You can see the section size in the photographs...

Sordino would naturally be in S Strings II

"You can see the section size in the photographs..."
Should I count the players Could you see who is playing 1. Violin and who 2. Violin and if the Cellos are divided or not?

Those pictures might be very "informative", but I still would prefer to have the exact number of players per section.

"Sordino would naturally be in S Strings II"

And what will be Viola and Basses  and the sordinos of Viola + Basses?

I still think here is "something" to make more clear especially for those who intend to buy something without exactly knowledge what is not included in this early bird offer.

@Another User said:

And what will be Viola and Basses  and the sordinos of Viola + Basses?

I still think here is "something" to make more clear especially for those who intend to buy something without exactly knowledge wwhat is included in this early bird offer.

You're right, it isn't clear at all. But I think they didn't include the violas and basses in the demo because they just haven't finished editing them. As mentioned above (in the product page quote), the Synchron Strings I will include ALL the strings.

I'm really hoping the Synchron trills are a step above Dimension Strings, those get really buggy at high speeds 

@Grodhisatva said:

I'm really hoping the Synchron trills are a step above Dimension Strings, those get really buggy at high speeds 

Sounds very nice, but I will wait for more demos, like adagios or largo, aso I hope to find some col legno, sul pont and sul pont vibrato, harmonics ( natural and artificials )

oh wow, oh wow oh wow!

Too much excitement - will I be able to sleep the next week until they are availble? 8 velocity layers? Fantastic! plus variations with them.

Really looking forward to hearing the demo's.

all the best vsl with this.

Steve :-)

@Grodhisatva said:

I'm really hoping the Synchron trills are a step above Dimension Strings, those get really buggy at high speeds 

the trills sound choppy when played fast, the viola ones don't even work. 

but yeah pre-recorded? why do you say? could be better

Owner of many VSL libraries, including Dimension Strings complete.  I purchased that in the Pre-production as well.  I haven't used any VSL strings for probably a year or more now, almost exclusively using Spitfire, so this is intriguing.  My questions are the same as anyone else's:  

• What's in the standard versus the full library?  Am I really going to shell out another 350 clams for it without knowing what the contents are?  
• And what is this new Synchron player going to be like?  How much more will that cost me?

Anyway, don't get me wrong, not being negative, just need a lot more information before purchasing.  But overall I love VSL products.  I use Mir Pro and Ensemble Pro and woodwinds every day.  Have just found Spitfire strings to be so much warmer and more expressive, and easy to work with.

Best!

Michael

“I always was very happy to have a good variety of different short articulations the announced Sample content now lists 4 types of large notes but only one type of short notes.”

“- presently we have up to 5 standard note lengths: staccato, short detache, medium detache, long portato and sustained. In the new library there is apparently only: short, long portato and long. How do they relate?”

I'm only guessing here, but Synchron may be able to vary short sounds dynamically, depeding on how they're played -- or at least switch from short to long as the MIDI note and CC's dictate. Consider this from the announcement:

"New algorithms require a minimum of manual articulation switching."

New samples and platforms are exciting, but anything that relieves deep, datailed, endless keyswitching would be genuinely ground-breaking. 

@plowman said:

New samples and platforms are exciting, but anything that relieves deep, datailed, endless keyswitching would be genuinely ground-breaking. 

this sounds nice, but how could an algorithm “know” if you want to play a staccato or a short detache (not to mention more fancy stuff like spiccato, harsh, …)? The information how the attack phase should be played and how long the note should sustain is simply not available at the moment a mere note-on message is received and at which the algorithm would have to pick an articulation. The algorithm could only use the previously played notes to “guess a likely articulation”, but this would strongly restrict our freedom and is definitely not something I would want (or it should at least be possible to disable such a feature). Because with a given algorithm one might either be able to play Haydn or Stravinsky, but hardly both 😉.  

They mention continuous controllers, which could surely be very useful if implemented properly (in particular if they would "morph" different articulations), but this is just another form of manual articulation selection ... and it would be nice to know what exactly they do.

In more or less "worse case" it might be, that those algorithm tends to decide at least some details of articulation selection "automatically" depending to keyvelocity and speed like some embertone or Spitfire patches seem to do. If this makes it more difficult to conciously decide every detail of articulationselection I would regret it.

But....

If we are lucky than they have just streamlined the articulation selection to the musical decisions and reduced the complexity we currently have especially with the very rich samplecontent of VSL-Libraries to handle every variety of articulation type.

What ever "Micro-articulation-switching" will mean, It will be a huge step forward as far it  makes it easier to change certain aspect (Accent, Length, Vibrato, etc.) of an articulation, without setting up the selection control of all possible varieties with seperate keyswitches or CC-data to trigger different matrixfield for everything what might be used as we did it until now. If ever we keep at least the possibility to completly decide each detail of ariculation decision, this could make things very much more comforable. 

At least the Velocitylayer X-Fade seem to be improved as far as I understand in both the soundquality as well as in they way the user could handle it.

I am quite curious to know every further usability improvement to come with the synchron player.

Is the new player is still analysing a midi flow ?

The main problem of the Midi flow is that it does not say :" Play C, velocity XX for YY tick"

It says "Play C velocity XX" an deending of the note length, I will send an "end C"

As ever, exciting news. But it would be very helpful before purchase if VSL could provide some information about what Synchron Strings can do which something like the Dimension Strings can't. I'm not thinking so much about the number of articulations, but more what the basic sounds will do. And especially in the context of being triggered by Sibelius, assuming there will be a soundset.

Hi everybody!

Thanks for all your questions, comments (and speculations 😝)!

It’s great to see that a lot of your wishful thinking are actually very thoughtful wishes 💡

We will add more information in time.

Until then: Enjoy the excitement and anticipation! We certainly do!

Best, 
Paul

Thanks, Paul!

I only wanted to know what “in time” does mean? Do we get more information before the early bird offer ends?That would be great.

Hi,

"In time" means when we are ready to provide more information. We will definitely share more information before the early bird offer ends. 

Best, 
Paul