I love my Synchron libraries and I love the Synchron player. However, there is one feature I have seen in other sample library engines that I think would add enormous value to the Synchron player. "Borrowed round robins." What is a "borrowed round robin"?
Well basically, instead of taking the usual sample for a pressed note, the player takes the next sample up or down from across the keyboard, and pitch-shifts it to the played note's pitch. And this applies not only to the main note, but also to any transition sample (e.g. legato or detache transitions). What particularly makes this feature so useful I that it removes the machine-gun effect from "back and forth" legato movements. For example, strings playing a slurred quaver (eighth-note) pattern up and down between two pitches. This is an effect which is otherwise extremely hard to achieve.
I find myself still having to reach for competing libraries sometimes in order to make use of this feature. If only Synchron Player could do it, I could live permanently in the wonderful VSL world! So of course, I have little sense of how complex this would be to add to the Synchron Player, but I genuinely believe it could unlock some very impressive capabilities from VSL's existing sample sets.
Best,
Alex
