I just purchased the Syncrhon Strings Pro Standard collection and want to share that these are the most playable strings patches to date for me personally. The agile and bold short articulations play cleanly, accurately and musically. As those of you with classical piano technique, usually we have to play down to the samples responsiveness to get the best sound from the samples. Not with these shorts. PLay away like you are playing a fast piano passage and the strings keep up with no hesitation. Really nice.
The long articulations are especially nice in that they include a soft release option. This allows for larger voicings to be played without the samples building up with the dreaded end of sample build up sound.
I like the polyphonic legatos using the complete sections loaded. They are to be played carefully as I am sure a lot of programming is going on here. But it is possible to get a fantastic legato across many voices being played in one pass. This seems to be a breakthrough moment for this library and string libraries in general.
Add to all of this the value of VSL's pricing for this Standard collection intro pricing and I feel they have the best strings to value package here. I am perfectly fine with the Standard collection with basic mic positions. Thought I'm sure the extra mic positions would be useful for certain mixing uses.