Hi all,
there have been some discussions going on about the quality of the lib and it seems there are some major drawbacks. (To be honest, I have never seen so many negative comments about a lib release and I read VI-control a lot)
In another thread I compared it to drawing the Mona Lisa (discussion with fahl5): VSL promissed a set of different brushes, different colours so we COULD attempt to draw the Mona Lisa. What did they deliver? Some brushes are missing and some colours are wrong. Not even Da Vinci could paint the Mona Lisa with that!!! That's the point!!!
The lib has potenial with its clarity and wonderful lows. But also some major drawbacks that make it unusable for me. What's the purpose of releasing a lib that just sounds so fake. (The human brain is pretty amazing to notice, even for a layman)
Problems I have:
1) The sound should be fuller for this ensemble size.
2) Fake legato. It is possible to play very slow and very fast passages but it is impossible to obtain realistic melodic parts. It always sounds synthy, no matter what I try. The blur function just does not work and even introduces a reverb.
3) Violins are too bright. They cut through every piece and the fake legato just amplifies the synthetic characteristic.
4) The mids are missing. Maybe beacuse the violins are too bright?
Possible solutiuon?
1) Overlap with another instance. (Doubles memory)
2) Manual overlap, delay and attack adjustments. (Time consuming)
3) EQ adjustments. (Clarity is lost)
4) Doubling at lower octaves. (Faking it)
VSL was pretty useless in ADMITTING their failure and in helping me. They tried ot sell me Synch CS to add another sound, ridiculous.
Therfore, do you guys have any other suggestions how to improve (improve in the sense to make is useable) apart form the ones above.
Thanks