Vienna Symphonic Library Forum
Forum Statistics

200,696 users have contributed to 43,206 threads and 259,116 posts.

In the past 24 hours, we have 2 new thread(s), 8 new post(s) and 71 new user(s).

  1. Home
  2. Sample Libraries
  3. Vienna Instruments Libraries (legacy)
  4. Lazy man's crossfade?

  • Lazy man's crossfade?

    V
    V

    As a first approximation, what do you think of controlling velocity cross-fade with....wait for it....velocity!?

    So take the typical jump from 88 to 89 in a two sample patch that some may find to be harsh.  If we turn on velocity cross fade and set it to be controlled by note velocity, then shouldn't that average out the samples pretty well?

    Is there something wrong with this approach?  If not, then how come I have never seen it mentioned?  Here I'm thinking mostly about staccato patches.  I see that it obviously wouldn't work for legato and sustained patches.  But for short note where we just want to tame some harshness, it seems like a pretty simple way to go. 

    Thanks
  • G
    G

    In theory, this should work just fine for all short articulations - however, when you use this, it is important you don't have to use any "dynamic" crossfadings on sustains or legatos played by the same player instance.