SSO 3.8

The focus of this release is on filling out the pitched percussion. It adds three new instruments: celeste, marimba, and crotales. There also are minor improvements to some of the wind instruments.

SSO 3.7

• Added staccato and marcato articulations to all the solo brass instruments.
• Added staccato articulations to all the wind instruments (except the various flutes, which already had them).
• Lots of improvements to sound: cleaned up notes with clicks and other noises, cleaned up messy attacks, made dynamics more realistic, etc.
• Looped the tremolo samples for the violin sections.

SSO 3.6

The biggest new feature in this release is a pipe organ. It includes 14 stops in three divisions. They can be used individually or combined to create more complex sounds. An assortment of combination presets is provided, or you can create your own.

The solo flutes (flute 1 and 2, alto flute, piccolo) get a big upgrade. All of them now have staccato and marcato articulations.

The percussion section receives some much needed attention. Timpani rolls have been looped so you can hold them as long as you want. Noisy samples for triangle and finger cymbals have been cleaned up. Snare drum and triangle rolls have sampled releases to create cleaner cutoffs. "Left hand" and "right hand" hits have been turned into round robins. Separate loud and soft samples have been turned into crossfaded layers. The tuning of the timpani has been improved.

SSO 3.5

This release is another major upgrade to the strings, especially the solo instruments.

• Added a solo viola.
• Added a solo bass.
• Added staccato, marcato, and pizzicato articulations to the solo cello.
• Added pizzicato articulation for solo violin 1.
• Added col legno articulations for all string sections.
• Improved the overall sound of the solo cello (corrected the tuning, fixed some samples with bad attacks).
• Fixed a few samples with clicks in them.

SSO 3.4

This release is focused on polishing the details to make the instruments sound better and more realistic.

• The chorus has cleaner attacks, more natural sounding dynamics, and more even panning.
• Marcato articulations now use 2x round robins for the attacks.
• The flutes, oboes, clarinets, and bassoons use a filter to create more natural sounding dynamics.
• Fixed a few samples that had clicks in them.

SSO 3.3

This release adds several new features.

• Legato articulations for all string, wind, and brass instruments.
• The brass performance instruments sound more natural when changing dynamics.
• The horns have a new set of sustain samples with a larger range and two layers.

SSO 3.2

This release expands the strings with new articulations for lots of instruments.

• Tremolo for violas, cellos, and basses (the violins already had it)
• Harmonics for violins, violas, and cellos
• Marcato and spiccato for solo violin 1

SSO 3.1

This release contains the following improvements.

• Added harpsichord (based on the Flemish Harpsichord from Versilian Community Sample Library).
• Added large chorus.
• Improved the sound of string resonance on the piano.

SSO 3.0

This release contains lots of changes to improve the quality and flexibility of the library.

• Most instruments now come in two versions that are controlled differently. The "notation" versions use velocity to control the dynamics of all articulations. The "performance" versions use the modulation controller to control the dynamics of long articulations.
• An alternate solo flute has been added (created by Mattias Westlund).
• The grand piano has been replaced with a much better one (a modified version of the Splendid Grand Piano from https://github.com/sfzinstruments/SplendidGrandPiano).
• The chorus sounds much better than before thanks to volume and pitch corrections on all notes.
• Various other minor changes to improve the sound of individual notes.

SSO 2.0

This release combines many enhancements created by various people since the original SSO was first released. New features include:

• Looped versions of all sustain articulations (implemented by Signal Experiments).
• Looped-decaying versions of all solo instruments (implemented by Signal Experiments).
• Marcato articulations for most ensemble sections (implemented by Peter Eastman).
• Staccato violas (implemented by Mattias Westlund).
• Tremolo violins (implemented by Mattias Westlund).
• Keyswitched instruments (implemented by Peter Eastman).
• Lots of minor changes to improve the overall quality of the library: note volumes are more uniform within each instrument, articulation ranges are more consistent, and a few notes that contained stray noises have been fixed (implemented by Peter Eastman).