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FWIW Lots of people do the same "trick" with VSL: doubleing the large string gro

ups by a solo instrument mixed way down to taste.


Yes count me in that group.
I've said it many times before - Lass is a virtual Swiss Army Knife to repair br
oken note connectivity when using other string libraries including Cinematic Str
ings and the ensembles from Project SAM Symphobia. It also sounds superb by itse
lf. For years, VSL dominated the technique of pre-recording and successfully int
egrating legato intervals into their instruments as you play in real time or doi
ng midi mockup via your sequencer of choice. Lass changed all that.
Lass is a heavily scripted library - perhaps some of the fiercest spiccato and s
taccato articulations commercially available. But one beauty of Lass is in its p
rogramming - the legato portamento prerecorded intervals are called up flawlessl
y when playing them in real time.
The other important distinction is that basically with Lass you essentially have
five distinct string sample libraries: Solo, Divisi A, Divisi B, Divisi C, and
full sections (not to mention that on top of these divisions, Lass Violins are a
lso split into Violins I and Violins II).
This setup was brilliantly conceived from the standpoint of advanced string orch
estration techniques: for example, consider a single line played by all 34 violi
nists and as the melody progresses, 8 of them drop down an octave, 4 violins pla
y a fifth below, 4 play a third below, while the solo Violin I & II play a count
er melody. (If you try this trick with any other libraries, you will get midi so
up - it would sound like you had 150 violins playing simultaneously - in other w
ords, it would sound like a synthesizer.)
That said, in the past, one of the boons of string sample libraries years ago wa
s Miroslav - particularly for its lush violas and cellos. From a standpoint rega
rding the lush factor, CS Violas, 2nd Violins and Cellos recreate the lush appea
l of Miroslav in an updated library. No - it won't do what Lass can do - but it
can offer an alternative. CS seems to struggle with legato connectivity but laye
ring Lass repairs that. Because Lass comes in several smaller divisions its poss
ible to get a somewhat realistic mockup layering them together.
Hope this helps!

Edit: the trick to running such a large LASS library is, I've found, to spread i
t over several Kontakt instances. Loading all the patches on a single multioutpu
t Kontakt instance will funnel everything onto one core. If you're really carefu
l with it, it can probably be balanced to run evenly across 8 cores. Another thi
ng that helps is to use VE Pro. Spreading your in-use library across your DAW an
d VE Pro -- like a half and half situation -- helps keep it balanced as to avoid
core spikes.

At least as of Kontakt 4.1, it can spread one Kontakt instance over multiple cor
es, which is a HUGE benefit. Logic still has the limitation with all other plugi
ns I've seen, but it looks like Kontakt has hacked around it, just make sure the
option to use multiple cores is on in the K prefs.
Kontakt even uses HT cores, imagine my shock when I loaded a session and kept cr
anking up the polyphony in one Kontakt instance and saw it going to all 16 cpu c
ores in my 8 core mac.
By the way, I'm a happy LASS user. Great short articulations, really great legat
o/portamento/gliss patches. Other libraries may have more of that "lush" tone ou
t of the box but I'll take the realism and playability.

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