Hi Jonathan
I don't have your desired Step by Step - Explanation. But if you are new it is good to know what the Vienna Instrument and the Vienna Ensemble are for.
The Vienna Instrument is VSL's Sample Player. It is able to play all the articulations of VSL.
Inside this instrument you have a Matrix with 144 (12x12) fields. Every field can hold
an articulation. So the Vienna Instrument could hold 144 different articulations...
Try to load only one articulation in a Vienna Instrument into the matrix field "1A".
So I suggest to load a Vienna Instrument (no Vienna Ensemble) into Logic, press on "Patch Assign", drag and
drop an articulation - let's say "Stringpatches/Violin solo/01SHORT+LONG NOTES/staccato" - from the right frame into the field "1A" on the left.
Now you should be able to play this staccato articulation. The Vienna Instrument does not make out the midi channel which comes along with the keybord midi note information.
If you have more articulations loaded (in different matrix fields) you need to have the possibility to select these matrix fields. You can do this with KeySwitches. You can assign them under "Control Edit" (see ring).
How to play a melody with different articulations? >>>here:
http://www.beat-kaufmann.com/vitutorials/vimidi/index.php
(unfortunately the pictures don't quite correspond with the current version of the Vienna Instrument)
The Vienna Ensemble can hold up to 16 of the upper Vienna Instruments. So it is a Host in the Host so to say (a Host in LogicHost).
You can either load 5 single Vienna Instruments in Logic for example or you load one Vienna-Ensemble and load the 5 Vienna Instruments into the Ensemble.
In other words: It is not really necessary to have a Vienna Ensemble in the set.
By the way: If you use the Vienna Instruments inside the Ensemble you need a possibility to assign notes to - let's say Vienna Instrument 5. That's the moment which the midi channel information is important now. Because Midi CH5 information is normally played by Vienna Instrument 5....
If you can't get familiare with the two (Instrument and Ensemble) in the mean time:
Forget the Ensemble for the present and start to work first with the Vienna Instrument(s).
If you know how to work with it, go on and collect some Instruments inside the Ensemble later on.
Wish a lot of success.
Beat Kaufmann
- Tips & Tricks while using Samples of VSL.. see at: https://www.beat-kaufmann.com/vitutorials/ - Tutorial "Mixing an Orchestra": https://www.beat-kaufmann.com/mixing-an-orchestra/