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  • Why no Appassionata Legato in any of the SE stuff

    I own the SE, and love it.  In looking at the sample content for the strings plus download, it says "muted, staccatto, and sustained."  However, sustain and staccatto are already in the normal SE set. That leaves me a bit confused.  Also, if anything is to be added, wouldn't legato be the very next priority?  Of course, that is just my own opinion and personal wish, admittedly. Perhaps I am missing something here.  Do I understand it correctly that unless you buy the full appassionata, there is no way to get legato appassionata samples...even if you go further and buy the strings plus?

    This is not a complaint, as I love the product...actually, ok, it is a complaint, but really just my own personal wants. [B]  Yes, I know, most people would put a smiley face here, but sometimes a beer just goes a lot farther.

    Thoughts?


  •  Hello

    in the standard articulations, the app strings are played normal, while in the "plus" articulations, they are muted.

    in marketing terms, I think that if the legato articulations of the app strings were offered in SE, then why buy the app strings package?

    Fred


  •  Maybe, but Appassionata I has spicatto repetition performance, portato, portamento, sforzato, pizz, detache, sforzatissimo, tremolo, etc.

    There is quite a bit of detail in the full set, and that is just the standard.  The extended adds even more, and THEN, there is all of appassionata II.  

    You are probably right though, it is a marketing thing.  Afterall, much of the other stuff is more specialized stuff, but as long as a really key "meat and potatoes" type of articulation is missing like legato or pizz, then it definitely nudges you more toward purchasing the dedicated Appassionata library.  Bummer, but hey, people bright enough to put together a sample library of this quality are probably gonna be just as clever with their business model.  Don't blame them...just bummed that I would have to make such a large financial leap for that one basic articulation.

    Ok, enough wining.


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    If you look here, you can see, it's actually listed as "bonus files".

    So it's probably not meant as one of the actual features, but more like a demo-teaser just to show, how those strings sound.


  • No free lunches etc. I don't see the legato samples as basic though . . . they are the result of incredibly intensive sampling sessions (every playable interval up to an octave, up and down, from every note in the instrument's range is recorded at several dynamics) and no other library has anything like them. I can see why VSL don't want to sell them cheap.[^] (Continuing the food and drink theme . . . )