5.4 Wind Instruments: Overview 205 with more natural ambience. You should have at least a dry and a wet orchestral library in your palette to give you enough choice and flexibility. New sampled string libraries are being produced constantly, so it is impossible to provide a compre- hensive and updated list. Among the ones I recommend for their flexibility, sonic quality, and compre- hensive sonic variety are the Vienna Symphonic Library, the IK-Multimedia Philarmonik, and the East West Quantum Leap, just to mention a few. 5.4 WInD InStruMentS: OVerVIeW Wind instruments refers to a generic category of instruments in which the sound is generated by a col- umn of air enclosed in a pipe. This category can be divided into several subcategories, as indicated in Figure 5.12. As you can see, the wind instruments family covers a wide area of sonorities and ranges, so it is better to analyze them according to the categories presented in Figure 5.12. Nevertheless, there are some general rules when sequencing for wind instruments that apply equally to every category. As with the string section, one aspect you must remember is to consider your virtual orchestra as if it was a live one. Do not sequence passages that would make no sense to write for live players. This will guarantee much more credible results when dealing with sampled sounds and MIDI parts. Follow precisely the range of each instrument as indicated in the following paragraphs and the voicing that best applies to the nature of the section you are sequencing. One of the advantages the string section has