/vr/ - Retro Games

Is it true that violin samples weren't used much in PS1 game music back then because the hardware was horrible at making them sound authentic until Mitsuda asked one the studio's sound programmers to find a way to make it work for his CC soundtrack? And that same programmer got it working the very next day with little overhead?

I thought I remembered reading an excerpt or article about this factoid online but for years was unable to find it again. Also not sure if true about the violin thing, though I have no examples of other PS1 games that had 'em in the ost.