i dont mean to sound combative here, but form what i understand you spent over $2000 on The SE Bundle. Okay. I do not own the bundle. Being more familiar with strings, i felt i should focus my money on them, so shelled out 1300 for OS 1, Std + Extended. And your complaint is that you are frustrated that you have to spend another 1300 to have the full set of OS1 strings' articulations that i have. Maybe i am missing something, but are you aware that in that $2000+ you spent on the SE Bundle, you also got A TON OF OTHER INSTRUMENTS, too!
Solo, chamber, appasionata, flutes, oboes, clarinets, bassoons, saxes, horns, trumpets, tubas, trombones, percussion, keyboards, mallets, Guitars......
So, although i understand "technically" your gripe, you also have a nearly full orchestra set in its non-extended, non-half-tone-sampled manifestation. Which is way more than i got! :)
My point is, if you were buying the SE bundle to simply "demo" the strings to see if you felt it was worth putting more cash into, you really shoulda just bought the SE Strings download versions. Woulda saved you a lot.
But then you might say, well yeah, but i also wanted all those other instruments too. Which is fine. Well, id love to have all the Woodwinds you have but i cant exactly insist that VSL sell me just the portion of the SE Bundle i want. I couldnt ask them to give me just the WWs for 675, cause i dont need the rest. Wouldn't happen. It was all part of a package. I think it might help to think of each set as its own instrument, in a way, rather than just bonus material.
VSL packages their stuff in a specific way. I know at times it can be frustrating, but over the last few years they have really split things up nicely. Used to be you had to buy an entire DVD collection if you wanted it. But now with the download instruments available, they are way more flexible in getting the stuff to us. But still, it wouldnt be fair of those of us who paid full-on for a DVD collection for a non-DVD buyer to access the same content we have, unless VSL were then willing to make adjustments for those who already do own full DVD collections. And at that point it would be a confusing A-la-carte gone mad, trying to balance out what one person had spent on something, and where else they could apply a fair discount for a different instrument set.
Additionally, since you paid for the whole-tone sampled strings (in your SE bundle) why would you expect to be able to get the full quality half-tone samples from the strings package? To which you might reply, "i'd be fine with having whole-tone samples for the strings Extended package." But then that means VSL completely re-packaging a whole new product, which would be a decent amount of work for them, i would imagine.
I know i'm being wordy. And please, i honestly dont mean to come off as confrontational or gettin-in-your-face about it (my apologies if it came out that way :) ) but we really DO have alot of options with VSL! But nothing in life is ever perfect, and we cant expect to pick and choose every last detail of what we want. Theyve packaged their products in, more or less, a pretty organized and fair way, if you ask me....
Just tryin to give some perspective.
-m