Thinking about an article about free & affordable orchestral libraries

[Samulis]

I know a bit of history about the EMU Virtuoso 2000 samples. They're from the same source as the E4 (Emulator 4) series samples, the same used in numerous game scores of the late 90's and early 2000's (e.g. Age of Empires). The virtual instrument appears to be a faithful conversion of everything that came in the original hardware Virtuoso 2000, which was as far as I can tell basically a souped-up Proteus 2000. You can also think about it as a stripped-down, ROMpler cousin of the ESI-4000.

I put together a very short history of sampling as part of my first draft at making video guide to sampling. It's super abridged, but here it is-
https://youtu.be/2cNQA0L9mkM?t=1471