@jaypackard_25214 said:
... I feel like I've paid too much for this software to have to do such tricks...
This part of your answer forces me to jump in here.
I don't know whether you are working with samples for a long time or not. Even if I don't know that:
Using samples for making music means "being ready to compromise" from every single tone to the next.
* So you will never have a warm legato, a sad legato or a joyful legato for example. You only have legato, fast legato trill-legato...
You will never have a diminuendo of 2.56s, of 3.478s 4.67s or of 1.2s. You only have 1.5s, 2s, 3s, 4s, 5s...
Libraries can only offer a small collection of articulations. Even if this is quit a lot it is almost nothing - But...
You can solve the problems of the "betweens" with tricks which DG has mentioned. Your too slow legato-start is quite OK in a Adagio or Andante (...try the Legat fast for a better result). If you are not ready to use such tricks you will never be happy. Or in other words: Making music with samples is not that easy how it seems to be at a first glance. 1minute music = 1 day of working hard (small group of musicians) is not a bad avarrage.
But if could accept using tricks you have the chance to come very close to the reality. Have a look at demos from Jay Bacal. He is the master (in using tricks) here at VSL in my eyes. The price he always has to pay for such a perfectionism is probably a lot of working hours - and the same again[:)].
* The future could bring some more humanizing effects into the fixed sample world. Algorithms could vary the samples, could calculate faster attack times at the beginning of runs 😉 and so on...
humanized piece with cough (at 1:20)
(DeFesch, arranged by Kaufmann)
Why this piece? Another thing is: I maintain, that such a performance isn't possible while playing the VI "live". So don't be disappointed if you have smaller possibilities while playing the VI in the direct way.
All the best
Beat Kaufmann
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