpm), which include crescendo and diminuendo versions. New performances for the violin and viola sections include 120bpm note repetitions played with vibrato, 'performance tremolos' (much the same as normal tremolos, but benefiting from the Legato Tool's smoothing effect), grace notes in a choice of tone or semitone intervals, and 'performance legato grace notes' in which the tool automatically selects an up or down grace note of a semitone, tone or minor third interval, depending on the previous note played (note: on this particular patch, intervals wider than a minor third played with legato fingering result in no sound at all!).
A small selection of unpitched percussion (castanets, shakers, caxixi, guiro and three types of 'jingle ring' skinless tambourine) also gets the note-repetition treatment. Some of you may feel that creating realistic percussion performances is best left to more specialised, groove-based libraries and tools like Recycle and Acid, but the inclusion of these carefully sampled, exquisitely recorded loops once again proves VSL's commitment to giving their users as many musical options as possible!
Vienna is a freeware and Open-Source RSS/Atom newsreader with article storage and management via a SQLite database, written in Objective-C and Cocoa, for the OS X operating system. It provides features comparable to commercial newsreaders, but both it and the source code are free and available for download.
Julia has been downloaded over 40 million times and the Julia community has registered over 8,000 Julia packages for community use. These include various mathematical libraries, data manipulation tools, and packages for general purpose computing. In addition to these, you can easily use libraries from Python, R, C/Fortran, C++, and Java. If you do not find what you are looking for, ask on Discourse, or even better, contribute one!
High-performance computing (HPC) is the ability to process data and perform complex calculations at high speeds. HPC is one of the most essential tools fueling the advancement of computational science.
The Desalination Economic Evaluation Program DEEP is software, available for free download, developed by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). This tool can be used for performance and cost evaluation of various power and seawater desalination co-generation configurations. The latest version DEEP 5.1 which was released in late 2014, adds new features that enhance the financial economic analysis of nuclear desalination plants and already been supported by a new modern user friendly interface.
With an intuitive graphical user interface and flexible system configuration, the user can select different coupling arrangements between power plant and non-electric application (single steam extraction, multiple steam extraction, backpressure operation, etc.). DE-TOP executes thermodynamics energy and exergy analyses of the cogeneration system and produces detailed reports for plant performance at different cogeneration modes. The DE-TOP tool is under continuous development. Currently, DE-TOP 2.0 Beta version is available to download.
This toolkit has been developed by the Agency to facilitate easy finding of any of the Agency's activities on seawater desalination using nuclear power, It can be freely download from the IAEA web site.
The Ivory II features a Sustain Resonance DSP engine for realism in pedal performance and allowing half-pedaling. You have the freedom to enable or disable pedal noise, per the aesthetics of your performance. You can also adjust the lid position to allow more freedom in tone.
In our study, the results are presented separately for each hospital. The usefulness of the tools was considered above all as serving the internal dynamics of each institution. A comparison of the hospitals would have been difficult anyway given the heterogeneity of the composition of the expert panels and the different number of sub-standards that had been discussed during the round tables. But, subject to cultural acceptability of the approach, the formalisation of the mode of application of the V-HLO tool could facilitate its use in an approach aimed at comparing performance of hospitals between regions and/or countries (benchmarking) in order to stimulate innovation and transfer of best practices between institutions. 2ff7e9595c
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