What a delight, a celebration, a relief to have runs and minor/major 3rd trills. I had to dig back into my VI Orchestral Strings libraries to slip those into my Synchron mixes when needed. In fact I had asked the forum if Herb planned to Synchron-ize the Orchestral Strings for just those sounds.
And Duality incorporates the slur sound, previously limited to the Elite Strings.
Alas, I miss the dyn 2s, 3s, 4s. I'm guessing VSL decided that the CC's could perform the same end result without dedicated patches. (But those dyn patches are convenient, dramatic and inspiring, if ever VSL has the time to add them -- like pre-recorded trills are more convenient than perf-trills, and friendlier to notation.)
While I'm in applause mode, that video of Herb was so cool -- the way he wanted to leave it at a few core sounds and Paul encouraged him to keep going. Poor Herb. No matter how replete a library is, we keep asking for more. And the way Herb told the ensemble to not go crazy with the portamento. Loved that. Portamento walks a fine line between sweet and cringing. It can be the perfect cube of sugar or three bottles of pancake syrup.
(Hmm, too much Orchestral Recipes for me....)
I often think about the wholesale tedium of building these sounds -- the man-hours, the review and error-checking, the acronyms and dimensions and compounding complexities. My days of building sounds sample by sample are long since gone, thanks chiefly to VSL.
