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  • G
    G

    Love the Cantabile Violins! This is what I was hoping for the first time around with Synchron.

    Please complete the series with the viola, celli, etc. I think you have a hit here.
  • 9
    9

    I second all the positive feedback on the Cantabile violins. I think their sound is warm and lively, the patches perform extremely well.

    Congratulations on a long awaited, yet very well done update. Let's hope all other sections are in the pipe :)

    Best
  • P
    P

    First impression: I also love the vibrato, it's way more expressive. And there are some legato transition enhancements, right? Particularly in the upper registers.

    Thanks for the free update. I'm looking forward to see the other sections following.

    But I'm wondering... are these new recordings? Sounds a bit like the Appassionata Strings strong vibrato, but I don't think that you did a mishmash with them, didn't you?
  • PaulP
    VSL Team
    PaulP

    Hi, 

    Great to see that you like those new additions!

    The samples have indeed all been recorded new and exclusively for Synchron Strings (and Herb Tucmandl himself was the muscial director). 

    Best,
    Paul

    Paul Kopf Product Manager VSL
  • P
    P
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    @Paul said:

    The samples have indeed all been recorded new and exclusively for Synchron Strings (and Herb Tucmandl himself was the muscial director).

    WOW, than I say again: MANY THANKS for this FREE update!

    ... (and that you listened to the dissatisfied customers and negative comments) ...
  • G
    G

    Hi Paul - any clarity on whether the rest of the Cantabile sections are in the works? Hope so...
  • D
    D

    Hi. Herb already said that the Cantabile articulations would be available for the other sections in the future. 
  • N
    N
    I love this update, but I am having troubles in blending it with other legato patches of Vlns I, the sound for me is too different...any advice?
  • M
    M

    The things that work for me: keep as a starting point a not too high velocity for all the patches, and use of the filter (cc24) for the non-cantabile patches.
    Beside this I use the combination of Synchron Strings with the SYNCHRON-ized Strings (I use 4 players at the violins for example for this purpose), what also bring the total sound to each other. This makes the total sound also more living.
    I hope this will help for you a little.

    Another thing I do is, that with the Synchron Strings I only use the mics that are the most distant and almost not the near mics.

    I came to this decision after a concert that I visited of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra in the concert hall "De Doelen" in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. I noticed, that in the concert hall the string section sounds so totally different from the studio recordings. It was almost a shock for me (with the emphasis on "almost" of course). So much darker, less harsh, warmer. I was sitting in the middle of the hall. I remember William brought this point in more than once. And I agree totally with him.
    This brought me to the point to just use the mics that are the most remote. 
  • P
    P

    Thanks. A huge improvement in legato - can't wait for the remainder of the sections to be available!