This is an idea I've been wishing for since having the VSL does not make you satisfied but makes you want EVEN MORE!
It would have a basic instrument configuration that would have layered sustain and staccato instruments, which allowed keyboard touch to determine the strength of the attack (instead of having to program separate tracks) but not the dynamic level - this would be accomplished on sustain instruments solely by a combination of pitch wheel and mod wheel. On the Emulator you could route any MIDI signal to any destination, though Gigastudio does not allow that. So you could use pitch wheel - which is useless on most samples - for volume/filter, saving the mod wheel for strength of layered articualtions like detache/staccato/marcato. This can be done partially now, with a "merged" staccato instrument and the mod wheel using layered sustains, however, in this ideal instrument there would also be a LEGATO TRIGGER - like on old analog synths, except using samples. You could play notes with varying marcato accents, but then instantly trigger a legato phrase, or instantly shut it off so that you could go back to marcato or detache. (Or on other instruments the corresponding slurred vs. tongued notes.)
All of this is part of my goal to have a single loaded instrument that can do EVERYTHING without separate programmed tracks. (Though a few things like tremolo, trills, ponticello, etc. can be separate without causing difficulty.) The ideal would be to have all the basic playing articulations controllable in real time on one track, though this is obviously hard to do. Keyswitching is a nice try but doesn't really accomplish this goal. I am still bugged by how much programming is neccessary. You don't "program" a piano. You just sit down and play, and all the difficulties are artistic - your touch, your tempo, your phrasing, etc. This extreme technical simplicity combined with extreme artistic complexity is what makes a true musical instrument, as opposed to a machine (i.e. computer) which is the reverse.
It would have a basic instrument configuration that would have layered sustain and staccato instruments, which allowed keyboard touch to determine the strength of the attack (instead of having to program separate tracks) but not the dynamic level - this would be accomplished on sustain instruments solely by a combination of pitch wheel and mod wheel. On the Emulator you could route any MIDI signal to any destination, though Gigastudio does not allow that. So you could use pitch wheel - which is useless on most samples - for volume/filter, saving the mod wheel for strength of layered articualtions like detache/staccato/marcato. This can be done partially now, with a "merged" staccato instrument and the mod wheel using layered sustains, however, in this ideal instrument there would also be a LEGATO TRIGGER - like on old analog synths, except using samples. You could play notes with varying marcato accents, but then instantly trigger a legato phrase, or instantly shut it off so that you could go back to marcato or detache. (Or on other instruments the corresponding slurred vs. tongued notes.)
All of this is part of my goal to have a single loaded instrument that can do EVERYTHING without separate programmed tracks. (Though a few things like tremolo, trills, ponticello, etc. can be separate without causing difficulty.) The ideal would be to have all the basic playing articulations controllable in real time on one track, though this is obviously hard to do. Keyswitching is a nice try but doesn't really accomplish this goal. I am still bugged by how much programming is neccessary. You don't "program" a piano. You just sit down and play, and all the difficulties are artistic - your touch, your tempo, your phrasing, etc. This extreme technical simplicity combined with extreme artistic complexity is what makes a true musical instrument, as opposed to a machine (i.e. computer) which is the reverse.