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  • How to load a big amount of articulations?...

    M
    M

    Hi everybody,

    having purchased long ago Vienna Dimension Strings, but not having had much time to become acquainted with it, I have a sort of "pathetic" question...

    I hope somebody will help me. I need to "built" a string quintet, with the usual arrangement: VL 1st, VL 2nd, VIOLA, CELLO and BASS.

    The questions are: how to load, for each instrument, the maximum amount of articulations?

    Should I load "Presets", "Matrices" or "Patches"? And how, where?...

    Should I open more instances (5 for example, one for each instrument) of VIPro in my DAW, or?...

    Thanks a lot for your time and help.

    Best,

    Miki
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    G

    Hi Miki,

    To sum up, Presets are made of Matrices and Matrices are made of Patches :

    - a Patch is an articulation,

    - a Matrice is the chart (in the middle of VI Pro/Standard) containing the Patches,

    - a Preset is a group of Matrices (the blue column on the left of the VI Pro/Standard). The built-in Presets for Dimension Strings are "Regular playing", "Open strings", and "Force string". The last one amounts to the "Sul ..." playing technique (until the note is to high for the selected string).

    To have the maximum amount of articulations, load the Presets.

    Yes, you'll have to load 5 instances of VI Pro to play the instruments separately. The other solution to have only one instance in your DAW is to use Vienna Ensemble, but you'll have to load the 5 instances of VI Pro in it.
  • M
    M

    Hi Groctave,

    thanks a lot for your help. What you say is very clear.

    Now, I only have an additional - and hopefully last - question: wich preset (in VI Pro 2) is best, for amount of articulations?

    As it seems, maybe 01 VI-P1_Small set L1?...

    Miki
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    G

    You're welcome.

    You only have two things to rembember in the preset name :

    1/ L1 and L2 refer to the edition of the library. L1 -> Standard library / L2 -> Extended library
    2/ "Small Set" and "Large Set" amount to the number of articulations. The small set includes the basic articulations and the large set includes all the articulations.

    So, choose Large Set L2 for the maximum amount of articulations.

    As far as I am concerned, I also prefer to load the full Presets/Matrices and disable the cells I don't use in VI Pro. Thus, my basic template is fast-loading (just a few gigas) and allows me to enable "rare" articulations when I need them.