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Info from the developer:

Synchronized Solo Strings contains remastered and optimized samples for better sound and greater playability + usability. And it contains the same number of articulations as the original VI Solo Strings. The pre-recorded runs and scales are now easier to use thanks to the time-stretching feature of the Synchron Player. You can even sync it to the tempo of your DAW.

(1) Additional Instruments
Solo Violin 2 and Solo Cello 2 are now included (GREAT for string quartets and it’s an additional choice in timbre!!), so you get more than 150.000 Samples for those 6 instruments!

(2) More variety with the new Synchron Player Time-Stretching feature
Time-Stretching will be great to use with short notes, portamento, glissandos, upbeats, scale runs… but also vibrato control becomes a very interesting topic, and all of this happens in real-time!

(3) Improved Release Samples
- For Short Notes like Detachés
- MULTI SHORTS, our famous performance repetitions with an improved repetition logic (Our Synchron Player “gets” if a note is a starting note or part of a phrase).
- New Release Samples also for our dynamics: A great tool for more expressive and authentic articulations, as you can “exit” the dynamic progression at any time!

(4) Improved Articulations:
As with all SYNCHRON-ized products, we have done our very best to improve our sample database, which, in the case of our SYNCHRON-ized Solo Strings, resulted in
- Many additional looped patches for sustains, trills, tremolos....
- Optimized Velocity XFading
- Dynamic Layers in our Multi-Shorts, to access even the smallest nuances in timbre, with up to 9 velocities
- An improved calibration of the volume levels within the instrument itself and in correlation to all Synchron Series products.

(5) Sul Tasto / Normal / Ponticello XFade
You even get Sul Tasto and Ponticello Legato, with a great possibility to blend between those playing techniques for all essential articulations.

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Introductory discount: 475€ / regular 595€
If you own:
- VI Solo Strings I Std: 290€
- VI Solo Strings I Full: 105€
- VI Solo Strings I Full + Solo Violin 2 + Solo Cello 2: 35€

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Great deal for me, I can get this for 35 Euros !

But... Do I need this library ? I doubt it.

I'm happy with the original VI versions. of VSL Solo Strings. Plus, I don't hear a huge difference between the original and the new Synchron-ized versions.

I also wonder if the release of the Synchron-ized version of this library, would indicate that VSL won't be making a real-Synchron Solo Strings library (Recorded/Sampled from scratch in their Synchron Stage).

It would be interesting to read some feedback about this library on the forum.

Thanks,
Muziksculp

I’m thinking of getting this library, I have only had a cursory look at it, and haven’t listened to it through proper monitors, but it seems to be pretty comprehensive on first look.

I have two solo string libraries currently, and neither of them really seems to manage to recreate what I hear in my head. This looks as if there is a lot more to it, though it seems to have some real depth and breadth - meaning a lot of learning this library.
At least you can return it if it turns out to be a lemon, but I have a fair few Synchron libraries now, and most of them I’m pretty happy with.
I shall however, hang on till the end of the month, as these are uncertain times at the moment.

I shall have a good listen to this over the weekend....

Comprehensive, consistent, flexible. But a sound that lacks everything that makes solo strings beautiful. There is no life, no warmth, no emotion, no soul. The timbre of that solo violin in Guy Bacos demo - I really don't like it at all.

Linos wrote: ↑Apr 18, 2020 2:26 am Comprehensive, consistent, flexible. But a sound that lacks everything that makes solo strings beautiful. There is no life, no warmth, no emotion, no soul. The timbre of that solo violin in Guy Bacos demo - I really don't like it at all.

I don't like it as well, and I think this demo sounds even worse, I really don't understand how VSL thinks these demos sound good.

That's painful.

Linos wrote: ↑Apr 18, 2020 2:40 amThat's painful.

You can say that again

For what its worth, I find that waaay worse than the notorious BBC Stravinsky demo, and its an official one. Unbelievable price for that result.

Guy Bacos's demo is more illuminating though. Because that is masterfully programmed, and I still don't like the result. Simply because of the unattractive sound of those solo strings.

This time around, it is actually no such bad deal for me! I got the full Solo Strings, so, for 100 bucks I get Violin 2 and Cello 2, which is less than half the price they usually are offered at.

So far, I found the whole Synchonizing business rather questionable, aside from the idea to bring VSL needed cash without actually doing anything new (which seems to have proven difficult with the Synchron Strings fiasco ...). The difference now is, that some new release samples make the older content more compelling. But then again, I am not sure with all of the solo strings I have been collecting over the years wether this one is actually needed ...

As always, if the warm and emotive sound Isn’t there, I just can’t make myself care about anything else, and if Guy can’t demonstrate that it is, as skilled as he is, it probably isn’t.

I had high hopes for the whole Synchronized series because the VSL guys are so nice and dedicated, and I DO like the player, but I am not using any of them.