Thank you so much for taking the time to reply! I really appreciate your detailed response, and always value advice.

I agree with you about the upright bass. It has a pretty mellow tone that is more characteristic of 50's (and earlier) jazz. I find that it works well in folk music as well. Recent jazz trends seem to prefer a growlier, more present upright bass tone, which I would love to sample in the future.

Where do you feel Orange Tree Samples' libraries are lacking in resolution and detail? The sample libraries use Kontakt's scripting to extensively model the instrument and reproduce details never captured before.

For example, the Iconic Bass: Jaco fretless bass library has the ability to slide from one note to any other at any speed. It has 2x round robin alternating samples with three velocity layers. This is all sampled three times for three plucking positions. It includes legato samples for hammer-ons and pull-offs and utilizes an original hybrid of sampling and modeling to give you realistic vibrato. It even has different release samples depending on the duration of the note. Each string is sampled individually, modeling the fretting hand position to calculate which strings to play.

All the sample libraries are 24-bit and either 44.1 kHz or 48 kHz. (though they are downsampled from being originally sampled at 96 kHz)

For the sake of not changing the subject of the thread, would you like to continue the conversation through email? I would love to get your feedback, and if you feel unsatisfied with any aspect of Orange Tree Samples' libraries, I would really appreciate your input in order to create better sample libraries in the future (or release updates for existing products).