) Yes, the tone is great. I like that. But that is often the case with spitfire libraries. They do great work while sampling. It's just the scripting that let's these fantastic samples down. I think spitfire does do their best. But what paul and co do not understand is just how important it is for musicians to interact with these libraries. There are so many hidden controls which should be accesible. I could have done magic with an unlocked Kontakt library. But they are locked all the time. I could tweak and do stuff to my liking. But not here. 5 (!) only 5 controllable parameters. It's just not enough to work with. I don't understand how others can.
What bothered me immediately after trying the library was the omission of same-note-rebows. Which makes writing melody lines such a pain.
I would say a majority of current string libraries feature some sort of same-note-rebow-legato. So for this library to be described as: "The next generation of highly-detailed string legatos", feels like a joke. There are none.
Weirdly the repetition samples WERE sampled. But hidden in the hairpin articulations. But they are timed, so unusable for melodic writing.
Why. Can the spitfire player not interact with the sustain pedal like Kontakt does? It's just such a weird shortcut.
The sustain pedal does not work as one expects, other libraries have worked this out very well. It adds up, gets louder, but it does not retrigger.
When playing chords, it sucks the releases away. There is no release lenght control. It's just to hard to get fluid playing lines. In user demos I can hear the typical spitfire pumping and sucking. I felt so dissapointed. How hard can it be to implement attack and release controls like CSS had done?
As I understand it, the "smoothing of dynamics" is just a basic modwheel delay, which is implemented in a majority of Kontakt libraries. Lauding this as a new feature feels quite strange. (I could be wrong, but It is never explained, but behaves similar)
The sound is great, the playability is not yet. However, the sound is and tone is great. I will use this library. But just not as much as the marketing made me belive. If Spitfire is reading this. I do like this library. But please. These problems should not exist in 2022.
PS. However, I got a very weird unexpected, marketing e-mail after purchase:
"Thank you for visiting Spitfire Audio. We noticed you did not complete your order. For your convenience, we have listed the products you selected below." MY GOD, for my convenience. The begging. Because I could have forgot that minutes ago I was browsing your store? It's worse then amazon shopping mails. Immedialy left a bad taste after I purchased. That is not the way.
