I understand re the 2nd violins, it was just hard to spot this before you told me. Aside from fixing the issue with the mixed up presets, may I give a suggestion to add Violin 2 variations to the root in the preset folders, so that you could chose V1, V2, VA, Cello, Bass, from the same menu, rather than going into to the menu again and selecting I or II (even though V1 and V2 are just variations of the same, it would still seem more elegant in the menu and save some mouse clicks, in my opinion)

Yep, even though technically you of course have access to the accurate presets, knowing that there is consistency in selecting the instruments/presets is quite important, so that we don't have to double check every time. So a fix would be great! And, the General Purpose is pretty key for hybrid mixing so that would be awesome to get fixed in SSV Portrait!

Out of interest, what is your personal view of SSV Wide vs Portrait? When I bought it I was just about to start a project, so I made some quick tests and felt Portrait sounded more natural to my ears, but I didn't really do extensive testing. If you have some thoughts to share that'd be really interesting!

@Another User said:

Out of interest, what is your personal view of SSV Wide vs Portrait? When I bought it I was just about to start a project, so I made some quick tests and felt Portrait sounded more natural to my ears, but I didn't really do extensive testing. If you have some thoughts to share that'd be really interesting!

They follow different ideas, obviously. "Portrait" is the classical MIRx setup, in any sense of the word: Lots of room, long reverb and an explicit sense of depth. "Wide" adheres to the "Synchronized" approach with more direct, in-your-face instruments, less reverb and a clear focus on width rather than depth. The former would be my choice for pure orchestral pieces, while the latter lends itself clearly to the popular "hybrid orchestral" arrangements.

HTH,

Very cool! I'll definitely make some new listening sessions with that in mind!

FYI: VSL software engineers are already looking into the naming/sorting issue. 

Thanks for the hint! That's a known issue which will be fixed with the upcoming release of MIRx SSV.

All the best,

Looks good for me ...?

Well, I don't get it, obviously. 8-/

The latest screenshot looks good here, too, although on an old, non-retina MacBook.

I suppose Rasmus Faber refers to the GUI elements which in MIR standalone show up with the old VE 5 graphics, while within VE Pro 7 they come in the full renewed graphics of VE 6 

That's true, yes - but that shouldn't do any harm feature-wise.

Well, in a way it doesn't harm anything directly, but I suppose that could be said for most graphic updates. It is however one of the few plugins in my system that still is not retina ready, and reading the text on my 4k screen is quite a challenge. It would definitely be a worthy upgrade for such a lovely piece of software, especially since you have a very nice graphic profile since coming with VE6 and Synchron Player.

Happy users make more users, I guess could be one argument? ;)