On Monday 01 Dec 2003 11:08 am, Chris Cannam wrote: > So you see, I've generally assumed that most of these fonts were > just designed to have the string ensemble 1 sound a bit more > vigorous for faster passages and the string ensemble 2 be the > friendly wash. That is actually quite a useful distinction. Aha, and I see they are actually coded as Strings and Slow Strings. My mistake. Looking at the font in Swami, the strings (ensemble strings 1 as I was referring to it before) have distinctly shorter hold and release than the slow strings... obviously. Hmm. Chris