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  • A little experiment with vibrato patches in Synchron Strings (see the follow up in the 2nd message)

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    Today something crossed my mind and I did some experiments.
    I'm sure this idea is not world changing, but it can be a tool to put some subtile sound variations in the Synchron Strings vibrato. And perhaps it turns out to be not so good idea, that's also possible.

    I asked myself: is it possible to put a synchron-ized Chamber Strings patch in a Synchron Strings instance, e.g. first violins?

    The answer is: yes, but it will sound only on the first channel (room-mix).
    I did some tests with Vibrato XF. I used for this the first violins of Synchron Strings.
    I put a C.S. vibrato patch in one of the two child slots of the "XF lyrical vibrato slot" , the lowest one (the one with the lyrical vibrato patch). See image. (To let this work properly it is important to put first in both child slots a synchron strings patch, and after that you can place a synchron-ized CS patch in the slot you want. The crossfading doesn't work correct, when you put in an empty slot immediately a synchron-ized CS patch).

    When you mix the C.S. patch not to far with the non vibrato patch (in other words, when you don't push the controller higher than perhaps 75-80, of course your ears decide), you kept the sound of all the microphones, but mix it up with the C.S. patch, so some vibrato comes in. It could be that there are situations, that this sounds better than the use of the lyrical (or regular) vibrato patch of Synchron Strings. With situations I mean among others: velocity and pitch.

    I made also a Vibrato XF slot with a regular vibrato patch of Synchron S. in the highest child slot and a legato patch of C.S. in the lowest one. Anew I took care that I didn't set the controller to high, so that the sound of the microphones of the Synchron Strings patch didn't disappear. The nuances one can bring in the tone are subtile, but I can imagine that it can give just a little more expression in a tone. Of course one can create one or more new XF Vibrato slots, so that one can use all possibilities (the regular possibilities and the new created)

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    Here a follow up of my message of yesterday.

    As I wrote yesterday the patches of CS are routed to the first channel of the Synchron Player, in the Synchron Strings library the room-mix patches are located there. So they sound together with the room-mix patches.

    BUT: you change that.
    In the Synchron Strings map (where the patches are located) you see that every microphone of a special instruments group has his own file (e.g. Sy-Strings_1stviolins_01_close.vsynvolume).
    After closing of all VSL programs it possible to move the roommix file of a certain instruments group, let's say first violins, to another (temporary) map, preferably on the same disk partition. When you open now Synchron Strings Player and choose Synchron Strings first violins, you will notice, that the room-mix channel is silent.

    When you place now a CS patch in the Synchron Player and select it, you will hear just that CS patch. You see that just channel one has a sound, the other channels are silent. Of course there is an exception, namely in the XF vib slots: there you use a combination of Synchron Strings (which can sound in all channels), and Chamber Strings who play just in channel one).

    In channel one you can adjust volume, activate the IR, etc. It affects only the CS patches!
    (By the way, you can adjust the volume of a patch also in the EDIT tab of the Synchron Player: open it and select the patch you want to adjust). The difference between the volume slider in the channel and the volume slider in the EDIT tab: the volume slider in the first channel affects all the CS patches, the volume slider in the EDIT tab affects just the selected patch).

    Now we can use the CS patches in one Synchron Player instance.

    I see two possibilities for this option:

    1. mixing different types of (non)vibrato patches in XF vib slots (adds more expression when properly done). It is possible to adjust the sound of the CS patches in the equalizer of channel one to bring the sound of the CS and Synchron S. a little more together.
    2. it is possible to use divisi in just one Synchron Strings instance in certain cases by just selecting the right CS patch (take care to set the legato mode on "Poly" in the PERFORM tab, if you want to use legato in the divisi parts). The restriction here is that in divisi you can only use one patch in a time, so one group a staccato and the other group long notes is not possible in this way, in that case you have to make another instance of Synchron Player with his own midi channel number).

    Of course there is one disadvantage in this whole story: you miss the room-mix patches as long as you want to use this option. But perhaps VSL has a solution for this đŸ˜‰, you never know. And when many people see the advantages of this, it certainly will be a reason for VSL to invest in it.

    Sorry for the many words I gave you to read, but I couldn't do it in less.