I hope you knowledgeable people can help a newcomer to VSL...
I have recently graduated to VSL Solo strings after using a MIDI box for about 10 years, firstly with Cubase and now with Logic. I do this sort of thing for fun, not work, so please bear with me if these are horribly basic questions!
I need to understand the basic workflow for creating a single string part. In the good old MIDI days, I have a single instrument which responds (in its very limited way) to my keyboard input. If I play a minim, it sounds a minim. If I play a run of semiquavers, it sounds a run of semiquavers ... etc etc.
Now I'm faced with a bewildering array of different voices and articulations and I'm having trouble knowing where to begin. Let's take a simple example, the opening phrase of the first violin part of Bach Brandenburg 3. Now in Solo Strings, there are different "voices" for different length notes and different articulartions. Therefore, as far as I understand it so far, with Solo Strings, I need to change the "voice" depending on whether I'm playing a semiquaver, a quaver or a crotchet. This presumably means that once I have played in the basic MIDI notes, I have to go through the entire part setting the precise voice (by key switches or otherwise) for every note? Surely this would take an age!
I must be missing something here - probably very basic and I apologies for my naive questions. If I'm not missing something, then how can the workflow be optimised so it's an easy process?
Thanks for your help!
Simon
I have recently graduated to VSL Solo strings after using a MIDI box for about 10 years, firstly with Cubase and now with Logic. I do this sort of thing for fun, not work, so please bear with me if these are horribly basic questions!
I need to understand the basic workflow for creating a single string part. In the good old MIDI days, I have a single instrument which responds (in its very limited way) to my keyboard input. If I play a minim, it sounds a minim. If I play a run of semiquavers, it sounds a run of semiquavers ... etc etc.
Now I'm faced with a bewildering array of different voices and articulations and I'm having trouble knowing where to begin. Let's take a simple example, the opening phrase of the first violin part of Bach Brandenburg 3. Now in Solo Strings, there are different "voices" for different length notes and different articulartions. Therefore, as far as I understand it so far, with Solo Strings, I need to change the "voice" depending on whether I'm playing a semiquaver, a quaver or a crotchet. This presumably means that once I have played in the basic MIDI notes, I have to go through the entire part setting the precise voice (by key switches or otherwise) for every note? Surely this would take an age!
I must be missing something here - probably very basic and I apologies for my naive questions. If I'm not missing something, then how can the workflow be optimised so it's an easy process?
Thanks for your help!
Simon