To be honest @dxmachina, I think the pricing is pretty fair. just worried that buying into the loyalty/ first buyer/etc. etc. pricing will not be so fruitful in the long run, looking at what happened (pricing wise) with Modern Scoring Brass.Good morning, folks. Pricing always comes with some indigestion.
At this point we've committed to a month at this loyalty price... but the intention is to keep a loyalty program.
There isn't an additional discount for LASS LS. It's basically three tiers: (1) new customer intro price, (2) bought any version of LASS Full from us loyalty price, (3) bought anything else from us loyalty price. So if you own LASS LS but not LASS Full you do get a discount... but the largest loyalty discount is and will likely always be from LASS Full.
One thing that maybe bears repeating is that this is not truly a LASS upgrade... it's a new string library. But we've been fortunate enough to be in business for a decade now and wanted to provide a substantial discount to the folks that have kept the lights on for us.
Yes, later this year.
Just to be 100% clear.... both Viola sections (2 divisi sections) are completely new recordings and have articulation and feature parity with the rest of the library. So there's nothing to update... it's brand new.
We did not record a new Solo Viola, but during development we happened to try layering the LASS First Chair Viola and it was a really fantastic sound. So we re-mixed the original viola and included it for that purpose. Think of it as a bonus, and one that can be extremely useful in the section (at least that's what we found).
Sorry if this has caused any confusion... we just wanted to be 100% transparent about the solo viola. Everything else is new.
For quintoles/septoles/etc... there isn't a truly simple way in 1.0 (beyond just playing in the parts of course). I can probably offer you relatively quick solutions in a few cases, but something like this could definitely be better done in an update without too much fuss. We're feature-locked for release now, but I'll certainly add it to the ideas list.
This will be easier to demo in a video, but right now the options for scales are:
*Select any key and tonality/mode
1. Diatonic Held mode: hold a note and the scale will continue up or down in the key/tonality you've chosen. You can start on non-diatonic chord tones
2. Chromatic Held mode: same as above, just chromatic
3. Start-End note mode: Play the scale start and end notes and the scale will play. Again, you can start and/or end on non-diatonic notes.
4. Fully manual mode: Play scale elements of tuplets or 16ths in various combinations
(there are also octave modes as well as tempo synched full octave Maj/Min runs)
In terms of completely custom scales that fall outside the realm of what that gives you you can either manually combine scale elements (#4) or use playable runs.
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Hopefully that answers a few questions anyway. For those doing the math here's something fun to think about... LASS Full is around 17GB for 20 sections. MSS is by far the most extensive thing we're ever done. It's taken us the better part of a decade to figure out how to do something with a scope this large. There were no corners cut. Pretty soon you'll take a listen and decide for yourselves.
Excited to hear the library either way.
