Speaking of 'PLAY' let me tell you-AaaaH!!!!!! lk jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjkkkkkkkkkkklj' jlklklklklklklklklklklk jlkjiiiiiiiiiiiiiii0000000000000 I have EWQL products but unfortunately I have to hose my system down with roach spray before I use it because their Play engine is so buggy. Even VSL's standard libraries will take you a long way. As Noldar pointed out, you shouldn't have to be composing for the samples. VSL's software is so much more intuitive and user friendly. The reason for this is, of course, their studio where they record everything dry and pure enabling you to create your own sonic environments. You can do big Hollywood scores, small intimate chamber pieces with various setting arrangements, experimental avant-garde stuff, Pop music, Jazz, whatever. If all you do is big in-your-face Hollywood styled film scores EWQL will, at least, get you there. But it won't get you anywhere else.
Not to play Dog Pile on EWQL but the reason I never went with them for orchestral samples is because they seemed to me to be a one trick pony in that regard. All in all EWQLSO is like an instant "orchestra-in-a-box" where VSL gets a lot more specialized and detailed. Even EWQLSO's close mics don't sound entirely dry. I'm a fan of the second option because I might want one piece to sound like it was recorded in a hall but another piece to sound like it was recorded in a large studio, or I might want a more dry soloist. Lastly some people prefer samples recorded in a hall or ambient space (like EWQLSO) and others prefer dry samples so that they can apply their own reverb and get the samples into whatever space they choose (like VSL). VSL's libraries come with sampled legato meaning that you get real recorded transitions between notes. EWQLSO does not have legato samples-they have a legato script, but it doesn't always sound great, and they have "QLegato" patches, which are really just patches with the attacks cut off. It allows a melody to sound like a fluid series of connected notes rather than separate samples joined together. Some people might disagree with me, but legato is a big deal in my opinion. Also the modwheel dynamics of VSL are vastly superior to those of EWQLSO because they are also consistent, or for those who don't like crossfaded dynamics VSL also has a lot of very practical "dynamic" recordings. With VSL you always know exactly which articulations you'll have. EWQLSO is not, you'll have different articulations for instruments in the same section as one another, some instruments have modwheel-controlled dynamics and others don't, etc. First and foremost, VSL is unbelievably consistent.
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