Well… I personally don’t have HSO, and am not sure it is offered as a product at this time. But I would surely not bother with HSO even if it was available.
I feel Steinberg needs to upgrade HSO to HSO2, that will offer all 24-bit samples, more content, instruments, articulations, dynamics, higher sound quality, and a healthy amount of new performance features.
Will Steinberg deliver HSO2 (soon) ? That’s the big mystery, they have not provided any feedback so far. Which I feel is not a very good sign. I sure hope they do offer HSO2 soon. or provide some feedback on this topic.
Bottom line… I don’t recommend you spend your money on HSO, but rather wait for HSO2. or go with other 3rd part orchestral libraries if waiting is not an option.
Just my humble opinion.
Cheers,
Muziksculp