Comment by vunderba

Pianoteq has mostly replaced my old Kontakt libraries in my DAW outside of course, miking my actual piano.

Also Audio Modeling has been in the business of creating physically modeled virtual instruments, including the violin (under the SWAM series), for a while now as well. You can do pretty fun things like map a USB breath controller to bow pressure, etc.

https://audiomodeling.com/products/swam-violin