Hello,
There is a demo song on the Elements page by Bill Brown called Ambient 1. At just over half way through the song there is a very fast string run and then the sound of a very haunting percussive instrument. I assume it is in the Elements library and may be the lithophone? I'm hoping this is an instrument that can be downloaded separately.
Also, I own East West's Gold library and it has a patch for 18 violins called "marcato long" I have used it a lot for faster string lines. It has a quick attack but seems to hold a little longer than a typical staccato patch. Does VSL have a patch like this? I own VSL SE, VSL SE Extended and Appasionatta Strings and Appasionatta Strings Extended. While the staccatos in Appasionatta are nice they do not hold very long. Does VSL have a patch like this in any of their libs?
I am not well versed in the terminolgy of the orchestra so maybe I have a patch close to this in one of my VSL libs already? I am just looking for a patch to layer behind the percussiveness of a staccato but still "breath" a bit of "space" into the sound. (hope that makes sense!)
All the very best,
Darren