04-09-2017, 10:57 PM
(04-09-2017, 09:54 PM)peastman Wrote: From my perspective, the absolutely essential articulations for most sections are sustain, marcato, and staccato. Trills and tremolos and such are special effects, but if you don't have those three, it's really hard to create an expressive line. So that's why I wanted to have them for all instruments.
Yep, definitely agreed as far as basic articulations go. But since you mention "an expressive line", not having an articulation is IMHO preferable to having one that jumps out and sounds nothing like the other samples in the middle of a passage. Which is the reason I decided to forego some things in the original SSO. Yes, I could have faked (e.g.) clarinet staccatos with ADSR-doctored sustain samples... but since a staccato clarinet doesn't actually sound like a truncated sustained clarinet I said -- hey! Screw that. Better to have stuff that is there and sounds convincing than having x amount of fake-sounding synth-style articulations. Anyone can cobble together a fake staccato patch from the existing samples anyway, right?
So, while I feel like I shouldn't get too involved in this (I lack time, and enthusiasm); if this is going to be presented as SSO 2.0 with my blessing I'm going to have to ask for some overall quality control and bigger picture thinking. Not so much because it's a big deal to me personally -- I have hardly used SSO for anything, ever, aside from proof of concept type demos -- but I guarantee you that once people start finding little details that they don't like about this new version, it's ME they'll be complaining to, even if I had hardly anything to do with it.
Sorry for being kind of a a dick about all this peastman, I definitely appreciate your efforts. But from my perspective it's not as simple as re-releasing everything with a bunch of tweaks, that doesn't warrant a 2.0 IMO.
