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Attention: Make sure that you always choose the legato articulation during the play of the single articulation so that you already get the legato sound between the single note and the following legato note.
Are you saying that if I play Detache-Legato, what I will hear will actualy be Detache-Legato transition note-Legato? As opposed to hearing Detache-Legato Starting Note.
If so, then that is very cool! I had just assumed that when you switched to a legato articulation, that the first note played would be the "starting note" of that articulation, then the rest of the notes would have the "transition notes" played between them. Have I underestimated the power of VSL?
Thanks for all of your very informative posts Beat!
Michael
Attention: Make sure that you always choose the legato articulation during the play of the single articulation so that you already get the legato sound between the single note and the following legato note.
Are you saying that if I play Detache-Legato, what I will hear will actualy be Detache-Legato transition note-Legato? As opposed to hearing Detache-Legato Starting Note.
Yes assuming that you don't leave too big a gap between the notes. FWIW if you actually want a start note, play the detache note short, hold down the sustain pedal (to sustain the detache to its full length) and you'll get a start note afterwards, instead of one with the legato transition.
DG
The legato Articulation connects two notes with a certain "crossing sound". You can hear fingers, valves and of course the special sound between the change of two notes.
These Legato Sounds are making VSL so real sounding. Normally this "two-note-connecting-sound" is triggered when the gap between two notes are smaller than 50ms.
So I believe you got it the right way: You can start with Sustain change to legato play then the legato articulation with no gap between the sustain tone and the legato tone and you will get:
Sustain - "connection sound" - Legato-Articulation.
So you are able to start a group of 4 legato notes with another starting note for giving an accent: sfz-legato-legato-legato ...
And you will have the legato-feeling also between sfz and the following legato note...
Listen to this example (Handel Violinsonata). The "Legato Articulation" would often be too weak for all the starting notes - specially with the second and fast part of the piece..
As you said: Cool!!!
Best Beat
@DG said:
FWIW if you actually want a start note, play the detache note short, hold down the sustain pedal (to sustain the detache to its full length) and you'll get a start note afterwards, instead of one with the legato transition.
I think I understand what you are saying DG, but let me verify. Are you saying to force a start note, play a detache note but don't send a note off message for it -> switch to a legato patch -> send note on for new note which will be a "starting note" for the legato patch?
I think there was another thread about starting notes recently, and you offered the suggestion to add a button to VI that would force a start note to play. I think this would be great if you could assign it to a cc button and when ever VI recieves an ON for it AND the next note played belongs to a performance patch, it would force a start note. This would be handy for both playing live and for editing in a DAW.
