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  4. Is there a name for this solo cello sound?

  • Is there a name for this solo cello sound?

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    By a happy accident, my drum pads were set on a solo pp sustain cello channel, playing then produces really, really short notes, just a few clocks in length.

    Playing arpeggios this way produces a really beautiful sound, very different to either staccato or spiccato. It sounds almost like the ring of a pizzicato note, but with a bow noise attack. I'm unable to get the same sound by playing on a keyboard, I just can't get the notes short enough, but of course they can be edited afterwards. The notes need to be less than about 30 clocks long, and very soft.

    I guess what's happening in VI is that I'm hearing mostly release samples with just a little bow attack.

    I'm sure I've heard this very 'folky' sound before, and wondered if there was a name for it?  Or would you simply indicate 'very short' on a score?
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    B

     You say <30 clocks.  How many ticks per quarter note are you using?  I typically set my DAW to 120/quarter, so 30 is not very short.  (Why, you ask, do I only use 120 ticks per quarter?  Because I started doing that a long time ago so my brain is used to thinking how many ticks for each type of note.  So far, I have not needed greater resolution than that.)
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    I use 960 clocks per quarter. While I don't need that accuracy for individual note postions, I do find it useful for slipping whole tracks backwards/forward to compensate for their attack times. 
  • C
    C

    "Staccatissimo", I guess?

    >I typically set my DAW to 120/quarter

    That's around 8 millseconds at 60bpm. Too broad for me, I use 960/quarter.