jbuhler
Senior Member
I didn't say they weren't bad, I just said I hadn't encountered them. Many of @re-peat's examples take work (and unmusical playing) to produce, like the horn example he posted a while back.It's sad that we've come to point where the user defends these issues with a ridiculous work-around. Why on Earth would I want to have the same patch loaded twice just so I could use the low dynamics and the high dynamics separately. At some point, you simply just have to say, "Yeah, these issues are garbage and need to be fixed. Hello Spitfire Support, fix this shit...please."
I mean, if you feel like you weren't let down by that purchase, that's fine but don't seriously avoid the elephant in the room that is those issues. Also, you have encountered those legato transitions because they were just demonstrated to you. It's great that you haven't encountered them in your work but they exist and are very, VERY, bad. It would be really great if the users of these libraries would actually raise hell with Spitfire for releasing such a lazily put together paper weight equivalent to a hard drive.
ETA: The transitions here are irritating but as I mentioned I encounter these sorts of things all the time in libraries from pretty much every producer. I haven't had this library long but I've messed around with both trumpet patches, I'd noted the poor transition in trumpet 1 (it's hard to miss and it's a real limitation) but also that it seemed containable to the transition. I noticed some other weird things in trumpet 2 that seem to have to do with the vibrato (reducing the vibrato made the issue go away) but I haven't experienced anything like the example @re-peat posted. I don't doubt that they exist and if I encounter them in routine work I'll definitely report them. I already noted that the horn 1 legato patch has all sorts of problems and that I don't like the way the open sustains work for pretty much all the instruments (again the transition layers are a problem). The library overall is limited—at the regular pro price almost certainly over-priced for those limitations—but it serves my needs as a supplement so long as I can get it to mix with SSB, and I haven't had it long enough to know yet about that. I would not recommend the pro library for someone who doesn't have another dedicated brass library. Core is harder to say because of the low price point and so the question becomes: how does the library stack up against comparably priced libraries and things like the Kontakt Factory Library?
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