Originally Posted by: fahl5

Sorry, but I fear you misunderstood Hans Zimmer Strings a bit. HZS provide You per section (not 9 different Mikrophonepositions) but as far as I understood it only the choice between 1 (Basses), 2 (Violas) up to 5 different recording positions of the Sections. Yes each seem to be recorded with a different amount of Microphones. But you do not have (as far as I know) for each microphoneposition seperate Samples as you have in Synchron Strings.

Hmm, no that is most certainly not true. I own both so I'm not misunderstanding HZS at all. These are the max amount of offered mics, the amount varies per section (and per patch), from the Spitfire page:

NUMBER OF MICS

• 60 Violins - 21
• 20 Violins Left - 13
• 20 Violins Centre - 14
• 20 Violins Right - 13
• Violins Galleries - 15
• 20 Violas Wide - 17
• 20 Violas Centre - 15
• 60 Cellos - 26
• 20 Cellos Left - 15
• 20 Cellos Centre - 14
• 20 Cellos Right - 15
• Cellos Galleries - 18
• 24 Basses - 21

The mic positions are all actual recorded samples, you can turn the mic positions on and off individually (they vary from close, tree, ambient, outriggers, mid distance pairs, gallery mics, and more). Synchron works in the same way, recorded mic pairs which you can turn on and off.

The HZS 60 Cellos long patch really does have 26 mic positions available compared to 8 for Synchron. I'm not sure which five recording positions in HZS you would be refering to. HSZ is smaller in size (180+ gigs) for sure, not because of the mic positions but mainly because it is not as deeply sampled in terms of velocity layers.

The 'flexibilty' which Synchron offers using sliders to do a live mix with mic positions has been available for a while now in other Kontakt libraries as well, although usually less than 8 positions. It's not really anything new, the execution of the idea in Synchron is just fine (from what I've seen in the Piano Synchron player before it kept crashing) but I would hardly call it ground-breaking. It's rather a necessity to be competitive these days as all other library developers are doing similar things. 

Quantum-leap? It's a necessity foremost. Multiple mixable perspectives is not something new. If you're looking for a "quantum-leap" in that regard, Hans Zimmer Strings has way more acoustic perspectives than Synchron Strings.

Same problem here, but using Logic Pro X. The plugin will work a while when you put it into a project, but then suddenly for no good reason it will crash Logic. Logic will then refuse to load the project because it crashes everytime loading the Synchron plugin. 

The only way to get back into your project is to remove the dongle which prevents the Synchron plugin from loading, remove the offending track and add it back again. VERY annoying.

Originally Posted by: V_ad_im

Sy strings buyers, lets go to collect 5 euros each for the Synchron string band to play several examples live for the VSL team so they can finally hear the difference between 'keyboard' SY and live strings legato?)

I'm not sure how VSL implemented the transitions in Synchron, but their original idea way back when they 'invented' it is the best, record the legato transition and the whole target note which follows. That's not what they did here, they seem to have recorded transitions only (I'm even not sure how much legato layers are in the samples) and faded them into the sustains. Now, while that can work fine also, other competitors have done this far far better. Even the aging Hollywood Strings. They really need to sit down and examine where this went wrong, especially since it is supposed to be "revolutionary". Heck, their own, older products have better legato than this.

Originally Posted by: kohlhtor

must i redounload with the new player you say

You would indeed need to redownload the new sample content yes. But the new content is not yet available, as Paul wrote. 

Do you mean the Synchron Strings I player, Paul, or something else?  

I own many of the big flagship string libraries, and I'll take exception to the claim that it's the "greatest" out there. It's not and in fact there are worrying aspects to a degree that I am even reconsidering keeping Synchron on my system, let alone invest in further Synchron products. When VSL announced Synchron I was al giddy, expecting this to be excellent and a revolutionary product compared to every competitor out there, specifically the legato. But right now after downloading all of it disappointment has set it. I can get way more musical results from competitor libraries with minimal effort when it comes to soaring string lines. And while I recognise that the legatos are currently incomplete, the ones which were released are not inspiring confidence. It seems realism has taken a back seat to playability, the legato transitions are extremely short and the destination notes lack necessary liveliness. I'd have expected VSL to take a close look at how competitors have delivered over the past years when it comes to wet string libraries and legato, for you'd want to improve on those rather than release a product which IMO seems to belong in the past. 

Could not find an answer, but is there any integration with NI Komplete Kontrol?

I just pre-ordered the basic set. It's been a very very long time since I bought anything from you guys, I hope you can meet my expectations. ;-)