Since VSL users are somewhat like Frankenstein's monsters, but instead were created by Dr. Tucmandl and his hunchbacked assistant Dietz in a creepy old tower on a dark and stormy night, and after being created by him keep tormenting him though he tries to lead a normal life - I thought I would write this post.
It consists of what I wish VSL would sample next. Besides what they are already doing, like the Choir which of course is No. 1.
If anyone else has more ideas, please write them in, but the items that I can think of right now are:
2) More Tam-tam FX and rolls. Something like Rite of Spring tam-tam parts with sffz choked, and different speed soft mallet-roll crescendi somewhat like the current suspended cymbal rolls. I don't mean the superball rolls - I mean a normal soft gong mallet. Tam-tam A has a mallet roll but not enough variety.
3) Single desk violins, violas and cellos with two players each, and ALL normal articulations!!! [6]
4) Second solo violin with a softer, more lyrical and less brilliant tone and vibrato. The original solo violin is fantastic and perfect for a brilliant soloist violin timbre but it would be nice to have the variety of a more mellow instrument and also use another as a separate second violin in quartets. Also, with 2-player desks and two different solos it will become possible to completely duplicate almost any orchestral divisi possible with the Appassionata, Orchestral, Chamber, Solo and the new additional string articulations that this particular monster is begging for...