Sounds really good... but I have to wonder what the CPU hit will be with this update. And to be honest, in retrospect, I truly wish that a basic viola version had been released, as with the violin and cello, just to have had something to work with and to have had more than one version to call upon.
Hi everyone
There is no increase in CPU as far as we can tell. During playback and composing my CPU is at 1-3% on EXP2 which is basically the same as on all the violin versions, so there is no increase in CPU. If anybody is seeing high CPU use, it probably means that they are using 96Khz Version in a project set to 48 or 44.1Khz which is not recommended as the user doesn't get any benefit from the 96Khz because it is being downsampled live in real time by the DAW, so the playback is in the sample rate of the DAW anyways and it will only cost CPU as resampling is pretty CPU intensive task.
Love the demo video!
Can the violin play even faster transitions?
Yes, it can but as this first video is always me playing live on the keyboard to show how it acts when just playing/doodling it is limited by my own piano skills and I can not play much faster then this with decent accuracy. Expansion 1 already contains runs for onbow and now we have added bowchanged variation as well for bow changed legato runs, but if I play live on the keyboard I am not able to reach the speeds that would require it's use. We will of course show it in tutorials and overview.
I'll post the video that is being discussed here once more, so nobody has to search for it through the pages. It is also in the main thread post at the beginning
Thank you for all the kind words everybody and we will do more videos and tutorials as we get into beta next week and the weeks after running up to release