I do agree. And VSL also probably doesn't want to alienate the loyal customers who shelled out the full price for their products. I know I'd be pissed off if I paid $1500 or whatever for Opus 1 only to discover a month later that it was going for a group buy price of $500.

Just from the quality of the demo patches that came with GS3 Orchestra, I know that these samples are leagues ahead of the competition (in most categories- I still prefer Project SAM brass over any other library out there, but that's a preference obviously).

If I had to recommend a single cost effective library to someone who demands excellence from their orchestral samples, I'd point them toward Opus 1. If I had to start all over again, I would go this route. But I don't know if I'd get GS3 version or Kontakt. Kontakt benefits from greater polyphony as it's a plug-in. On the other hand, GS3 running as its own app. has some advantages. And the re-wire function certainly gives one some flexbility.

That may be true, however keep in mind one thing: what Herb said, that he had "deep respect for anyone who does a sample library."

this is one of the reasons that VSL is so good - it is run by someone who is a pure artist.

I've got EWQLSO SIlver loaded up, playing one of the Gold patches. Nice but then I switched to GS3.0 (re-wired in Sonar) and started messing around with the legato clarinet patch...um, don't mean to compare but holy smoley, whatta difference.

Woo hooo! ops: Man, are those jokes ever hilarious . If you`ve ever used it, You`d know that EWQLSO is a Killer Lib. And that takes nothing away from VSL ..They both compliment each other nicely ,rich

I actually just bought the Gold edition through the Group Buy. And I'll probably end up going Gold Pro from there on a bit later on.

Still haven't ruled out VSL though. I REALLY like those legato patches, especially for woodwinds.

Yeah, I definitely think so. I keep going to that legato clarinet demo patch every time I boot up GS3. I feel a bit stupid since I could have bought Opus 1 last weekend but instead went the GS3 Orchestra route. I have Solo as well which is running on my lesser powered laptop but I guess my reasoning was that I wanted mondo polyphony BEFORE I bought Opus 1. It never occured to me, being the dumbass I am, that I could have bought Opus 1 for Kontakt (which I also own) or else, used the freeze featured on Sonar 4 with GS3 Solo....oh well.......