I’ll add this to the conversation - at the end of my last sampling visit, I recorded a MIDI file from the laptop using the mic setup we had for sampling…. Once the set was done, I also used the same file to play back/record in HW…. You can hear the comparison here: https://www.contrebombarde.com/concerthall/music/57796
The public (and private) guesses as to which was “real” and which was HW came out to a 50-50, so I feel like we did a pretty darn good job. We did choose to redo the noise reduction on the solo and swell strings as well as some harmonic flutes and the 2nd and 3rd GT Diapasons, as we felt we’d overdone the reduction and lost too much character from those stops…