I re-did most of my Upright Bass tracks tonight, but it's a bit time-consuming to re-map my old matrix-and-preset switching track to the new system, so it's actually taking a bit less time to work on the tracks that I hadn't yet added articulation switches for.
Everything sits better now and flows more smoothly (cross-fades etc.). Whether a small combo setting, big band, or various Latin American genres. I'm using a wider range of settings now than before, due to effectively taking care of most production in the pre-mix inside Synchron Player.
The reverb mostly works well in every context; I'll pull it down to -20 dB in more intimate jazz combo settings. And I'll use Close or Classic as the main mic distance criteria on a case by case basis as well. But there was one main thing that took me a little while to figure out, as there are so many places where reverb can get set in Synchron Player and I didn't really think that was it (it wasn't!): the default for CC23 (Release) is mid-way (at 64), and this is usually too high for the portato articulations.
I'm not criticizing, as this is a CC-controlled parameter and for the longer sustain articulations this is actually a nice setting with or without vibrato chosen. But new users might not think to look at the Release timing or the CC control, so hopefully this will help others who are migrating.
Although I had generally found I needed more post-processing on Upright Bass using Vienna Suite (especially the EQ), I don't need to do much of that now as the mix presets have very good EQ presets that also have very useful settings that distinguish the closer mic positions from the longer impulse responses labeled "Classic".
As I did apply this SYNCHRON-ized version to one piece that I had not yet done any work on using the older VI Pro version, I can easily say that the Synchron library is faster to work with and more intuitive, and along with other work I've done recently to port stuff to SNCHRON-ized libraries, I am finding that the new workflow in Synchron Player is incredibly well thought out, is missing nothing from the old interface, and presents a better prioritized workflow for the most frequent editing that is done.