IMO all sustaining instruments should be available in non-vibrato/user-controllable vibrato versions. Vibrato rate and depth are matters of style and expression that should be controllable by the user, not "baked into" the instruments. The selection of woodwinds that have this option seems arbitrary—why flute and clarinet but not oboe/English horn? The greatest problem for me, though, is the vibrato in the solo strings. I have used these instruments for composing, but I really don't want to use them for recordings to be released. The constant, invariant vibrato gives an artificial "cheesy" quality that I'd really rather avoid.
Another aspect of this is that I compose exclusively in just intonation (using Scala files). I want to hear precise intervals that lock in, unaltered by vibrato or other effects. I may then choose to use a bit of vibrato on sustained tones, but only after the pitch has been established.
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