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  • Percussion I Timpani machine gun effect

    R
    R

    Hi All,

    after years of VI I'm trying my hand at the Synchron libraries. I've hit a brick wall on a passage that is quite straight forward with the old VI but with the Synchron player it's the dreaded machine gun effect. I'm probably doing something wrong on a very basic level but I've tried numerous combinations. All three of the Perc I timps (Vel XF rolls, VelXF and Vel) give basically the same results.

    The case in point is the last 35 bars or so of mvt. III of Beethoven's 5th going into the last movement. Once it gets past the repeated 8th notes it does just fine. Although the volume is a bit low (I've seen others comment on this here). I've included some material that might help understand the situation better.

    I can't imagine that even right out of the box it could sound so mechanical. Any help is much appreciated. I would hate to have spent a tidy sum on instruments that I can't make much use of.

    Thanks in advance.

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  • andiA
    VSL Team
    andiA

    Hello RomeBone54!

    I tried to reproduce what you have written, but for whatever reason it sounds better here than on your mp3. Here are some observations that might help.

    - The quavers and semiquavers are programmed mechanically. No wonder that they sound mechanically. The notes in your example are quantized, and all of them have the same length and velocity.

    - If you play the notes with a keyboard, you will hear no machine gun effect.

    - The semiquavers are very fast. This is more or less a roll. I would use one of the roll articulations.

    Best regards,
    Andi

    Vienna Symphonic Library