Hello VSL Team,
I have a suggestions about both the Synchron & the VI Pro Players, which will make them more Dorico and, in the future, MuseScore friendly.
1. As we know the Dimesion Strings is the only library on the market that supports real Divisi (in general I would like to see this library extended with more articulations and effects... I find it the best String library every created, so I would invest in future expansions)
- I have more experience with VI Pro when it comes to Dimension Strings. The VI Pro is able to handle Divisi, but unfortunately when they contain a single articulation. A single instance of VI Pro player isn't able to handle multiple simultaneous articulations. Most probably the situation with the Synchron Player is the same. Would be really nice if both of them are able to perform multiple articulations, in Divisi, within a single player instance. Possibly this will lead to reducing the RAM and CPU resources needed for multiple instances per articulation.
2. Some degree of controllable AI, that can be turned On (for the needs of notation) / Off (for DAW).
- NotePerformer + NPPE is a pretty amazing AI Player, but it's autonomous and there is no way the performance and the humanization to be influenced by the composer in order to let him / her to leave a personal "fingerprint". The only available corrections that can be made are related to EQ, Reverb and Mics (inside NPPE).
- Orchestral Tools' - Sine Player offers some small of an AI when it comes to the performance of the different samples, which is nice:
- The AI provides and ability for articulation length control, as well as ability for addition of new articulations that were not recorded, but created out of the pre-existing ones. This will seriously influence the amount of the available articulations and effects compared to the overall library size.
- The VI Pro offers Trills up to perfect 4th, while Synchron offers it just to major 2nd. This limitation in the Synchron will disappear when there is an AI.
- The idea I'm having in mind about the AI as part of Synchron and VI Pro players is give us the possibility to tweak some playback aspects and when we are fine with the result to export it as an audio for further post production for final product. In case someone would like to dive deeper and touch every parameter, then he / she should be able to disable the AI.
Both players currently benefit the best the DAW world, but not enough the notation and software like Dorico.
Please, consider about improving both players and make them more Dorico, MuseScore, eventually the upcoming Overture 6 and Encore 6.
Most probably in the future more notation apps like Dorico will appear and surely by the time Cubase will come closer to Dorico in the conception single player - single staff / track. 😊
Best regards,
Thurisaz