[Stig Eliassen]

Ouch!

That did not sound good at all. Appearantly, there's also some poorly edited staccatissimo patches in HS too. I hear a diminished fifth in some of the single note examples. Yikes!

I've read the entire thread you linked to, and listened to all the examples from the HS users. The violas sounded horrible indeed, tuning-wise. Some users claim the LASS also is out of tune, but I don't know if there's any truth to this.

Since I got help to figure out the quirks with Play, I have no problems using it. Since I use Play on a separate Mac, I can use my ethernet console without problems too. Play memory server and Kontakt memory server obviously hate each other, so I use Play in it's own 32-bit instance of VEP, and sometimes Play and Ivory together.

I will definitely wait and see what happens with HS before I decide. Thanks.