After finally finishing the set up process for VE in Sib, I was disappointing to see that the playback of my orchestral score was full of weird problems. While I'm fairly happy with the actual sound of the strings (orchestral violins, violas etc) there are some issues which will turn out to be dealbreakers if they can't be fixed...
1) After about 30 secs of playback, the strings start to occassionally play in a way that sounds really synthetic/artificial, almost like they're trying to imitate a laser... this is an absolute no-go.
2) Adding a slur (or staccato) to a string passage makes that passage significantly louder than other non-legato passages, which is highly undesirable. How do I fix this? And is there a way to control how an articulation is performed whether in the synchron player or within Sibelius itself?
Just in case it's helpful, my playback configuration uses Vienna Ensemble and the VE SY SE sound set, as well as Noteperformer (active device and sound set). I use Noteperformer for the wind instruments because unfortunately the ones included in my VSL package sound really poor in comparison. I know that Noteperformer is not the issue since I had the same problem when using exclusively VSL stuff in my playback configuration.
Any help would be much appreciated!
