Hey,
I think, it would be really great, to see how other persons use the VIPro (or standard VI). So I decided to post my Solo-Horn preset here. The text below gives some instructions on it. I hope it can inspirate someone.
Triple Horn (legato)- User Preset
This is a preset for playing Legato-Horn-passages with the VIPro2-Player, assuming you own all the SE Vol1- and Vol1+-Articulations for the Triple Horn (and the MIRx for Teldex maybe). I designed it for me to accompany scores of other composers for fun. For this purpose, I added an EQ with a major cut around 4100Hz and the Miracle-Teldex-Hybrid to avoid conflicts with the original score and to make it fit better into already mixed and mastered music (The EQ-cut is also good, when watching a soccer game and wanting to be able to hear the commentators and playing for fun at the same time, without having the feeling, that horn and TV-sound fight against each other the whole time ;-) ). You won't find this in my preset, so it is to be applied by yourself if you like.
I will now list some things, you have to know, when wanting to use this preset properly.
1) There are 5 Matrices in this Preset, which you should be able to have access to. Personally I use the Pitch-Wheel for that. I lowered the Data3 of it in my MIDI-Keyboard to 04, so that in the middle position I can play the normal legato. The other articulations I chose are from top to bottom: Perf-Leg-Sus, Rep-Leg, Portato, Sustain. You will find, that I use CC5 for changing matrices, so you would have to change the controller of your Pitch-wheel as well, but of course, you can choose personal preferences here, too.
2) I only assigned CCs to parameters, I really need for my purpose. And I automated as much as possible, so that, a do not have to use too many faders. In the end, I came up to only use CC7 (Volume), CC2 (Expression, Vel-X, Filter, Dyn-Range, Y-Axis-change), Speed (x-Axis change, humanization) and CC74 (MIRx dry/wet). You will notice, that especially the legato-matrix is quite huge. I played around with some parameters there like Streching, Start-Offset, Attack and Release. This makes it possible to play slowlier and faster stuff, without changing anything manually, because attack times etc are adjusted to need. Most things, I did in this matrix, are done for reasons of humanisation and automation. Feel free to play around there. It might be confusing for You, that the other articulations contain 2 slots, although they are identical. I chose to do this, because I felt the need to mark a certain point, where, for my ears, all articulations sound similar in their timbre and to have a visualisation for that. This way, it is easier for me to see this point in the Basic view of VIPro2 when playing.
3) I use the Modwheel to control CC2. Be sure to set Data 3 there to 88 so that it does not cover all velocities. The preset is adjusted to that.
