@Conquer said:
The vibrato on the Strad is very lifelike -
I think it sound horrible, but as I said above, I have strong views on this sort of thing.
Of course the more that you know about how an instrument should sound, the more critical you can be. However there are so many things wrong with the Strad; for a start, even if you don't play more than one note, the sound it makes is not pleasant. however, I do think that a lot of the problem is that most of the users don't know what they are doing, and the programmers either haven't taken enough advice, or taken advice from the wrong people.
I also agree with you that the future will be less about actual samples and more about modelling. However, we are not yet at this stage for most instruments. The trumpet is a great leap forward, IMO, but there are still things that need to be improved. The Violin is a much more complex issue, but in a very different way.
The other thing to remember is that The Trumpet is incredibly inefficient, so there is no way that we could run a whole orchestra of instruments like this. Contrary to popular belief, it has nothing to do with CPU power, it has to do with ASIO performance, which is not yet up to the task.
DG