@dpcon said:
Well there's two issues here Christian: One is the original intent of Appassionata which I believe was violins only. Then came all four string groups... then came more articulations per string group then they intended. So if VSL skipped somewhere, they skipped in the right place: the basses. Obviously legato missing in any of the upper strings would have been too much. The other issue is whether the entire Appas collection should have more articulations added. I think it would be a big seller to have a ton of Appass strings articulations.
Note: The Appass basses actually sound a lot like the old Miroslavs (which is a good thing.) I never missed having legato with those.
I certainly agree about the "ton of articulations". Currently I use App as a kind of ambient mike sample, because there just aren't enough articulations for anything other than big tunes. I really miss a short staccato.
Having said that, many of the Ww and Brass instruments could do with shorter staccatos, so I think that VSL is just being lazy and should get off their collective butts and give us more. Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...... [:'(]
DG