Another vote for "no noise reduction". For the reason Mattias stated. If the user deems this noise unacceptable, they may use a lowpass or even a de-esser or de-noiser of some kind in their DAW. I did hear the noise, but it became pretty unnoticeable after setting the instrument up with some (properly high-and lowpassed) reverb and EQ.
peastman: I listened to your violin 2 and it sounds good to me. I'm not 100% sure about combining the pizzicati, but I can't see it being a problem either.
It is a lot of sfz files though. What do you think about using keyswitched versions exclusively? I know I don't want to have 5 solo violin tracks in my DAW for different articulations, for performance reasons alone (sforzando, reacontrolmidi and an eq on each of them does add up). So I'm likely to go all keyswitched. I wonder if there's an advantage to keeping the non-keyswitched versions, except backwards compatibility?
peastman: I listened to your violin 2 and it sounds good to me. I'm not 100% sure about combining the pizzicati, but I can't see it being a problem either.
It is a lot of sfz files though. What do you think about using keyswitched versions exclusively? I know I don't want to have 5 solo violin tracks in my DAW for different articulations, for performance reasons alone (sforzando, reacontrolmidi and an eq on each of them does add up). So I'm likely to go all keyswitched. I wonder if there's an advantage to keeping the non-keyswitched versions, except backwards compatibility?
