BIG SALE CHOICE: NI's Session Strings Pro with Animator vs Kirk Hunter's Concert Strings 2

Gee, it is soooo wonderful to have two options highly discounted and a few days to make the choice! My main sticking point is playability, and for that I'm very interested in Animator, which is part of NI's pro... I want to concentrate on music/song production with strings as an "element" and am not skilled as an orchestral player... Plus I don't want to get bogged down in time consuming constructions, if you know what I mean...


 I've already boughtk Kirks CB2 and Diamond with their 75% off sale, and they are quite stellar... also, the songs people are submitting to the KVR forum using Kirks stuff, especially the strings are absolutely fantastic, in particular, Andre Van Heren's stuff... http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=331500&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0&sid=288ef7e68f0e2f992cb0a889d6787e83

However,  NI is running the 4 day 50% off sale making their product less costly ($169 vs $199)  and I personally doubt I can ever begin to approach such wonders linked to above and that's the point I'm struggling with!  Animator seems well suited, at least in the Pro version, to really enable quick rhythmic strings and the 48 gigs size with round robins sounds way better than the basic 2.4gig session strings...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXCc-JPbQ6U&feature=youtube_gdata_player
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ax76Z6NAlLE


and the additional factor being I just got diamond....with lots of strings, just not quite as nice as CS2

Both would be great but I need to choose... diversity/animator vs better quality I think are what it boils down to but what do you think?
Oh, choices choices... 

Has Anyone used SS Pro?  What do you think? How useful are the animator presets and is it's adjustability as intuitive as it appears in the limited videos? 

Any thoughts would be much appreciated... trying hard to save a few duckets for xmas (ivory2 I hope!!!)

Well I got Diamond and also CS 2 and I would find it hard to believe that the NI stuff could approach the sound and playability of CS 2. For the $30 would you really want to sacrifice the sound quality? The interface to CS 2 is extremely good also imho. You don't have to be an orchestrator to appreciate it.

By the way, I can definitely say saving up for Ivory 2 is a good thing. I have a boatload of piano VSTs and nothing comes in the same zip code as Ivory 2 for my money.