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  • How do I alternate between staccato bow up and bow down?

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    Hi. I own solo strings i.

    I've just programmed a sequenced string solo but I want to alternate each note between up bow and down bow and I can't find staccato bow or bow down,it just says staccato from the patch area.
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    @R.STEED said:

    Hi. I own solo strings i.

    I've just programmed a sequenced string solo but I want to alternate each note between up bow and down bow and I can't find staccato bow or bow down,it just says staccato from the patch area.

    There are no up or down bowing samples in solo strings.

     

    However, do a forum search on "bowing" and all kinds of stuff will come up.
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    Well thats not very professional is it?
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    If there are no up down bow samples, then is there a way to get that effect in the sequence? If so, how?
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    What particular effect? String players go to great lengths to disguise which way they are bowing, so it would help to know what you're not hearing in order to give some advice.

    DG
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    Well I thought I could hear a violin alternating between up and down bowing in the Beatles 'Eleanor Rigby' string only accompaniment. Eleanor Rigby Strings Only

    It can be heard between 27 seconds and 36 seconds
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    There are two staccato samples, which you can use so that you only get the same sample every other note. However, in your example, you could also use the repetition samples, which give you many more options, and are true repeated notes, rather than one shot samples.

    DG
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    @R.STEED said:

    Well thats not very professional is it?

    It is, what it is😃

     

    Try to understand something, bowing might be of interest for users who are string players but for keyboardists like me they don't matter all that much.  Up bow, down bow, left bow, right bow, upside down bow, here a bow, there a bow, everywhere a bow bow just convolutes my workflow and becomes time consuming. 

    Other users have tried techniques to simulate bowing with varying degrees of success which is why I suggested to do a forum search.  You might find something that helps accomplish what you want to do. 
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    To me the most important and common places that require up/down bow are detache and staccato.

    and that is already taken care of beautifully by the repetition samples, which I belive are alternate bows. It atleast sounds that way.

    A down bow is also necessary when for a multiple stop chord with forte (like the opening of Beethovens 7th) but I have long ways to go before I exhaust the possibilities of VSL samples as they are.