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    Hi, I purchased the solo strings via download last spring and am just now beginning to climb the learning curve. Just wonderful sounds! I'm trying to locate someone in my area (Southeastern Connecticut, USA) to assist me in getting up to speed, but in the meantime, I have some basic questions to get started. I'll start with one: Is it normal for the perf.legato patch to not sustain a second note played after the first one? I get great sustain with the Sus. Vib. patch...but the perf. legato patch only sustains on the first note played. When I go to a second note with a legato touch or even an over legato touch the second note stops after maybe 3 seconds. Is this patch not designed to be used in this way? I have read the manuals but I'm probably missing something there. What I'm really missing is the overall concept of the matrices and their use. I'll keep working on this, but I 'd like to know that the perf. legato patch is at least working properly. Thank you in advance. Mac Pro Quad, OSX 10.6.8 10 gigs memory, Pro Tools plug-in
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    Your legato patches are working correctly, the 'performer' simply reached the end of their bow.  You have a couple of options here: A, you can retrigger the note which will sound a re-bow, as a real performer would do, or if you would like it to sound a but more uninterrupted you can crossfade into a "sustain" patch, though I can only really recommend that if it can be done in an unobtrusive way.
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    @Casiquire said:

    Your legato patches are working correctly, the 'performer' simply reached the end of their bow.  You have a couple of options here: A, you can retrigger the note which will sound a re-bow, as a real performer would do, or if you would like it to sound a but more uninterrupted you can crossfade into a "sustain" patch, though I can only really recommend that if it can be done in an unobtrusive way.

    AHhh thank you. I'll work on that!
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    Back again with another question which may affect the legato issue. I'm having trouble with the crossfade function. I have watched the videos and read Beat Kauffman's very helpful tutorial on how to set up the crossfade using the advanced tab etc. but I can't seem to figure out how to determine exactly which patches I am crossfading between. I'm assuming that it is possible to crossfade between patches on the X and Y axis. Is this a correct assumption? In short, when I turn crossfade on, I can hear something happening, but I can't seem to tell which patches are being crossfaded. I have Solo Strings, download version. Thanks again.
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    I'm no expert so if I'm misunderstanding you, I apologize in advance.  From what I gather though, you're using crossfade correctly, and it's not fading between separate patches, but rather fading between samples within the same patch.  VSL has sampled all available notes in each articulation at several dynamic levels.  When you turn crossfade on, you're turning on "Velocity" crossfade, meaning that the program will no longer play a louder dynamic when you hit the keys harder.  It will instead play a louder dynamic when you turn the modwheel up, and play a lower dynamic when you turn the modwheel down.  Now you're simply fading between hearing a violinist playing softly and forcefully.  You can choose which slider to use for this function by right clicking on the little slider that says "Vel XFade" or something similar and then wiggling the desired slider on your keyboard or controller.

    If you would like to crossfade between different patches and articulations, you can certainly do that too!  You can load them into the slots that appear in the upper right-hand corner of VI's Advanced tab and click the round button between slots.  I'm sure there are other ways of doing it too but I'm drawing a blank right now because I don't have Vienna Instruments open at the moment.
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    @glennhardy said:

    I'm assuming that it is possible to crossfade between patches on the X and Y axis. Is this a correct assumption? Thanks again.
    Patches are not laid out on the X and Y axes, so you cannot crossfade in this way. Presets contain matrices (no crossfade between these). Matrices contain cells (no crossfade between these). Cells contain patches (slot crossfade between patches in the cell). Patches contain velocity layers(Velocity crossfade between layers).
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    Ahhhh OK I think I get it! Crossfades within patches...not necessarily between two patches. And I did discover those slots at the top of the screen. Thanks so much for the help.