Very good plugin for solo violin. Many options available

This has replaced all my other solo strings, including Embertone, and with a lot of very good reason. The performances are very well recorded and have character of their own. The legato is virtually flawless. The dynamics are wide and consistent. The shorts can be light and feathery or strong and sharp. Nearly everything is customizable in some way or another.

Between the eight layers of dynamics, the phase alignment that can keep them smooth (though I recommend leaving them off and using the true recordings), the glide mode, the option to use a very convincing and fully controllable artificial vibrato instead of the great pre-recorded vibrato, the notehead feature which automatically layers short articulations over long lines to give the attacks more punch, there's nothing like this library. It has baked in character in addition to a more plain long note articulation which can be combined with a couple types of scripted vibrato.

I have to disagree with the other reviewer. There is an option for fully scripted and customizable vibrato. This library is beautiful and fully unique, and it's a competition killer for me.

This is a library to get to know. It takes a bit of work, but overall it's fantastic.

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A well recorded library with a great system for creating a variety of articulations. However, many articulations have no round robin samples, so it's often the same sample (or note head) playing back.

There is a round robin option which can be activated, but it's off by default and when you turn it on, you know why. They simply pitch shift neighbouring samples to create an alternative sample, and it sounds terrible -- they're so different from the original samples that it's useless.

An additional issue is regarding articulations with vibrato. There is no option to vary the vibrato. You either have a sampled note with none, or some, or a lot. I can understand the challenges of phase conflict when cross-fading between non-vibrato and vibrato samples, but hey, it can be done. Others have done it. It's a shame it wasn't here.

The concept of adding "note heads" (other articulations, typically with more aggressive attacks) to be overlaid onto other primary samples is a great idea. Really a great idea. But again, these note heads have no round robins, and sometimes you can hear the duration of the note head sample continuing under the primary sample being played,. which creates some unwanted effect until it dies. It would be nice if you could opt that
ote head samples only apply the attack, and nothing more.

All this being said, I was able to construct very convincing Appalachian fiddle style performances for a music I just completed, which I could not have done with any other library I am aware of.

I like the design of the interface and how you can create a variety of articulations from combining note heads, But for a library of this cost, the lack of round robins (and worse, the fake RR option!) and no ability to cross-fade through varying amounts of vibrato, limits this library and exposes a shortsightedness on the part of the creators. It could have been great!!! But as it is, it's only pretty good. Too bad.

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