Notation Standards for representing VSL articulations

[dbudde]

Can someone point me to a document or two that describes notation standards that would map to articulations used in the VSL library?

I am working on a plugin for Sibelius and don't have enough training in the orchestral instruments to understand which notations go with which articulation.

[DaveTubaKing]

dbudde,

if no one comes up with what your looking for I would be happy to collaborate with you on this. If you confirm what collection of samples your concentrating on I could go thru the relevant manual (or you could provide me with a list of particular articulations) and I could send you a sibelius file showing the notated examples for each articulation.

David

[dbudde]

Thanks David,

What would be a good start is if you could provide me a notation of the violin articulations in Opus 1 and Opus 2. Most of the others are a subset of this. We can deal with the rest when I get this much sorted out.

Dave

[DaveTubaKing]

Dave,

It's very easy to do the basic articulations, staccato, detache, fortepiano, sforzato, tremolo, trill up bow down bow etc. I can send you that now. How do you want it? as a SIB3 score? Is there anything else you want?

David.

[dbudde]

Sib3 or Sib4 score would be great.

I already know the ones that are common to the Kontakt lib (down-bow, up-bow, sustain, temolo, sfz, fp, pizz.). So just the differences between that and Opus is what I'm interested in. Also, if you can tell me which key-switch is used for which articulation, that would help too.

I assume the key-switches are consistent between Kontak samples and Opus samples. If this is not correct, please let me know. I was surprised when I figured out that certain key-switches are different for different instruments. For instance, sfz and fp are D#0 and E0 for non-string instruments and E0 and F0 for string instruments. Kinda dumb, but whatever. So, it wouldn't surprise me if there were other differences.

Thanks.