@Another User said:
if you need a transition from one dynamic step to the next smoother or whatever, you can choose our crescendo- and diminuendo layers or -repetitions.
are so typical. TYPICAL. I'd like for once to hear them say, "Yeah, we should have done that. That's a great idea."
YOU WILL NEVER HEAR THEM SAY THAT.
They will not admit to being wrong , that their library has areas needing improvement. i don't really understand how they could all be like this. All I can think is it is truly some Viennese thing, as insulting as that sounds. It just doesn't make sense, this mass egoism.
I think we should all give VSL $1 each, the day they actually admit that the library in it's current condition is in need of improvement. NOT in a NEW library with more articulations, which is AGAIN just another way of avoiding the issue and giving a work around, ... but in a genuine apology for not having delivered to many customers needs, and admitting that the library is missing things that should have been considered, and that the engineering of their software did indeed miss some very valid strengths if not an entirely different approach to a more practical library.
I mean, this library is not exactly practical. I love seeing VSL tell you "it's practical" and in the same sentence tell you that all you need to do to get repetitions to work is go to this particular thread and read the 7 pages of 40 posts on how to do it. If that's engineering than I guess I'm not a rocket scientist.
Sorry if it's hurts fellow VSL users, but I will not stand by and let them get off the hook so easily. Playing devil's advocate might not be nice for the opposing party, but it can actually be a very effective means towards innovation and improvement. i think listening to customers criticisms, and providing reassurance that the customer is onto something that VSL would consider and is something that VSL had not thought of is a powerful business tactic that the VSL crew do not seem to like very much. Instead, they like to say, "the library is amazing","this is the ultimate library","a great deal of money was spent on this library","the musicianship of this library far exceeds that by others in comparisons".
You know I remember this attitude from when I used to deal directly with the developers of the notation software, SIBELIUS. i would say, could you please implement harp pedalings? The twin brothers in private meetings with me and other Hollywood heavyweights, would answer, "you just draw them with the line tool." Can you believe that? I have multiple instances of them trying to convince us that a work-around was gonna make us happy. That kind of customer relation is useless. What would have made me happy is them saying, "That's a great idea .. we will add that to our suggestion list, and perhaps implement it in the near future." Workarounds are silly excuses.
A real leader admits fault. Every CEO knows that (except one in Vienna I guess).
Evan Evans