Originally Posted by: Eloy 
Thorsteinn,
Exactly! Example I purchased Afflatus strings -truly a lovely library but, they have no player - the workflow became bad. So, I listened carefully to their beautiful violins "scene d'amour" patch and recreated it with multiple VSL VI string samples in one cell - you cannot tell the difference (using the mixer to adjust sample patch levels). Now I have the "Afflatus sounds" with a better workflow. Plus they are missing so many articulations. Another example- Metropolis ark-a great sounding library with BIG strings - you can recreate that sound with the VSL VI string series- use MIR Pro Teldex(same recording location as all Berlin libraries). VSL recorded real strings dry and gives you different halls to put them in -but, they never showed me (or you) IN A VIDEO that once you own all of the string VI series that you can combine and have virtully endless combinations. Instead you buy new string libraries in the hope that you will get the Holy Grail of strings. But once you buy the other libraries you realize it is not the Holy Grail. That is when I started to listen to what I liked about the other libraries and imitate them. Also once you move the second microphone in MIR Pro to the back of the room and adjust DB-WOW! VSL gives you the best tools- they are expensive,time consuming and complicated. But once you learn them and set up your template (many,many,many months) you can do anything your talent allows. Thank you, Eloy
https://youtu.be/Ehtj_KGV41I
... I totally agree. There is a lot you can do with VSL if you know how to use the tools and can think outside the box to solve the problems you come up against. That's where the "tricks of the trade" videos come in handy, like the one you kindly created for us. They can save you a lot of time, money and frustration.
There are a couple of more gems out there that I found very helpful:
One from Stephen Limbaugh where he talks about his workflow in great detail. The entire video is fantastic, but I love some of his tricks. He uses for example the humaniser to create a custom vibrato when the vibrato articulation doesn't quite give him what he is looking for. Stephen's video can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_7gfkDDZEo&t=196s
Another one is from Corrado Trabuio. He has a passage played by appassionata violins. To increase the definition of the violins, he duplicates the track and assigns the copy to solo violin 1 which he places a bit closer to the microphone in MIR. He then duplicates it again and assigns the second copy to solo violin 2 to create an additional desk. That builds on some of the concepts that you were talking about in your video. Corrado's video can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZozZ74bATw&t=30s
Thank you again for creating the video.
All the best
Thorsteinn