hehee, Thanks Dietz.
About loop points crammed down your throat. Thats not really an issue if the upgrade is via Gigastudio articulation files or something similar for other soft sampler formats. What you do is load a file into the editor, load the "articulation file", which contains all the looping info, and then save. Viola, all the loops are put in, in about the amount of time it took you to open, the file and save it.
and if someone cant do that....how the heck do you have the patience to listen to a note long enough to need a loop,...let alone write orchestral music in the first place [;)]
Consider Giga have automatic Crossfade looping, or multiple point looping. If VSL offers a simple Artfile update for that, you no longer have input loop points yourself.
The idea is that, the software may allow VSL to optimize the samples for later use without comprimising quality, and spending time looping files when other things can be done.
About automatic looping tools. There are actually tools that will do this. One still needs to sift through the thousands of files and make sure they sound good, and ultimately leaving it up to the computer to find the best loop point....really doesn't guarantee you'll GET the best loop point... It could be done [:)]
BTW, having 20 second samples, does not negate the need for looping. Especially if the whole "multiple loop point" thing is implimented. This is an easy way to get slight variations in playing the same sustain notes over and over, without having the need for multiple sustain samples. Any bit of extra variation is a good thing IMO (so long as its controlable)
Another idea that they could easily add is a "self staggering" option for the performance tools, that retrigger samples on its own. How cool would that be?
