Rich - quite interested in your critique here, but may I respectfully suggest that lines like this:
might pay lip service to respecting a diversity of opinion, yet its very hard not to read his as an insult an anyone who might actually like the library. And, speaking as someone who really likes almost all of what I've hear of this library so far, it's kind of a vicious personal insult on our musical judgement if you think about it, if perhaps an unintended one. I'm interested in your critique - but when I read a line like think I just get that sinking feeling because, well, this is the internet.
And then line like this:
Risks giving the impression that you're further attacking anyone disagreeing with you by suggesting that their moves aren't honest.
Which I mention, because I'm quite interested in the points your making and would really like to seem them substantively engaged (so it's really unfortunate the tone some of this is taking here).
A question though - I do hear that lack of a pronounced attack on the horn you point out - although I also quite like the soft attack in context. Is this the sort of library where you can craft the dynamics of the individual note with the mod wheel? Some library do this brilliant (including most spitfire libraries), buy many not so much. (I'm not really sure what's reasonably to expect from brass libraries - so apologies for my ignorance, the only dedicated full brass library I have is so terrible that Paul and Christian could sample a kazoo and it be over the moon at what an improvement it is (so long as it was in AIR) ). Very hard to tell from what I've seen what capacity we have for crafting the dynamics. You can do this to great effect with the new solo strings, so wondering if the same might be true for the brass?
Update - you do speak to this point to in that last post to some extent in the above - so thanks, that was helpful. So now I'd refine my question to I think much the same thing @jbuhler has been asking - can you get a better attack 'blooming' at higher values of cc1?
Because on its own, what I'd be most likely to conclude from you example that Spitfire probably intended the soft dyanamic to have a soft attack as a favour to people like my self who rally love the softest parts of articulations. And maybe also that I don't care for the build in reverb.
. Thoughts?
might pay lip service to respecting a diversity of opinion, yet its very hard not to read his as an insult an anyone who might actually like the library. And, speaking as someone who really likes almost all of what I've hear of this library so far, it's kind of a vicious personal insult on our musical judgement if you think about it, if perhaps an unintended one. I'm interested in your critique - but when I read a line like think I just get that sinking feeling because, well, this is the internet.
And then line like this:
Risks giving the impression that you're further attacking anyone disagreeing with you by suggesting that their moves aren't honest.
Which I mention, because I'm quite interested in the points your making and would really like to seem them substantively engaged (so it's really unfortunate the tone some of this is taking here).
A question though - I do hear that lack of a pronounced attack on the horn you point out - although I also quite like the soft attack in context. Is this the sort of library where you can craft the dynamics of the individual note with the mod wheel? Some library do this brilliant (including most spitfire libraries), buy many not so much. (I'm not really sure what's reasonably to expect from brass libraries - so apologies for my ignorance, the only dedicated full brass library I have is so terrible that Paul and Christian could sample a kazoo and it be over the moon at what an improvement it is (so long as it was in AIR) ). Very hard to tell from what I've seen what capacity we have for crafting the dynamics. You can do this to great effect with the new solo strings, so wondering if the same might be true for the brass?
Update - you do speak to this point to in that last post to some extent in the above - so thanks, that was helpful. So now I'd refine my question to I think much the same thing @jbuhler has been asking - can you get a better attack 'blooming' at higher values of cc1?
Because on its own, what I'd be most likely to conclude from you example that Spitfire probably intended the soft dyanamic to have a soft attack as a favour to people like my self who rally love the softest parts of articulations. And maybe also that I don't care for the build in reverb.
. Thoughts?
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