Thanks for the tip!

Looking at the sample names in the set, I believe that I've got the same set in the Miroslav Philharmonik. I hope so - it takes long enough to load! I picked up the smaller Miroslav Philharmonik CE (Classik Edition) library as a $15 deal, and they had a fairly low cost upgrade to the full edition the following month.

It seems that IK has parted the Miroslav library out in refills for various VSTis, which makes it hard to tell if an offering is a new collection of sounds or not. Additionally, Miroslav issued a new library entitled String Ensembles: Composer’s Dream a couple of years ago. Apparently it had quite a number of serious issues, and was retooled and reissued. But it's a different library - more expensive than Miroslav Philharmonik, and only containing string ensembles.

The Symphony Strings 2 SampleTank Expansion lists Violin 38_Oct Slides and Violin 40 slides_OP, which I hadn't seen in my library. If I can find them, I'll see if they're usable. I incorporated slides into my demo using MIDI pitch commands, but true slides would be awesome. If I modify the Miroslav violin demo, I might also work on adding some volume curves to some of the attacks as well, to see if they help ease some of the abruptness. Some of my phrasing needs a lot of work - the transition from note to note is too mechanical.