I purchased this along with Solo Cello because it was heavily discounted to the point that I could take a punt. To be honest my experience of these kinds of virtual instruments in the past had been poor, either because the sound was fundamentally synthetic or the experience of using them felt more like programming and lost the feel of an instrument that could be improvised with for composition.
This greatly exceeded my expectations and most importantly I wrote several pieces of music that I would not otherwise have written because I was able to play convincing, musical, expressive violin lines straight out of the box. It looks simpler than other solo instruments I have used but the cleverness is all under the bonnet in how it responds to expression and velocity to give you something you can just play.
Good work Spitfire, I think you could do more to highlight and demonstrate this and Solo Cello on your site, they are a steal for the price and the ability to just play them in a really responsive and organic fashion is really inspiring. Which is the thing you always hope for most from any piece of music tech.
