If I use, say, the staccato articulation from the Violin from the original Solo Strings, and I turn the dynamic range all the way down, the instrument has the same volume regardless of the velocity value of the notes (notes with a high enough velocity to trigger the loudest of the velocity layers may be a little louder, but the volume stays more or less the same regardless of how hard I play a note).
However, if I do the same with Solo Violin 2, notes played more softly definitely sound quieter than harder played notes.
I'm wondering what the difference is. If I had to guess, I'd say the samples for the first Violin were normalized where as the samples for the second were not.