0spic samples in Chamber Strings

[jbm]

Actually, this applies to 0leg, 0porta, 0marc... And I'm talking about the directory-level raw samples, not instruments.

What, exactly, is the intended use of these samples? They have an odd sort of attack, not at all like the equivalent "0spic" in the solo violin; they sound most like repetition samples, to me, with a release-sound preceding the attack of the main note. This "trailing" pitch is like the 02spic, etc., in the way it decays into the onset of the "target" note, only it's on the same pitch as the target (i.e., no interval). Anyone from VSL care to comment?

J.

[herb]

These are repetition samples, they are triggered when you use the repetition function key with any performance-legato (marcato, spiccato) instrument.

best
Herb

[jbm]

Thanks, Herb.

I kind of thought this was the case, but the naming is a little different from the convention (p1, f2 etc. for alternations, and rep4, rep5 etc. for reps).

J.