Virtual Playing Orchestra - official release

[Paul Battersby]

(11-15-2016, 04:28 PM)Michael Willis Wrote: A 1.1 release already?

Even before version 1.0 was released, I had plans for a 1.1 version but this is not the update I had in mind. I still have plans for more updates. I might add a few more instruments (perhaps in a version 1.2) and I might go back and loop all the samples (that would be version 2.0). Not because I want an unrealistic oboe player, for example, with infinite lung capacity but because some of the samples are too short and with looped samples, the composer can decide how big a musician's lungs are. I already know I can make the samples longer, but if I'm going to do that, I might as well loop them. That's my thinking at the moment but that would be a lot of work. At least as much work as I've already done.

(11-15-2016, 04:28 PM)Michael Willis Wrote: I thought you were burned out

I've had some rest.  

(11-15-2016, 04:28 PM)Michael Willis Wrote: ... said you would let 1.0 sit for a long time? You just couldn't leave it alone... rabbit hole indeed.

I think what I said was that I wanted version 1.0 to last for a while without the need for bug fixes, but that's entirely dependent on a lack of a need for bug fixes. I found a bug, other things that should be adjusted, and also realized that a quick and dirty patch I had created for Sonatina Symphonic Orchestra, a simple combination of cello and 1st violin, or something like it, was still needed, by me, for use with my library as a composing tool. That's where the "all-strings" patch and others came from. I found the right .sfz opcodes to make those patches and wanted to share them as soon as I could.